Before I even begin explaining why I’m opening a blog I have to admit that I wasn’t suppose to do that. I have blogged in the past — in fact, a couple of months ago, I closed my other design-related blog — and I remember the great joy of seeing my small Designr.it community growing back then. However, due to the lack of time and an overwhelming amount of work I had to abandon Designr.it Blog and take it offline eventually. So why am I opening another one?
Phrase from a project description in my portfolio.
„Aesthetically Written” was born from my need to have a publishing machine for larger blocks of text. All I wanted to do was to incorporate a Content Management System into my portfolio so it could facilitate posting of case studies of the project I’m/was involved in. WordPress came in handy. I sliced my previous portfolio into a few chunks of PHP code and edited the default WordPress theme (as you can see — I’m not quiet done yet).
What I realized was that, since I already had a working blogging platform, nothing could have stopped me from actually blogging. It means that you might expect to see some interesting articles here in the future and not only my project analysis.
I’ll do my best to deliver you some top quality content here. I will share tricks, fresh ideas, ramble on about usability, user experience, typography, graphic & web design and all things related. I will also avoid to write on personal facts at the same time — I use Twitter for those.
I hope you’ll find “Aesthetically Written” a warm and cosy place to talk about design and to draw inspiration from.
well, well, what can I say… First of all, I like Baskerville italic in the comments textarea :) Although first I was going to congratulate you with this bold move in turning designr.it from a one page portfolio site to an aesthetically written blog to boot ;)
How come I didn’t know you had a blog before? Anyhow, I’m really looking forward to your insightful and interesting design articles on designr.it. And no matter what you think of it, I do like the domain name of this site ;)
#October 27th, 2008
Yes, I had a blog before and not just one, but two—first one, hosted on my.opera.com, a couple of years ago and the other one, in Italian, here on designr.it.
When it come to the domain name, I’ve recently discovered that a lot of people actually like designr.it. I’ve been thinking about moving my site to aestheticallywritten.com (I even registered it), but this poll I posted on Twitter proved that users prefer the current domain over it.
Thank you for the comment, Vivien. Come back at any time.
#October 30th, 2008
Hi Piotr! I’m really happy to see that you started the blog here. I really like your meticulous approach to design and especially to typography and I’m looking forward to your posts on these topics.
Cheers!
#December 20th, 2008