I’m excited to start off this week with an assignment that is using our radio shows, but is visual. It seems kind of ironic to me. Our group radio show is going to be about a family road trip. For some reason this is pretty much the exact picture that popped into my head when I read the assignment for designing your own t-shirt/poster/bumper. I am very satisfied that I could pull this off with little effort. I haven’t used clip art since middle school, but remembered there were a lot of cartoon-like pictures. I decided to travel to my past days and start looking through them. To my amazement, they have added so many more pictures! I think I did this process in a way that has a few pointless steps that I’m sure I could have skipped, but what is done is done. I first started off in Microsoft power point. I knew I could maneuver the pictures around, it had clip art, and I could add text pretty easily. However, I wanted to change the coloring on the pictures. They just didn’t match. So I decided to take a screen shot of the one slide I had my pictures arranged on and uploaded to Pixlr. It took me a bit to get the colors straightened out but came up with a basic idea. I didn’t want it to be too extreme.

The pictures I chose were quite simple. I wanted a radio tower to symbolize ds106 radio and a car and road to symbolize our road trip radio show.