Happy Birthday Noisy Decent Graphics

It's this blogs birthday today. Which is pretty amazing.

I've really enjoyed writing it and interacting with the comments. I've become a lot, lot better at writing and more importantly editing. It's made me think about stuff more, which is always good. It's allowed me to play with theories I probably wouldn't have done otherwise.

Here's some highlights from the past year.

1. All the many people who have linked here. Thank you very much.

2. Being quoted on the BBC News website, fairly early on.
http://noisydecentgraphics.typepad.com/design/2005/12/as_featured_on_.html

3. Being linked to by Design Observer which sent hits through the roof.
http://www.designobserver.com/archives/015709.html

4. Linked to that, my Future Of Graphic Design post which is probably the most comments I've ever had.
http://noisydecentgraphics.typepad.com/design/2006/06/the_future_of_g_1.html

5. Slagging of Seth Godin (which also saw an upturn in hits).
http://noisydecentgraphics.typepad.com/design/2006/06/fed_up_with_set.html

6. The Fucking Elle debate, which still rages.
http://noisydecentgraphics.typepad.com/design/2005/11/fucking_elle.html

7. This little post which probably gets me the most hits via Google.
http://noisydecentgraphics.typepad.com/design/2005/08/long_glamourous.html

8. Getting the guys from BR&Me to comment on me slagging off their new name.
http://noisydecentgraphics.typepad.com/design/2006/02/brme.html

9. The Unicycle Parking
http://noisydecentgraphics.typepad.com/design/unicycle_parking/index.html

10. Having somewhere (useful) to store quotes
http://noisydecentgraphics.typepad.com/design/quotes/index.html

11. My first exhibition review (which is still really popular)
http://noisydecentgraphics.typepad.com/design/2005/11/robert_brownjoh.html

I'm going to celebrate with a Gin & Tonic.

Comments

[Colman]

Happy birthday.

[Nathan Miller]

Happy anonymous birthday!

Skipping the rest and straight to the booze.. I've found that Gin & Tonics go down much more easily with a slab of cucumber to balance out the acidity of the tonic. Or you could go with a fresh squeezed lime and soda water instead to further reduce the potential for acid reflux from the tonic. Tonic gets a bit sickly-too-sweet tasting after a few.

[gareth procter]

Happy Birthday

[DelBoy]

I'll add mine - Happy Birthday NDG! - keep it up!

[Blip]

Thank you for the thinking.

[Will]

Happy birthday to NDG - have really enjoyed the site.

[Rob Aker]

Now this is how you get a blog going... thanks for the steps that got you there... very informative