DS106 Letterhead
Daily Create | Design your own weird and wonderful letterhead, just for DS106 use. After messing around a little on photoshop and NounProject, I came up with this. All symbols represent different weeks during the semester.
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Handmade Type + Summary
^Since we’ve been dealing with Typography this week, check out some handmade typography found here. Design Assignments Wire Stars: Sketch a Picture (2), The Wire is All Straight Lines (2), A McNulty How To (3), The Wire Banner (4): 11 stars Regular Stars: Dear… Continue Reading → -
Thoughts on The Vignelli Canon
For starters, before even thinking about the content, I thought the opening of The Vignelli Canon was really well done. It was wonderfully simple (I love that), yet really sharp. Just awesome, and a great start to the booklet. Semantics,… Continue Reading → -
The Wire Banner
Website Banner |Similar to the Website logo, create your own website banner! This will go on your website like your featured image. Have fun with this and be creative! Worth 4 stars. If Season two of The Wire were to have… Continue Reading → -
I feel like a Koala.
Daily Create | A 2 minute doodle about your feelings! Fun fact:: Koalas sleep 16-20 hours a day! Although I didn’t sleep that long this weekend, I do feel particularly well rested. :) ^Click on the photo to see it on my… Continue Reading → -
DesignBlitz through Daily Scenes
DesignBlitz | Carry your camera with you this week and take photos of objects, ads, signs, etc. that illustrate one of the following ten concepts. Provide an example of at least four these concepts in the designed environment around you. Share all… Continue Reading → -
Really Reality Tv
Really Reality TV | Follow the following formula to create your own reality TV show for the ds106 Network. Worth 3 stars. Use the Reality TV Show name generator to get a title for the show. Do a Google search on the… Continue Reading → -
Dear Python Lover
Valentine’s Alternative | Valentines day is lame and the cards are worse. Make a good one targeted towards a particular person (real or imaginary). Worth 2 stars. For this assignment I decided to take “alternative Valentine’s Day card” to the extreme. Yes,… Continue Reading → -
An Empathy Map
Daily Create | With DS106 in mind, what might your Empathy Map look like? I think Empathy Maps are a great way to reflect on your current situation, so I made a point to do today’s daily create. You can see… Continue Reading → -
Design Features in Episode 10
While watching episode 10 of The Wire this week, I kept the list of design characteristics Jim listed in his assignment post in mind, just to see what would happen. I ended up taking quite a few screenshots, as many… Continue Reading → -
A McNulty How To
Weird Book Room | Your assignment is to design the cover of a book title so weird that it will look like it will fit right in to the Weird Book Room. Be sure to include a little bit of jacket… Continue Reading → -
The Wire is ALL straight lines.
Pictures into Words | Take pictures in your surroundings that look like letters and turn them into a word! Try not to use pictures of actual letters, but I understand that some letters are hard to get! Worth 2 stars. For this… Continue Reading → -
Sketch a Screenshot
Sketch a Picture | Sketch a picture and place the drawing next to the picture. Who is the picture of and why did you draw it. Worth 2 stars. To stick with the Wire theme for my assignments, I chose to sketch… Continue Reading → -
Happy Friday!!
Hey everyone– first off, Happy Friday!! I’m headed out of town this weekend so I’m checking out a bit early this week! I’ll still be available by twitter, of course, but I’m going to go ahead and put up… Continue Reading → -
Browns, Greens, & Grays in The Wire
Tonight I got to live-tweet along to The Wire’s season 2, episode 8. It was such an interesting experience!! And honestly, I had a hard time figuring out- plot wise- what was happening. I’ll definitely need to watch it again… Continue Reading → -
Falling
Daily Create | What’s on your radio? I’m drinking tea and cuddled in my bed reading on this rainy evening. This song has been on repeat! I added it to the #tdc991 group here. -
Blitzing in my house
Photoblitz | Be sure to grab the code and include the seven tasks you were assigned in a blog post, along with the photos you took. My Seven Tasks: An interesting shadow. Represent or express something loud. Make a photograph with… Continue Reading → -
An After Graduation Trip
Story Map | create a map telling a story of a trip you took or would like to take. Worth 4 stars. I think the following is pretty self-explanatory. Check out the road trip I would take after graduation: -
Teacup Blueprint
Daily Create | Make your own stylish vintage blueprint. It wasn’t until after I created mine that I realized someone had already made a teacup as an example! I decided to keep this one anyway though, because I really enjoyed adding… Continue Reading → -
sun, it will rise
My Favorite Lyric | For this assignment use one of those lyrics that stood out to you and make it into a visual. Use some kind of background that represents the lyric and place the lyrics over it in some way.… Continue Reading → -
Anna Wintour Exclusive
Redoing the Past Pose | So we cannot go back in time…. but can you recreate a pose of someone’s old photograph with them doing the same pose in the present? Make a photograph of someone holding their own old… Continue Reading → -
Over the shoulder perspective
Something I noticed while watching the episode 6, season 2 of The Wire… The following photos are screenshots taken from the episode. As you can see, almost every time there was a large group of people- and the people, not the setting,… Continue Reading → -
The flower doesn’t dream of the bee.
Patent pending | Find something you really like and turn it into the kind of image you’d have hanging on your wall. That could mean making it look vintage, excising pieces, using it as the source for something totally new.… Continue Reading → -
Stencil photo-
Yay for visual week! Although I’m learning to love audio, it feels good to be working with something this week that feels a little closer to home. For my first visual assignment of the week, I’m choosing to work on… Continue Reading → -
Lauren Brumfield 2014-09-21 23:12:52
Wowee! The weekly summary post is coming in later than usual today- I guess that’s what I get for going home to have my own version of a “family weekend.” Not one, but TWO cars that I drove broke down this… Continue Reading → -
A Different Perspective
I purposefully made this my last post (before my weekly summary post, that is) for this week because I really wanted to spend time to think about this final project. From what I’ve gathered, we’re supposed to (eventually) create a… Continue Reading → -
Favorite Audio Assignment by far
Audio Assignment | Reverse Audio Quiz:: Find an audio file and reverse the music. Once you have reversed the music place the file in a blog post and give three hints as to what it is. See who can figure it out… Continue Reading → -
Louie and I like to take naps
Daily Create: “Show us what you do/did with a pet you loved.” For my second daily create of the week, I chose one of my favorite photos of my kitty from home. His name is Louie, and he has quite… Continue Reading → -
The Wire listen-in
Tonight I got to listen in on season 2, episode 5 of The Wire while live tweeting with a bunch of the class! It was actually way more fun than I thought it was going to be. (Ha.) To promote… Continue Reading → -
My Morning Routine…
…as of 5 minutes ago. Whats The Story Morning Glory? What’s your morning sound like? Tell a narrative of a regular (or abnormal) morning using the movements and sounds from getting off the bed, to starting the day. (No outside noises,… Continue Reading →
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