In Due Course Of Time*

February 11, 2008 — Matt— leave a comment?

This blog has been a long time coming. A long time. In fact, this blog could be nearly a year old today. I’ve been fan of Chris Fahey’s graphpaper.com for a while and his open suggestion that everyone should have a blog made perfect sense to me—blogs are about communicating ideas and, as a designer, that’s your professional goal—to communicate clearly to others.

I read that post over a year ago, and until today, I’ve done nothing.

Something about writing an introduction explaining why I wanted to write, what I planned to write about, and who I wanted to reach always felt like such an impossible task. And of course, it was — I imagined boundaries, problems, and failures before I’d even started. I realize now that the important thing isn’t what my blog might become, but rather “[the] important thing is to begin.”

So here it goes.

* From a fortune cookie — “Good things will come to you in due course of time.”

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