For this assignment, I created a wanted poster for Sam Bass. Sam Bass started out pretty small and robbed a few thousand from his employers with a buddy. Then he decided to move on to robbing stagecoaches. After awhile he decided to try train robbery and eventually ended up pulling off the largest robbery in … Continue reading "WANTED"

This week’s daily creates included throwbacks, digital designs, and a picture of a road. I created my daily creates through different applications. For the first daily create, I looked up a road sign on Google images and then added text to the picture through a phone application called Line Camera. This is what I created. […]

Holy Design!! Whenever I’ve thought about design, I’ve thought about the intricate steps in a drawing or the building blocks

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So as I walked/drove around this week from classes to work to hanging out with my friends, I tried to look around for elements of design for the Design Blitz. I found a few different things that were examples of dominance, and definitely a lot of symbols (from street signs, bathroom symbols in stores/restaurants). For … Continue reading "Finding Design In Your Daily Life"

Here are my four pictures representing design elements!   The first is a representation of dominance. This dominance is in

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On my first foray into investigating western design, I looked at the collection of movie stills. I went into this having read Vignelli’s Canon, so I had a better grasp of design than before. The first thing that stuck out to me immediately was the font.  Most of the title cards use a font similar to … Continue reading Investigating Western Design

I really can’t believe we are 6 weeks into the semester — 6 weeks into doing DS106 work every week!

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From what I have seen, Western design puts alot of emphasis on Dominance. From the titles of the movies on

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This week was a lot of fun! Besides my bad week last week. I really enjoyed learning more about design and how it is EVERYWHERE. Here are a few assignments completed this week:   The Vignelli Canon Customize A Pair of shoes ~ Logo~   Sam Bass ~ Wanted How I would have went west […]

After reading the Vignelli Canon, I found myself impressed. We are bombarded by aspects of design every day, yet there definitely is some innate feeling about what looks good and what looks bad. It was within the Canon that these feelings were explained and fleshed out. I was surprised to learn how many of the … Continue reading The Vignelli Canon

#1 — Typography. This is my locker name tag from my freshman year at Monnmouth University, where I (obviously) played

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Another compilation of my daily creates. I loved that everyone got together to wish Mariana a happy birthday, I loved looking at all those great dog gifs. #ds106 @ds106dc #tdc1499 @mdvfunes Happy Birthday! pic.twitter.com/NrR42YIN5X — Liam Caudill (@liamcaudill) February 16, 2016 @ds106dc #tdc1501 #ds106 Love, friendship, family…. or nothing. I'd hope it's the former, not … Continue reading Week 6 Daily Create Summary

This assignment, called the Ultimate Merger, has you combine the logo of two companies together, as if they merged. I tried to think of two logos with a similar theme, rather than think of two companies that are similar. Eventually, I saw the twitter logo, and wanted to use another bird. I remember that NBC’s … Continue reading Design Assignment – The Ultimate Merger

For this weeks mandatory design assignment, I decided to create a wanted poster. I went about doing so by first exploring all the options I had. I then used the provided link on the assignment description to find an outlaw that I found interesting. I had a hard time choosing between Belle Star, or James […]

In this assignment, you’re supposed to pick a movie poster and animate it in some way. I picked this up initially thinking it wouldn’t be too difficult, especially for a 4.5 star assignment, but boy was I wrong. I chose 2001 because it was the last movie I watched, and the movie poster was simple … Continue reading Design Assignment – Animated Movie Posters

Working with design has been my favorite so far. While I initially did not enjoy the responsive reading, I had a great time analyzing different western themes and how design has changed them over time. I struggled with the design blitz assignment simply because I’m still getting used to flickr. I guess at the moment I’m not … Continue reading "Week 6 Summary"

Viewing western movie stills along with western movie posters underscored how design has grown and changed over the years. Older movie posters were bright, colorful and “popped”. They attempted to grab the audiences attention. The same can be said with movie stills of their titles. While some films were in black in white, it still did not … Continue reading "Western Design"

Semantic, Syntactic and Pragmatic “Let’s examine them one at the time. Semantics, for me, is the search of the meaning of whatever we have to design.“ Maybe it’s because I’m not exactly the most artistic and creative person, but I found his discussion regarding design semantics to be entirely too pompous. What happened about creating … Continue reading "Response – The Vignelli Canon"

Homer Meets Budweiser Assignment: Ad Using A Cartoon Character 4 Stars Assignment Description: “Have you ever thought a particular cartoon character would make a great advertiser? Well here’s your chance. Take an existing product or even a regular item and have a cartoon character do their best salesman impression.” “Homer no function Budweiser well without…” WOOHOO: Homer […]

A Few Examples Via Doing Indy This first example is from Georgia O’Keefe’s collection. It refers back to Vignelli’s use of the grid. The image seems to symmetrical, but not so exact that it seems inappropriate for the drawing. O’Keefe also uses a wide array of color in this artwork. It especially stands out because the […]

Unfortunately my camera has not been functioning. A solution? Use past photos from my trip to Chicago. I actually enjoyed this aspect because it allowed me to go through my saved pictures and really analyze them for different aspects of design. I will also take this time to vent about my frustrations with flickr. I … Continue reading "Design Blitz"

I’ve always liked anything dealing with art and design.  The way that shapes and colors interact to form something that catches your eye

I noticed a lot of general themes in western movie posters. They almost all contain carton-based illustrations. I also noticed

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I made a collage using Fotor Collage Maker.I choose a four-picture layout, inserted my pictures, and inserted textboxes to each section

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I have never seen a booklet like this. It’s cool to see art design represented in such an array of

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This assignment was a lot of fun! I had to create a minimalist movie poster. I chose to do Edward Scissorhands. In order to try and capture the meaning of the movie, I decided to use his scissorhand (because obviously, that’s what the movie is about). In paint, I pasted the image I found on … Continue reading "Edward Scissorhands"

For this assignment, I had to recreate a cereal box in some way. I decided to make donut cheerios…which would be delicious. I used a picture of doughnuts that I found on Google and a cheerio box as well. I decided to keep the design fairly simple and my photo shopping skills obviously need some … Continue reading "Donut Cheerios!"

This assignment requires us to take a movie and reduce it to four icons that symbolize the major parts of the story. Here are my four icons, but you’ll need to guess what film it is! If you’re stuck, here are some more clues: The movie was released in 1980 It is based in Chicago … Continue reading An Iconic Movie →

So for this assignment, I decided to go pretty simplistic. I am a huge fan of inspirational quotes – like I’m the person with those little wooden things that have quotes on them. I used a picture that I stumbled upon one day awhile ago. I felt the picture was appropriate for the quote because … Continue reading "Need Some Inspiration?"