2017 was a wild year in many respects. Before it began I decided to make Dapper Notes my main focus, and at years' end I'm happy to say that all my efforts have paid off. I:
- Redesigned the main Dapper Notes site
- Announced nine new editions, including six for subscribers, a miniature, a fuzzy Black Friday special, and the annual craft set
- Started distribution in the UK
Apart from Dapper Notes, spending time with my family, and doing my full-time day job, I spent a wee bit of my extra time toying with Hebrew typography, and some other artistic pursuits. I:
- Made 126 new pieces
- Recorded 39 of them being destroyed, for your viewing pleasure
- Was featured by Instagram themselves to welcome to Jewish new year
- Participated in several dozen of the weekly #GoodtypeTuesday challenges
- Participated in nearly all of the weekly #mesimaivrit challenges
- Made many new friends
- Met several of those friends in person
- Attempted to start a big project
- Failed to start said project
- Fixed up my home office to make it into a more accommodating studio
- And lots more
Following is a one-minute recap of the destructions I remembered to capture throughout the year. (links to each of the pieces that made an appearance after the jump).
Enjoy, and happy new year!
Original posts, in order of appearance:
- Inspiration (chocolate)
- Superb Owl
- Olive portrait
- Snow
- Elisheva
- Shabbat shalom (apple)
- Halva
- Two thousand
- Birthday (flowers)
- Thank you
- Girls love letters too
- Detsah
- Happy Passover (matzah)
- Taleh (aries)
- Happy holiday (matzah, again)
- Sugar "cubes"
- Thanks Thanks Thanks
- Yizkor
- France
- Hashtag foodtype
- Shel Silverstein
- Honey
- Happy holiday (cheese)
- Covfefe
- Love & pride
- Danielle Evans
- Inker Linker
- Silence is best
- & justice for some
- Happy when you're with me
- Alef-lamed ligature
- Shabat shalom (peppers)
- Something BIG is coming
- Shwayeh
- Cupcake