I like the new design for its artsyness, and because it really shines through how much you thought about it. That being said though, I miss certain aspects of the old design: The old design's sections (logo, content, comments) seemed more connected to each other, because their contents were allowed to "spill out" of them -- like the drawing of the tent at the beginning of the comments. Right now, all the sections are pretty seperate from each other, even the logo from the main blog text. Because they are also very "rectangular", the site feels a lot more like a grid layout than a hand-written philosophy book.