I thought The Vignelli Canon was a really informative read. I think his main message he is trying to convey is that design lies in the details you put into it. I mean one of his sections are on paper sizes alone! Elements like spacing and fonts can play a serious role in design even though … Continue reading Design Is In The Details

@ds106dc #ds106 #dailycreate #tdc1637 pic.twitter.com/vjLZZO7oIR — Natalie Beyer (@byernatalie) July 2, 2016

@ds106dc #tdc1637 Apparently just a lot of shrimp in Rapid City, South Dakota! pic.twitter.com/qzuWVv6A77 — Elizabeth Caplan (@WalrusQueenAbby) July 2, 2016

For this assignment I was to design my own tshirt. Since I love walruses so much, the choice was simple! I loved the color of the walrus painting I found and decided that if I were to make a shirt I would probably want that on it, with just a silly sentence for fun. The […]

For this assignment the directions were to take a picture of a 70’s rock band, take a quote from a different 70’s rock band, state that the quote was from yet another different 70’s rock band, and then create a picture displaying it. For mine I took a picture of Led Zeppelin, a quote from […]

Thirteen years ago a man had a vision, that one day films will be made with no budget yet still be enjoyable. Over ten movies and a decade later, the movies have no budget but he is still working on that enjoyable part. It’s Whackbag Films, bad acting by good people! All your favorites can […]

The Magic Men (H2O, Fireball and The Shocker) have defeated Freddy, Jason and Chucky. Thor has his hammer Mjölnir back from The Doug. The Magic Men meet up with X-Ray who activates a transportation device and disappears. The group in shock yells “Wha Happened?” as their leader is now missing… The visual assignment was http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/movie-trading-cards/ worth 4.5 […]

For this assignment I was to make a venn diagram related to something in current pop culture, so I figured why not use characters from the newest follow up to Finding Nemo. I saw Finding Dory a few weeks ago and it was amazing, it made me cry, and it gave me all the feels. […]

Godzilla is the most powerful monster in the universe but he is trapped inside a human. Use your Poke-Power to transform Rich into the King of the Monsters, Godzilla! Godzilla has a fifty percent chance of destroying any Pokémon that stands in his way! The assignment was http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/pokemon-card/ worth three stars. I used http://www.mypokecard.com/en/ to create the […]

For this design assignment I was required to take a quote from a movie and overlay it onto a picture from the movie. I decided to do Harry Potter, mostly because the books and movies are the most inspirational and meaningful ones I have ever come across. The quote I chose was said by Dumbledore […]

It’s a bird, it’s a plane… it’s Super-Rich! One day this young man was just wearing a Superman hoody at a Christmas party, the next day that hoody gave him the ability to fly. Super-Rich uses his new powers to pose for photos while flying in the sky! The assignment was http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/are-we-there-yet/ and was worth 3 […]

  @ds106dc P.B.G. Hills = Pimmit Biker Gang Hills #tdc1636 — s. gupta (@sguptaauthor) July 1, 2016 I’m starting to feel like there’s an ongoing theme with the Daily Creates and our individual neighborhoods. Maybe its because we’re mostly home for summer in this session of Digital Storytelling. Then again, maybe its just today and yesterday’s … Continue reading When the Daily Create becomes Extremely Relevant

@ds106dc #dailycreate #tdc1636 #ds106 Hometown love pic.twitter.com/VSxXPKDAfP — Natalie Beyer (@byernatalie) July 2, 2016

Fingers of Fire 🔥 Favorite Musician Animated Gif Assignment via GIPHY Who remembers the first time they heard what is now their favorite band. A lot of people recall the first time they heard The Beatles. For me, my favorite band is Metallica. I wanted to make a gif of the lead guitarist playing a solo. … Continue reading Favorite Musician

Cleveland Back on Top Best Sports Play Animated Gif Assignment For the first time in 52 years, a major sports championship was back in Cleveland. For half of a century Cleveland was the home to sports heartbreak. via GIPHY The Drive, The Fumble, The Shot, The Move, The Decision: All nicknames of the last time … Continue reading Best Sports Play Gif

