69 Things That Made My Year (2020)

1. Claire’s Essays (this blog) – the start of my creative journey; going through life using a compass instead of a map
2. Empathy In Design – a personal project of mine; it is a blog that feature designs that empathizes with users
3. Tom Kelley and David Kelley’s Creative Confidence
4. Austin Kleon’s (life-changing books): Steal Like An Artist, Keep Going, and Show Your Work!
5. James Clear’s 3-2-1 newsletter
6. Austin Kleon’s newsletter
7. Youth 4 Sustainable Cities Program of Makesense
8. Makesense Microinternship Program (read the articles I wrote for this internship here and here)
9. Abstract: The Art of Design Season 2
10. Running Man
11. Hospital Playlist Season 1
12. Workman
13. Itaewon Class
14. Sixth Sense Season 1
15. Interior Design Masters Season 1 (Specifically: Episodes 3 and 6)
16. Ingrid Fetell Lee’s book Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness
17. The Little Prince (2015)
18. Klaus (2019)
19. Meet The Alumni Series of our college publication, the Freehand.
20. Voices of CAFA series
21. Architecture Week Rewind series
22. The Lorien Legacies by Pittacus Lore
23. Happy Jail (2019) documentary
24. Architecture 101 by Nicole Bridge
25. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck, Ph.D.
26. How Norway designed a more humane prison
27. You Can Draw in 30 days by Mark Kistler
28. Little Women (2019)
29. Money Heist and Money Heist: The Phenomenon
30. Andy Grammer – Keep Your Head Up
31. I got super interested in learning how to use Adobe Illustrator.
32. Ruler: Master of the Mask
33. Daniel Libeskind’s Jewish Museum in Berlin
34. Cas Holman’s designs
35. Les Miserables’s Do You Hear The People Sing
36. The Greatest Showman’s Come Alive and This Is Me
37. for King & Country – God Only Knows
38. Emma Scott’s Rush and her other books.
39. Mia Sheridan’s Most Of All You and Archer’s Voice
40. The Aesthetics of Joy
41. Austin Kleon’s blog.
42. James Clear’s blog
43. Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away
44. Game Series by Ariesa Domingo
45. Love In the Afternoon by Lisa Kleypas
46. Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None and Murder on the Orient Express.
47. Sunday Snippets newsletter by Ali Abdaal
48. The Decline of Play – Peter Gray
49. Ha Hyun Woo – Stone Block
50. Aswang (2019) documentary
51. My completed short stories for this year which are a product of things that I consume: Killed by Aswang, A Note From An Inmate, Passengers, Words Do Hurt, and The Strongest Woman In The World
52. Tunnel (2016)
53. Alice in Borderland (2020)
54. Sweet Home (webtoon)
55. Along With The Gods: Two Worlds and Along With The Gods: The Last 49 Days
56. Zombies (2018)
57. Handmade notebooks out of used papers
58. Integrating Nooks Into School Designs
59. How architecture changes for the deaf
60. Where Joy Hides and How to find it
61. John P. Weiss’ blog
62. Daily Stoic newsletter
63. 99 pi’s blog
64. Commonplace notebooks
65. Celeste Headlee’s Do Nothing and We Need To Talk
66. Scenius.
67. Philippine History Through the Lens of Local Church Architecture
68. “You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.”
69. Want to be an artist? Watch Groundhog Day.