I find myself blogging about random stuff regularly. Whether it be just a fortnightly round-up of bizarre crap I’ve found online (www.norcalis.com – future of the web), or some long-winded thing about Zombie movies. I only do it because if I didn’t take a break from the designing / front-end dev, my productivity just goes into meltdown and my creativeness is drained.

There is a balance, all I do is make sure I occupy my time elsewhere every-so-often to just recharge the batteries.

As for the designers not blogging, I tend to agree that the people doing good work right now are probably just designing and letting their work do the talking. What I would like to see more in design blogs is people talking about real life examples they have encountered themselves and not some random theory they have come up with.

I would say its all about striking a good balance. Our main focus as a designers should always be actually designing, thats the only way to move forward & improve. In my opinion Blogging etc should be an accompaniment to that work, not the thing you spend most of you time doing. I’m hoping to launch the blog section of my site soon & I’m planning on only posting things when I have something useful and/or interesting to blog about, simply because I think there are enough very good design blogs out there already. Well either that or I’ll just post a load of lists from Twitter!

@teabag – I can’t I’m afraid, not too difficult to work out though!

@Chris Mahon – I agree with you about conferences but not about their status being based on a piece of work from the past. I think it’s entirely down to their blogging exploits and I don’t blame the designers in question for it, it’s the people championing them.

@Matt Berridge – I saw that post Matt, in fact I think I commented on it and in truth, it helped me finally hit the publish button on mine (I’ve had it sat as a draft for a long time now). Brendan was looking for more honesty in the industry and not complimenting mediocrity, my post is more about the separation of bloggers and designers – but both along the same lines yes.

I’m a strong believe in people are only as good as the last piece of work they did and I’m not sure this is happening a whole lot in our industry, most of it seems to be based based on the fact they did something “cool” once.