How to Bother Three Fandoms with One Image Triple Rocktroll design assignment 2 Stars What’s the easiest way to troll any metal fan? Well one of the major ways is to credit a song to the wrong band. However, that only trolls the fans of two bands. In this project we hit three different fandoms hearts … Continue reading Triple Rocktroll Lyrics

Guns, Guns, & More Guns Old Fashioned Letter Exchange Design Assignment : 4.5 Stars One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic. – Joseph Stalin For my old fashioned letter exchange project I decided to have a letter from Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States to James Madison, the fourth president of the … Continue reading Old Fashioned Letter Exchange

Are we there yet? I think I really just did to many stars this week I think that I am actually seeing stars right now. This post is the 4 star challenge something like the bucket challenge I guess. For the “Challenge me” I decided to create a camp poster for this Visual Assignment (4 […]

The Iconoclast’s Favorite Shirt Create a t-shirt design assignment : 2.5 Stars What is a contrarian exactly? To me a contrarian means someone or something that defies common beliefs or practices. The official definition according to Google is “a person who opposes or rejects popular opinion, especially in stock exchange dealings.” The term originates from the … Continue reading Create a T-Shirt

Expect Us Favorite Movie Quote Design Assignment : 2 Stars “People should not be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people.”-Anonymous Throughout history humankind has struggled with power and especially the corruption of power. Estimations show that in the last century there have been 262 million deaths due to “democide,” a term … Continue reading Favorite Movie Quote

Shredding the Gnar Are we there yet? Design Assignment : 3 Stars A cutout of me surfing pasted onto a spider web. I am literally surfing the web another phrase for browsing the internet. It’s a bad joke I know, but it tells a pretty good story. I wonder what a person born before the Internet Age … Continue reading Are We There Yet?

So this blitz was definitely more of a challenge than the first one for a few reasons. One, I couldn’t

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Color: This is a photo of an advertisement of a local Italian Restaurant.According to Visual Impact Systems, the color red and yellow enhance appetite. It is no accident that this advertisement, which is located on the outside window so it is visible to everyone passing by, is primarily red and yellow. In fact, the entire … Continue reading Design Blitz

One of the points that I thought was significant was the discipline category. I think it is especially important in web design. For a website to be clear and effective it has to be carefully planned and implemented. Organization is a big part of discipline. If a website is unorganized there is no way it can … Continue reading Viginelli Reflection

I took two of my pictures at a martial arts studio in Stafford, the other two by my house in Fredericksburg. Not sure if I missed the mark but here we go! This a squirrel in my backyard eating something I can’t make out. I thought this would be a good example of dominance, which is […]

Another exciting adventure and another great fail, I don’t know I feel like I should have opened up with this famous quote from the newest Batman movie where the butler as Batman why do we fall. You know the seance where he goes  (Abert) Why do we fall master Bruce  (Batman) so we can pick […]

Gif’s…. now that is a situation …I am coming closer to the Idea that the Gif might be like the Home team , an easy win!! I ended up creating 3 total Gifs one for the Assignment  StrereoGif. ( 1 star), and one for today’s Assignment  “It is a Great Day For Sporting GIFs”  (1 star). As a […]

@ds106dc #dailycreate #tdc1636 Welcome to BN (Bad News). You came to the wrong neighborhood. #757 #sova pic.twitter.com/Tpvb6xI6bi — Ciera Osborne

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I found that the Vignelli Canon was a very interesting read, the only problem being that I don’t have an extreme interest in how things are presented. Yeah, I can appreciate when things look good, and I enjoy the style and colors, and I can sit back and see how much work the creation of […]

@dc106dc #tdc1636 KiNoVaBuNo: Kinda Northern Virginia, But Not. — Elizabeth Caplan (@WalrusQueenAbby) July 1, 2016