Color//Colour Lovers - pink

I saw in Inari's blog that she was taking part to a photography project called Color//Colour Lovers. The project is started by two photographers Andrea and Xanthe, and the idea is to add some colour to life with photography. It's a seven week project and during each of the weeks you are supposed to take photos of things you see with a certain color. You can see the full list here.

I thought the project looked really cool so I wanted to join in the fun! I missed the first two weeks - red and yellow - but I decided to hop in during the third week and pink. Here are my favorite photos from the last week.

One thing I noticed during last week: when you are supposed to take photos of a certain thing, you really quickly become hyper aware of it. After I started to look around for pink things I saw it everywhere. Adds, signs, flowers, clothes... So many clothes! I had never realized how much pink people are wearing these days. Scarves, shirts, pants, jackets, shoes... a lot of pink. And I love it. Finns are not all neutral colors these days! I didn't get any pics of those lovely pink clothes tough as I feel quite uncomfortable photographing strangers.

This weeks color is green. You'll see what green I have found next week.

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Inari kirjoitti blogissaan hauskasta Color//Colour Lovers -projektista, jossa on tarkoitus kuvata aina yhtä väriä kerrallaan viikon verran. Ensimmäiset kaksi viikkoa olivat ehtineet mennä jo ohi, mutta ehdin mukaan kolmannelle viikolle, jonka teemavärinä oli pinkki. Tässä kuvissa tältä ensimmäiseltä viikolta.

Hauskaa oli huomata, miten paljon pinkkiä oikeastaan onkaan tässä kaupungissa ja ihmisten pukeutumisessa varsinkin. Kun katselee maailmaa pinkkiä etsivin silmin, sitä alkaa nähdä vähän kaikkialla. Takeissa, huiveissa, housuissa, kengissä... Ja on oikeasti tosi hauskaa, miten paljon suomalaisten päällä näkee näin kirkkaita värejä nykyään.

Tämän viikon väri on vihreä. Viikon päästä näettä, mitä vihreää kamerani tielle on osunut.

Tiny tiny kitchen garden

This summer I have two garden projects. I might write about the other one bit later but today I want to share with you my tiny herb garden. You see, I like making food and I especially love using fresh ingredients when ever possible. My current home has a nice spacious kitchen with a sunny window so to keep me in fresh herbs, I decided to turn the bench in front of the window into a small kitchen herb garden. 

I currently have six herbs in my garden: oregano, basil, mint, thyme, rosemary, and parsley. I think it's a pretty good selection of herbs and I do use all of these quite often. How ever I'm also considering getting few more to add to the selection. We'll see if I end up doing that or not.

I'm trying to learn to be a good blogger again and taking photos of the things I might want to share here. It's more hard to get back into that habit than you'd think! So here are pictures of me planting the herbs to terracotta pots back in May. I'm quite proud of some of the photos.

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Minulla on oikeastaan kaksi puutarhaprojektia tänä kesänä, mutta esittelen tällä kertaa vain toisen niistä. Siitä toisesta kirjoitan ehkä joskus myöhemmin. Tällä kertaa halusin kuitenkin esitellä teille pikkuruisen keittiöpuutarhani.

Pidän kovasti ruuan laitosta ja tuoreista aineksista. Siksi on ihanaa, että nykyisen kotini keittiöön ikkunan eteen mahtuu oma pienei yrttipuutarha. Tällä hetkellä puutarhani koostuu kuudesta yrtistä: persiljasta, basilikasta, marokon mintusta, oreganosta, timjamista ja rosmariinista. Olen tosin harkinnut hankkivani muutaman yrtin lisää, saa nähdä.

Tässä teille muutamia kuvia yrttien istutuksesta ja yrteistä ylipäätään.

Dirt under my fingers proofs I've done some planting work.

All the planting supplies your really need: the herb, the pot with a piece of broken ceramic to block the water hole, some dirt, and some newspaper to cover the table.

Basil.

Rosemary.

Mint.

Oregano.

Thyme.

Inspiration: Signs and store fronts in Paris

My job that was originally revolve around books has for the past few years had more and more to do with marketing things, doing posters, and planning events.I am not complaining tough. I have actually realized that those are all things I quite enjoy doing, especially the marketing and poster design part, even when it's done with the shoe string budget of a library.

This growing interest to has made me want to learn more, and of course to notice more things related to marketing and graphic design. And while in Paris, I found myself looking for and taking pictures of different signs and storefronts. I especially loved the signs that were made in style of Belle Epoque or the Jazz-age but there was also some wonderful modern ones. Here are some I particularly liked.

Doesn't this just scream the Jazz-age? I had to stop in the middle of a crossing to take this photo.

The playful font in this sign is so cute.

Belle Epoque style sign.

I am very fond of this simple sign and window.

Some more Jazz age I presume. Just gorgeous, isn't it?

This bookstore window amused me a lot. I've also seen similar victim shapes taped to bookstore floor in some pictures and do wonder if I could pull of doing something similar in a library.

PS. Someone that has inspired me to look for all kinds of signs a lot has been Karen Kavett, a Youtuber and graphic designer who has made several typography inspiration videos. If you like things like that, you should check her videos out!

Typography Inspiration // Abbot Kinney Blvd, Venice CA

Typography Inspiration // Valencia Street, San Francisco
Typography Inspiration: San Francisco - Hayes Valley
Typography Inspiration at Disneyworld

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Pariisinlomalla kiinnitin kovasti huomiota erilaisiin kyltteihin ja kauppojen ikkunoihin. Nykyiseen työhöni liittyy paljon julisteiden ym. visuaalisten asioiden suunnittelua ja se on saanut kiinnittämään paljon huomiota siihen, miten muut käyttävät fontteja ja visuaalisia elementtejä. Näissä kuvissa muutamia innostavia poimintoja Pariisin katukuvasta.

Youtuber ja graafikko Karen Kavett on saanut minut kiinnittämään erityisen paljon katukuvassa näkyviin fontteihin ja kyltteihin. Hän on myös ihania tehnyt fontti-inspiraatiovideoita, jotka olen linkittänyt ylle.

Hauskaa juhannusta kaikille lukijoille!