A The first letter blog I designed. The format was question-and-answer. The design was the ugliest of my letterblog designs; I was fixated on freeing myself from my previous greyscale border-free tendencies that I came up with a colorful rounded-corner design and spat it out without looking back.

D This one was for my visual sketches. I knew I wasn't making anything impressive, so the design counterbalanced that by taking each of my posts and stretching them out to take up the entire browser window. The blog navigation pops up when you hover over the image; until then, all you get is the visual.

E Here's my favorite design. I was interested in what sensual data we lost as our methods of sending communication grew cleaner and more modern. I marked my revisions with backspaces; all the errors you see here are the ones I actually made while making the post. I also shifted letters around in order to replicate the errors that exist in non-digital formats and add character to a text.

H I was aware that a lot of my writing was heartfelt but not well thought-out. This was my solution: a blog presentation that offered text without titles, and, rather than giving a linear display of entries, displayed a new random entry every time readers clicked the heart. Newcomers didn't care about what order they read my thoughts; subscribers still received the stream of entries via RSS.

P An archive of my favorite poems. Good poetry's among the most demanding kinds of writing; poor typography pretty much ensures readers won't commit themselves to the text. I wanted to make a quiet space for good writing that made itself as accessible as possible.

Q Quotelogs were popular long before Tumblr made "quote" one of the default entries in their blogging software; Tumblr got the idea from those logs, not the other way around. But Tumblr's presentation of those quotes looks like Tumblr by default; I had fun perverting that and presenting a quotelog that looked largely like a textfile.

R "Rory" was my personal blog for random entries that didn't fit anywhere else. Here's where I feel I was limited by Tumblr's lack of commenting and interactions; the personal posts are the ones that I most want to talk to people about. Now I don't post things like this in a blog; I use Google+, where I can have conversations.

S I liked this design a lot. It made my snapshots look playful rather than formal; they captured bubbled-up moments instead of documenting anything completely. This was also the first time I used pink in a design. Now it's become one of my favorite colors to work with.

T Of all the letterblogs, this is the one I most wish still existed. The concept was to subvert the idea of a music blog by presenting songs without any context. Seven songs displayed at a time; one new song appeared a day, so each week meant a new selection. I received more emails about this letterblog than I got about any other; discussions started between me and people who wanted to know what the sound was that they'd heard, and where I had found it in the first place. Those are the kinds of unique interactions I love most online, and this was the first time I designed a blog that would facilitate a certain kind of conversation.