A Designer’s List of New Year’s Resolutions

December 30th, 2009 admin

Like most people around this time of year, I’ve been silently proclaiming that 2010 will be my year. I’ve been thinking about new goals, and I even thought about reading The Secret and creating my own vision board to help me achieve those goals. Then I thought there must be a less humiliating way to ring in the new year. So, instead of a vision board, I decided to simply write a good old fashioned list of New Year’s resolutions. 1. Keep your workspace clean This should be easy. The definition of a clean workspace is…


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