1. Make marks using pencil and paper. (30s-1min)
2. Make marks, while consciously slowing yourself down. Focus your attention on listening to your breathing and watching your hand. (30s-1min)
3. For 1 min, pay attention to everything and note the sensations (eg hearing, seeing, feeling). After 1 min, make marks based on sensations that come to you. (2min)
4. Pick an object and draw it. (5min)
5. Pick an object and draw a tiny portion of it. (5min)
6. Pick an object. Draw to reveal the inner conditions of that object. (10min)
7. Make as many images as you can using only 4 pixels. (5min)
8. Make a 5cmx5cm square. Only draw straight lines inside the square. (5min)
9. Play music and draw in response to it. (5min)
10. Just draw. Imagine yourself as the universe drawing. (10min)
11. Pick one of your drawings, a good one that you respond to. 
1. Write down a physical description of the drawing. (5min)
2. Write down the feelings you get from the drawing. (5min)
3. Write down a story you made up based on the drawing. (5min)
4. Write down a symbolic story based on the drawing. (5min)

1. Personal branding: Spend 10 min answering the questions: What are my 3 strengths as a designer? What are my weaknesses? What's my favourite colour? What designers do I love? What design work do I enjoy? What type of work do I want to do in future? Then design a logo for yourself based on your responses. (30 min)
2. One line logo: Design a logo for the 2012 London Olympic Games formed from a single unbroken line. (30 min)
3. 5 Fonts: Create a brochure promoting the Slow Food movement using 5 or more unique fonts. (30 min)
4. 100 Sketches: Create 100 sketches of a packaging design for an affordable organic energy drink targeted at well-off twenty-year olds. (90 min)
5. Beautify: Design a beautiful book cover for a book about perceptions of beauty, titled "Beauty" by Jane Klingslaner. (60 min)
6. Judge a book by its cover: Design a cover for a book you have never read before, without doing research on the book's content other than reading the back cover and inside flap. (60 min)
7. Gender Neutral: Design a packaging for a single type of shaving cream three ways: for women, for men and in a gender-neutral fashion. All 3 packaging designs must be a cohesive line of products. (30 min)
8. Trompe l'oeil: Design a logo for the Global Magic Society, incorporating an optical illusion. (90 min)
9. Game of Sustainability: Create a simple game that teaches young children how to think about the natural resources they use as they go throughout the day. The game has to demonstrate principles of sustainability - by being eaten, recycled, composted or otherwise returned to the earth in the process of being played. (120 min)
10. Biodegradable: Pick an item you'd generally find in your backyard and redesign it so it could gracefully biodegrade. (120 min)
11. More is Less: Choose a product you regularly use in daily life and redesign/repackage it so consumers will want to use less of it. (90 min)
12. Dish it out: Reinvent a dish/cup/bowl/glass for one extraordinary specific use. Don't aim for maximum utility. Instead, fulfil a need for dining ware you've always wanted, whether it's a plate designed to manage portions or a cup with a lemon squeezer included for lemon tea. Incorporate sustainable materials so your creation can return to the earth after its use. (120 min)

• Make the logo bigger
• Use purple as the anchor colour in your design
• Use circles in the background of your design
• Add twenty years to your target audience
• Tone it down. Make your design more conservative
• Spend only 20 min on your design
• Use illustration
• Cut the copy in half. Then cut it in half again.
• Use black and white only.
• Change the orientation of your design by 90 degrees

• Mindmapping
• Word listing
• Picture association
• Brute think (think of as many ideas as possible)
• Idea inversion
• Free form sketching
• Role playing
• Yes, and... (add on to the idea)
• Future thinking
• Blank bubbles (write dialogue in speech bubbles on how your audience/product may talk)

Today, I felt really inspired to start tracking my mood. 

I've observed trends like:

• Journals to record your daily mood
• Happiness/gratitude diaries
• Mindfulness/wellness/meditation apps

Mr Mood is a really cheerful and colourful app. I was really psyched about downloading it, but then I logged onto the App Store and realised that it costs $1.48.

:(

Moodnotes

Another app, Moodnotes, is a thought journal/mood diary. It has a really minimalist design that I love, but I have to give this a miss too, because it's another paid app that costs $5.98! :O

Mood

I found another app that looked like it had potential - and it was free too! - but after I installed and opened it, it kept lagging and was very unresponsive. D:

I finally found Moods, which had a simple, minimalist design and useful features (like tags to elaborate on your emotion). The best thing about it is that it's free - and so far, it works! :)