Eegads! Yet another design blog

Oh yes. You have stumbled upon another designer with a blog. This is a very dangerous thing if you can imagine. I thought about starting out with a satire of the obligatory “[Prominent Website] Redesign” post with cheesy designs that completely violate the whole identity of the target. But with my luck someone somewhere would take it seriously, post it on Slashdot/Digg/del.icio.us, and I’d lose all my bandwidth for the month before I even have my site design in place.

So, I decided I would start out with an explanation of why I’m here. Well, it’s certainly not out of boredom.

Creativity

Personality creativity has plummeted over the last few years. Call it burnout or whatever you want. I’ve gotten to where I go home and rest off the day after being pulled left and right between projects at work. My number one hope is that this will be a source of growth for new personal creativity.

Career

Eventhough I may feel like I’m running in a circle, I still have to keep moving forward. People learn best by teaching and remember more effectively by writing things down. Well, hopefully I can do both things here. Yeah, I read about design news/blogs/fads every day, but I fear that it’s become more of a routine than a useful activity. Who knows, maybe I’ll even get some collaborative thought out of this. It would be a blessing as I am the only designer where I work.

Novelty

What I would give now to have written about work life when I started at age 15. I’d probably have a book deal and a decent IRA. Well, that train has come and gone, but I would still be interested in someday looking back at my own words of progress.