For this assignment I created a trading card for the movie Zoolander. I snagged a shot from the gasoline fight which I’ve always thought hilarious. For those who haven’t seen the movie, if you couldn’t guess, the gasoline fight ends with an explosion. http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/movie-trading-cards/ I made the scene in the form of a magic card […]

Bon I did the Missing Person assigment from the bank (attached above). I used PPT to complete this assignment, but

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Before I read The Vignelli Canon I thought of design solely as things like posters, logos and flyers. After reading through Vignelli, I realized design is so much more. Design is all around us and everywhere in our lives. Design can be posters, flyers but its also the way your house is built, the way … Continue reading The Vignelli Canon

#tdc1500 @ds106dc #tdc1500 milestone! Nothing like realizing you've accomplished something huge! pic.twitter.com/1thEVSGomE — Carlee Budd (@cbudd_ds106) February 16, 2016 I’m

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What is the meaning of life? I don't think there is one exact meaning, make life whatever you want it to be #tdc1501 pic.twitter.com/1VwRv9wOdJ — Jenna Steele (@jsteele_ds106) February 17, 2016

Happy birthday/anniversary ds106 daily create! I feel like daily creates are a huge part of the ds106 experience so its crazy to think that one has been posted for 1500 days so far. #dailycreate #tdc1500 pic.twitter.com/RHIZXZltYD — Jenna Steele ...

Wanted: Dead or Alive Assignment: Most Wanted Outlaws ds106 Style Assignment Description: “For this assignment, students will create a Wanted poster for some of the most wanted outlaws/groups of the Wild Wild West. While it may seem like a basic assignment, I think it will be fun and perfectly fitting for this course! Here is a […]

After reading Vignelli’s booklet, The Vignelli Canon, I have a newfound respect for design and people who use design in their everyday life. I realize that we use design for basically everything after reading Vignelli’s booklet. Everything from choosing a title for a paper to actually creating art is a use of design. Before reading … Continue reading "It’s All in the Details"

This assignment was really neat, mainly because I enjoyed looking at the image representations for each word that can be found at The Noun Project. These simplistic icons are just fun to look at. I finally decided on representing a modern western movie and it’s story. I picked out the icons that not only portrayed … Continue reading "Design Assignment – One Story / Four Icons"

I really enjoyed completing this week’s work. By reading the provided resources on design I learned a great deal and as such, I was able to focus on certain topics and implement them into my work. For some of these readings I wrote blog posts reflecting on things I learned and what I found interesting. … Continue reading Week 6 Summary 2/12-19/2016

This week I reviewed all of the provided resources within our class’s design resource page. By doing so, I learned a great deal about design and different techniques that can be used and observed in images. One of this week’s assignments was to complete a design blitz. For this design blitz we were to take … Continue reading Design Blitz!

This week was all about design, I found this week to be really interesting. It is easier for me to relate to design because in a way we are with it all the time. I started the week with the Assignment Banks. There I did most wanted and got to experiment a little with photos and text. … Continue reading "Weekly Summary"

In the western titles, I saw a consistency in large typography. Which makes sense because you want your movie title to be the most seen to the eye. There is a lot of color fading in poster and some of them are even black and white. All the photos have a olden look to it. … Continue reading "Examples of Design"

This picture represents typography and the flow they create. I love this picture because I was playing scrabble with my family, and we put all this together to spell out our names. To me, this photo represents balance, the arrows gives the up & down balance. This picture represents dominance, the building on top of … Continue reading ""

So since this week is all about design we were assigned to do a design blitz. It’s like the photo blitz only you have a lot more free reign on what you want to take pictures of. I actually found this quite challenging since I was limiting myself to certain objects. I finally got it … Continue reading Hopefully first time’s the charm

I completed the “Create Your Own Magic Cards” assignment. http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/create-your-own-magic-cards/ I’ve played magic before. I understand enough of it to know that I don’t like playing it. However, I thought it would be amusing to create some trading cards based on the movie Goodfellas. Using the website http://www.mtgcardmaker.com I created a set of four cards. Two […]

I just completed the one story, four icons assignment. http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/one-story-four-icons/ I chose four icons that represent a movie. I used symbols found on the internet to create a simple design. After obtaining the images, I resized them all to try to balance out the overall image. Problems weren’t encountered during the completion of this assignment.

The meaning of life is to keep dreaming and have fun! #tdc1501 #ds106 pic.twitter.com/cRDI6sU8Dq — Maria Rivas (@marsbars610) February 17, 2016 #tdc1500 Congrats! pic.twitter.com/EKZgVs423u — Maria Rivas (@marsbars610) February 16, 2016 ...

Vignelli starts off by giving the reader an insight to design and how he uses new techniques to challenge himself. Which is why he created this book, so others could challenge themselves when talking about design. He goes right into the 3 aspects he believes are the most important: Semantics, syntactics, and pragmatics. For me, … Continue reading "Vignelli"

I’m planning on doing two 4+ assignments this week, so I’m starting with an easy 2 star that would cap

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I completed the most wanted poster assignment. http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/most-wanted-outlaws-ds106-style/ For this assignment I chose Henry Longabaugh, the Sundance Kid. I read up on his various robberies and figured someone should catch him. (According to one source, Henry Longabaugh was never caught by the United States authorities. He died in Bolivia. However, there are claims the Sundance […]

Since it is a design themed week we had to look at several different western designs/artworks and discuss the design characteristics. I first looked at title stills from old western movies. The first thing that jumped out at me was the big use of contrast, color and dominance in the stills. The words in the still are […]