Design Safari:  I had a lot of fun with this assignment.  I found a lot of examples of each element of design on the UMW campus.  The elements that I decided to focus on were color, typography, balance, rhythm, and metaphor/symbol.  I like how in this assignment I was able to take my time finding good examples of each element of design.  I like how it was not limited to only 20 minutes of my time.

Daily Creates:  I have still been enjoying doing the daily creates.  It is nice that they are quick and easy assignments that don’t take much time to get done.

1. October 1, 2012: Today is World Vegetarian Day-make a photo that celebrates this holiday.

I am personally not a vegetarian but when I saw this daily create I decided for lunch that I would have something a vegetarian would have.  So I went to Seco and got some pasta and then I put tomato sauce on my pasta.  I only took a picture of half of my plate because the other half of my plate had meat on it so I didn’t want any meat to be in my picture.

2. October 2, 2012: Imagine your own personal font (typeface) and draw the letters in your name.

For this daily create I decided what better way to imagine my own personal font than use my own handwriting.  So for this I wrote down my name in my neatest handwriting and took a picture of it!

3. October 4, 2012: From memory, draw the floor plan of the house you grew up in.

This is the floor plan of my house that I grew up in.  It was easy for me to remember the floor plan because I still live in this house during the summer and on school breaks and such.  In this drawing I included the first and second floor.

4. October 6, 2012:  Add crazy effects to your favorite song! eg. as if performed by visitors from outer space.

For this Daily Create I first went to Freesounds and found this one sound called whispers.  I thought that the whispers sound related most to something that was from outer space.  (Like aliens whispering to each other about their reactions on landing on a new planet).  Then I uploaded the sound into Audacity.  After that I then went to my iTunes library and picked a song that I thought would best go with the whispers sound effect.  I choose a song with no words called Doomsday (it’s from a TV show called Doctor Who) and recorded it into Audacity.  I thought the whispers went nicely with this song.  I only recorded the first minute of the song because the song is 5 minutes long.  This is my first daily create where I have used sound cloud so I hope you enjoy!

15 Stars Worth of Design Assignments:  I really liked going through the design assignment repository because there were so many different ones to choose from.  It was hard for me to narrow down which ones I really wanted to do for this week.  I enjoyed all of the design assignments I chose to do for this week that I could not pick a favorite one I did.  I hope that I will be able to do more design assignments in the future.

1. DS106 Radio– 2 stars

2. If Movie Posters Told the Truth– 3 stars

3. Alternative Book Cover– 3 stars

4. Postcards From Magical Places– 3 stars

5. What People Think I Do– 3 stars

6. That’s Pinteresting– 2 stars

Radio Show Contribution Post: I made my radio show contribution post on the same post as the assignment for ds106 radio show group poster.  Here is the post for my planned contributions to the Radio Show.  I think our group radio show is really coming along.  I think I have a great group and that everyone will do their part in for this project.  I’m really looking forward to hearing the completed version of the show.

Reflection of Week 6: I have enjoyed week 6 of design but I have to say I think so far my favorite unit has been this Visual unit of week 5.  I think that I liked the visual unit a little better because it was more about taking pictures of different objects at different angles.  I really like being able to use the assignment repository  to choose assignments.  I have fun just looking through all of the assignments and deciding which ones I want to do for the week.  I also have really enjoyed the design blitz, it was fun to try to find as many pictures as possible for each element of design.  I liked how with the design blitz I was able to take pictures of things.  I have really enjoyed all of the units we have covered in this class so far, and I look forward to see what will be coming int he following weeks.  I actually cannot believe that we are almost already half way through the semester!