Finally got over my mental block and finished my collages for the a - z project (a group project involving 26 adjectives for 26 graphic design styles).

Above: styles Punk and Emigre.
Below: What "Punk" made my garbage can look like.

Yesterday I made some great stationery for a christmas gift. I almost want to keep it for myself its so nice. I bought gray envelopes with light blue note cards and a silver stamp pad, hoping to find a nice and affordable stamp to stamp them with. After trying to stamp just about everything in my house (pencil erasers, leaves) I found these stickers I bought a long time ago that I planned to use for.. something. They are like a thick foil and they're embossed, in the shape of elaborate little picture frames. I used these to stamp little frames on the note cards, and on the envelopes (to frame where the stamp will go).

I cleaned my room today, and it made me really how overcrowded it is during the end of the school year. My desktop is full, and I got to find out what happens to the icons that exceed the limit (they pile up on top of the HD).

Nothing fits in my bookshelf. I have a specific place for everything, and yet there are still things that aren't shelved. I have too many magazines, and I recently bought some new books (The Annual of the Type Directors Club 23 and American Modernism) and they are packed to tightly the shelves are starting to give.

I can't wait until this semester is over so I can get my life organized again.

Finally! Ready for print (tomorrow)!
It will be perfect bound if I get the chance.

I couldn't find the right paper so I am printing the coloured sheets onto tabloid and trimming them. Apparently they don't sell coloured paper with a gloss. I am going to find myself some and order a year's supply.

I never thought I would be so relieved for school to be over with! I was so excited to start this program, but by the end of it I was even more excited to have a break. It wasn't everything I expected, to be honest. I expected more than just the basics, and I found myself more often than not, bored. I don't like being bored. I did well enough in the end, though I am sure I could have done better. I aced pretty much all of my exams, and I could have worked harder on the projects that I had no interest in.

Anyway, we went out on Friday (my birthday) to dinner, at the usual Thai basil on Bloor (mmm!). Then, we lazily went to Queen video instead of an actual movie theatre. We rented Tideland, which we had heard about and trusted because it was directed by Terry Gilliam. I am not even going to start, about this movie. It's really strange, I can't even tell you if it was a good movie or not. I'm not sure...