Day 175: Pro

Fragment: It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well
Font: Helvetica
Quoted: Orison Swett Marden

Day 169: Do Not Want

Fragment: I don't have a price, but if I did it would be a lot higher than what you just offered me
Font: Helvetica
Quoted: Laurie Sartain

Day 164: MPDG

Fragment: Joel, I'm not a concept. Too many guys think I’m a concept or I complete them or I’m going to make them alive, but I’m just a fucked up girl who is looking for my own peace of mind. Don’t assign me yours.
Font: Helvetica
Quoted: Clementine from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Day 163: Miscredited

Fragment: Life is what happens when you're making other plans
Font: Helvetica
Quoted: Allen Saunders

Day 161: Your Bottom Dollar

Fragment: A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day
Font: Helvetica
Quoted: Anonymous

I hope not. Because it's 6 am and I haven't slept yet. I'd call that pretty misty.

Day 155: Freedom

Fragment: Anyone who lives within their means is suffering from a lack of imagination
Font: Helvetica
Quoted: Oscar Wilde

Day 145: Chin Up

Fragment: I've learned a lot about myself.
Font: Helvetica
Quoted: Betty Ford

Day 143: Deal

Fragment: Ignorance is not bliss, it's ignorance
Font: Helvetica
Quoted: Brotips

Day 136: Flight

Fragment: Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Font: Helvetica
Quoted: George Bernard Shaw

Day 134: Response

Fragment: It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
Font: Helvetica
Quoted: Rene Descartes


... Helvetica on the other hand, looks good on just about anything..........
I'm really happy at my job. It's nice to have something that flexes my brain, and makes me think on my feet.

Day 132: Homework

Fragment: Trying to force creativity is never good
Font: Helvetica
Quoted Sara McLachlan

I can't tell if I'm trying to be clever or if I'm really just out of ideas.

Day 115: Innovation

Fragment: Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new
Font: Bookman Old, Helvetica
Quoted: Einstein

Granted, Helvetica is not that new anymore....
Slew of Einstein quotes!

Day 105: Ugly Feet

Fragment: Only the secure can truly pretend
Font: Helvetica
Quoted: Dr. Jay to Lenore in The Broom of The System, by David Foster Wallace


"Most really pretty girls have pretty ugly feet"




I've realized that due to a downgrade in quality, the fragment is pretty had to read after uploading. I've made an alternate, below, with 85% black, over Registration (the one above is 95% over Registration, and it comes out just fine on my computer)
As with all fragments, click to enlarge.

When it comes down to serious business black in not really black. A strange quality of printing is that, in general, everything comes out darker than you see it on the screen... my guess is that this comes from the lighting of the screen. The exception to this rule is Black. In inDesign, there are two options, that look pretty much the same: Black and Registration. Black has CMY values of 0% and a K value of 100%, so in theory, it  is 100% black. Registration, on the other hand, has CMYK all set to 100%. It's telling the printer, "All jets on!" which gets you a rich, glossy black.

Day 103: Feet Phase

Fragment: Do I deserve to be an artist?
Font: Helvetica
Quoted: Mia Thompson


I tried taking pictures, but they were so mediocre. I guess every girl goes through a photography phase. You know, horses... taking dumb pictures of your feet.


Charlotte, in Lost in Translation

Day 100: 265 to Go

Fragment: Goals are Dreams with Deadlines
Font: Helvetica
Quoted: Diana Scharf Hunt

Time Management Guru.

Day 94: Bucket List

Fragment: If it happens, it happens
Font: Helvetica
Quoted: Allen Zhang

You know, cause one day I might find myself taking a leak on woolsey's toe.

Day 91: Building

Fragment: 十年树木，百年树人, roughly translated, It takes 10 years to grow a tree, 100 years to erect a people.
Font: English, in Helvetica
Quoted: Mom, but really, a Chinese idiom


 Generally refers to education, as in: ‘It takes 10 years to grow a tree while a hundred for a sound education’.

Day 73: Fashionista

Fragment: Good Ideas never go out of style

Font: Helvetica

Quoted: Dale Harris

I must the world's best fashion designer. Jokes.

Day 44: Narrative

Fragment: Why is that there?
Font: Helvetica
Quoted: Professor Nemerov

Should it be there?
or... does everything have to have a reason?

In other news.

Day 43: Awkward

Fragment: Embrace the Awkward
Font: Helvetica
Quoted: Aaron X (http://wheresthestagexx.blogspot.com/)

I've found myself saying "The first date is always awkward," pretty frequently.
Also: "It's only awkward if you make it awkward." But I've realized this one doesn't always apply, because somethings are just plain awkward.