Work in progress & our blue house!

I can give you the advice that sometimes it’s much more fun to work with someone rather than sitting by yourself, even though you don’t work with the same things. Yesterday Niklas and I stayed up working until 3 am, so I didn’t get that much sleep, but I was so motivated to work on the spread for the Giants of Typography - brochure! Here is what I have done so far, and during the Easter break I will make two more spreads, a front cover and a back cover. I really tried to reflect what Jan Tschichold stands for in my layout using the grid in a different way, but at the same time make it easy to read and keep the reader’s interest. There is a LOT more to layout than I thought from the beginning. I am starting to fall in love with it, guys. Today I got really good feedback on this spread, which made me very happy since I have worked so hard. Now I just have to work with the text a bit more and then try to keep the rest of the spreads consistent.

Typography & Context

This project is in progress, with a lot more to do, and produce, but I felt like showing you in which direction I’m going with my press kit for Istanbul love hotel. I have to work more on integrating cultural influences a bit more, though.

Studio Practice

I have come up with some patterns that will go with my brand, but I don’t feel like posting a picture of the rest of it yet. I don’t know why but with this assignment I want it to be finished before I show it to you.

Frameworks of Design

I had a wonderful day today despite my loss of sleep, starting with the good feedback at the Typography & Context - lesson. After that I felt I needed to do something else than work and Jakob (I’ll hopefully post a pic with our collective family after the weekend) told me that we have access to a pool in the garden next to our collective! Perfect, and I went there. I haven’t been in the sun since I went surfing two weeks ago (which I’ll hopefully do more of this Easter) so it felt wonderful just lying there. After that I went for a really intense run - wonderful.

 

When I came home something happened that made me clean the whole bottom floor; kitchen and living room. I washed the floor by hand, washed all the carpets and towels, cleaned the shelves and the desk so that everything was shiny. I was like a tornado, finally blowing in to the shower before I could relax.

After that, I felt complete, and ate some good food from yesterday combined with some wine. It’s important to have some moments of joy every day, even though it’s a Thursday liksom. And some dark chocolate...

Now I have a date with my love at Skype. God, I love both you and Skype, Daniel.