100 Days Project + sample of a new typeface

Choose one creative exercise, and then repeat it every day for 100 days.
Record each daily effort and see what evolves in the work and in the self over time.

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The 100 Days Project starts this Friday (eek!). For my final graphic design project at university (back in 2011), I created four typefaces. I absolutely enjoyed working on them, and I couldn't wait to make more. Then I got a job, got busy, and sadly, I never got back to making any more of them. SO! For the 100 Days Project, I thought, this is it! I'm making typefaces! I don't know how many I'll be making, and I don't want to commit to a number, I just know that I'll be making some typefaces and when I can't, I'll make some type drawings.

This is one of the ones I'll be finishing off during the project.

 Like all the typefaces I'll be working on for this project, it's based on a type specimen from the Victorian era.

 I haven't quite decided what to name it yet. I am glad though that it brought me a good amount of Bézier curve practise! :D

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Well! I haven't blogged in quite a while now! Just been caught up with work,  studies, and catching up on Full House (my guilty pleasure). It sure feels awesome to click "New Post" again! :D I have a few more links to go, so expect me to pop back soon! ...And without further ado, here are some awesome linkz from around ze interwebz.

+ Photo editing tips by Shutterbug on Pinterest.

+ Cool + fun party games.

+ Antipodes Map (found this from Michelle!)

+ Lovely type illustration.

+ Custom typographical logo designs (I hope I get to do this one day!)

+ Eye candy: Ellen's Album

+ The Style Files

+ Long exposure photographs taken from space. Aaaah.

+ Absolutely loving Andy Gilmore's work. I wonder how long it would take to painstakingly create those beautiful patterns?!

+ Typography + cities = this.

I'm obsessed with the use of geometrics and botanicals in design at the moment. If you, too, are into that kinda stuff, maybe check out my pinterest? :-)

Oh, and thank you, vintagetreasures, for following my little blog :-)

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+ Made me laugh.

+ This ad. (And behind-the-scenes).

+ Hand-lettering, le sigh.

+ If you like Tangled, this is for you.

+ Raspberry Cat, you might like this calendar. :D

+ Handpainted Type.

+ Gotta love Readers Digest jokes! Here are 11 Valentines' Day jokes!

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Have a great Waitangi Weekend! :-)

+ Patterned Monograms

+ A game for all you pen-tool worshipping people out there (including me): Shape Type.

+ Awh! Dress-up Band-Aids! I want the sequins one!

+ What a five-year-old thinks of logos.

+ Panorama view from Mt. Everest!

+ Holy Mackerel. Michelle, you're right—this anatomical quilling is intense!

+ Doesn't this Lavender Lemonade look refreshing? (Actually, it kind of reminds me of Taro flavoured Bubble Tea!)

+ And these Lavender Shortbread cookies?! Next on the "to-bake" list! :D

Typography

Typography inspiration of the day! :D

Mural at The Ace Hotel from Daniel Cassaro on Vimeo.

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Please excuse the lack of posts so far. I'm still trying to figure out the balance between what to pin and what to blog. :-)

+ DIY fringed lanterns

+ 50 Reasons not to date a Graphic Designer (almost all of these are true with me).

+ Succulent type.

+ Pedal-powered roller coaster? No thanks.

+ Pantone's Colour of the Year—Tangerine Tango.

+ Loving the work of UK doodler, Carrie Lewis.

+ Mm, flower pancakes!

+ Sidewalk chalk art.

+ This is a fun one: How fast are your reactions? (I'm a Bobbing Bobcat, haha)

Here's to the crazy ones

via SwissMiss

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+ SO inspiring.

+ Le sigh. I really should start Pinteresting.

+ Life is beautiful.

+ The Year in Middletons.

+ Type portraits.

+ Disney princesses as cover models. Hah!

+ Artists in Miniature (free downloadable magazine)

+ Do you have the Facebook Timeline? You could revamp it like this!

