Hello 2020

I designed this graphic for my Best Songs of 2019 playlist, which you can find a blog post and links for here: https://medium.com/@inkdryer/best-songs-of-2019-397c6827cfbc. It's a diverse collection of ten songs arranged not as a countdown but as a mixtape to be listened to in order. I hope you'll listen to it!

When I began thinking about how to sum up 2019 I kept coming back to this idea that 2020 — a new decade! — is right around the corner. 2019 felt like a hard year for me personally, for the country, and for the world. It felt like we got beat up a bit, marred, which is where the textured graphic came from. But we made it through and the beauty of the new year is that we get a fresh, clean start.