My, how the months have flown past. It seems the last post I wrote was in April; it is now nearing January and nary a peep has been heard from these pages! Suffering from the designer’s eternal curse of “my-best-is-yet-to-come-itis”, I put off blogging until I had finished the redesign (a project which has been started and restarted countless times). Unfortunately assignments came along, then exams, then parties, then holidays, and the redesign inevitably took the back seat – of a really freaking long bus – and is now earmarked for launch some time in February rather than by the new year.
But as the turn of the decade approaches I’ve begun to think about resolutions – I will study harder, I will visit the gym more frequently, I will eat healthier, I will spend less on alcohol, I will listen to new bands, I will party more often, et cetera – and all this thinking makes me realise how silly it is to wait until the new year to make the changes. After all, what is the new year but an arbitrary point in our orbit around the sun? So I’m taking this opportunity to enact one of those resolutions – albeit that for all the time I’m saving, I may as well have waited – and committing to a blogging regime for my website, redesign or no. My posts will primarily focus around graphic design and visual communication, and will occur approximately once a week – sometimes more, sometimes (though hopefully rarely) less.
I think I’m setting a fairly ambitious objective, and it may be that the lack of an enthralled readership dooms it to failure, but what is life if not the pursuit of unachievable goals? As a famous dandy once said -
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
The prodigal author returns
My, how the months have flown past. It seems the last post I wrote was in April; it is now nearing January and nary a peep has been heard from these pages! Suffering from the designer’s eternal curse of “my-best-is-yet-to-come-itis”, I put off blogging until I had finished the redesign (a project which has been started and restarted countless times). Unfortunately assignments came along, then exams, then parties, then holidays, and the redesign inevitably took the back seat – of a really freaking long bus – and is now earmarked for launch some time in February rather than by the new year.
But as the turn of the decade approaches I’ve begun to think about resolutions – I will study harder, I will visit the gym more frequently, I will eat healthier, I will spend less on alcohol, I will listen to new bands, I will party more often, et cetera – and all this thinking makes me realise how silly it is to wait until the new year to make the changes. After all, what is the new year but an arbitrary point in our orbit around the sun? So I’m taking this opportunity to enact one of those resolutions – albeit that for all the time I’m saving, I may as well have waited – and committing to a blogging regime for my website, redesign or no. My posts will primarily focus around graphic design and visual communication, and will occur approximately once a week – sometimes more, sometimes (though hopefully rarely) less.
I think I’m setting a fairly ambitious objective, and it may be that the lack of an enthralled readership dooms it to failure, but what is life if not the pursuit of unachievable goals? As a famous dandy once said -