11 Awesome 365 Projects To Watch Closely In 2010
January 7, 2010 | Thoughts & Words By Sneh Roy | 21 Comments
Jad Limcaco of Design Informer might have very well just started a design movement. He wrote an article about designing something everyday for Smashing Magazine that spurred a great many people to create Posterous and Tumblr blog accounts for their brand new Project 365, a project where you do something consistent every single day of the year for 365 days. It is a very exciting prospect [at first] and if you are not careful, it is very very easy to get sucked into it [yep, I am a sucker through and through, as you will discover when you visit the 4th link in this post]. I first started entertaining the idea a few weeks ago when I finally got around to watching Julie & Julia [loved the movie, Amy Adams is a cutie, Meryl Streep bless her heart is a brilliant actress, but the ending lacked something for me]. As many of you know that I have a food blog too and I thought about doing a Project 365 on that blog. One recipe for each day with one gorgeous and delicious picture. Then I thought of doing a design Project 365. I have always wanted to give a name and face to all those quirky creatures that reside in my head. Vector characters! I kept knocking the idea around in my head till I saw Melanie and Srdjan’s blogs [links No 1 and 3 respectively] and I was suckered into it!
Today I have rounded up 11 awesome Project 365′s that I am following very closely and that show a lot of promise. It takes a lot of determination and gumption to stick it through as many of us will realize over the course of the project. But hey, what better exercise in self-discipline right? These 10 projects are from a variety of creative disciplines of the design spectrum and I hope they grow and provide a lot of inspiration to everyone that follows them.
365 CARTOONS by Melanie Matthews
Melanie will attempt to draw 365 cartoons in the year 2010. Her sketches and paintings are available for sale too!
365 TEES By Chow Hon Lam a.k.a. Flying Mouse
Limited edition tees, hoodies and jackets for sale in a beautifully designed online store.
365 LOGOS By Srdjan Kirtic
Wizemark’s ambitious one logo a day project.
365 VECTOR CHARACTERS By Sneh Roy
365 vector characters in 2010, each a mascot designed with a unique name and short story. Also on Flickr.
365 THEMED DESIGNS By Angie Bowen
Arbenting’s Angie Bowen attempts a digital manipulation everyday.
365 DESIGNS By Jad Limcaco
Jad works around a theme with a design created everyday. He has started off with beautiful typography and quotes.
365 DELICIOUS PHOTOS By Carrie Minns
Carrie Minns from La Pomme De Portland captures a delightfully delicious photo every single day.
365 PHOTOS By ModernHeartist
A photo or photoset everyday of the year, I love ModernHeartist’s unique photography style.
365 PURE DESIGN By Daniel Apt
Daniel Apt’s design is extremely upper crust and he shows off a unique perspective with his signature style every single day.
365 SKETCHES By Miguel Cardona
Miguel brings to life his friends, acquaintances, social media posts and interactions in a visually stunning sketchbook that is beautifully illustrated everyday.
365 LIFE PHOTOGRAPHY By Hannah
Hannah is a food blogger and a young, exceptionally talented photographer who attempts to capture life in a unique shot every day.
Have you started a Project 365? What exciting theme or subject are you following? Please leave us a comment with a link to your daily design/art/writing/photography project for 2010.
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I have stated following your posts ever since I saw those vector characters of yours. It will be great to see the progress and what you will be coming up every day. Like many others, I too have started a tumblr to join in on this design365 awesomeness. It has only been 7 days, but I have enjoyed how it has made me more productive every single day.
Great post. Now I can explore what other people have to offer to the same project. Thanks!
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Thanks for featuring my daily365, Sneh. You are doing a phenomenal job with your daily vectors as well. Keep up the great work. Oh, and these are all awesome!
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Another great post Sheh! I’m happy to be a part of a creative community who took the 365 challenge. Whoever feels curious may follow my designs either on my blog http://lukedtl.blogspot.com/ or on flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/lukesf/sets/72157623026725767/
Very original!
I like the idea Sneh – I may start this on flickr soon – ill be following your progress on flickr too -
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First of all thank you for your always interesting posts.
Last summer I started with my husband a photoblog called 365 Photo Paths (http://365photopaths.blogspot.com). I think it can’t be considered a classical 365 project because we don’t take a new picture every single day but we publish a daily photo taken from our trips around the world.
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Thanks for the mention, Sneh! Keep up the great work with your vectors!
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Thnks…
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i try to make a post for this 365 challenge , getting no time, better ill do in my blog rather than doing in separate blog
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thanx for this post. I just luv the “365 VECTOR CHARACTERS”-Project!
I started the challenge too ^^
Todays seventh design is about believing in fairytales..
—-> http://nicolekathrin.com/2010/01/07/design-7/
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Really all these are awesome. I love the typographic designs by Design Informer. I’m also up to this at http://www.designdaily365.com check it out.
Thanks for gathering these in one place.
A unique post! I hardly find time to take the 365 challenge
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Sweet post. I love the 365 challenge! I’ve actually taken it up myself… Although mine are a bit more random.
Check it out if you want to. http://www.dailydesign.ideacus.com
Hey Sneh! Awesome post. All these artists (yourself included) are incredibly ambitious! I just can’t see myself being that dedicated! I everyone succeeds though!
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These projects are awesome.These all project is have very diffrent style and designing .You get good knoweledge on these project when you work on these all.
This is really a very important blog for me thank you for sharing this with me.
Thanks for the great post! I’m new to social media (yes a slow one) so the idea intrigued me and i started my own blog and have taken the challenge with a 30min time limit!
Anyone interested heck it out http://www.designism.com.au
I love your daily vectors! Thanks for sharing them.
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Thanks for putting me on! Appreciate the kind words!!!!
-Migs
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Thank you for the mention, Sneh! So many wonderful projects to explore here!
Well, I’ve thanked you already on Twitter, but it won’t do harm to do it again with a comment
Thank you so much for featuring me in this post
. I’m actually really surprised to read that you see a signature style in my designs. I’m still very new to design (I’m namely from a web dev background) and it makes me happy to read that I have a signature style.
Also really cute and sweet vector characters, keep up the good work
Wow! an amazing collection of 365 projects! I’d only ever heard of photography projects and the works of Philip Thiel (5 years of 365 and running… the man sure is committed… http://thiel.livejournal.com/) It’s fascinating to know there are so many other projects out there…
I design a dress every day and produce one of my designs every month (with a two month delay for voting)
I’ve found it challenging, interesting exhausting and highly rewarding.
Best of luck to all those out there!
IP.