Sooner or later... everything digital becomes real.
As someone once said...
As some of you may have already noticed, Creative Review have published the Design Disease post in this month's issue (page 21, available in all good newsagents for just £5.70).
Patrick (the editor) contacted me a few weeks ago and asked if he could publish the post as an article. They've done a good job considering the way you structure a blog post is different to how you would structure a magazine article. They've even corrected the grammar.
If you've arrived here via Creative Review, welcome. The original Design Disease post is here and this is as good a place to start as any. You'll find some helpful FAQ's here.
Good afternoon.
Well done, Ben!
Posted by: L.Vazquez | Feb 22, 2007 at 15:59
I think a big congratulations is in order.
For a magazine that normally only showcases studio work, its great to see a blog post in the pages.
Next month the Flickr group perhaps? ;)
Posted by: Someday. Somebody. | Feb 22, 2007 at 16:31
An annoyingly brilliant post.
Congratulations, and good afternoon.
Posted by: Paul Colman | Feb 22, 2007 at 17:17
Nice one Ben. Well done.
Posted by: Richard | Feb 22, 2007 at 17:50
Attaboy -
1-It'll be interesting to see how the visitors' graph goes over the next couple of days. Do you think it will be bigger than the design observer recommendation?
(Is that apostrophe in the right place?)
Posted by: andrew | Feb 22, 2007 at 17:52
I'll add to that Ben - well done. Nice one.
Posted by: davidthedesigner | Feb 22, 2007 at 17:56
Will try to grab that one. Congratulations once again.
Posted by: Blip | Feb 22, 2007 at 18:13
Nice one Ben!
Posted by: beeker | Feb 22, 2007 at 18:46
I'll second that! Nice one Ben! cropping up on the Pentagram blog must have been nice for your ratings. I'm surprised no-one picked up on all this earlier seeing how many familiar 'regulars' crop up here and elsewhere on the net. Question: Now that you've got a steady (hungry?) audience how much time does doing all this take up?
Posted by: DelBoy | Feb 22, 2007 at 21:20
Everyone - thanks.
Andrew - I don't think it will affect stats very much. In my experience (and not just this blog) stats get a leap when linked to by a more popular site but there's almost no effect from offline editorial. Ads might be different.
DelBoy - not too much. I won't be needing an intern anytime soon.
Posted by: Ben | Feb 22, 2007 at 22:59
Great! Congratulations!
It's really nice that we could see this blog post on the press.:)
Posted by: mofe | Feb 23, 2007 at 03:29
Wow mate - good work.
Definitely one for the scrap book.
Posted by: Will | Feb 27, 2007 at 16:26
I picked up the CR for the first time last week, and read this post, and now just stumbled across your page by accident. Strange.
The post made me smile. I'm just starting out on the Graphic Design path and it was comforting to recognise some of those traits in myself.
Posted by: Alicia Mitchell | Mar 05, 2007 at 23:10
I was just flicking through Design Week, I see you made it in there too
Posted by: Richy | Apr 27, 2007 at 10:04