For today’s daily create, I get to show my feelings on our very own Wire106 course! I made sure to illustrate not only my struggles, but my gains from this class as well. It’s definitely a lot more work than I initially expected. Especially design week in general. When your focus is form and aesthetic […]

                                  Today’s daily create basically sums up my life right now. My room is nice and messy, but my waterfall is running, which helps...
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I did today’s daily create, “ds106 4life empathy map” and pertained it to McNulty, one of my favorite characters from the Wire. I saw Amy Wallace did her map using Bubble and D’Angelo and thought it was interesting, so I wanted to use our “textbook” as well. A lot of the things I wrote were contradictory. For […]

I really enjoyed this week and found design to be a really fun and interesting creative focus. A lot of the skills I gained last week were helpful to me this week. The Wire Episodes Here are my blog posts about episodes nine, ten, and eleven of season 2. Daily … Continue reading

For my final design assignment I decided to do the venn diagram (4.5 stars). At first I had no idea how I was going to do it. I was originally

My third Design Assignment is full of creativity and awesomeness. I chose to do the “Bumper Sticker” assignment. I’m not sure if its the design assignment bank or me but i keep choosing all these create and add text assignments. I’m having fun with them so, who cares. Let’s get to it. Process: Instead of […]

For my second design assignment, i chose Groom’s “Create A READ Poster.” If you’ve spent as much time in the library as i have, this assignment is great. It also brings back great memories, actually. Since 8/15 stars this week have to be from The Wire, i chose episode 9 of season 2, which i recently […]

I really wanted to try to make an infographic of some kind, so I decided to do the Learning By Design assignment worth 3.5 stars. Since I am not very good at drawing, I googled different infographic maker sites that let you make infographics for free. I came across Piktochart and really liked the different icons and […]

For today’s daily create, i completed the “Empathy Map.” What we basically had to do is fill this up with current feelings and so on. I reflected on all the stress and work i’ve had this week. For example, all the assignments and work i’ve had to do for every class. My Art History exam took […]

For this Design Assignment I decided to use “Jimmy McNulty”. In the picture shows a “Baltimore Badge and a Detective because that is who McNulty works for. I also but pictures of McNulty working in the Marine Unit which he just recently started in Season 2, so I concluded them as well. I also included […]

I decided to do a Wire-themed The Dr. Seuss Zone design assignment where you make a Dr. Seuss-style book cover. I couldn’t help myself and had to return to Wee-Bey and his fish. It was just too perfect for this assignment. I used a screenshot from an episode in season … Continue reading

I decided to do the Movie Infographic design assignment. After seeing Meredith’s Infographic, I decided to use Piktochart as well. I really am impressed with all the options and freedom I had with the design. I was really bowled over by episode 10, so I decided to do that one, … Continue reading

Daily Create | With DS106 in mind, what might your Empathy Map look like? I think Empathy Maps are a great way to reflect on your current situation, so I made a point to do today’s daily create. You can see… Continue Reading →

I did today’s Daily Create, which was to create an empathy map.  

Today’s Daily Create – An Empathy Map I decided to do my empathy map for some characters from The Wire, and I ended up deciding to use D’Angelo and Bubbles because they are an interesting contrast. I did the actual map by hand (using a purple pen for Bubbles and a red one for D) […]

The trading card assignment (4 stars) was probably one of my favorites to do so far. It took me an unbelievable amount of time to finish this assignment. I was

For my third design assignment this week, I did “Minimalist TV/Movie Poster” (3.5 stars). I chose this because I figured it would be easy to do for The Wire, it’s about drugs. How I did it: So I went on The Noun Project and searched “drugs” and came up with Drugs by Ed Harrison which I thought […]

This was an assignment that was not difficult in design but more technical in information.  In a Venn Diagram, the design assignment recommended to pick three top Pop culture figures and tie them together in topics. The overlapping areas of the circles would be information that the circles share together.  Instead of using pop culture […]

Keeping up with the cast of The Wire.  (3 Stars) Where are they now?  What projects have they moved on to?  This required some research on www.imdb.com to research the characters that I chose. I wanted to portray the characters not only by their images but also by a brief description of each characters shown.  […]

The first Daily Create i chose was the Water and Glass Moving Around assignment. When i clicked on the assignment, i was hoping for some more details. It’s a daily create so i suppose i shouldn’t be looking for trouble. Like the title says, my task was to record water and glass moving around. I […]

Hiya! Here is my daily create #1! I thought this was so cool when I saw that it was the daily create for the day! I did a little brainstorming before I went to film the final product. I wanted to be original in the way I figured it out. But with all of the…

Week 6 is all about that design life. I get it, designing all week.. I mean we have to 15 stars, like whoa.. Any who, i was a little late to this scene so i started off with a somewhat simple assignment. For my first Design Assignment, i chose “Create Your Favorite Book Cover.” Everyone enjoys […]

Lauren brought up the Weird Book Room assignment and I thought it really ought to be called Wired Book Room. So here’s my entry: Accessorizing Your Waterfowl. I had a few title ideas, like Duck Bling or Pimp My Duck, but … Continue reading →

Hi guys!  Hope everyones week has been good thus far.  Here is today’s daily create for today.  I thought this was a really fun daily create, basically because this is something I did a lot of as a child.  I loved to play with water and study the way it reflected and bent light.  Now […]

For my second design assignment this week I went with “DS106 Post Secret” (2 stars). I thought about doing this for myself, but I would rather make an assumption about something that happened in Epsiode 11. So in Episode 11 Stringer meets with Omar because Avon’s crew has been trying to get Omar to come […]

Today’s daily create was “Water and glass moving around”. I’m not sure whether I understood what was expected of me because it didn’t seem like I had to do much. To make it more interesting I made my water glow. I like the spiraling rings that I created from moving the water around and the […]

I chose to do one of the recommended assignments which is One Story / Four Icons, worth 2.5 stars. I knew I wanted to do my icons based on The Wire Season 2, Episode 9: Stray Rounds since I thought there were some iconic objects in that episode. I used Pixlr to put together my icon story […]

Had to take an opportunity and pull our Halloween skull glasses out for this daily create. My Video of “Water in a Glass”

TDC997 Water and Glass Moving, with a touch of purple light.

While watching episode 10 of The Wire this week, I kept the list of design characteristics Jim listed in his assignment post in mind, just to see what would happen. I ended up taking quite a few screenshots, as many… Continue Reading →