Good Friday: Hiccups

Sometime last Friday our servers crashed. Like, all of them. No email, no website, no Good Design Book blog, nothing. In all four websites, three blogs and eight email accounts were offline until late yesterday. Needless to say, we’ve been scrambling to recover.

Now for some good news!

Alice Bybee sent us her essay late last week, John Bielenberg turned in his “And Now for the Bad News” foreword and we now are the proud possessors of all but one Grant of Rights form (every image we publish must be accompanied by a signed written agreement allowing us the right to reproduce the project or photograph in the book).

I hear word from Brian Collins that he expects to finish his essay over the weekend and we expect the others next week as well.

Now if I can just get off my ass and finish up my writing we might actually have a book on our hands!

Oh, and I’ve saved the very best news for last. We have officially secured our sixth and final essayist. LA’s number on pedestrian and all gelato connoisseur Alissa Walker will be writing for the Reacting section. Alissa writes for GOOD Magazine, Fast Company, and on her own blog Gelatobaby. I really couldn’t be more thrilled to have her as the final member of this special family that has become The Good Design Book.

Right now I’m dashing out to the Celery happy hour (not just to party on a Friday night, but also to take a photo of Brian Dougherty for the book).