Day 162: Team

Fragment: They're more than your managers; they're your big sisters
Font: Futura
Quoted: Christie Lau

Reason #42 Why I love my job.
Times I don't like my job: when I hear about how my body will fall apart at age 30, then more at 40.
Or maybe that's a big sister thing.

Day 138: Paradise

Fragment: There is no life I know that can compare to pure imagination
Font: Futura
Quoted: Willy Wonka

If you wish to view paradise, simply look around and view it.

Day 125: Flashes of Gold

Fragment: No time for cameras, we'll use our eyes instead
Font: Futura
Quoted: Matt and Kim in Cameras

Just saw a Matt and Kim Concert. I LOVE them live... they're very high energy. But. There are some crazy fans out there.
Also. I touched Kim! :)


Inspiration for the fragment: "So I'll leave these pages in the trees"

Day 117:

Fragment: Laugh when you can, apologize when you should, and let go of what you cannot change. (Kiss slowly, play hard, forgive quickly, take chances, give everything, and have no regrets. Life's too short to be anything but happy.)
Font: Futura
Quoted: Unknown


I've been looking for the author of this quote... if anyone knows, I'd love to hear -- including if it's accredited to 'Anonymous'!
I've been using the whole fading words things a little too often, but maybe it's just my tendency to choose quotes that have to do with letting go, breathing, or some sort of release.

Day 111: Sing of Hope

Fragment: If there was a God, then why is my arse/ The perfect height for kicking
Font: Futura
Quoted: Bell X1 in Rocky Took a Lover

As far as the story goes, Rocky was a homeless man who lived across the street from the lead singer of Bell X1. One night he was with a girl, and the song is an imagined conversation between the two.
Listen to the music here.

Day 110: Together Apart

Fragment: You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think

Quoted: Christopher Robin, from Winnie the Pooh

Font: Futura

Day 108: Representative

Fragment: The future is yours... make it a good one.
Font: Futura (so clever....)
Quoted: Doc Brown, Back to the Future III

A few days ago I got a fortune cookie with a blank fortune. It still had lucky numbers on the back, thank goodness (What would I do without them). My mom thought it was a rip off, but hey, guess it means I get what I want.

In other news, I think my designs have continued on a steady trend of being representational. While this wasn't my original intention, some of my favorites are the most representational, like Day 30: Taste the Peaches, or Day 92: Inhale. Whatever it is, I'm still having fun designing, and that's really what it's all about.

Day 107: Untapped

Fragment: In everything I saw, I saw opportunity
Font: Futura
Quoted: Babatunde Fashola, governor of Lagos, Nigeria

"The poor may be lacking in money as individuals but together, in their tens of millions, represent an untapped resource."

Day 101: Vibrations

Fragment: Sometimes I hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living
Font: Futura
Quoted: Jonathan Safran Foer, in Extremely Loud, Incredibly Close


I really, really like this book. It's like a little puzzle. In other news, apparently they're coming out with a Tom Hanks/Sandra Bullock movie version.......

Day 99: ADD

Fragment: Black Cat, white cat... doesn't matter so long as it catches mice

Font: Futura

Quoted: Mom, relaying a Doctor's words

The doctor was trying to point out that the boy didn't have ADD, and there wasn't a point in looking for problems.

Day 96: Robots and Aliens

Fragment: Gophers what do they want out of life
Font: Futura Condensed
Quoted: Mia Thompson

Ah yes. excellent point

Day 92: Inhale

Fragment: Why not learn to enjoy the little things - there are so many of them.
Font: Futura
Quoted: Anonymous


Who is this Anonymous, and why does he say so many cool things‽

Day 80: Vandals

Fragment: It's a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
Font: Futura/Stencil
Quoted: Banksy

Day 71: Slots

Fragment: I have this secret belief that organization is the secret to laziness

Font: Futura

Quoted: David Pease

David Pease came to my graphic design class and talked about his paintings. He's pretty crazy, but he's such a fun spirit.

Day 65: Time of My Life

Fragment: Someone left the cake out in the rain
Font: Futura (Bold Oblique)
Quoted: Donna Park in McArthur Park via Professor Nemerov

This quote, along with I have had the time of my life, and I just want to be your everything.
Now I know for sure that I will never understand the 80s.

Inspired by Barbara Kruger

Day 62: Forever Fascinating

Fragment: A thousand endings
Font: Futura
Quoted: Benny Benassi in Cinema

I prefer the remix here

Day 32: Waiting

Fragment: "We've got time"
Font: Futura
Quoted: Stranger


I'm waiting for my delayed flight to Boston... Not that I mind.
Time is one of my favorite words in the english language

Day 27: Grumpy

Fragment: "She was never happy, she was just delusional"
Font: Futura and Halvar
Quoted: Winston Hsu


Hahahhaha

Day 19: Rush

Fragment: "I feel like I'm running into the world"

Font: Futura

Quoted: Mia Thompson