The Design Work of Nick Barry
5/Sep/11
I’ve decided with so much time on my hands as part of a daily ritual I’m going to create one letter each day for 26 days, until I have a full alphabet. Each letter will be created in a unique way.
Over 26 days, living in a new country in a new apartment I imagine a lot will change along the way so in-turn each letter will tell a story about my new life.
3/Jul/11
11th March 2011
I think it’s important to reflect and learn from the past, so I decided to think of a number of important things from the first quarter of a century of my life. Some of them I even frown upon myself.
The Lists:
Songs
Anti-Nowhere League - For you
The Boys - Lonely cowboy
Blur - Country house
Bloodhound Gang - I hope you die
Black Sabbath - Die young
Cyndi Lauper - Girls just wanna have fun
Fillaments - Life’s not a privilage
Guang Liang - Tonghua
Iron Maiden - The prisoner
In Flames - Clayman
Jamie T - Sticks n’ stones
King Adora - Suffocate
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Tuesday’s gone
Megadeth - 99 ways to die
Motley Crue - Kickstart my heart
Millencolin - Material boy
Poison - Ride the wind
Ramones - Strength to endure
Roy Orbison - Drove all night
Rush - Finding my way
Sonata Arctica - The cage
Skid Row - Psycho love
Sweet - Peppermint Twist
T-Rex - New York city
Thin Lizzy - Cowboy song
This one was probably the easiest to finish. 1 song per artist, 25 songs that I like, have liked or have held substantial importance in my life so far.
Spurs Players
Nicky Barmby
Jurgen Klinsmann
David Ginola
Teddy Sheringham
Graham Roberts (who I was nearly named after!?)
Ledley King
Aaron Lennon
Sol Campbell
Edgar Davids
Stephen Carr
Rafael Van Der Vaart
Gareth Bale
Steffen Freund
Gary Mabbutt
Luka Modric
Erik Torstved
Tom Huddlestone
Michael Dawson
Darren Anderton
Ian Walker
Steffen Iversen
Ilie Dumitrescu
Giga Popescu
Jermain Defoe
Gary Lineker
Fonts
Akzidenz Grotesk
Baskerville
Franklin Gothic
Frutiger
Futura
Garamond
Georgia
Gill Sans
Gotham
Helvetica
Meta
Metro
Sabon
Times
Univers
When I got to about 12 my mind really started to wonder. I’m not sure if there are 25 fonts I like, or have affected me enough to be put in to my top 25, so here’s 15 for now. I’m sure I’ll be reminded of some more at a later date.