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Minimal desk with a single pencil in soft window light, symbolising starting small and making progress today.

Your Best Work Starts with Today

"Your best work doesn’t begin when everything aligns. It begins on an ordinary day."

By Gary Percival Feb 8, 2026

Why Growth Continues Long After You’re “Good”

"Growth does not stop when competence arrives. It changes shape."

By Gary Percival Feb 8, 2026
Stacked paper cards with exposed layered edges, lit softly to emphasise texture, repetition, and quiet craftsmanship.

Your Work Is the Introduction

"Your work introduces you long before you speak, shaping trust, judgement, and opportunity without explanation."

By Gary Percival Feb 1, 2026
Blocky voxel typography rendered as heavy, stepped letterforms on black, exploring repetition and structure

Voxel · Structure Holds

A typographic poster built from stepped units. Repeated. Aligned. Constrained. An experiment in structure, accumulation, and restraint.

By Gary Percival Feb 1, 2026
Grid of used coffee cups showing subtle differences from repetition and daily use, arranged neatly on a wooden surface.

People Trust What You Do •• Not What You Announce

"People don’t remember what you said you would do •• they remember what you delivered when it mattered."

By Gary Percival Jan 25, 2026

Why Experience Doesn’t End Curiosity

"Experience doesn’t close questions •• it expands your ability to notice what actually matters."

By Gary Percival Jan 25, 2026
Stone blocks arranged as uneven steps in a quiet interior, showing structure built slowly through weight, repetition, and restraint

Results Don’t Respond to Bursts

"Results don’t respond to bursts; they respond to what you repeat."

By Gary Percival Jan 18, 2026
Dense arrangement of colourful bottle caps with bold letters and branding, tightly packed into a graphic, poster-style composition

Keep Fresh

A poster built from bottle caps collected, sorted, and recomposed into type. Disposable objects. Reusable meaning. A reminder that freshness is something you maintain, not something you chase.

By Gary Percival Jan 18, 2026

Doing Less Better Beats Doing More Poorly

“Doing less better beats doing more poorly because quality compounds and noise collapses.”

By Gary Percival Jan 11, 2026
Aerial view of a circular path forming a closed loop in grass, symbolising comfort, repetition, and stalled creative progress.

Comfort Blocks Progress •• Feedback Reveals It

“Comfort is not rest ·· comfort is avoidance dressed as stability.”

By Gary Percival Jan 11, 2026
Abstract blue and orange waveform peaks mirrored across a line, symbolising dips and recovery over time.

Resilience Is a Time Skill

"Short recovery protects progress and keeps you moving when others pause."

By Gary Percival Jan 4, 2026
Poster carved into oak sheets with routed letterforms stacked on red background, typographic shapes cut through the wooden plates.

Today’s Poster ·· Routed Type in Wood + Concrete

One layout. Three surfaces. Oak, walnut, and concrete. Same shapes, different weight. Material changes the voice.

By Gary Percival Jan 4, 2026

Inexperience Is a Phase, Not a Verdict

"Inexperience marks a moment in time. Not a definition. Not a ceiling. Not a flaw."

By Gary Percival Dec 28, 2025
Concrete stepped structure rising upward with geometric wireframe lines and yellow accents, symbolising steady progress and strength.

Steady Is Stronger Than Smooth

"Smooth makes you comfortable. Steadiness makes you capable."

By Gary Percival Dec 28, 2025
Typographic poster with carved concrete-like surface and circular cut-outs revealing bold orange text beneath.

Cut Through ·· Pushed Out

A typographic poster built around subtraction and pressure. Forms carved away. Shapes displaced. Meaning revealed by what’s removed.

By Gary Percival Dec 21, 2025
Layered stone sculpture shaped by pressure and time, with smooth carved curves emerging from compressed strata.

Ease Is Earned in Advance

"Ease is never natural ·· it’s earned quietly, patiently, and in advance."

By Gary Percival Dec 21, 2025
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Welcome to 'Another Blog'—every Sunday, explore posts on freelance life, productivity, and design inspiration from my journey as a designer.

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