What's with the title?

As in all things design, first you start with an idea.

Well, that is not true, really, is it?

The real start of any design is a need. Design's ultimate aim is to help fulfil a need. Nobody NEEDS design; design just helps us all appreciate what is possible.

This post is about how I can up with the name of the blog 'Bark Blog Bark'.

My original thoughts where something like blogaboutablog but that was already taken, the next was blogaboutablogaboutabook but that was getting ridiculous!

Then I went back to first principles - the nub of the need - and thought that this blog would be like random  barking in the dark. For me at the moment, having somebody read it is not its actual purpose. Its actual purpose is to force me to put letters onto the screen and craft them into something that both makes sense to me and progresses the project that will come from it.

Another blog with similar ideas about just writing for the sake of writing is Alan Levine's CogDogBlog, and he has a post from earlier year that came up when I was thinking about the word "barking". His post below accurately reflects my current thinking:

http://cogdogblog.com/2013/01/26/pointless-incessant-barking/

So, okay, there is the idea of barking, blogging and barking again. A progression that may have no real purpose, but is a goal in itself.

Woof!