I remember when DTP (Desktop Publishing) became affordable. Suddenly anyone could be a designer who made very designerly things.
By the way, being called designerly, writerly, or purple is never a good thing.
Same thing is happening in the blogosphere. The Post says, “For people obsessed with design, the advent of design-focused Web journals, or blogs, has been a wonderful, terrible development.”
When it comes to cred, though, ugly is always good. Seems more legit. Check out MySpace.
It doesn’t get uglier.
