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Friday Typography - One

A few days ago, Jack Shedd pointed out the Typography Friday Flickr group — where a whole bunch of illustrators post weekly type-based images on a Friday afternoon.

Recently, I've been feeling a little depressed about how little personal work I manage to do these days, and quick, one-off images are exactly the sort of things I never find time for. In my first couple of years of college, I really enjoyed turning out pointless, purely decorative pieces which just summed up what I was thinking at the time. So I'm going to attempt to set my lunchbreak aside each Friday, and turn out a really quick piece which hopefully will become a little series. Here's part one!

My hope is to create a little snapshot of what's happened in my week each week. Hopefully, it'll get me back into making images for fun, which is something that's really been missing for a while. Additionally, it will give me the chance to have a go with some of the more offbeat, wonderful typefaces that I pick up in my day-to-day, but which I can't use in my daytime or freelance work. The typeface in this image is the astoundingly cute (and astoundingly free) Sniglet, by Hayley Fiege. Hurrah!