Keep Our World Wet (Tutorial)

Keep Our World Wet (Tutorial)

by @Hollis Pultz

| designassignments, DesignTutorials817, Syndicated
June 3, 2018

Effective Design for Public Service Announcements Here I walk you through designing a PSA billboard encouraging the public to engage in global responsibility by driving electric. We will be using Canva as our editor, Unsplash for our background photo, the Degraeve Color Palette Generator to analyze our background colors, and the Adobe Color Wheel to …
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Blast from the Past, Henry Ford

by @Hollis Pultz

| designassignments, DesignAssignments2255, Syndicated
June 3, 2018

Inspiration Served with Dr. Pepper I was craving Dr. Pepper earlier, in addition to a quiet place to work on my alternate history assignment, so I set out on a trip to the local Sheetz. After I arrived, I got my Dr. Pepper, had a seat in the lounge, and got to work thinking about what …
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Blast from the Past, Henry Ford (Tutorial)

by @Hollis Pultz

| designassignments, DesignTutorials2255, Syndicated
June 3, 2018

Unveiling the Model E For the alternate history assignment tutorial, we will be using Pixabay and Adobe Photoshop. The photos from Pixabay include Henry Ford, an electric-car charger, and a parking lot.
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Hot Cars just got Steamier

by @Hollis Pultz

| designassignments, DesignAssignments1324, Syndicated
June 2, 2018

Revisiting a Classic Here, I will be giving my first glimpse into life in a world without internal combustion engines. For the assignment, I have chosen to edit the cover of Stephen King’s Christine. Christine tells the story of a young man who becomes possessed by the evil spirit of a car that he restores. In …
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Hot Cars just got Steamier (Tutorial)

by @Hollis Pultz

| designassignments, DesignTutorials1324, Syndicated
June 2, 2018

Fair Warning I am not experienced at making tutorial videos, but I am thorough. So, this might not be as exciting to watch as an HGTV how-to video on remodeling, but after watching, you will be able to recreate the final product without issue. This video covers how to acquire an image for editing, use Canva …
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Bit-by-bit, Learning Design from the Ground Up

by @Hollis Pultz

| Syndicated
May 30, 2018

Get the Graphics On This week, my first mission was to work through tutorials, listen to experts on the topic of graphic design, and reflect on my experience. The two experts, Paula Sher and David Carson, espoused different models for good design. Paula argued that serious design work could only be created by breaking the …
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Design in the Wild

by @Hollis Pultz

| Syndicated
May 30, 2018

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Routine, Rebirth, and the Sixth-Sense

by @Hollis Pultz

| Syndicated
May 30, 2018

How to: Contemporary Design I love rules. Particularly, I love methods and techniques that are quantifiable and can be applied to tasks in such ways that desired outcomes can be obtained. Any goal that can be accomplished by following “x-number easy steps to a perfect whatever-thing” is a goal that I like. Appealing design, as …
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Midnight Madness Times Seven

by @Hollis Pultz

| Syndicated
May 27, 2018

I “Don’t Swing It Like I Used To” For those that have experienced it, homework after twenty-one is very different from the late-night, Redbull-fueled rushes of younger days. Ninety percent of my work for #ds106 was done between the hours of ten o’clock PM and four o’clock AM this week. As it stands, I already …
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Fluff Trumps All

by @Hollis Pultz

| Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments774
May 26, 2018

Dina’s Wonderland I love my cat Dina. She has been part of my wife and I’s family for approximately two years and gives us great joy with her companionship. When I tell people that I upgraded my iCloud storage to accommodate an excessive number of Dina pictures, they often don’t believe me, but the truth is Dina …
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Flashback to Game Boy Programming…

by @Hollis Pultz

| Syndicated, visualassignments, visualassignments1879
May 25, 2018

Pixel Scenes? No Problem. When I stumbled across a three-and-a-half-star assignment for creating a sixteen-square pixel image of a person, vehicle, or otherwise intricate object, I considered it to be an assignment too far up my alley to ignore. In Fall 2017, I took Computer Systems and Architecture with Dr. Finlayson. One major aspect of the …
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Instruction With a Side of Desolation, Topped With Creation

by @Hollis Pultz

| Syndicated
May 24, 2018

Mastery in a Box (or at least some good ideas and how I applied them) The tips pages had a LOT of great information on how to make great photos that pop. I’d heard of the concept behind the rule of thirds before but had never actually heard the name of it before. I already …
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So Much Better Than a Quarter Mile…

by @Hollis Pultz

| Syndicated
May 23, 2018

Fast Paced Battery Drain As previously mentioned, I have an iPhone 4s: this photoblitz took me straight from 60% to 1%. Perfect Place, Perfect Time Of course I decided to embark on the photoblitz around my place; it’s my favorite place to be, and I was able to get my wife’s iPod for looking at …
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Blitz Bomb (no), Photo Bomb (still not right), Photo Blitz (bingo)

by @Hollis Pultz

| Syndicated
May 22, 2018

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Media, Posts, and Pictures, Oh My!

by @Hollis Pultz

| Syndicated
May 22, 2018

Need Coffee Please It’s been almost a month since the spring semester let out, and I hadn’t touched my computer since then; that was until Sunday night. This was my first time ever setting up a blog, and I am so thankful that the instructions on canvas and the respective linked instruction pages were thorough: …
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The Fluff, the Braid, and the Zoom

by @Hollis Pultz

| Syndicated
May 22, 2018

So, on Instagram I can be found as hpultz, big surprise. I used a photo of my cat, my tractor, and my ex-ponytail. Not going into too much detail per instructions, but boy am I going to be much cooler and more comfortable without that extra 12 or so inches. NOTE: This is a …
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This is a test post

by @Hollis Pultz

| Syndicated
May 22, 2018

Testing to see if this post makes it to the umwsu118 page.
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Instagram photos

by @Hollis Pultz

| Syndicated
May 21, 2018

So, on Instagram I can be found as hpultz, big surprise. I used a photo of my cat, my tractor, and my ex-ponytail. Not going into too much detail per instructions.
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My actual first post

by @Hollis Pultz

| Syndicated
May 21, 2018

OMG BLOGGING Schooling is hard in summer, but I’m gonna make it. As The Little Engine That Could said, “I think I can, I think I can, I think I can…”
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Hello world!

by @Hollis Pultz

| Syndicated
May 20, 2018

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
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