This consisted of 7 Youtube videos, 6 music fan cover designs, 5 apartment view photos, a chicken, a squid and crash bandicoot. This was Fuzzvember 2013 (the name coming from a mix of Fuzzpix and November).

I got the idea from Australian designer/illustrator Justin Maller who has just finished his Facets Project where he created a design every day for a year. All of the outcomes are very nice so I recommend you check them out, they make great desktop or mobile wallpapers.

A year’s a long time. For a design student it’s a third of their time at university. ‘So let’s just do a month’ I thought.

I tweeted Justin to ask what he had learnt from undertaking the project. He replied:

“ art is fun (seriously)”

It is indeed.

Creating stuff is fun. Partly because I shared the creations on Instagram and with my friends but also because I was just messing about. It’s rare to work on a project with no set brief or guidelines, but I think it can be a very useful experience for anyone going into the art/design world.

I can only speak from my experience, and it was very useful. I started to create some cover designs for songs I liked, which is something I plan to do more of in the future as I think it could be a good way to gain exposure. Plus I really like the idea of reacting to music and visualising the song in some way on the design of the cover.

I also was able to get back into the habit of using photoshop. I made sure that pretty much all of my photos or creations went through photoshop before being posted, just to give them some final tweaks and to have full control over the colour. This is something I’ve been doing since Fuzzvember (a good example is my photo of the new years fireworks in London, I may or may not have removed a lamp post and centred the statue…)

Amongst these things, because I was able to actually complete this challenge (at times I had doubts if I would manage it) I learnt that there is no limit to the amount of ideas you can have. Your creative juices may start to run thin and shallow but they never really run dry.

So this is my message to you. If you’re a creative person, especially students, give your creative fruit a squeeze by setting yourself a ridiculous goal and seeing where it takes you.