My personal goals and aims for a new year

Hello…? … HELLO…? Cough, cough, please excuse me whilst I blow away some of these cobwebs and wipe the place down. Jeepers, it’s been a while hasn’t it?

First of all lets get the crap excuses out of the way: busy, Christmas, work, bla bla. And now the good excuse: I haven’t had a working Internet [...]

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How can I improve my blog?

I’ve been wanting to ask you, my readers, for some honest feedback for a while now. I decided to wait until today as it’s the site’s six-month birthday, and I figured you might go easy on me…

Actually I don’t want you to go easy on me - I want you to be honest and let [...]

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How do you evaluate your blogs’ progress?

Tomorrow miLienzo.com reaches the grand old age of six months. This week will be one of reflection and realisation for me, and with your help I will make decisions for the future direction of this site.

Three months ago I set myself a series of blogging goals and targets for this six month birthday. So how [...]

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How do designers define their success?

Recently there has been a fair amount of discussion on when to consider yourself a successful designer.

Lauren Marie began the discussion by saying:

I struggle a lot with seeing other designers who have been around for 5 or 10 or 35 years and thinking “Gosh, I wish I my designs were that good.” It’s hard to [...]

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You, your blog and your goals

A few days ago, David Airey’s Creative Design blog passed the 1,000 comments mark. A small yet impressive milestone for a relatively young blog. (I was the 1,000th commenter - I’ll claim that free pint one day, David)

David’s achievement, along with Scot Smith of Meridiancrest’s success at smashing his own goals he set for March, [...]

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