I have had what felt like an extremely long year, with life-changing events a-plenty. But, that is not the point of this post.

I was reading a blog post by the incredible talented Shaun Inman. In it, he listed all of the products he released throughout 2011. Simply put, the guy is a one-man factory of ideas. I was inspired by his blog post, so I decided to do the same:

+ DSGN* Not only did I completely redesign the site (for the umpteenth time), I came up with a fantastic new logo and spent more time on getting things right design-wise, rather than releasing the first thing that comes out of Photoshop.

+ FRSH+BTS See above. I also gained a good amount of fans in Japan for the Facebook page of FRSH+BTS.

+ Rainbow Fragments I set out to design a display font, and I released it after much confusion. Creating a font is not easy (this should be obvious), and I learned a lot during the process. My font was featured on a couple of design websites as well. I found this incredibly flattering for my initial try at something so epic.

+ New Job I start an apprenticeship on January 3rd at a web design and development studio here in Boston. I am going to be taught Ruby On Rails, how to code JavaScript from scratch, and anything else I have been wondering how to do. Which is, pretty much everything. I am very much excited, and I feel like this is an opportunity I have been waiting for since I discovered/realized I wanted to work for myself.

In addition to these things, I have learned how to accept criticism to improve my work via sites like Forrst, I created a business plan for some great things I will release this year, I am collaborating with close friends on a variety of awesome media-related things, my overall skills in general (in regards to music/design/code) have improved significantly, and I found the love of my life.

I am looking forward to writing an even more impressive list January 1st, 2013.