Retiring from Graphic Design + Web Development and Other News

It has taken me 26 years, almost to the date, to realise that the one thing I’ve never been too tired/bored/frustrated/busy to do is what I should have been making a career out of in the first place — writing! And so, with much trepidation, I have finally decided to retire from the professions of Graphic Design and Web Development. I am no longer accepting assignments related to either, but I would love to write copy for your brochure, website or advertisement so scribble a few lines to me[at]parasg[.]com if you’re looking for a copywriter who knows his grammar, spelling and punctuation like they were verses from a holy book.

In other news, there have been a few changes to this journal starting with an updated name and description. Instead of ‘Paras G.: Graphic Designer/Web Developer/Writer/Photographer’, you are now looking at ‘An Experiment Called ‘Life’: The adventures of maverick writer-photographer, Paras G.’. This change of name reflects the direction I want to take with the website, turning it into a magazine-like platform for my articles instead of a designer’s portfolio website with an attached blog.

Subscribing to this journal has become easier too, with an added option of receiving updates via e-mail (ideal for those who don’t want to spend precious minutes logging in to their favourite feed reader or manually pointing their browsers to parasg.com). To subscribe to new entries through e-mail, click here; enter your e-mail address in the box provided and follow the instructions given for verification. Now every time I publish a new article, it will be waiting for you in your e-mail inbox without extra effort on your part or mine. Thank goodness for Google FeedBurner and today’s technologies for making our lives more efficient!

[Update: As of December 13, 2009, this blog has been renamed 'No Signal'. Also, I couldn't keep my fingers away from HTML, CSS and other geeky stuff and so I've decided to come out of my 'retirement'.]