I hinted towards the end of last year that there were exciting things on the horizon; that being said it's my pleasure to announce that I am now joining the ranks of full-time freelancers.

For the past year I have been building business and working with clients plus working a full-time job as an in-house designer at Southern Seminary here in Louisville. As those who have gone before me can attest, it makes for long hours and sleepless nights. (Or, sleepless mornings depending on which end of the candle you burn.)

To be entirely accurate though, I've been in the process of starting my own web business for the past five years. I followed those who made the jump from full-time employment to freelancing (and then some on to running small studios) and nearly all said that you would gradually transition from one to another. In my youthful arrogance I assumed I would be different and would quit my job outright and go find freelance work and totally kill it. But no, I gradually transitioned from one stage to another as the freelance load became too much to bear with full-time employment as well.

I must give a special thanks to Southern Seminary too. I have worked with smart, caring people over the past year and will continue to do so this year (in a diminished role of course). It's an institution that believes strongly in doing work of the highest quality and sees that task as a high-calling both physically and spiritually. And, in case you were wondering, my previous job needs to be filled. If you are a web designer who can apply the same design sensibility to print as you do to the web then please send me an email – david@ [this domain.com].

My marketing department would scold me if I didn't put forth the obvious statement that I am now available for new clients and projects. In the absence of a proper contact form, just send me an email at the aforementioned email address or you can call me at (502) 550-7972. As it stands I'm nearly fully booked until May of this year, but I would love to talk to you about projects that we can schedule later in the year.

Much is changing at Design Intellection headquarters (my incessant site redesigns notwithstanding) and I will keep you updated through it all.