• Piet
• Shakespeare Programming Language, (SPL)

• manicure every 2 weeks
• glass blowing classes @ Pratt
• female welding workshop
• learn drums @ Ladies Rock Camp
• designer shades
• treadmill desk
• pickle red onions
• maintain a small garden of herbs
• pole dancing classes
• 23 and me kit
• classes at The Pantry
• French/Spanish classes at a CC

• "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got." –Tony Robbins
• Epiphanies series
• "How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." –Annie Dillard
• "Kill your darlings."

• start augmented beauty zine
• code and publish The Last Question
• illustrate a wallpaper worthy of poolga.com
• study session w/Kevin: simple project in Adobe Premiere (shoot film on dslr)
• ✔ tumblr theme [check out pixel union]
• Regyssa illustration
• Project Ideas web app
• attend an AEA

• Mrs. Vera's commissioned angel
• Florence + the Machine painting
• Granny's Autobiography
• Indian princess digital painting
• Kris digital painting
• Amanda + Amira vs Zombies
• ✔ Hylda's string star
• ✔ hot air balloon paper art
• Bridgett Bardot digital painting
• ✔ custom Tumblr theme
• Adah's vinyl lyrics
• Hannah Jo's "Ways to Fall Asleep"
• Eartha Kitt digital painting

• A Project Guide to UX Russ Unger & Carolyn Chandler
• ✔ Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability Steve Krug
• Rocket Surgery Made Easy Steve Krug
• The Elements of User Experience Jesse James Garrett
• Emotional Design Don Norman
• Handbook of Usability Testing Jeffrey Rubin & Dana Chisnell
• Designing for the Social Web Joshua Porter
• Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design Robert Hoekman Jr.
• The Design of Everyday Things Donald A. Norman
• Content Strategy for the Web Kristina Halvorson
• Sketching User Experiences Bill Buxton

• foot binding / Lotus foot (Imperial China)
• neck rings - Kayan Lahwi (N. Thailand)
• otjize on skin & hair - Himba (Namibia & Angola, Africa)
• gavage for brides (Mauritania, W. Africa)
• lip plates - Mursi & Surma (Ethiopia); Sara women (Chad); Makonde (Tanzania & Mozambique); Suyá men & Botocudo (Brazil); Aleut & Inuit (Alaska)
• artificial cranial deformation - Mayans (Mexican states & Central America)
• corsetry

• New Wave Against Me!
• Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness Coheed & Cambria
• Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow Coheed & Cambria
• I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love My Chemical Romance
• Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge My Chemical Romance
• Is Your Love Big Enough? Lianne La Havas

ILLUSTRATION

• Regyssa (WIP)
• Augmented Beauty zine (TBD)
• typographic quote posters (TBD)
• buses + mountain prints
• iPhone wallpapers (TBD)
• Mrs. Vera's angel (WIP)
• wood burnings (TBD)

WEB DESIGN

• amirahaile.com (WIP)
• alyssahailemariam.com (WIP)
• The Last Question (WIP) ??
• custom Tumblr themes (TBD)

GRAPHIC DESIGN

• 2012 Fall Career Fair posters
• Granny's autobiography (TBD)
• HannahJo's "Ways to Fall Asleep" (TBD)
• Amanda's rack card

• The Colbert Report
• The Daily Show
• Cosmos
• Broad City

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• ✔ GIRLS
• Downton Abbey
• The Walking Dead
• ✔ Mad Men
• The Mindy Project
• Parks & Recreation
• Game of Thrones
• True Detective (January 2015…?)

• How to Be A Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul A. Shanghnessy
• The Design Career Handbook
• The Little Know-It-All Silga Bilz
• The Portfolio Handbook
• Adapt Tim Harford
• Seductive Interaction Design Stephen Anderson
• Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman
• Just Enough Research Erika Hall (via A Book Apart)

• Typography Workbook Timothy Samara
• Information Design Workbook Kim Baer
• Designing Brand Identity Aleena Wheeler
• ✔ Thinking with Type Ellen Lupton
• How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul Adrian Shaughnessy
• Typography
• 10 Typography Resources

• face painter
• design & make invitations + stationary
• personal organizer
• blog theme designer
• icon designer
• yoga teacher
• bartender
• hair stylist
• elementary art teacher
• traveling/part-time art teacher

• drink more water
• lose 20 lbs
• get a job as a developer
• travel abroad
• attend a tech conference
• get a badass apartment; make it a home

• screen printing
• bookbinding
• lettering
• oil painting
• acrylic painting
• water color painting
• embroidery
• resin jewelry

• Billie Holiday, Lady Sings the Blues

"Lady sings the blues/I'm tellin you she's got 'em bad"

• Nat King Cole, Smile

"Smile, what's the use of crying?"

• Louis Armstrong, What A Wonderful World

"Yes, I think to myself/what a wonderful world"

• Ella Fitzgerald, Dream A Little Dream of Me

"While I'm alone and blue as can be/dream a little dream of me"

• Cider House Rules (read book first?)
• the Sphere
• What Dreams May Come
• menace II society
• devils advocate

• stipple something
• re-do daughter/mother/wife piece with PS &tablet (trace stock images and arrange figures... watercolor digitally or print first...?)
• white charcoal/conté mrs. adams image
• finish earth kitt digital painting
• finish mrs. vera's angel commission
• learn how to animate with flash
• learn how to animate with AfterEffects
• make some paper art - tribal masks?
• try a color pencil portraiture or something
• work on small watercolor fourth-page pieces periodically
• WEBSITE (make a cool online résumé like Adam J. Kurtz!)
• design contact card
• try digitally painting a movie still or something...
• woodburn owls