My participating in the first daily create of the week is about tweeting an image of a spiral. I really liked this idea. When I saw this daily create, I was at home and I could not find anything like that. Later at night, I had a meeting with my group for the radio show and …

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The name of our radio show is ‘KLLM Radio’ while the topic is ‘Changing the world one origin story at time‘ . This logo explains the theme of our show that we start by the telling the origin of our superhero followed by how our character solves the world/societal problem that we are facing today. …

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I enjoyed doing this week’s work. I started this week’s work by contributing in 3 daily creates and wrote about it in the blog post. tape you webcam!!! Find my glasses!!! Speed! After that, I chose to do three assignments from the audio bank, two were related to the radio show while the third is …

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The third assignment that I chose to do from the audio bank is about making beautiful music using the objects found in the home. I used two instruments; one is the toy that my mom had bought for my niece long ago, and the second is the bowl in which we knead flour, and then …

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We have divided our work for the radio show and one of my tasks is to make an ending radio bumper. It was hard to come up with a background music, but I found one at the free music website at google. I also added the echo effect on the part where I say ds106 …

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I chose to do the audio assignment of making a radio commercial which we will be using in our radio show. It was little hard to come up with a theme for  the radio show. So I googled the activities calendar of UMW and came up with the list of activities happening this year. From …

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The third daily create at twitter was about posting a video or animation that shows speed. I wanted to dd a little bit of humor in my tweet so I chose this gif which combines the element of speed and the way he falls adds a little bit of humor in this post. #tdc2103 @ds106dc …

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#ds106 #tdc2102 pic.twitter.com/DcN00ZhyLh — Laila Shaikh (@lshaikh26) October 11, 2017 Todays daily create was about the things a superhero gets asked.  Since I forget my glasses at places every now and then and struggle finding them back. It would ask my superhero to find my glasses so that I don’t have any difficulty watching my tv. …

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Yesterday’s theme of the daily create was to take the picture of a random thing in your room which could be spying on you. I chose my laptop’s camera to be that device. There was a report of how the webcam camera on the laptop was used to spy on some people. I have a macbook …

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Starting with the daily creates. I participated in three of them and here they are: Childhood fear Smiling vegetable!! Sunlight! Below are some of the assignments I chose to do from the design bank: Guess the movie! Las Vegas Postcard!! Minimalist design!! Here are rest of the assignments that I completed: Tattoo!! Design Blitz reflection!! …

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I am not a big comic fan, but these YouTube videos opened my eyes on how design elements can be used to grab audience attention and keep their interest alive. I studied ‘Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou’ analysis of design elements used in comics. The way Steve Dillion uses body language, facial expressions, and very simple framing to …

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1st design blitz The sign is a good example of color. The use of dark background with a font of light color grabs the attention of people. These color combinations are not used because the author/librarian likes this color, but it is used with an intention to grab the attention of passerby.   2nd design …

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Create a tattoo design that represents your superpower or explains what you would do as a superhero. This tattoo best describes my superhero. My superhero has the power to go invisible and this invisibility cloak reflects it.

Create a tv/movie poster that captures the essence of the story through the use of minimalist design/iconography. I used the website of noun project to get this icon and used canva to make this show’s poster. The show is about the doctors who b...

“Create a destination postcard using any design software of your choice. Start by choosing an image from a location and put some some words over the image just like a postcard.” I have not been to Las Vegas and it is one of dream destinations. That is why I used canva to create my post …

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“The assignment is to reduce a movie, story, or event into its basic elements, then take those visuals and reduce them further to simple icons, four of them.” For this assignment from design bank, I used noun project to find all my desired icons needed to tell a story. After downloading these icons, I used the …

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“You’re a super hero and you have shown us your super powers… but what can bring you down?” In my third and last tweet of the week, I posted the picture of sunlight, because Sunlight takes away my superhero’s power of invisibility. looses its power of going invisible in the presence of sunlight….#tdc2097 #ds106 pic.twitter.com/7tLualt1dH — …

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In my second tweet of the week. I replied to the theme ‘Make a vegetable smile’ using the picture below. I used the combination of Peach, Capsicum, and Carrot to make a smiling face. @ds106dc #tdc2094 pic.twitter.com/JeyxPoRnon — Lai...

In my first daily create of the week, I posted the gif of Goodbye. Goodbyes have always been hard for me. Goodbyes!!@ds106dc #tdc2093 pic.twitter.com/8PpOZOlDPD — Laila Shaikh (@lshaikh26) October 2, 2017

This week, there was a lot of work but It was fun work. Starting with the daily creates. I participated in three of them and here they are: Toy looks bigger than a TV Introducing Flashlight We serve both Coffee and Wine!! Below are some of the assignments I chose to do from the audio …

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Before hearing the announcement that it was a contingency plan, I was astonished to hear that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin had suffered a deadline disastrous during landing on the moon. The sound effects were very effective. I made my dad listen to only the first 1 minute and asked him ‘Did the first person …

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The second assignment that I have chosen to do from the audio bank is ‘Good Morning Message For The Village‘.

“Try creating a mixtape of your own. Mixtape is broadly defined in this case. It can just be a collection of songs with some theme (genre, etc.), or you can mess with the tracks. You can add a small touch here and there or edit the tracks to your heart’s content, adding outside sounds using …

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“Think of a local store in your neighborhood. You’ve been hired to come up with a hand-drawn “We’re Open” sign for them to hang on the front door. Your design should speak to the spirit of the store, and entice passersby to take a peek inside.Tell us about the store. Show us your ‘We’re open’ …

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This was my second tweet in response to a tweet at daily create. I chose the theme of Flashlight and I would say that if I had introduce Flashlight in the town for the very first time. I would introduce Flashlight to be worn as a part of jewelry, so that it is easy to …

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