Love-Hate Relationship with Fonts

I like design. Like today I worked my retail job for eight hours, came home for supper and then went to my second job to design some signage for our new registration table and then set up the table.

Those two hours were the most enjoyable two hours of my day. I designed a vertical version and a horizontal version and then sent pictures to my mum to see what she thought (because I’m filling in for her at her job until she’s fully recovered from surgery so I wanted to make sure she actually liked what I was doing!) and then I saw the old signs we had for something and decided to make new ones of those so I figured out how to design a template so I could make those signs in the right size and it was just really satisfying. I love learning ways to make things. Like the time I designed the watermark I use on my pictures – so fun!

An example of my watermark on one of my pictures from my trip to Romania, March 2014.

I have a love-hate relatioship with choosing fonts though. I hate it while I’m doing it and then I find the one and suddenly its the best part of the project which just goes to show folks, your font can make or break your project. I like to go for classically classy, simple and sophisticated, that kinda thing. There’s a reason I’m in school for Communications and Media ;D

However, when choosing fonts I somehow always find myself singing what is one of, in my opinion, Gunnarolla’s best songs: The Comic Sans song,

 

So I hope you enjoyed that musical prelude. Talk to ya’ll tomorrow!
-B

SDCC

I kinda cheated on the daily exercise thing today… I did a lot (like seriously, a lot) of excited dancing around and screaming because of this video:

I JUST WANNA BE AT COMIC-CON SEEING TOM HIDDLESTON COSPLAY AS HIS OWN CHARACTER!!! Is that too much to ask??!?

-B

But AHHH seriously! As if he actually did that, I love Tom!!!

Depressed Charlie Brown

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I know the feeling Charlie Brown… In fact, I listened to so much sad music when I was like 16/17 that my mum almost went out of her way to find me happier music with a similar sound. Like cheerier words but still the kind of wistful folky feel (see JJ Heller’s music). So ya, Charlie Brown, I understand sometimes it’s nice to listen to depressing music, I feel like when I’m down listening to depressing music makes me feel like my down-ness is justified, like there’s a reason for it and it’s not just pointless.

I find sadness to be a very creative time as well and sometimes I would (or do) listen to sad music just to get into that creative mood. I like the human emotion of sad music, the idea that everyone is sad sometimes, because if you listen to it when you’re happy it can be kind of sobering and make you more open to seeing others who are unhappy and help them, but if you listen to it when you’re sad, it can make you feel less alone.
It’s comforting, sad music is comforting.

-B