Day 177: Shattered

Fragment: Life is a series of thousands of miracles
Font: Avenir
Quoted: Mike Greenberg

Day 170: Refresh

Fragment: The best is yet to be
Font: Gotham book
Quoted: Robert Browning

Always a great thing to hear when i think I've exhausted every idea out there. Fun fun fun.

Pundit calling

Day 167: Climb

Fragment: Life is slippery. Here take my hand.
Font: Garamond
Quoted: H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Day 158: Never Ever

Fragment: All endings are also beginnings, we just don't know it at the time
Font: Times New Roman
Quoted: Mitch Albom

Day 142: Swag

Fragment: It's not bragging if you can back it up
Font: Gotham
Quoted: Muhammad Ali

True Swag

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 133: Pride

Fragment: Hope will never be silent
Font: Gotham
Quoted: Harvey Milk

I was at Pride in SF this weekend. It's really a crazy place.
I'm sincerely impressed I've never used the same title twice. I always think I've accidentally overlapped, but I've always been able to stay with the original title.

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 130: Streamline

Fragment: Work smart, not hard
Font: Garamond
Quoted: Jamie Brenkus

Oh, 80's workout videos...But this is my life strategy.

Day 127: Ignite

Fragment: Break Your Cycle
Font: Gotham
Quoted: Shahid Khan

Innovation speaker. "If you're wearing a watch, I want you to move it to your other hand for the next 8 hours. If you don't have a watch, take what's in your right pocket and put it in your left for the next 8 hours. Anyone I missed? {that would be me} Ok you can switch your shoes.
"The reason I want you to do this, is I want to break your cycle. Take a different route home today. Yes, it will take you 30 minutes longer, but I promise you will see things you have never seen before. Creativity comes from seeing things in a different way."

Day 123: Love, Accordingly

Fragment: Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs.
Font: Garamond
Quoted: Chrissy, age 6 in Love According to Children

Oh man, that's serious. The article.


In other news, YouTube today released a special player for the original Nyan Cat video, so the progress bar is also a Nyan cat (giving new meaning to the progress in progress bar) 

Day 120: Sabotage

Fragment: Anything not worth doing is not worth doing well. Think about it.
Font: Times New Roman
Quoted: Elias Schwartz

Today I discovered that Yale has a book of quotations. How convenient.
But actually, The Yale Book of Quotations, which traces the history of famous quotes and idioms, is only $15 for all it's 1104 pages of Hardcover-capped glory.
I also live right next to a library. How convenient.

Day 100: 265 to Go

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

Time Management Guru.

Day 93: Slice

Fragment: Granma said that when you come on something good, first thing to do is share it with whoever you can find; that way, the good spreads out where no telling it will go. Which is right.
Font: Avenir
Quoted: Granma, in The Education of Little Tree


A really sweet book. I think the first time I read it, I was in third grade, and I didn't quite understand, much like the protagonist himself.

Day 89: True Fact

Fragment: Defining and Analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people

Font: Times New Roman

Quoted: Robert Benchley

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 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 63: Tea Party

Fragment: I'm always ready for an adventure, whatever it may be
Font: Din
Quoted: Austin Scarlett

Austin Scarlett came for a mock Master's Tea today. He's so adorable. A side story: when he was younger he decided he wanted to have a tea party and invited everyone he knew, but no one came :(
The lines look like they don't match up, but I promise they're all the same line. I don't get it.

Day 59: Magic

Fragment: "The whole world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel."
Font: Galaxie Polaris
Quoted: Horace Walpole via Allen Zhang

Day 57: Daffodils

Fragment: And not one will know of the War, not one
Will care at last when it is done.
Font: Digital Serial
Quoted: Sara Teasdale
in 
There Will Come Soft Rains


There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;

And frogs in the pools singing at night,
And wild plum trees in tremulous white;

Robins will wear their feathery fire,
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;

And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree,
If mankind perished utterly;

And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn
Would scarcely know that we were gone. 




Did you know that a single daffodil is a sign of misfortune? Always give daffodils in bunches, where they mean joy and happiness