Week 4: re-cap

This was one of those weeks that it was all of a sudden Friday, and I feel like the week just started. Laundry was over-due, I had a couple late nights with work, and had my first "day off a month" day. I'm happy I was a bit ahead these past few weeks, because I slacked this week. Luckily, I had jury duty yesterday and got cut a little after mid-day, so I was able to get a head start on my work for my other class. It is called professional practices and we are working on our personal identity, which I will use when I develop my portfolio in the spring. We need to produce a business system this week and I can't do that without a logo. I bused out some good logo sketches last night and I will need to mock them up and create the collateral all this week. EEK! Lot's to do on top of thesis, but my personal identity is going to be awesome. I'm so excited to get it all done.

Book
I slacked on the book this week. I don't have an advisor for the book to report to, so I decided to put it aside for a few days. Next thing I knew I was running out of time and needed the time for the website work. I was able to mock up a bunch of pages with images and the header type, but I did not get as much done as I wanted. This week will be a bit of a challenge. I hope to have the whole thing mocked up by week 6. Do-able, but not easy.

Website
I was not 100% happy with where my mock ups were last week, but I felt it was because they needed to be refined. So the first thing I did this week was refine my homepage and work out some details. After I got it cleaned up, I was still not sure it was good enough. So, I went back and worked on a few different home page variations that are slightly different than what I originally had. Now I have two more that I like better than the first. I'm happy to have something better looking, but I was hoping to have this nailed down so I can move on to the rest of the pages. I did get most of the type typed out, so it is ready to put in the pages without having to use placement type. Yay!

Life
Last week was pretty good because I was all over the place. I liked the variety of my week, but it totally kicked my ass. I took Tuesday off as my first "day off of everything day" and because I was out of work for the day I needed to work late on Monday. Which also means up late doing homework. Then Thursday I worked out in the market seeing design opportunities in different liquor stores, so Wednesday I had to work late to make up for that. Thursday I got home late, stayed up late doing homework and Friday I just wanted to crash. BUT, I forced myself to get some work done. I wish I was one of those people that could function on 7 hours a night. My sleep is high maintenance, so when I lose a little, it throws me off. Can't complain though. The week was hectic, but pretty awesome!

Food
Last night I made a new meal and it came out awesome. I like to find recipes and then change it all around to make it the way I think is better. I made this casserole thing that has thin sliced potatoes. sweet potatoes, layered with a mixture of leeks, artichokes, seasonings. lemon, celery and this soft cheese. I topped it with bread crumbs and baked it! I put a little too much pepper on some parts and it was a bit spicy, but overall it was great. Meals like this make me excited to go to work the next day, so that I can have it for lunch.

Still not much to show for visuals. So here is a sample of what it looks like to make your own typeface. I hand-made each letter and then thinned it down for the "light" version. To make all of the type I have to go in and copy each letter to make the words. Below is my type palette, and also the page of all the words I have used so far. Kinda time consuming, but City Farm has it's own unique typeface so its worth it. :)