Just fifteen short months ago, I wrote my first article here at fadtastic. I’d been blogging for a short time on my own, but for the most part avoiding design topics. After all, I wasn’t a professional designer - I weekended it, in my spare time, for friends-of-friends and the like. I was making more money as a mobile Disc Jockey and trying to scrap together cash for a semester of, not design school, but rather Philosophy. I figured blogging on the topic wouldn’t be my forte, but would certainly be something I could learn to enjoy. And why not? Exposure’s always nice, right?

And then, something clicked. I put down the Sartre and Hegel and picked up Zeldman and Cederholm. I got responses to my articles, email concerning my availability to freelance, and my blog readership shot up. All very nice perks, but never did I expect that one of my articles would lead to a textbook contribution deal, and another to magazine publication …

It seems too good to be true. My site stats are a hundred times what they were just over a year ago today and I’ve got steady freelance work, and I can attribute quite a lot of that to being an author here at Fadtastic. I complete my degree in Philosophy in a few short months and then it’s a matter of deciding whether Law or Design is right for me.
So, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, fadtastic readers (and potential authors)! You’ve made blogging for this journal one of the most enjoyable experiences I could imagine.

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