31. BANG

So I took word suggestions on FB ... but my sister suggested BANG ...

Cos i'm leaving with a BANG !!

It's been tough designing a word a day ... i must say some days I just wanted to stop this challenge .. but i'm a fighter :)

There were a few days when I literally uploaded just a few minutes before midnight ! but yup i met my deadlines !!

lol thank you for your support :)

if you want type to be designed ... you know who to ask ;)

Cheers

Alice.

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30. tired

It's only the 2nd day back for B semester and I already feel tired...

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29. nom nom nom

I love food so it was inevitable for me to design "nom nom nom" ... hehe

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28. Win it

Today's words are Win it ! I play football and one of our coaches always likes to shout "Win it, Win it, Win it" as in win the ball when we are on the field.

:)

BTW if you are interested i'm selling some Oxford (family sized) pies to fundraise for our club (Wanderers). Hit me up if you keen for some pie nom nom nom !

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27. FAT

Woop Woop , only 3 more words to go ... it's been tough ... very tough ...

Once again, ran out of time >.< '' cos I went to a friends house to have hot pot (asian styled food) it was so fulling ... so i'm feeling just a tad FAT right now !!

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26. Fuselage

This one was suggested by my long time friend Hayden.

Today i went for a real constructivist style (not intended but i running out of time so left the curves out of the letters) and only used drop shadows, and used the shadows to create the positive space.

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25. Fab

Been a bit busy these few days, and that's why i've been uploading quite late ...

I was going to design the whole word "fabulous" but ... i've only had the last 30 minutes so ... I shortened it to "fab".

Once again I used a free pattern from www.DinPattern.com

:)

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24. LOVE

This one is for Cath :)

Sometimes all you need is love !

oh yeh the pattern inside of the letters are courtesy of www.dinpattern.com some pretty awesome patterns to download and they are for free !

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23. butter

My sister likes to bake ... and she wanted me to design the word butter ... so this ones for you mags!

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22. Scream

Well, my friend Kenman suggested scream the other day ... so i drew it ! initially i had a man screaming and then another friend said it didn't look so good (my man). So i replaced it with a megaphone.

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21. imagine

Imagine - John Lennon

Imagine there's no Heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one

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20. Pain

I had training with Voni ( my trainer ) yesterday ... and i was complaining the whole way through our session ( as usual ) and she suggested that my word of the day should be "pain" ...

... hence pain is for the pain i suffer each time i train with Voni :P

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19. SNOW

I sketched this in my diary two years ago so I dug it out the other day ... just cos I went to the snow yesterday :) yup i love the snow ... i especially love snowboarding !!

enjoy!

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18. fun

I went to the snow today ... and i really had a lot of fun !!!

And i got home late , so now i'm rushing this .. i have exactly 9 minutes to post it until it's a new day !! eek !! this challenge is tough !!

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17. Barbarous

So I asked for requests for today's word of the day. I choose BARBAROUS, never knew what the meaning of the word is until now...

Something about "savagely cruel, exceedingly brutal".

However, the style I chose to design in does not show the meaning of the word. But does it have to?

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16. STUCK

So just over half way now !!

Whoosh ! time does pass doesn't it ?!

Today's word is stuck ... cos i was trying to think of a word for today and i felt a bit "stuck" lol ! and then i started to visualize in my head how i wanted to to look ... then i thought ... mmm definitely one that i could design/illustrate ...

Yup it's another free hand one, just cos i don't have time ( poor time management ) eeek and I took longer than i expected with this one as well ...

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15. FUCK!

FUCK ! is today's word, ha but i have substituted the middle letters for symbols !

This word was inspired by Claire ( my awesome awesome colleague ) she had a bad day last week ... and she said she only had one word on her mind ... lol and let's be honest here, everyone thinks it or has said it before !! and there are moments when that's the only word that best fits the situation :P

Enjoy !

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14. COLD

It's been a bit cold lately ! brrrrr :) well it is winter ...

I wanted to design something tall and skinny ... so I decided to go for a vernacular design today.

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13. Crazy

Are you crazy ?!!!

haha today's word is crazy ... cos yeah we all gotta be a lil crazy sometimes, eh ?!

I found it quite hard to design my word of the day today :( Still not pleased with the end result !

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12. meh

eeeek today's word is meh !

urban dictionary explanation for meh is :

"Indifference; to be used when one simply does not care."

well i didn't have time to design this one today ... meh.

:)

going to make a mad dash to auckland to hand in my assignment !!

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11. iLike

Recently one of our 3rd year students lost his iPod, he whipped up some posters with large words iLost my iPod. I thought it was pretty clever of him. So todays word is iLike !

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10. Arrows

LOL it was only a matter of time before I whipped out this one !! anyone that knows me well ... or gimme a pencil and paper and that's all i doodle ! arrows arrows arrows. It's a serious obsession !! and obviously ... i really enjoyed drawing up this Word of the day :) Arrow love !!

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9. Discipline

I have chosen this word discipline, as I feel it is important for everyone to have discipline in anything or everything they choose to do in their life. Without discipline it is hard to succeed.

I haven't designed type in this style before ... although its becoming an overly common style in type design. But I wanted to give it a try ...

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8. heart

Today's word of the day is love. But I have decided to use a bracket and the number 3. As it is often used in chat lingo to represent a heart. Initially I was going to design the word Love but my sketches were a bit too lovey dovey.

Hope you feel the love today :)

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7. FORM

I had this idea a few days ago. I always enjoy drawing in perspective, but its hard !! and I am heavily inspired by Takenobu Iragashi - I heart his work. I can't compare !

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