I’m someone who’s particularly given to finding and sticking to a routine, so it’s no surprise that my life in lockdown already has a well worn cadence. It’s a comforting pattern of running, working, cooking, reading, watching Netflix, and reading. I’m glad of my routine. Routine offers a safety net and a sense of regular time, both of which seem to have been lost to the shrinking of my daily life to the same four walls.
But I have to admit that the comfort of that pattern has become a very softly padded creative prison. I’m really struggling to find new ideas and break out of old styles.
The power of this blog for me lies in the fact that it’s a space to unpick the everyday and understand more about how what’s around us can hold beauty and has been/can be designed to be better. So, I decided to revisit a couple of older posts, including one on taking idea adventures, and decided to set myself a challenge.
On Wednesday 24th June, I had to take time every hour for twelve hours 8am-8pm (roughly) to find something that could inspire me and illustrate it. It was a challenge to stop and look outside of my normal routine and find unusual angles, everyday wonders, and little joys.
While I didn’t quite make every hour in time, these are the twelve moments from what could have just been another day that made it something special.
