He posted the prints on social media, to keep himself accountable, but then people showed an interest in buying them.
"Once I'd actually [put them online], it was really cool. I remember going to bed the first night and I had all these ideas come into my head."
He now has 20 of the prints for sale on Etsy, under his new business name -- Jamo & Cream.
Inspiration came from many places, Cole says.
"Because I was doing them daily, it's just something that happened that day... Some of them are completely random -- I didn't know what I was going to do until I sat in front of the computer."
Cole says the project grew beyond its initial framework because people were so encouraging as he completed his 100 days.
You know, there's always an excuse to not do something. I just decided to not let anything hold me back and just do it anyway.
He contacted Creative Tauranga to see if it would be interested in his work, and "got a great response" he says.
"I was initially put off because of the costs involved. I didn't realise exhibitions actually cost the artist!"
Creative Tauranga's space was also fully booked for the rest of the year. But then the stars aligned and a prior booking fell through. Cole also gained sponsorship from a local printer.
"I'd been thinking about it the whole time anyway... I don't want to miss out on this opportunity," he says.
Of the 100 prints in the exhibition, 99 will be for sale.
It doesn't stop there though. Cole's since been approached to take part in the Art of Technology exhibition in October, which coincides with the Tauranga Arts Festival. He'll submit 20 physical prints and will have the other 80 on display digitally.
"I wasn't expecting them to take off," he says.
"It's something that I'm going to have to build on over time," he says.
The whole experience has given him more confidence.
"I've always had these ideas and I've always thought 'oh I won't follow that through' for whatever reason.
"You know, there's always an excuse to not do something. I just decided to not let anything hold me back and just do it anyway," Cole says.
"The more that I've been doing that, the more doors that have been opening as I go."
He says he always thought setting up his own small business would be too hard, but if you "just keep chipping away at the little stuff, all of a sudden it comes together", he says.
"It's just one day at a time. Slowly just focus on getting one thing done at a time. Then it's quite surprising how those daunting things, when you actually go to do them, then it's not that daunting anymore."
What is the 100 Days Project?
In 2011 New Zealand designer Emma Rogan started the 100 Days Project after reading about Michael Bierut's '100 Days of Design' class at Yale. To take part, you repeat a simple creative task every day for the duration and record each day's effort.
- The Jamo & Cream Creative Tauranga exhibition is from September 8 to October 5. Art of Technology is on from October 22 till November 1. To buy Cole's prints, search "jamoandcream" on www.etsy.com