+ So you need a typeface.

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Cool and interesting tidbits on the Internet this week:

+ Check out this field of light blooms. Totally magical!

+ 10 ways to make a garland! I'm bookmarking this for the New Years' Eve party! :-)

+ Typography by Alex Robbins.

+ How to make the perfect gift bow.

+ Cheese, with edible gold bits. Anyone else find this weird?

+ Pretty. :-)

+ :O

+ :O :O

+ A Personal Apology. (Thanks, Corinne!)

+ Old Loves.

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Happy weekend, y'all! (Did you notice my new favicon? :D )

+ Build 3D letters from a font!

+ 25 ways to wear a scarf! I have a collection of summer scarves that I can't wait to try this on!

+ Paper-cut diorama artists.

+ Interesting and strange: How would it be, if typefaces could be tasted?

+ NASA goes pink.

+ Artist Kyle Bean's portraits made out of pencil shavings.

+ I'll have this (and especially this) for the holidays, thank you.

+ Their Good Morning/Good Night poster is quite brilliant! 

+ The difference between the United Kingdom, Great Britain, and England. Also watch: Copyright, explained.

+ Take a look at Shinichi Maruyama's amaazing photographs!

11.11.11

Pssst. It's 11:11pm on 11.11.11. Awesome!

+ RAW is still on (till tomorrow)! Are you visiting?

+ Take a look at this beautiful light calligraphy.

+ Things 90s kids realise. I stumbled across Full House episodes earlier this year, and I fell in love with them! Then my friend Morgan told me about Danny Tanner. :-\

+ Love this list: 20 Things I Wish I'd known at 20. (I turned 22 last month, and I think I still have time to pay attention to this list)

+ Typography inspiration!

+ A library of Victorian scraps!

+ Life is too short (campaign).

+ I can't sew to save my life, but if I could, I would sew this.

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Not a heap of links today.

+ All Blacks making snow angels after they won the Rugby World Cup.

+ This was surprising: behind-the-scene visual effects from popular tv shows.

+ Luke Williams' typography

Wingardium Leviosa; a typeface

Can it be? A beautiful typeface named Wingardium Leviosa?! Oh joy!

:D

Live the language

Remember that beautiful Paris video? Well, EF (Education First) has three brand new cities to gawk at, and fall in love with. I absolutely love the style of typography in these videos... vintage-inspired, and very pretty.

Live the language - Sydney from EF Intl. Language Centers on Vimeo.

Thanks for the heads up, Yagmur! :)

Dana Tanamachi

Have you seen Dana Tanamachi's wonderful chalk illustrations?! Such a great mix of Victorian style with a contemporary outlook! 

All photos © Dana Tanamachi

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Happy weekend!

+ faxblog

+ Hmmm. Teeth tattoos?! Yikes.

+ Harry Potter posters! :D

+ Christian Louboutin Fall 2010 Lookbook. One day, I will take photos like that.

+ Beautiful.

+ Cross-stitched Helvetica.

+ Another one for type nerds: Helveticons!

+ Witty posters.

+ Marc Johns makes sticky note drawings!

+ This.

p.s.: Crazy day today here in little old Auckland. Rugby World Cup and all!

Archer.

Let's revel in some Archerness.

Maricor and Maricar

So. Much. Amazingness.

More here.

Design Police

This website, is amazing. Designers could really use these labels!

Haha "Comic Sans is illegal"!

Of Typefaces

I hereby introduce you to my favourite new typeface—Egyptienne, by Adrian Frutiger. It is even more awesomer in italics.

The infographic is still in design-mode, although I am very happy as to where it is headed. I am currently snowed under with assignments and all-nighters, but I will come back and share my assignments in a week. 

:)

Edit: Any Lord of the Rings movie fans from Auckland? The extended versions of the movies are releasing in theatres, starting next week! Eeeee! (So are the Harry Potter movies!!)