I'm pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for their drive to work.

Okay. Well, I just finished writing this year's state of design article. So I thought, what a better topic than state of design articles.

So I'm going to talk about what the state of design articles are, how they came to be, why I write them, everything, probably more than you want to know about the state of design articles.

Okay, so first off, what are the state of design articles in case you've never read them?

So I became the head designer back in 2003, and I'm going to talk about that story in a little bit.

But one of the things that I said I wanted to do was every year, I wanted to look back at the last year. When I say

year, I mean the magic year. So the magic year usually starts in the fall, starts in,

usually in the traditionally start September.

Bloomberg got pushed back a little bit so it's been shifting, but the idea is it's the beginning of the rotation.

It's the rotation year.

And so this year it started with the Lord of the Rings and ended with Modern Horizons 3.

So I went back and I looked at all the different things going on.

I looked at all the booster sets with new content in them,

randomized booster sets.

Anyway, so the idea is I look back at the previous year.

I get a lot of input and I sort of talk about what we did right and what we did wrong.

That's the idea of a stated design article.

So I want to go back a little bit and explain where it came from, why I do it, just sort of talk a lot about.

So if you've never read them, I write them every year,

usually to come on in August, and it's just me taking a really trying to be as honest as I can.

Normally there are highlights and there are lessons.

Highlights are what I think we did well.

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