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Some months ago I unearthed my baby book. It contains a bunch of info such as my parents’ first thoughts about me (“Mama and Papa thought she was a baby boy. She’s heavier than her brother and sisters”), my favourite toys (“Squeeze ball, turtle, rattle, stuffed toys”), and my first words (“Papa, baba”).

The interesting stuff is the pages with my drawings, which were all done in 1998 when I was about 4. This was my very first sketchbook!

From all the misspelled names, you can see how much I struggled with writing the letter ‘Z’. Something else I noticed was that I was very fond of drawing tables, chairs, beds, triangles, stars, suns, and stick people with big heads and very short limbs.

On the second image you’ll see that my mom stuck a small envelope on the page labeled, “Hazel’s First Haircut”, which occurred on February 15th, 1995. My baby hair is still in there, by the way. Is that creepy or what?

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As opposed to going out to buy a calendar for the new year, I decided to make it into a little side project to design one for every month of 2012.

To ring in the new year, I introduce to you this clean, unobtrusive January calendar which you can download and print out on plain, letter-sized paper (or colour paper if you’re feeling adventurous).

Ten points goes to those of you who know which typefaces I used! Hint: I use two of them on my blog theme. Am I becoming too predictable? (yes.)

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Collage garments by Peter Clark. See more on his site.

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I was feeling unusually crafty yesterday evening and came up with a way to repurpose an old book as a cover for my new eReader.

My last eReader broke from being crushed under a few textbooks so you could say this was born out of paranoia coupled with a desire to be frugal instead of spending $20+ on the covers they sell in stores (which look terribly bland, by the way).

Here’s how I went about it:

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Advice to Sink in Slowly is an ongoing series of posters designed by graduates for the purpose of passing on advice and inspiration to first year students.

Although illustrators and designers are the people creating these posters, a lot of the posters also apply to those outside of art school, such as “Eat Breakfast”, “Remember to Breathe”, and “Casual Sex is Overrated”.

One of my favorites is Frank Chimero’s advice zine which you can print out to keep in your pocket for when you’re in doubt.

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I was trying to write out a list of resolutions for the new year but I think this piece by Erin Hanson of Recovering Lazyholic says it all.

Cheers to a better year!

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Here’s more first year work from my Communication Design 1 class! We were tasked with redesigning the logo of an existing print shop called Print & Graphic Depot. In addition to that, we had to show how the new logo would be utilized in things such as business cards, exterior signage, interior poster, envelopes, and invoice forms.

In creating this logo, I thought of conveying the idea of a depot or a depository (a place where things are stored) by having the letterforms essentially “hold” the colour ink used for printing (CMYK). I modified the counter of the ampersand to look like a droplet of yellow ink.

I wanted a logo that, when repeated, could make a nice pattern and be used as a design element for the business card and the envelope.

In my last post, you can see a shot of some of the process work I went through to reach this solution.

Aside: I’m not totally happy with what I did with the envelope design, invoice form and interior poster just yet so I’m going to do a bit more fine-tuning and then I’ll post the updated version up here.

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Just a few quick shots of things I’ve been working on for these last few weeks of first semester. I think it’s a good idea to keep a documentation of the “in-between” stage from time to time. Will keep this in mind next sem.

At this point, everyone at school looks like they’ve neglected showering, sleeping and eating. But this is art school, so I guess that isn’t really out of the ordinary.

The end is nigh! Let gooooo!

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