The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows - pretty January/ February appropriate. I enjoy how melancholic and poetic the entries are - I cant help but read the definitions with a wry smile.
Found a new creative industry type website - Creative Bloq. Looks like it has some good articles.
Drunk Histories - always fun.
Good advice from Apartment Therapy about how to keep back the clutter - a whole January's worth of house tips.
Wallpaper
At the start of the summer last year me and Jon moved house and we have been making small steps to make our new place our own. I am excited about all the possibilities of what we can do and have been looking online for inspiration and resources. I found a website called Spoonflower which will print up custom wall paper for you from your own designs. You can also choose from designs submitted by other people and there are some really crazy options. Holli Zollinger's work in particular is amazing -
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| bjornonsaturday and animotaxis on Spoonflower |
Interesting Sites
The Webby Awards is one of the most prestigious awards for excellence on the internet. Their site shines a light on the best use of the internet either by people and companies doing amazing things or exemplary content and design.
Yoke is a creative agency in Australia who's high quality blog is full of compelling content on the business of design and web.
National Geographic's blog is just like their magazine - filled with beautiful photography and interesting science, culture and world exploration.
Yoke is a creative agency in Australia who's high quality blog is full of compelling content on the business of design and web.
National Geographic's blog is just like their magazine - filled with beautiful photography and interesting science, culture and world exploration.
New Years Resolutions
Last year I made a long list of new years resolutions, and was impressed to see when I looked at the list at the end of the year, that I had actually kept quite a few of them. I love the feeling you get at the start of January when the year is cold and new and stretches ahead of you with the prospect of Spring and fresh opportunities. It is a great time to put in place inspirations to hold to, of how you would like to spend your time, and what you want your year to look like.
I am always setting myself goals all year round and don't only wait till January to do so, but as I had done so well last year, I really felt I should make just a few.
Nothing particularly came to mind when I thought about making changes to what I was already doing - I already am aware I need to be exercising and eating healthily, and though I don't do these things every day, I try to. I also have a long list of work goals I am building on - and I really didn't want to add yet another thing to that list - so I spent a while googling 'new years resolutions' for inspiration.
One blog I had recently found (and - yes I am very late to the party) is that of the author Gretchen Rubin who wrote 'The Happiness Project'. It is an ongoing blog looking at how to live well and happily , and before New Years she was talking about setting resolutions. One of her points was to consider 'what would make me happier?' and that really struck a chord with me.
One of the things I have always loved to do ever since I was small is reading. I love getting immersed in a novel and love biographies, I have a huge list on amazon of books I want to read. What has been stopping me buying them is I have felt it was extravagant to get these books on a whim, and so the wish list of books has grown and grown.
My main new years resolution is to buy and read one new book a month - which I am really enjoying so far and is definitely boosting my happiness. I can slowly get through that wish list of mine. I am also enjoying listening to more audio books (the Red Dwarf books this week - which are really funny and easy to listen to). I have also found that Project Gutenberg, which have an online catalogue of public domain literature, is really easy to read on my phone and a good source of the classics. I am excited to see that Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, and Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse are there because I have heard they are good and can try them for free.
I am always setting myself goals all year round and don't only wait till January to do so, but as I had done so well last year, I really felt I should make just a few.
Nothing particularly came to mind when I thought about making changes to what I was already doing - I already am aware I need to be exercising and eating healthily, and though I don't do these things every day, I try to. I also have a long list of work goals I am building on - and I really didn't want to add yet another thing to that list - so I spent a while googling 'new years resolutions' for inspiration.
One blog I had recently found (and - yes I am very late to the party) is that of the author Gretchen Rubin who wrote 'The Happiness Project'. It is an ongoing blog looking at how to live well and happily , and before New Years she was talking about setting resolutions. One of her points was to consider 'what would make me happier?' and that really struck a chord with me.
One of the things I have always loved to do ever since I was small is reading. I love getting immersed in a novel and love biographies, I have a huge list on amazon of books I want to read. What has been stopping me buying them is I have felt it was extravagant to get these books on a whim, and so the wish list of books has grown and grown.
My main new years resolution is to buy and read one new book a month - which I am really enjoying so far and is definitely boosting my happiness. I can slowly get through that wish list of mine. I am also enjoying listening to more audio books (the Red Dwarf books this week - which are really funny and easy to listen to). I have also found that Project Gutenberg, which have an online catalogue of public domain literature, is really easy to read on my phone and a good source of the classics. I am excited to see that Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, and Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse are there because I have heard they are good and can try them for free.
Grateful Dead
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| This is a typographic experiment I did from a little while ago where I wanted to play with some psychedelic looking fonts. Based it off of the posters and album art for the Grateful Dead which produced very similar work in the Sixties. |
Happy links
Laughter is really good for you - this list of polite jokes made me cry with laughter.
Blog from the author of 'The Happiness Project' which is full of good tips articles and advice about happiness and good living.
Little Big Planet 3! Little Big Planet 1, 2 and Karting were incredible - really playful, beautiful, fun, clever and engaging and I am really looking forward to this one.
How to become a morning person
Blog from the author of 'The Happiness Project' which is full of good tips articles and advice about happiness and good living.
Little Big Planet 3! Little Big Planet 1, 2 and Karting were incredible - really playful, beautiful, fun, clever and engaging and I am really looking forward to this one.
How to become a morning person
Winter walks
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Me and Jon's resolution this year is to go on more outdoor explorations. I love to take my camera out into nature and Jon loves foraging so it will be a good way to encourage us to do more of these things.
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My new Coca Cola beanie is making me really happy at the moment - to me it feels really retro and 80's. I am also currently loving Lidl's graphic design - they have really upped their game and their luxury Christmas range of food was genuinely exciting - I got baklava, brandy cream, quince jelly and reindeer meat there, plus of course their amazing gluhwein.
Found on the web this week
An old documentary from Disney about their in-house artists and how every artist approaches doing a painting differently - lovely.
Why making decisions can be so difficult.
A good article for the season of new years resolutions - how to break a bad habit loop.
Why making decisions can be so difficult.
A good article for the season of new years resolutions - how to break a bad habit loop.
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