Ask HN: Designer co-founder?

I have no problem contracting jobs to designers. However, it will be nice to iterate through a few projects with a crafty designer in a partner-partner setting as suppose to a client-vender setting.

Ideally this should be someone who not only understands the problems of user interface on a psychological level, but also is proficient in HTML/CSS/Illustrator etc.

Unfortunately, I just never had any friend like that.

I have been thinking about hanging out at art schools or meetups. Can someone who has some experience with this give me some tips?