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soundtrack: Shout Out Louds – Fall Hard

Home workspace organized and ready to go. Couple more things to the inspiration/ motivation wall, perhaps. I’m hoping that staring at the t]m specimen poster every day will work some magic.

2010 -  No need for additional new years promises really; I have the index cards. Except for the  g r a d u a t i o n card. And the a p p l i c a t i o n s card. This quote makes me think, though:  You must bring something to the school before you can carry even more away as you leave it. Then again, it’s not up to me. My work is to try.

Too often my work process goes like this: get totally stuck for some time, panic, overwork on the details, start hating the whole thing, spend a week ruining all the previous work, then a week repairing the damage… Don’t know if these are good qualities for (type) designer? But: slow, steady, has patience to do things over and over again – that is me as well.

P.S. I found a job for autumn!

Sandra tagged me to show my desk. “Desk” at the moment is in two rooms and three table surfaces but changes all the time.

The best working music for me is Boards of Canada. Which music works for you?

it smells good too…

Too dark a day for taking photographs, but here you go.

The poetry magazine came from print yesterday. Considering I would love to tweak a million things, I am pretty happy with it. Especially the colour scheme. The theme for this issue was fantasy/science fiction, a challenging topic to visualize.

It’s a project done via school, meaning it’s a real magazine but every issue is layouted by different pair of TAIK graphic design students. Each issue is unique, only constant is the format.

Happy weekend all!

The poetry magazine looks rather like this, only bigger. Will show more when we get the real thing from the printing press.

I went to see this exhibition yesterday, liked the planes -piece the most. Perhaps something to do with my current state of mind now that I think about it..

Sawa tells that his works are about travelling without leaving a place and also about his own feelings of alienation and on arriving to Britain from Japan. He embraces the movement of people and the mutable notion of home as central themes in his work.

I booked my flight to Holland the other day.