If you like what you see here, please consider voting for my SXSW panel. I'll be covering this and more, including proportion and color: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/6261
I plan to talk less about the technical aspects of design, but talk more about the classical principles that guide good design. This post is about the relationship between medium and form, but I also plan to talk about use of proportion, and color theory.
However, I plan to have an open dialogue with those interested (through the Facebook Page), so I can tailor the presentation leading up to the event.
Here's a stab: The culture here is such that comments are for the sake of the readers and not the writer. Some amount of self-promotion is fine, but too much is not appreciated.
Additonally, I've spent thousands of hours over the course of a decade obsessing over design details and historical context. Then, I spend a week crafting a blog post to condense a piece of my knowledge for sharing. I then ask for an opportunity to spend hundreds of hours preparing a presentation to share more of my knowledge. Somehow this is self-serving?
I don't need more (or more prestigious) clients. A SXSW badge is (relatively) inexpensive. I do all of this because I love to share knowledge. I understand what it's like to be turned off by shameless self-promotion, but sometimes a little perspective is called for.
Edit: that sounds snarky. It's not intended to be, but just an explanation of why I downvoted. I can appreciate your later comment, but when I made my reply to your original comment, yours was the only other comment in the submission. It seemed tacky.