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We Made This blog: 4 years old

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Well, heck, would you look at that? This weekend marked four years of us wittering on about design and visual culture here on the We Made This blog.

We just wanted to say a huge thank you to you all for reading and commenting and emailing and sending stuff in. People often ask us why we run the blog, and there's a whole mix of reasons really, but the main thing is that it lets us connect with loads of fascinating people - it's one of those "give, and you shall receive" things. And hey, sharing just feels good.

Reckon we might treat ourselves to some cake this afternoon (we're particularly partial to Konditor & Cook's Lemon Chiffon cake... and the Curly Wurly cake is pretty damn special too).

Nom nom nom.

UPDATE - We figured that since we're getting on a bit, it was time to smarten up, with a nip here and a tuck there, ahead of moving across to a full re-design sometime soon. Now, where's that scalpel...

posted: 8 March 2010
categories: Uncategorized
 
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