The project aim:

Creativity

The project gives anyone, regardless of age or ability, the framework and permission to get creative. It challenges you to pick your creative outlet and relies on your willingness to work to achieve a creative boost.

These past few years, as a society, we have faced and continue to face unprecedented global challenges. There are so many amazing people taking care of us and helping keep each other safe, and I for one am so very grateful. Though many creatives and healthcare practitioners have known this of old, there is growing research* being commissioned looking at the health and wellbeing gains creativity and engagement with the arts can elicit.

I engage in creative practice for many reasons, but one is that it is good for my mental health; as a project participant and as project lead, the positive feedback I have heard from participants tells me I am not alone in finding this within this project.

Building a community through creative daily practice, a community who encourage and inspire one another, is one of the most rewarding benefits of this project. I look forward to doing this again this year.

*Creative Health Inquiry Report 2017 - Second Edition

The 2024 project will begin on June 1st!

Huge congratulations to all who took part last year, your endeavour was awe inspiring as always!
We could not get a space to exhibit in the Edinburgh College of Art between the end of the 2023 project and the start of the 2024 project, but I am in discussion with the Events team to find a venue at ECA, and hope to exhibit the 2023 and 2024 projects together - as soon as I know more, I will let you all know.

Until then, let’s chat about the 2024 project!

I plan on running the Daily Count again in 2024, to count you through 100 Days in the hope you will join me in this amazing annual challenge, to access and exercise your creativity.

If you are interested in taking part, you can register here.

Participant’s work can be seen in full by exploring #100DaysProjectScotland2023 on Instagram

**2020 & 2021 ONLINE SHOWS**

Our 2020 and 2021 Online Exhibitions are still available online. With 63 projects over 2 years, the online exhibitions showcase over 6000 inspiring images!
We hope you enjoy looking at them as much as we have and maybe they’ll inspire you to do your own 100 Days project in 2023!
**2020 EXHIBITION** | **2021 EXHIBITION**

"Half the battle is showing up"

Stephen Hawking's quote about life and success rings true. The key to the **100 Days Project**, as with many things in life, is starting. Show up every day to your creative task, and simply do.
**Learn More**

Screen Shot 2018-04-21 at 18.29.11.png — It all started in 2011...

The 100 Days Project started in 2011 with New Zealand graphic designer Emma Rogan, who read about a class called ‘100 Days of Design’, run by Michael Bierut, at Yale School of Visual Arts. You can read about it on her studio’s website here.
**Emma Rogan's TED Talk is** **available** **here**.

…and then in 2018

Emma Rogan took a well-earned break and with her enthusiastic endorsement Isla decided to support the wonderful creative community right here in Scotland, and to **empower and encourage** those who don’t yet think of themselves as creative, by starting the '100 Days Project Scotland'.

September 2017

"Having to create everyday really does become a positive habit. Keeping up to speed with all of the other 100 dayers really did help to inspire at the end of a long day at work. I'm so glad I was part of this process."

Gavin Blackwell
2017 & 2018 100 Days Project Participant
& Exhibitor in the Day 100 Edinburgh Show 2017 & 2018

2 SIMPLE RULES

The Project is wonderfully simple, and deceptively challenging.

#1 Repeat a simple creative task everyday for 100 days

It's that simple, and that difficult!

Choose one creative 'exercise', and then repeat it every day for 100 days. Record each daily effort and see what evolves in the work and in the self over time.

The project gives anyone (regardless of age or ability) a framework and the permission to be creative. It challenges you to dig deep into your creative reserves, to rely on your readiness to work in order to achieve creative breakthrough.

It can be an end to procrastination, and the development of resilience. It takes a lot of energy, and yet the rewards can resonate for a long time after the 100th Day is over.

You do not need to have any creative or artistic skill to take part in the project and you can participate from anywhere in the world.

100 Days 2017

Not sure what you will do?

Have a look at the previous years' project participants via the original 100 Days Project website, in New Zealand. There are also some examples below from the some of the Day 100 Edinburgh Show from 2017. Visit the 2018 section of the website to see examples of last year’s projects.

Click here to read about the 100 Days Project New Zealand

Isla Munro | 100 Cranes

**Isla chose to capture a piece of contextual art and fold it into an origami crane, photographed in context everyday.**
A 14cm square of paper was the canvas for Isla's daily mark making, using a variety of methods and materials. Some days the work took 10 minutes, others took hours, depending on the time Isla wanted to spend.

Eilidh Muldoon | 100 Fairy Tale Homes

**A home from a fairytale everyday.**
Eilidh had to draw upon fairytales from around the world to find 100 homes to illustrate. Using ink, pencils, watercolours, printmaking, and pop-ups, Eilidh illustrated her take on a different building everyday from Sinbad's village on the back of a whale, to Sleeping Beauty's castle.

Maggie Thomas | Steven Seagull

**Maggie and her adventures with Steven Seagull.**
Maggie made a stuffed Seagull from old jumpers, and then took a photo of Steven everyday for 100 Days.

Betty Cashmere.jpg — Betty Cashmere | 100 Daily Drawings

**Betty's aim was to find her style, and to draw everyday.**
In the first few days Betty experimented with collage and ink, looking at subjects like buildings and faces, but as the 100 days marched on, found her stride drawing different colourful women.