Well hello again. It’s Friday. Oh yes. Animated gifs…my worst nightmare. Once again, I had so much trouble with this crap. I downloaded VLC to help me obtain the frames from the video and it wasn’t working because (J’m assuming) I didn’t give it admin…but like heck I will because I don’t know if this program is corrupted and what…

This article by Vignelli was a useful introduction to understanding typography in Graphic Design. His three aspects in Design – Semantic, Syntactic, and Pragmatic I think can be usefully applied in typography and in many other arts and subjects. Semantics is useful for finding a purpose for the projects you …

For this assignment I had to reverse a GIF. I thought it would be kinda funny to do something related to eating (and maybe kinda gross), so I went on giphy.com to try to find something. I found a great GIF of a hamster stuffing his cheeks with carrots. From there I took it over …

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For one of my GIF assignments, I chose to do the band X Ambassadors. They have been one of my favorites for a long time now and I wanted to pay homage to that. Their lyrics for almost all of their songs have such deep meaning and can be analyzed for great discussion. They push …

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Feeling good about life today? I was too, until I decided to craft a demoralizing poster. It got a little darker than I thought it would with this assignment. I chose it because the preview image for the assignment appealed … Continue reading →

For my final assignment I chose to make a DS 106 wallpaper (I actually chose to do 3). My wallpaper aesthetic is very minimalist and clean. I love high resolution wallpapers with not much going on. I don’t like to busy my work space.  So these wallpapers were inspired by that. As far as creating …

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My Dad has a saying that he loves: “Teamwork makes the dream work.” Certainly, I think this is true in the case of the Buffalo Beauts, who pulled off a miracle and won the Isabel Cup against the Boston Pride … Continue reading →

Blues Brothers has been one of my favorite movies for a while now. And this is without a doubt one of the most famous lines from the movie. It is a classic line that many people know and love so that is why I chose it for this project. My dad was the person who …

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As I’ve said before on this blog, over the school year I work as a Resident Assistant. Normally, during the summer I’d also get a job, but due to family circumstances I didn’t get one this summer. Basically, I’ve been … Continue reading →

This was the third assignment that I chose to do. This was another one that was relatively easy to do in Photoshop. First I chose a background, in this case it was a peaceful beach. Then I simply used the text tool to place text on top of the background. The design around this assignment …

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For my second gif, I made a dancing ballerina. I took a ballet class last year and enjoyed it. So that was the first thing I thought of when I saw this assignment. I found a photo online of different ballet positions then cropped them individually. I wanted the same girl for each picture. This …

@ds106dc Very rarely do I get to look at my car from the passenger side. It is quite a different perspective! #tdc2006 pic.twitter.com/k0hWoFJkRo — Shane McSally (@SMcSallyBlog) July 7, 2017

While taking a break from my chemistry homework, I decided to check out today’s daily create: Take a picture of something familiar from a new perspective. My calculator that I use everyday was right in front of me. So instead of taking a traditional approach and shooting from above the calculator, I chose to give …

Glancing over some of the design elements that I must consider this week, I feel somewhat foolish that I need to research things like color and balance. Shouldn’t I inherently know these concepts? Or if not inherently, shouldn’t I have captured a thorough understanding of these ideas having completed kindergarten? Vignelli’s opening words quickly dispelled …

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This week was a lot better than last week when it comes to stress levels. This week I found myself…

#tdc2005 @ds106dc #ds106 Dropped my phone during a photoshoot in downtown. Luckily only the temperate glass shattered and not my…

Don’t try and record the mosh pit during a show.

the The first photo of my designblitz is the photo of my boyfriends fan in his room. A bit weird…

IT’S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN. One of our main assignments this week was to go around and take pictures of objects or ads that demonstrate the concepts we read over the week. I was unable to take my camera to work, but I was able to go out today and get a few things I felt were usable for this! The…

Oh look! Another Pidge inspired design. For today’s design assignment, I chose a fun one; creating a motivational poster. I wanted to originally do something sarcastic or “meme-ful” but alas…I’m not feeling any sarcasm rolling out of my brain and last night was filled with Voltron binging. So, here’s some Pidge instead. Isn’t she precious? (Yes, she’s a girl and…

For my required assignment this week, I had to take an existing picture and change the environment in which it was happening. For me, this assignment was more of a learning process than anything else. First I had to take the original image (which is a picture of 3 of my friends) and remove the …

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Well happy Thursday to you all! Today’s daily create was a cute yet traumatic one…considering I’ve cracked my phone 3 times. #DS106 #TDC2005 i feel no shame… pic.twitter.com/FfzCYF2WbZ — Taylor (@simplytelling) July 6, 2017 First off, they provided the transparent iPhone picture so that was easy enough. The last photo I took that wasn’t work or school related was a…

The most thought I’ve ever given to design is when it was applicable for school or work projects; it’s not really something I do for fun. However, one of my favorite things about writing is structuring what I’m trying to … Continue reading →

On my computer, I have a program I use to take screencaps called Gyazo. Gyazo also has a function where you can screengrab GIFs, and I had never tried it before. This assignment seemed like the perfect time to try … Continue reading →

Right away, this assignment stood out to me because it looked fun. I had a good time searching through icons on The Noun Project and trying to decide which ones would best represent the story I was thinking of. In … Continue reading →

This assignment really peaked my interest. I’ve always lived by a motto that is very special to me: “Day By Day”. Most of my personality is really centered around this idea. When I wake up every day, I have until midnight to worry about. I deal with the things that I can in that amount …

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I was pretty nervous about this assignment, given that I don’t have a lot of photo editing experience. However, I saw that other students had written tutorials, and so I checked on those, mostly using this one in particular. To … Continue reading →

This is my second GIF assignment this week. I chose this assignment for the same reason why I chose this…

This is my first of two GIF assignments this week. I chose to do this assignment because I love sports…

For my 2nd gif assignment I decided to try out the A GIF in time assignment. At first I thought…