What would you think about doing a project-a-week for an entire year? Jeffrey Yamaguchi thought it'd be a great idea and a great web site, so he created 52 Projects. Since his humble hotbed of HTML first launched in 2002, Jeff’s project-about-projects has turned into a blog and a book, and it’s turned thousands of people onto the joys of photographic undertakings, crafty missions, and do-it-yourself ventures of all shapes and sizes.

“Projects are the most energizing thing for me,” says Jeff. “Not just with creative things, but even treating daily tasks as projects fuels your creativity and helps you get things done.” Life is a project: a simple idea that blossomed into a thriving online community. And it’s a perfect example of how the Web can spark creativity and keep it burning for a lot longer than a single year.

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