Habitual You is a social experiment intended to draw on the human condition, honing in on the routine quirks we all find in ourselves, but don't often talk about.
This small team of design students from Portland State University was interested in seeing various artistic expressions of people's quirks and
wanted to start a far reaching conversation sparked by the sharing of our individual habits.
In order to achieve those goals, our team branded Habitual You by focusing on using hand drawn type.
To take the humanistic theme even farther, we decided to do it the ole-fashioned way and create post cards and post-mark them to randomly selected individuals across the United States.
Knowing that in this age, digital is now the prime way to reach the masses, we had to take a step toward the computer and we created a blog. In this blog, submissions received via snail mail or e-mail were posted in order to display the eclectic and beautiful collection of habits sent in from all over the world.
More ways to spread the word in order to gather participants included a poster displayed in the halls of the Art Annex, and a Facebook announcement inviting anyone and everyone to get involved.
224 members were collected in this process.
Although 75 cards were sent out, no responses were received as of yet. The blog proved to be successful, and we got many interesting submissions.
Our hopes are that the blog continues to gather submissions over time.
These are some images submitted to our blog: habitualyou.blogspot.com
