I found doing daily creates this week extremely difficult because the design assignments were so time consuming that I would forget about daily creates. I have a problem with my creates uploading up onto the website. Last week, I couldn’t … Continue reading →

This a picture of dolphins that I took at the National Zoo this weekend. It represents color, its all one blue with dolphins swimming. This picture brings a calm or cool mood. This picture is of my roommates Paperweight. It … Continue reading →

For the design assignment A Place I’ve Never Been I chose to depict Ireland. I’ve never been there but from what I have heard and seen of it I’d love to go. I found multiple images licensed under Creative Commons and … Continue reading →

For the DS106 Post Secrets assignment I made a confession partially related to some of my procrastination habits. I do think I’ve got some bum wrists, but its not ALL ds106′s fault, I think its my smartphone addiction to be … Continue reading →

Your assignment for today: Draw an abstract picture of your favorite animal http://t.co/gD1GX1AI — The Daily Create (@DS106TDC) September 27, 2012

Your assignment for today: Can graffiti be beautiful? Let your photo make a statement. http://t.co/y6jZcUjK — The Daily Create (@DS106TDC) September 20, 2012 Taken from: http://www.bettytsang.com/post/619429446/graffiti-laundry-chinatown-ny &nb...

Your assignment for today: Take a photo that encompasses nothing, a void, absence. http://t.co/0GUIvR61 — The Daily Create (@DS106TDC) October 7, 2012 This is about 1/5 of my ceiling. It’s just an empty space for no apparent reason. I think I’ll hang some Christmas lights in there.

For my Computer Books for Kids assignment I took a book I loved as a kid If I Ran the Zoo and re-wrote the title as a computer/internet book. It was a pretty simple process to replace the word “zoo” … Continue reading →

This is my first attempt at the exquisite corpse assignment. The assignment is supposed to taking photos of particular body parts and mushing them together to form a person-like object. Messing around I came up with this. I really like … Continue reading →

…Is don’t talk about Kevin James. For my Truthful Movie Poster I decided to look into the future a week and critique this Kevin James masterpiece. Look at that mug, how can you not want to see this movie? It … Continue reading →

This assignment tasked me with redesigning a book cover, in order, to tell another story. I took the original cover of “A Lion Among Men” by Gregory Macgurie and reworked it into a children’s book. I found a picture of … Continue reading →

This assignment required me to come up with a DS106 Radio design aesthetic for my radio show. One of my group member shared her aesthetic to me and suggested I continue with her design. I stuck to her same color scheme of orange and … Continue reading →

This assignment asked us to create a travel poster for a fictitious place, I choice the Gumdrop Mountains in Candyland. I used paint in order to create this poster. I used circle of various primary and secondary colors in order to create … Continue reading →

Here is the Warning Assignment! What is one thing that doesn’t exist, yet at some point everyone believes it does exist? – MONSTERS! I did this warning as if I were a small child who knows that if you turn … Continue reading →

This assignment took some thought. I used Microsoft Publisher and clip-art in order to create this poster.I decided that I would used metaphor symbol element in design in order to get my movie title across, while keeping the design elements minimal. My movie is … Continue reading →

I am truly proud of this assignment! I did this project through Gimp 2.6. 1. I googled children’s book. I originally thought I was going to do “Goodnight Moon” and change “moon” to “CPU” or “modem” 2. I called my computer expert … Continue reading →

This assignment was particularly challenging.. I don’t think I succeed as much as I would have liked.   Firstly, I used paint in order to create this book cover. I just used copy/paste and shapes as the assignment prescribes. I choice to … Continue reading →

The Design Safari: I was unable to complete the share your own pictures from the assignment. However, I did learn quite a large amount about how to spot these concepts in daily life. @afghanwoman had some of the greatest success … Continue reading →

This is such a fun assignment! Business cards are super functional piece of design. It includes : your name, contact info, company, skills/occupation. What is fun is that there is a set formula for business card…so how do you make … Continue reading →

The assignment is take a normal photograph and cartoon the head. My friend really loves Agnes from Despicable Me, so I made her dream come true and gave her Anges’ head. I used Gimp 2.6 and “free select” around Agnes’s head. Then … Continue reading →

I took images from good of a masher, tomatoes, tomatoes over the stove, getting it ready to label it to Campbell’s soup and the soup into a bowl. I put together all the photos in order onto paint. I then … Continue reading →

For this I used the paint program to create my venn pop culture. So in the Three big circles I had funny at the bottom circle, actor in the left circle, and brown in the right circle. Then in the … Continue reading →

Of course, you know me by now… My iconic image would be a penguin. I created this in Paint. I drew out a penguin and colored in Paint the rest of it. This penguin would be used on any site … Continue reading →

Color When I think of design elements color or the lack thereof is the first thing that comes to mind. Color is probably the most crucial element in fostering human emotion, by creating a mood. The color wheel is your … Continue reading →

I used the the zombify program to edit a picture of myself into a zombie. I had fun going through each type of zombie eyes, mouth, noses, skins, etc. and picking what I thought worked best.

Despite my being German, I have never been to Germany–there is hope of this changing soon,though, if my parents move to Germany this year. (WOO!) In honor of never having been to the Motherland, and of potentially going, I did my “Place I’ve Never Been” Assignment on Germany. This particular picture is of Dom, a ...

Here we had to make a Venn Diagram, and chose characters that had things in common and put one together. I cam up with main subjects of Bad, Good, and Mischievous characters. The Minions from Despicalbe Me display both good … Continue reading →

I found a movie poster of the movie The Day After Tomorrow. I opened it up in artweaver and used the stamp tool to get rid of the original title of the movie and then added in my title name … Continue reading →