Over and Out

After almost 5 years of writing, collecting and linking to material here I've decided to blog-off. It's been fun doing 1+1=3 but I now feel I've contributed 'my bit' for quite a bit – now it's time for me to sit back and smell the coffee (mind you, that's always been a favourite pastime – a long macchiato, please). I am feeling a little blogged out to tell the truth. I have some other extra-curricular, and (vaguely) design-related things on the horizon I'm keen to do, so I will be devoting my spare time to them, rather than to this.

My design partnership is growing (it's been quite a big year for us) and running a business, doing design and having a life means of late it's been a little tricky fitting the blogging in (ah, the lot of the solo blogger). Plus the timing feels right – so it's time for me to move on.

Thanks to my regular visitors. I hope you've enjoyed an occasional read, and if you have taken the time to add a thoughtful comment here too – I'm grateful. Thanks to Ben Greig, Mark Seggie, Stephen Banham and David Thompson for supplying the occasional link or three. Thanks also to Honie for the late night cups of green tea and for the, er, immeasurable 'Honie-ness'.

1+1=3 will stay online as an archive for a bit. If I decide to pop up elsewhere online in some way (I probably will) – I'll leave a notice here. There's always our studio's site too.

Thanks for dropping by.

PS. OK – there's just one last link that you should see...

Comments

[Michael → Boicozine]

My Google Reader misses 1+1 already. :(

[M. Nosmo]

Congrats A - damn fine innings. You were able to both spot and handle the (graphic) googlys. Adios.

[peacay]

Best of luck Andrew and thanks.

[Nicole Shuttleworth]

It is sad to see you go, I really feel this is (was) the most comprehensive and interesting Australian blog of design + culture. It was great to have someone blogging out of Melbourne too. You will leave a great void in the blogosphere! But best of luck with your pursuits.

[mattus]

Thanks, your blog has been an inspiration to me.
And I to feel sometimes like this:

http://dwilson.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/2007-06-03-this-modern-life-copy.jpg

[Daniel Neville]

Say it isn't so. Guess all good things have to come to an end.

Thanks for the inspiration.

[Stephen Banham]

If it is possible to leave a hole in the ethereal environment of the web then 1+1=3 have left such a vacant space. Andrew, your dedication to creating (and more importantly maintaining) a quality blog is admirable to say the least. And it's just as important to know when it's time to do something else, something new. All the best and thanks!

[Nick Asbury]

Just a quick word of thanks from over here in the UK - stumbled across all kinds of great stuff on this blog that doesn't necessarily pop up elsewhere.

[Mark Seggie]

Will be sorely missed but thanks nevertheless for all the design related info and enriching links. Always a pleasure to read.
Cheers
Mark

[Andrew Haig]

If you've come here via 'Thought for the week', that piece is very much on the mark.

http://www.johnsonbanks.co.uk/thoughtfortheweek/index.php?thoughtid=412

Picking up on the (usual) thoughtful observations by that particular blog:

Boutin – blogging is (generally) no longer "a freshwater oasis of folksy self-expression and clever thought": a big fat 'yes';

On comments being insults rather than insight: oh, yes (oh, dear);

Calcanis, on blogging being "simply too big, too impersonal", etc: yep.

In addition to the above points, blogging has become intensely repetitive (I'm seeing the same stuff almost everywhere). For me, Facebook is perhaps a little too 'creepy' and Twitter is too, er, 'twitty', or 'twit-laden'. Or perhaps I just need a good lie down?

[Ray Kinnane]

Thanks Andrew, for a lot of excellent info, a lot of very good chuckles, and for hosting, and linking to, some photographs of mine. Notwithstanding the increase in the number of blogs being spawned, a quality site like yours will be sorely missed.

Good luck!