Daily Type Grind

Denton Pretorius in Cape Town, South Africa created Daily Type Grind, a 26 day challenge to improve his creativity and type design skills...

Why did you decide to do this project?  The decision to start the Daily Type Grind was entirely spontaneous, and perhaps a practise run for the 2015 ’36Days of Type’ Instagram event. Every day I produced an upper-case letter of the latin alphabet consecutively for 26 days exploring form, technique and art direction, whilst simultaneously improving speed and my own processes.

How has doing a yearlong/daily project affected your life? Completing this project was a huge achievement for me. It required intense discipline to not make excuses and to schedule time aside from client work and socialising. I also started to recognise creative patterns of a system that would work best, that I could now bring into new projects. The feeling of momentum was what kept me going towards the final more difficult days and when the end goal started to visually present itself, it felt rewarding. I have definitely improved my knowledge on type form and the endless possibilities of type design, as well as now having a handful of potential designs to explore and refine into useable typefaces.

 

 

See all of Denton's letters HERE. 

A Diario // Daily Hand lettering

Laura Páez in Bogotá, Colombia is creating A Diario // Daily Hand lettering. She explains, "As a designer I feel that every day I have to push my creativity, drawing letters is one way. Every day, no matter how busy I am, I draw letters with inspiring words, or songs. This project help me to relax before I go to bed."

Why did you decide to do this project? I found the book one day when I was stuck on the same idea, so I start making exercises and because of my love for Typography, Calligraphy and lettering, I decided to draw letters every day, to get practice and be better every day, I know at the end of this year, my lettering will be better than the first day.

How has doing a yearlong/daily project affected your life? It has been a great experience, because I start to share it on Instagram, and I receive a lot of likes and comments that I never imagine, then I shared it with my friends making a blog. I had to stop for a while because God give me the news I was waiting for: my pregnancy, so i was really busy between working, doctor appointments, and sleeping :) I opened a new instagram account just for the project (adiario) because it seems to be the easiest way to share it online. This project will become in something else...

See all of Laura's Lettering HERE.

365 Illustrations with Type

Inês Petiz is a Portuguese digital artist and she's making 365 Illustrations with Type...

Why did you decide to do this project?  I'm currently running my own bar but I'm also trying to improve my portfólio in order to find a job in the illustration/communication design area, so I thought that starting a project like this would be the perfect opportunity to do it.

How has doing a yearlong/daily project affected your life? I'll create one illustration with type a day for a year and I've started today.

See all of Inês' illustrations HERE.