Design Week Assignments:
Reflection on the Vignelli Canon DesignBlitz Photo Safari Face The Odds: Adds Text to a Photo Create A T-Shirt: Add Yourself From One Photo to Another Photo Create A Movie Poster: Modifies A PhotoDesign Summary
What did you learn?
This …
Prompt: Create a “movie poster” for your picture. #ds106 #DesignAssignments #DesignAssignment110
About two years ago, I bought my first ferret. Her name was Bandit. I’ve always wanted a pet ferret after reading Rikki Tikki Tavi in school. It’s not legal to have a mongoose, …
Prompt: For this assignment, you get to design your very own t-shirt! Find a blank t-shirt template, then add a picture or some text. It could be a joke, a pop culture reference, a movie quote, or anything else you want. #ds106, #DesignAssignments…
Dominance
Every image has dominance, I think. It’s the first thing in an image that draws your eye. For this image, I chose a picture that also metaphorically showed dominance, having bush in it that was …
This short booklet, the Vignelli Canon, speaks to some of the aspects of good graphic design. As a past multimedia major, my classes often focused on graphic design for websites, logo design, video game design, video creation, etc. But, in all my classes, I don’t recall ever going into the …
This week, I completed several assignments. For a quick reference, see the links below.
Visual Assignment Part 1: Reflection
Visual Assignment Part 2: Photo Safari
Visual Assignment Part 3A: Five Frame Story
Prompt: Take a photograph of something (If you take a picture from the internet, make sure to be nice and cite the original) and transform it through GIMP, Photoshop, etc, into a drawing.
This is a 2 star prompt.
Last week, I started my archaeology field school. My class of …
Prompt: Using an editing software, edit a photo and crop to an 11×17. Then add text for the location or something fun.
This is a 3 star prompt.
For this assignment, I wanted to do something slightly fun. Being a lover of architecture, I decided to use this image of …
Prompt: It’s simple. Choose your favorite photo you’ve taken and tell everyone why you love it so much.
This is a 1.5 star prompt.
This is my favorite photo. Yes, it’s a photo of myself. Usually my favorite photos are nature pictures. Rarely do I have a favorite photo of …
Prompt: Tell a story using five photos. Basically, that’s it. Figure out the story you want to tell and then take five photos to tell it. If you need to edit, add filters, etc. in order to get the effect you want, go for it.
This is a 3.5 star …
I decided to do the …
The information about taking pictures was interesting. Having taken multiple architecture research classes, I’ve already taken part in several lessons about taking photos using a camera. Most of the information presented in my digital studies course reiterated what I already knew.
One suggestion that I would like to consider for …
This is my first blog post for the Digital Storytelling class at my school, the University of Mary Washington. Below is a brief introductory sound clip about me. I hope you enjoy it.
In addition to being a student, I am an avid lover of fur babies. I have a …
