Last Wednesday, April 4 I attended a small roundtable discussion as a guest blogger for AIGA. They'll be posting a shorter version of this same post to their site sometime soon. In the meantime, here's my full synopsis of the evening. *UPDATE: You can see my coverage of the independent designer's roundtable on the AIGA Boston website here . Conversations are inevitable whenever a group of like-minded people are in the same place at the same time. It happens in offices every day around water coolers, by the copy machine, and in the lunch room. Ideas are hatched, plans are made, and partnerships are born. But these important interactions are typically far less common for designers who make their own hours. That doesn't make them any less important. Creating more opportunities for spontaneous conversations—and community—for independent designers was the premise behind last Wednesday's AIGA roundtable. Ben Spear generously hosted a dozen designers...