Day 80: Break Your Habits

After 79 posters, you have habits: favourite typefaces, preferred layouts, familiar colours. Habits make you faster but can also make you predictable. Naming your defaults and deliberately violating them is one of the best ways to keep growing.

Objective. Identify and break your own design habits.

Review your posters so far, write down five habits, then design a poster for a book swap that breaks all five.

• List five of your habits before designing
• Break all five
• The poster must still be good

• Five clearly identified habits
• All five deliberately broken
• A resolved, considered poster

Ask a friend to name your habits instead of identifying them yourself.