Here’s a version of Van Gogh’s Starry Night created using thousands of curled up strips of paper. Susan Myers used a process called paper quilling to painstakingly build up her version of the piece.
(via jonwithabullet)
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.”
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Confucius.
So true. One of my pet peeves about people: Many in my life don’t keep their word. A person telling me that they are gonna do something and not backing up his/her “promises” with action forms a bad impression in my head. Unreliable, lazy, and all talk, no action. I have every right to doubt you folks.
70% done
I’m either in typography hell or heaven…
A snapshot of designing an AWESOME poster. Hopefully, it’ll turn out yo with a definite color scheme and layout. There’s this general typeface usage rule: Do not use more than two or a MAXIMUM of three typefaces. So far, I’m using 4 typefaces, but I think they go together. I know the rules enough to break them. Job hunt progress? Still no definite leads. It gets me a little discouraged and makes me wonder if I should continue with it…and what I’m going to do with my future. Honestly I feel that employers really don’t know what they are missing out on…like my typography swagggggg, that’s what.
This page is a sign. What do you want it to say?
I would’ve chosen a more serious approach with this page…inspirational quotes by famous philosophers, artists, writers, musicians, etc, but I had this phrase repeating in my head awhile now. :) The silly, random, and vulgar humor automatically wins in my book. The background image is from doing a Google image search on 18th century dancing. Printed that out and decided that I wanted to do some simple hand drawn sans serif typography. Then, the magic began when I was drawing these beautiful words with pencil and pen, which was hard to see the lines in the busy image. Soon after, I traced it out in white gel pen.
When I think about it, job hunting is a poker game. You need luck, charisma, and strategy to win your opponent over.”
— Me, take that you cliched dating analogy!
Generations of hardship and hard work have amounted to YOU. We will never fully comprehend, for we are a spoiled generation. Free to pursue our dreams and love in a way that our family before us never could have imagined. For this, make them proud. Deserve it.”
— Philip Wang
Color this entire page
Did some marble painting with shaving cream and food coloring for the first time. Messy, but fun! At least my pages smell good. :) Will do this activity again with a 2 color scheme in the future on a new sheet of cardstock paper.
Make a sudden, unpredictable, destructive movement with the journal
Used an Xacto knife to horizontally cut the “Make a sudden, destructive, unpredictable movement with the journal” page since I didn’t want it to be in completely loose strips. I have a bunch of Victoria’s Secret catalogues lying around and chose a closeup model face shot to cut into strips with a pair of scissors.
Front of the page…took a while to do. I haven’t done any paper weaving since elementary school! I like how her eye lined up with the K to give her some white eyelashes.
Back of the page..nice surprise haha :)
Sadness is beautiful. Loneliness is tragical.”
— Backstreet Boys, from their song “Shape of My Heart”
