Virgil Abloh’s Blog

I follow a web designer on instagram. He helps design website and comments about other people’s websites about what he likes about the design of it.

Earlier today, I came upon one of his posts about fashion designer Heron Preston’s website. How it all started from his blog in 2006 and evolved into a clean website design. I was more interested in this guys’ blog than anything else. I don’t know anything about this guy, but since I’m trying to understand the nature of blogging I’m trying to learn from any blog both being written now to the one’s written in the early 2000’s.

I went on youtube and there’s some videos on the timeline of Heron Preston. The part in the vid that I paused at was how he met Virgil Abloh through each others’ blogs. Now finding out that Virgil Abloh had a blog, I was more interested in his blog that Preston’s.

Virgil passed away several years ago but his blog still remains to this day: thebrilliance.com

Digging through it, this is was kind of what I was looking for in what exactly a blog is. It’s all one page but the posts are separated. I’m not into fashion or design but what I enjoy about this is you can see his enthusiasm for writing cause each page has 10 blog posts and he has 110 pages! I’m not even into fashion but the way he writes about stuff I’m starting to appreciate a little bit of his world. That’s what you want to do get people who aren’t interested in your passion become interested. If you write it the right way, you can make someone interested in any topic.

If you read through his blog posts, they aren’t polished. He just writes, maybe some edits but someone as famous as Virgil, he’s not making perfect posts. I’m going to assume this was when he wasn’t that well known, but writing all of this has led him to where he went to with his connections in fashion and the music world.

I don’t know how long I will be using squarespace to run my blog. For what I do, I think instagram and flickr is good enough for showcasing my photos. Instagram might die but knowing that Flickr is a paid service, it’s not going anywhere, so I’m not worried about where my photos are.

But things have changed with blogging in the early 2000’s and now. I’m inspired by all the previous blogs but with the new software available I want to do create a new blog experience but still have that feeling of the blogs from the early 2000’s