I think I understand why Jory wanted to go there instead of Ryerson. It's amazing.

My first project in Typography I is to get to know calligraphy. I used to be interested in calligraphy as a child, I had a few kits and I would practice it from the instruction books. Now that I have to produce accurate hand lettering, I find calligraphy so exhausting! I am not a perfectionist by any means. Though my work is nowhere near perfect, I feel that if I was a perfectionist I would try much too hard and would never finish anything. It really helps me out for in-class assignments because I am not picky and I will most likely always finish things. But I wish I was wonderful at it!

Honestly.

This is the first draft of my typography hand lettering assignment. Here, I am converting the 72 point letters to a twelve inch line of text. I know that there is going to be a lot of math in this class in the future.

I am already starting to love Design I. I handed in my magazine collage project today. It really surprised me how difficult this assignment was for me. I felt that since I love collages and am always doing them in my spare time this would be simple! (and that I would be amazing at it...) As it turns out, I had a hard time following guidelines because with the work I usually do, there are no rules. Because I thought that I would do this project really well, I got stuck for quite a while on how I was going to make it so wonderful. It isn't the best thing that I have ever done, but I am proud of it. It was very tedious cutting though tools out from Ikea instruction manuals, and it took me hours. I knew I would use those Ikea manuals eventually!

A little while ago I was intrigued reading a lifehacker article about using wikis to organize just about anything. I got a server running on my laptop (Jory got it running, of course) and I am now keeping my notes and assignments organized in my very own wiki system. It is so helpful that I can keep everything in one place and it feels like being on wikipedia, where if you are like me, you'll be pretty comfortable.

Today I handed in my Design I Layout Project, which was a photocopied paste-up of text and images. I absolutely loved this, it was right up my alley. We were asked to draw thumbnails before attempting this project, which I did, but I don't work that way. I did my thumbnails, but when I started to work on my project I ignored what I had thought of and just chose pieces that I felt worked together. This is how I do all of my collage work: I just lay everything out on my desk or floor, and start to move things around like it's a puzzle. I love how my paste-up turned out. The man is walking up the "stairs" blindfolded, and the stairs are being "destroyed" behind him. I think that it just works.

I got so lucky that I didn’t have to work this time around and would get to go to the clothing show! Last time was great, and though I only bought some vintage brown pearls and a summer dress, I spent hours and hours in heaven. I almost like it more than I like the Interior Design Show, I just wish there was an Interior Design show that would showcase things I could actually afford to purchase. I invited Dina, one of my best friends, to come with me (no boyfriends allowed).

The one night of the year where Toronto feels completely overcrowded. Maybe we didn’t approach it properly. We didn’t attend last year, so this year we had such an image built up in our minds because of the way people talked about nuit blanche. The problem with this is that it wasn’t as good as we thought it would be. What I mentioned about not approaching it properly was that we didn’t have a plan to go anywhere specific. There was nothing we wanted to see that we planned on seeing. We just walked around aimlessly with the enormous crowds of people until we found what looked like art, looked at it, and then moved on.