I've been going into this whole design thing for it's own sake, but I've also consciously been thinking about how it can affect or improve my writing, or my relationship to literature. If nothing else, an immediate focus on fundamentals of design--line, shape, value--has got me thinking about the fundamentals of reading and writing--plot, character, voice--in a way that, in the rush of things, I think I've easily and often lost track of. It's interesting.