Alright folks I’d like to tell you all about a recent trip I had across campus. I read online that I had to do this little thing called a “design blitz.” Seeing as how I enjoyed the last blitz, I decided to go on a walk  across campus. I searched up and down to see […]

This was a pretty interesting read. It discussed everything that goes into designing. When I was taking my pictures this morning, I was thinking about many of these aspects without knowing it. I really enjoyed the first the first section about semantics. When I think of semantics, I usually think about the meaning of words. […]

This assignment was fun! We had to pick three different things I would take on a deserted island. I used photoshop to add all of the images together to make one image. I decided to take a practical approach on this one. I would take a Kindle because I would have access to multiple books that…

This week was a very crazy week.  I worked very heavily this week to get all of the assignments for the design week completed.  Design assignments tie so many concepts together.  In many of the design assignments, there were elements of visual, ideas of creations, and what tools do you use to create the assignment.  […]

For this assignment, I decided to make another one! I saw the one called the Website Logo but I thought the Website Banner would be fun too! I decided to create the assignment because I was looking to create a banner for my website and I thought I could get credit for it too! I had a…

Color can be simple and beautiful. I took pictures of solid colors that were natural and unobstructed. The solid pattern made the color stand out and makes the viewer focus on the object being photographed. https://www.flickr.com/photos/126499928@N07/s...

In my designblitz, I hope to use images to explain my interpretation of design terms.  There are several terms that we were given to research and try to catch images of at least five of them.  The terms are color, typography, metaphors/symbols, minimalism/use of space, form/function/message, balance, rhythm, proportion, dominance, and unity.  I hope that […]

Kidding. Design Week didn’t ruin my life. But i grabbed your attention, right? Yeah, i did. Believe it or not, Design Week was fun. I messed around with different tools and effects and overall enhanced my awesome skills. If it were up to me, i would wish that design week was maybe a week earlier. […]

Hi there! This assignment was a lot of fun! At the beginning of each episode in the wire, there is a quote that one of the character’s says during the episode. I took a quote from season 2 episode 9, from Rawls to create the new epigraph. The assignment was supposed to relate it to…

This design assignment was to chose 4 icons to summarize a movie or show into 4 basic icons and have others guess. Since I want to relate it to The Wire, I’m just going to let you know I chose season 2 episode 9 and explain why I picked these 4. I got these icons… Read More

Today’s daily create was to reflect on your emotions and I am actually happy that this was today’s daily create.  I had a ROUGH week and I spent the latter of my week completing school work and such. I know that I can get through it but sometimes it just feels like the world is …

This week was a lot more work, but it was worth every second! The element of design extends to so many things, which can be taken for granite. I had fun doing the assignments, although some were more challenging than...
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The design blitz was a little harder for me! I struggled to find things that correlated to the assignment. Color In this picture, that attention is drawn to the color changing of the leaves.This really gives off a feel of fall...
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The Wire Survey For my last design assignment I choose Create A Survey Design Assignment.   I thought that this assignment was a good way not only to reinforce the most recent episodes but it was a fun and creative way to take a sample of what the classes feelings were in regards to this weeks …

October 1, 2014 To create my water and glass moving around, I used my iPhone to capture (in Slow-Mo!) me pouring water into a glass. The results are pretty cool! October 2, 2014 I realized this week was a pretty busy week for me, but the reward for getting most…

This weekend, I went home to watch my sisters. My mom and stepdad took a vacation to Barcelona (so jealous!!) and I am babysitting to make some money. This morning, I had to take them to Sunday School so I figured I would do my design blitz at our synagogue. It was cool wandering around […]

This assignment was fun, I loved thinking of a logo for my blog. Since my theme is Exploring the Deep Sea of Technology, I thought “explore the unknown” was perfect. I knew nothing about technology before this class, and honestly,...
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This assignment was interesting! I decided to use Photoshop for this one. I found this one kind of difficult as I was trying to figure out what I was doing while in Photoshop itself. But I definitely got the hang of it though! I really like the thought of this assignment, trying to capture the…

Thomas Carlyle once said, “A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.” So basically I did this assignment for...

This assignment (4 stars) really started to make me think. I loved connecting people to certain categories.  Avon was in the middle, of course, because everything always comes back to him. Avon’s character is powerful no matter where he is, but...
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I loved that western showdown scene between the police and the FBI. This part had GIF written all over it. I had the idea to put the three of them together, so I was careful to make all of them … Continue reading →

Can You Guess the Song? The assignment that I did earlier in the week was entitled Guess That Song from the Guess The Song assignment worth 3 1/2 stars.   The song which I did was based on The Wire’s Intro Theme Song for Season 2. For this particular assignment I used the opening scenes from …

Daily Create | A 2 minute doodle about your feelings! Fun fact:: Koalas sleep 16-20 hours a day! Although I didn’t sleep that long this weekend, I do feel particularly well rested. :) ^Click on the photo to see it on my… Continue Reading →

I started off Design Week with my post on Tim Owens, in which I went over the details of the conversation and what I took away from it. I’m glad I started with this assignment first because it pushed me to be more creative with my work this week and ignore my general excuse that I […]

For my design blitz I used my iPhone and took pictures all week of some designs that I found really interesting. I took a lot of the same type of photo and struggled with finding the right photos/designs to fit the elements. I ended up with six and here they are! Color-Brings attention or focus […]

Got Any I.D.? I entitled this assignment from the DS106 assignment bank Got Any I.D. based on the Let’s See Some I.D. assignment worth 2 stars.   I decided to use the following picture from Google-Frank Sobotka as well as a picture of  an i.d. template and a “revoked,” text sign also found on Google. DESIGN …

This week I was able to get back on track after being away without internet to complete my assignments. The design assignments were fun to complete, I had a great time coming up with ideas for the assignments, and I was able to find good assignments rather quickly compared to other weeks. I created two […]