Measure success by how much you have grown today, not the results

I’ve only been doing this for a week, but surprisingly, it’s easy to stay in a habit. Not to say it isn’t hard, I’m just fortunate enough that when I want something, I stay really focused on it until I can get it. Maybe that’s the reason why I stopped writing down 3 good things everyday? Another topic to explore for another time.

Making something today was pretty hard. Even though I had a really good day biking to work/most of the work day, I got a little stressed at the end of the day. Also, biking home at night was a little stressful, but also a lot of fun.

Like I said early last week, if you don’t want to start, just start. For today’s constraints, it said to add rules and shapes. I usually work with shapes because of the pictures that are used in the brochures, but it’s a bit harder with just shapes. Photos usually inform how a layout is going to look. Fortunately, after watching a video submission from The Futur, I was able to see how rules (lines) are used. I ended up just modifying old layouts that I made last week. However, I have a lot to learn about the basics. I didn’t even think that I could rotate the design until watching the video. It stinks how I’m not good right now and how I could have been so much better if I had been practicing for the whole year. However, I did make last year a point to focus on skateboarding and animations. A little sad that I’m not skating as much, but then again I didn’t skate as much until February of last year.

For these designs, the constraints were 2 weight size and 2 pt sizes

Copy of Week 5

Using all of the text provided, create a layout using any weight and any size

Design 1

This one is ok. I believe it’s set on a 9x9 grid. However, it’s not as visually engaging. It also just seems very centered. Definitely would need to re do this one.

Design 2

I’m pretty sure I modified one of the first attempts of week 5 with this one. I just liked how DZN was rotated and made really big and just decided to try to do the same thing one more time. This one was probably mu favorite one.

Design 3

Really standard design that i could have made last year. It stinks that I don’t think I’m growing. But what I’ve found out is that I won’t get the results that I want by doing nothing and I won’t get those results until the later part of me practicing.

Design 4

Same design pretty much as Design 3. Still gotta work on layouts that don’t just align left.

Design 5

This one is my 2nd favorite or rather, I’m still arguing in my head on if Design 2 or Design 5 is better. I like this one because it does one trick which is rotates In this Issue and Features upside down. It also keeps everything aligned right after I flipped it. There’s a lot of white space, but the focus is there and hierarchy is well established.