36 Days of Type is an annual community project that invites designers and visual artists from around the world to share their take on the letters and numbers of our alphabet.
I found out about the global event when it started in February of 2017, and hastily created an image for the letter "A", not fully realizing that I was committing myself to creating an image or animation each day for the next 35 days, in my spare time. It was one of the more difficult challenges I've put myself up to, juggling my full time job with this personal effort.
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