Scene from Episode 11 Season 2. The opening sequence where the Baltimore PD busts into homes raiding for drugs and paraphernalia. This scene is a peaceful moment before doors are broken down and homes are ransacked by the police. Will Nick be sleepless in Baltimore?

The next assignment which I completed was worth 3 1/2 stars.   The Wire Magazine Design Assignment called for us to investigate in the inside and outside of either ourselves or the mind of someone elsewhere.  The individual which I decided to investigate was McNulty.   The picture I choose was found on a Google Image Search it …

The Wire this week was interesting. I am interested in what will happen to Ziggy. He will probably become an informant for the police against his father, but I’m not sure he has enough details about anything to make a case. Sobatka is also getting interesting as he seems to be breaking as the pressure […]

The Vignelli Canon was interesting, even though some of it was outdated. I think the theory behind the method is still good though, even if the technology for making design is different. It is obviously still important to utilize his three aspects (Semantic, Syntactic and Pragmatic) when making a design. Semantics is the search for […]

It’s amazing the designs you see every single day without even realizing it. This assignment helped me realized just how dependent our lives are when it comes to how things are designed. Welcome to the design blitz of A Hot … Continue reading →

Today’s Daily Create – Today I Feel Peaceful I made this by drawing the meditating girl by hand and then scanning it in, and adding the text through photoshop

This Assignment is one of my Design Assignments. “Your Big Break” for this Assignment I did Ziggy because right now he is in a really depressed after he killed the Greeks. On the album cover there is Ziggy behind fire, I did this to symbolize all of the emotions that he is going through and […]

I always tell my friends, “You always can replace your friends, but you can’t replace your family.” It’s true. I...

Kevin Garnett once said, “Anything is possible!” So here to make it a tutorial part, I used Paint to do this...

One of my favorite Omar Little quotes is when he says, “Omar back”. I still remembered that third episode of...

Tom Bodett once said, “In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a...

Just for kicks and pay bag I chose to do “Wait, Where’d That Guy Come From” and since Groom seems to what us to have his presence on our minds at all times he was my target. I cloned his face onto another figure who likes to be on everyone’s mind at all times…that’s right […]

Milton Glaser once said, “There are three responses to a piece of design – yes, no, and WOW! Wow is...

The last of the 8 star design assignments relating to The Wire I completed with the “Barcode Transformation” assignment. I chose the scene where the surveillance team was tailing Spiros because there was a good clip of a silhouette of The Greek walking in the parking garage. This was a perfect pic to embed a […]

Designblitz. Yay! Very similar to the Photoblitz assignment i did, now i get to focus on new elements of design. They’re mostly new to me, not the world. This weekend i went home for a concert and decided that with a car/home, i’ll find better, more interesting examples of these elements. This has proven to […]

There were a few things from this book that really stood out to me. I really liked how he said that every detail is important because the end result is the sum of the details. That is true not only in design, but in everything in life. (Of course) I thought of softball immediately. My […]

It’s All About the TDC’s Okay while my title sounds like a cheesy Captain Planet introduction….I am just filled with colloquial references.   I decided to do some of my fave TDC ‘s which also reflects a current picture feature 10 to the 10th power courtesy of legos.  Regardless it’s all about the zeros!

This week has been a bit rough. After going on a design killing streak, i realized i messed up. After finally getting my 15 stars, i only had 6 that contributed to The Wire. Boo. I worked really hard to get those 15 stars. At least now i have like 18. Since i only needed 2 […]

Here’s today’s daily create! It was definitely a milestone since it is the 1000th day. We were supposed to pick 3 different photos from different daily creates and either collage them or merge them together. There were a few options to pick from in the description, one from the 1st, 10th, or the 100th daily…

After Groom’s suggestion that I make my “Six Word Memoir” (2 stars) for Daniels more memorable, I got a little more creative with it. How I did it: Welllll, first I imported this picture of Daniels into GIMP. Then I went to Filters>Artistic>Cartoon to make Daniels cartoonified. I messed with the slidey things until I […]

I did today’s daily create about “Powers of 10.” I didn’t realize until today just how many of my daily creates are about softball. So since we were supposed to remix or collage or whatever at least three of our daily creates, I picked three that were about softball. Obviously there are a lot of […]

For this assignment (3 stars), I changed it to where are they now within the show. I focused on the three characters who I think has changed the most in season 2: McNulty, Ziggy, and Beatrice. McNulty- McNulty has changed so...
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This assignment (3 stars) was fun and very relevant. My LLC is actually participating in the Out of the Darkness Walk, which is a suicide prevention and awareness walk.   Process I was thinking about something coming up important, and I...
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This assignment (2 stars) was a little challenging to think of just icons that summarized an episode. I picked on episodes from this weeks assignment (episodes 9, 10, or 11). I will reveal the answer in my weekly summary!    ...
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When it comes to design, I adore either the minimalistic or colorful approach. I try to get enough information and intent across in as little as possible, while using color to make everything more vivid and memorable. It’s something I appreciate about road signs. They use minimal geometry to get a message across, and have […]

It was so difficult to find someone actually reading! Now everything is high tech, no need for paper! I ended up just finding a picture online. I decided to do Prez because I think his character is so underrated. The show often focuses on McNulty or Herc and Carver as the “heroes.” Prez is always […]

I made a new design assignment called “Let’s See Some ID”, because I wanted an assignment where I could make a library card for Brother Mouzone from the HBO show “The Wire”.  He is quoted as saying “The most dangerous thing in America is a nigger with a library card” and from that moment on, […]

Happy 1000th TDC! I figured I’d make a whale in a window, going for money for this TDC! I also added an additional shape (which now that I look at it, it looks more like a painting). This was a fun one to create. Hope you like it!

I had wanted to make Brother Mouzone a library card ever since I heard his quote in “The Wire”, but when I searched on an assignment that would fit, I couldn’t find one so I made one.   Brother Mouzone has come to Baltimore from New York City, so it figures he has a New […]

This assignment was to create a creative movie book cover. I decided to make one for The Wire. Although it is not a movie or a book, I think it could still fit the qualifications! I ended up making two because I couldn’t decide which one I liked better. The first one shows a pager and […]