“Cartoonize Bubba” was a simple assignment but interesting. Using http://www.befunky.com I was able to select a picture of my dog Lucy and turn her into a cartoon. The picture I chose was one I was going to use for a daily create but did not complete the daily create in time. I decided to use the picture now […]

Season 2: Episodes 9, 10, 11 Episode 9 I must’ve messed up last week and watched/summarized Episode 9 too early, so here is that summary, re-copied for convenience. New content for Episodes 10 and 11 follows. Stringer’s lecture to Bodie about “you gotta show some flex” for the give and take of the situation is […]

Here’s what I imagine a fictional postcard from Brother Mouzone would look like if sent from the great city of Baltimore.  I imported images I found on the internet into Photoshop, erased existing text, roughed them up with dust/scratches filter and proceeded to add Brother Mouzone’s hand writing.  I periodically made new text boxes, distorted […]

I’m on the Prowl…And I’m hungry like a Wolf Screen shots taken from Season 2 Episode 11 of The Wire No it’s not a bad 80’s song, it’s my The Wire Animal Human-Head Hybrid.  For this assignment I watched episode 11 of Season Two of The Wire to get a grasp on the character of …

Another design assignment I completed was “Design and Invoice.” For this one I wanted to relate it to The Wire episodes we watched this week. Using word  I created the invoice. First, I considered the different items to put on the invoice. Now I know the job Ziggy did for George Glekas was an inside job […]

The little caption assignment worth 2 stars was quite simple. We had to find a picture and add a caption to it. For this, I put the show on full screen, then took a screen shot, and uploaded it to word. The caption I added was my take on what Bodie was saying in the scene. […]

Cartoonize Bubba 1 star For this assignment, we were asked to cartoonize a picture of a pet. I decided to do Ziggy’s pet duck because I thought the scene where he buys the duck was hilarious. Although it didn’t last long, it was very amusing to watch Ziggy parade his duck in its diamond collar. It […]

This assignment worth 2 stars was very enjoyable. I had to take pictures of “letters” I found around me. Some of them are easier to figure out, while others are more difficult. I tried to make the pictures more related to The Wire, but I don’t have any drugs or police equipment laying around my […]

Today’s daily create marks the 1000th daily create! What we all had to do was mash up 3 daily creates that we’ve made and upload it to Flickr! I used GIMP to upload three pictures and mash it into one photo. The daily creates i used were: 976 (pearl picture), 970 (map picture), and 968 […]

In celebration of the 1000th daily create, I was tasked with combining three daily creates I’ve done in the past! I was hoping to go for a theme, and since these three pictures were science related, I cobbled them together on GIMP. Here’s to the next 1000!

After reading The Vignelli Canon, Tim Owen’s “We Are All Artists” statement and links, and listening to the Groom/Owens interview + talk, I felt well-armed to tackle Design Week. Tim Owens’ statement “The Mozarts are over here and the factory workers are over here” really resonated with me. I’ve never considered myself an artist, but […]

I found Tim Owens’ talk to be really interesting, and weirdly inspirational. The idea that art is all about practice, is something that I was always told growing up (because of dance), but I never thought about applying it to what we do in this class. I assumed that over the course of this semester […]

Here’s my mash-up daily create to celebrate the power of 1000 as The Daily Create hits 1,000 assignments, using images from the first, tenth and one hundredth TDCs: Our internaut is on the 1,000th moonwalk TDC mission, and he’s looking down at the number 100 left behind in the moondust at his feet, from TDCs […]

DesignBlitz | Carry your camera with you this week and take photos of objects, ads, signs, etc. that illustrate one of the following ten concepts. Provide an example of at least four these concepts in the designed environment around you. Share all… Continue Reading →

Today’s Daily Create was to merge together previous daily creates into one picture. I used this picture and this picture from previous daily create assignments and used photoshop to layer them. I then adjusted the opacity on the top one until a double exposure effect was created. I used the bricks because there is just […]

While perusing the resources provided for elements of design this week, I was suddenly struck by an idea of another type of artwork. Surprisingly, a search of what I was looking for didn’t turn up, so I decided to submit my own. Since we need to come up with two assignments over the semester, this […]

The ‘Venn Pop Culture’Design assignment offers 4 1/2 stars; I looked at it and said to myself “Well I’m your Huckleberry”! I take an ambitious leap at the opportunity by first pulling up photoshop. I think to myself “Hell to the Naw” I don’t even have the patience for this ..ish tonight. Next I looked […]

Bill Cosby once said, “A word to the wise ain’t necessary-it’s the stupid ones that need the advice.” You know...

For my final design assignment I did “Lyric Typography Poster” (3.5 stars). I did “American Kids” by Kenny Chesney. In case you haven’t been able to tell by this point, I really like that song. It also has some vivid words that I figured I could find good fonts and could think of cool things […]

I appreciated his insight into re-designing logos and branding for companies. His approach was to do a “light re-touch” or freshening up rather than throwing the baby out with the bath water.  Logos that have been in the public awareness for decades, if they’ve made a positive impression, should continue to connect with their audience […]

I did the assignment The Ultimate Merger, worth 3.5 stars. I wanted to make this Wire related since Proposition Joe and Stringer Bell are in a deal with each other now. So what I came up with is a “package” logo, featuring both of them. I found a package icon on The Noun Project, and I […]

I’ve been working with the Shenandoah literary magazine for a while now, and next week they launch their noir issue. The editor, Rod Smith, asked me to try and come up with a logo/ad for Poetry Daily, and given it’s design week … Continue reading →

I did today’s daily create, “Trace Yourself!” I am happy with the way it turned out and I thought it was going to take me longer than it did. How I did it: I pulled up a picture on my computer that I thought would be cool to trace. It happens to be a softball […]

For this video discussion of Season 2 Episode 11 of The Wire, “Bad Dreams,” Paul Bond and I were joined by UMW #wire106 internauts John Meadows and Ien Harris. Once again, the discussion was focused around screenshots from this episode we found interesting in relationship … Continue reading →

This assignment was for a motivational poster, but I couldn’t resist the temptation to make a DE-motivational poster, and Rawls was my first inspiration.  He’s the most demotivating manager in the show, and makes no effort at controlling his anger issues. This was captured from Season 1, Episode 1 where he is giving McNulty a […]

I’m a little behind but I left the weekend open to hash out these Design assignments, so this is my very first. I chose to use episode 11 of The Wire to do the ‘Picture Into Words’ assignment worth 2 stars but hey it is a start! I decided I would find scenes within that […]

I did today’s daily create which was to trace a picture of myself. I used a picture with my brother and I from my high school graduation. I actually really like how this trace looks! I didn’t want to mess it up by trying to trace facial features, but I think it looks pretty neat without… Read More

I’ve been re-watching into Season 3, and the Hamsterdam episodes are among my favorites mostly because of the concept of a drug-tolerant zone in an inner city. Fascinating concept. The assignment to create a Venn diagram required a lot more thought and playing around on scratch paper than I had anticipated.  I doodled a lot […]

Well, you all know I am not an artist! But here is an attempt from me, to draw a silhouette of me. It is roughly about 72% accurate, which is pretty darn good coming from me! It ain’t pretty, but it is some form of art.

  I did today’s tracing exercise for the daily create. I used some parchment paper to trace a photo and then put it overtop a cool map to make it look a little differently.