January 11th, 2010 — Design

Ten In Ten Study

This 8 page boo­klet is a sum­mary of my first ten days in the year 2010. It con­tains infor­ma­tion about where I was, what I did, and how often I did it. A big ins­pi­ra­tion for this study was Nicho­las Fel­ton and his work with Daytum.com. These boo­klets are prin­ted on tabloid sheets and fol­ded to letter-size. Leave a com­ment if you are inte­res­ted in owning one Depen­ding on the demand I’ll see about get­ting more than a just few prin­ted for family and friends.

12 Responses

  • January 11, 2010
    Jonathan Hollin says:

    Nice work Tra­vis. They look gor­geous, beau­ti­ful typography.

  • January 11, 2010
    Jonathan Hollin says:

    Are you using a plu­gin to per­form hyphe­na­tion on these com­ments? I never noti­ced that before, that is really neat.

  • January 11, 2010
    Jonathan Hollin says:

    And another thing (sorry)… Did you just rede­sign? I love your design, it’s really eye-catching and has a few little subt­le­ties that really give it an edge.

  • January 11, 2010
    Travis Neilson says:

    Thanks Jonathan. I appre­ciate your com­ments, I am really exci­ted to show this study off. The site got a refresh over new years and I am still twea­king every­day. It’s nearly there now. I use a WP plug-in called wp-Typography. It hyphe­na­tes among other things. Be sure to send me a pic when you get that pos­ter sorted.

  • January 11, 2010
    Matt Bond says:

    Hi Tra­vis, Love the work. Is there somewhere I can find a High Res PDF of it? Many thanks.

  • January 11, 2010
    Travis Neilson says:

    Thanks Matt, I haven’t made the wor­king files avai­la­ble. If you are wan­ting to see the details, I am con­si­de­ring a few options in the way I dis­play these. In a day or two I’ll have a bet­ter ans­wer to that. I’ll send you a notice when I figure out the final solution.

  • January 12, 2010
    Matt Bond says:

    Thanks Tra­vis. Just keen to see the details and your layout flair! Thanks again.

  • January 12, 2010
    Travis Neilson says:

    Alright Matt, I think I’ve got it. Hover your mouse over the ima­ges to get a bet­ter look. Thanks for the interest.

  • January 13, 2010
    Jonathan Hollin says:

    Hi Tra­vis. I’ll be sure to post some pho­tos when I get that pos­ter prin­ted and moun­ted. I’ll let you know.

    Kin­dest regards.

  • February 1, 2010
    Nicholas Felton says:

    Tra­vis — it’s great to see this idea spread and evolve. I hope that you find the pro­duc­tion of these docu­ments as ful­fi­lling as I do.

    All the best, Nicholas.

  • February 2, 2010
    Trent Walton says:

    These are impres­sive. Great work. How did you go about log­ging the data? I’ve been mea­ning to select a few topics & give day­tum a try.

  • February 3, 2010
    Travis Neilson says:

    Thanks Trent, I tried a few dif­fe­rent methods; spreadsheets, note­books, ect. In the end I found that iCal wor­ked the best for me. Since I have it syn­ced over mobile me I used my home and work com­pu­ters as well as my phone to track everything. Each item I ente­red in the cal was a short desc­rip­tion of what hap­pe­ned in that block of time, along with any notes I thought would be inte­res­ting or rele­vant, like how many games of scrab­ble I won (that was a short list). After ten days I got pretty cog­ni­zant of everything I did, but It would be very taxing for me to sus­tain that type of detail awa­re­ness. I find that I am more of a ‘wood­pec­ker’ than a ‘hum­ming bird’ in that when I do my thing I block almost everything else out. Doing this excer­size for­ced me to be more aware and the­re­fore less … focused?

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