a.k.a. Week Six Summary I had a blast doing Design Week!  I wasn’t sure how it would differ from other visual aspects, but now I understand that it’s the application of concepts and intent plays a role. Here’s what I did this week: Episodes 9, 10, 11 summarized here: Done on the Docks: Ziggy’s Goose […]

Design Assignment #2: How To… (3 stars) For this “How to ______” assignment I wanted to model the iconic “For Dummies” books but include elements of McNulty on the cover. Using GIMP I uploaded images from the covers of the “For Dummies” books as layers. I painted the background of…

Hey guys!  So recently I have gotten back into playing “Magic: The Gathering”.  It is a card game that I used to play in high school, but stopped for a long time.  Several of my friends play now, and I decided to get back into it.  So the basis of the game is that you […]

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/bumper-sticker/ For everyone who hates getting cut off, this one is for you! It was made on powerpoint using shapes and textboxes. I originally had this as a striped yellow and black, but it was difficult to read, so I stuck with black borders and a large warning. I created this because I wanted to […]

This assignment was to GIF the weather. I took 5 photos at about 15 minutes intervals of the sunset over a golf course. I uploaded the layers in GIMP and exported them as a GIF.

Design Assignment #1: Animate a Classic Painting (4 stars) For this assignment, I chose to use The Scream by Edvard Munch to animate. I either wanted to animate the figure’s screaming face, or the boat in the background. I felt like animating the boat would bring more attention to the…

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/create-a-read-poster/ Alright here is my take on a READ poster. I created this with powerpoint like all of my other pictures. If the picture is of lesser quality, it is because I resized it. The process of creating this was fairly simple as usual. On the other hand, The inspiration for this is more of […]

At first I was a little intimidated by task at hand. Once I read the definitions of each of the different types of designs I relaxed a little and started to keep an eye out for the different types. Color – I think color in a design is extremely important. It is an immediate distinction […]

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/professor-groom-poster/ The Wire and Jim Groom… what do they have in common? Well they are both famous! I wanted to make Jim telling a character in The Wire to make art, so this worked out perfectly! I just wished I had a more ridiculous picture of Jim! Anyways, I made this picture in powerpoint as […]

My last Design Assignment was the “Bumper Sticker” , for this assignment I had the hardest time to figure out what words to say for this assignment.  My bumper sticker was simple and it had a lot of thought put in it. The bumper sticker was not related to the wire but it was related […]

Hello again ds106-ers!  I recently did the Bumper Sticker design assignment.  For this assignment, I tried to think initially of what person or event from “The Wire” season 2 could be portrayed on a bumper sticker.  I finally decided to create a re-election bumper sticker for Frank.   For this creation, I decided to keep […]

For this Assignment I did a poster of two people doing their work. This assignment is meant for people to read but also to not procrastinate which is what I am doing now, but that’s just because I was in the hospital this weekend. So this was actually an assignment that I thought about from […]

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/scene-poster/ This is my poster design for the Scene Poster Assignment. After seeing the picture of Omar with a gun, I immediately recall this scene and said, “LET’S GO!” I grabbed a picture off of google and booted up powerpoint to make this. A couple of text boxes, comic sans font, and BAM! This picture […]

I didn’t get a chance to post this yesterday, but the daily create was to celebrate the 1000th TDC! Here’s a collage I made with the pic stitch app on my phone of some past daily creates.

The final design assignment I created was “Picture into Words” For this one I had to take pictures of objects that look like letters. Many people have completed this assignment by make the words “The Wire.” I decided to make mine a little different but kept it with the wire theme. Season 2 Episode 11 […]

This week and last week have been very tough. I felt really bad last week and this week I feel even worse. I spend my birthday in the hospital because of bronchitis and a upper respiratory infection. So for this assignment I was knew just the right think to do. See below For My ” […]

Last Design assignment ending on a 3 star note with “Keeping Up With The Cast of The Wire”. I followed the suggestions within the directions and went with Piktocharter. This software was very user friendly, the research is what took me a good three hours to do. In choosing my characters I actually wanted to […]

Jean de La Fontaine once said, “Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.” Can’t believe week 6 is...

So for this week I decided to do a Daily Assignment from another student in the class and I did the Website Banner. For this assignment I decided to incorporate “The Wire”. I decided to put picture of different characters for my Website Banner. For this assignment I put a different character in a different […]

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I was very excited I was able to have an excuse to crop myself into a picture with Dominic West. The assignment was to crop yourself into a picture with a celebrity, so to relate this to The Wire and just to show everyone how great we look together I chose I shot of McNulty… Read More

Today’s daily create was simple: make a short two minute doodle about how you’re feeling at the moment. In keeping with the cute examples, I decided to use an adorable koala as my example.  

Thoughts On: The Vignelli Canon I feel like I learn something new in this class every week. I took a read through the Vignelli Canon expecting to read yet another bland article, but I was surprised by the creativity that was shared. The biggest part of this booklet that stuck out to me was when […]

So for this assignment, I decided to use a photo of Stringer Bell.  He is shown in SO MANY episodes reading or with a book somewhere around him, so I figured it would be pretty easy to find an image of him to use.  The image I decided to use was one that was borrowed […]

For another Wire based design assignment, I made a new banner for this blog! Considering that the previous banner was a generic provided one, I wanted to actually make a custom one that fits the idea of the site. And since our focus this semester is The Wire, I decided to make that the theme. […]

Do you have anything that you want to smuggle across the ocean? Do you want to do it cheaply and efficiently? Well then call Frank! Frank is great at bringing things over secretly so no one knows where you got it! I saw this assignment that Paul created about Bad Guy business cards. I thought…

I once said, “Always have faith in your dreams, it’ll eventually come true if you have faith in it.” I’m...

Hey guys!  So I was talking with my wife as we were watching an episode the other day, and we were asking hypothetical questions, such as “What would you do if you were Omar here?” (obviously the response here is always “Be a badass and mess things up for people!”).  So naturally when I was […]

It’s week six already?? This week was among the more difficult, but it was rather fun. I did not think I was going to enjoy it as much as I did. Check out what I made! Daily Creates Design Assignments Ultimate Merger 3.5 stars PSA Billboard 3 stars Pictures into Words 2 stars Cartoonize Bubba 1 […]