Marcel Winatschek

Nice to Meet You Too, Nate

Someone named Nate left a note saying he’d found this journal through a WordPress showcase gallery, liked the design, and called me a very inspiring, personable writer and designer. That’s the kind of thing you read three times before you believe it. I don’t know anything about Nate beyond that one message—which somehow makes it mean more, not less. No agenda. Just a stranger who noticed.

The design on this thing is what I’m most privately proud of—the writing is easier to evaluate, but the visual decisions are harder to talk about and therefore more quietly satisfying when they land. The fact that both registered at once, for someone I’ve never met, on a random Thursday—I’ll take it.