Late night snacking is a bad habit unless it is healthy food! Here it is on my twitter    

We were asked to find a poem and then take one word from that poem and write another poem about that word. I chose “heart” from a poem written by Edgar Allen Poe.  Here it is on my flickr and twitter.

Comments I commented on five posts done by classmates this week. Once again, everybody did a great job and it was fun to see other people’ s work. Links: designassignment1700, Stephanie King designassignments961, Andrew Boswell designassignment1742, Jack Brooks daily creates, Jack Brooks holding back tears

Here is an example of a pareidolia. A pareidolia is the tendency to perceive a specific, often meaningful, image in a random or ambiguous visual pattern. This is a actual tree, but it is in the shape of a ballerina. I instantly the human figure instead of a tree. Here is it linked to my twitter … Continue reading Go on a hunt for pareidolia

Daily Creates: This week I completed six daily creates. I did not realize I had done six until Sunday. Here are the links to each individual daily create for week 6. Within the blog posts I have links of that specific daily create to my twitter and flickr. All of these daily creates were photography … Continue reading Weekly Summary 6

The three primary elements of design in Vignelli’s opinion that are expressed in his book are semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic. Semantic is the meaning behind the design. Syntactics includes the overall structure, grid, typefaces, text, headlines, illustrations, etc. Pragmatics is the idea of a simple design that requires minimal explanation. The quote “creativity needs the support of knowledge … Continue reading Vignelli Canon

This past week I took photos that represented “balance, unity, typography, and color”. This assignment “DesignBlitz” asked to take photos of objects, ads, signs, etc. that illustrate at least four of the ten concepts listed. Balance: This photo is of me practicing a yoga pose. Balance is essential in yoga and I learned that I need to practice … Continue reading Design Safari

The Work Itself: For this week I had to complete a four star design assignment of my choice. This assignment appealed to me right away when I saw “cartoon”. I am bad at drawing, but I enjoy reading comic books, so I thought it would be a fun assignment.             … Continue reading “Reel It In” (Cartoon You)

If I could package myself, I would come as Batman. He is my favorite “superhero” even though he does not have super powers. I like to pretend that I have the same qualities as Batman. Here is the link to my twitter and flickr.

The Work Itself  This assignment was a required design assignment. It is one of five design assignments for this week. Its difficulty is rated three stars. My project is a Microsoft Word document.             The Story Behind The Story  This past weekend while at home my mom baked chocolate chip … Continue reading Chocolate Sin

The Work Itself This assignment asked to customize a pair of shoes of any type. I used Nike iD to customize “Roshe One” running shoes. This specific assignment has a difficulty level of three stars. I downloaded the app “Insta Picframes” to merge my original and customized shoes together in a frame and input a “before” and … Continue reading Customize A Pair Of Shoes Design Assignment

The Work Itself This design assignment is a two and half star difficulty. The assignment called to create a maze, hand-drawn, or computer generated. The specific tags for this assignment are DesignAssignments, and DesignAssignments1753. Telling the Story Behind the Story One of my favorite comic series is “Batman”. The “Riddler” is he Riddler is a narcissist who … Continue reading Make A Maze Design Assignment

Today’s daily create asked to create an image that shows us what is through our window. I took a photo with my iPhone through a window in the convergence center looking into the trees. With all this rain, the foliage is very green and pretty. Here is today’s daily create on my twitter and flickr.

The Work Itself This assignment asked to merge two business logos together to create one. I chose the “Fedex” and “Exxon” logos. These two logos mesh well they share common letters. The difficulty level of this assignment is 3.5 stars.       The Process, Narrated I googled a “Fedex” and “Exxon” logo. I then … Continue reading “The Ultimate Merger”

The Work Itself This is a required visual assignment. It is difficulty public rating is three stars. The instructions are to “take/find a picture of a couple who are obviously in love. Use the picture to tell a story. Give the story some background and maybe even create a dialogue between the two or tell … Continue reading “Love at First Shot”

This is a sunset on the Chesapeake Bay. Daylight Savings Time started on March 8th and ends November 1st. It is the practice of advancing clocks during summer by one hour so that in the evening hours day light is experienced later, while sacrificing normal sunrise times. Typically, users in regions with summer time adjust clocks … Continue reading Daylight Saving Time

This is a cup of water upside down. It is a trick, that you will have to find out how it works on your own! Here it is on my twitter and flickr.

I bought a t-shirt, football, and math textbook today. This is a hand-drawn illustration. Here is my twitter and flickr link of this daily create. 

I am big into sports and athletics. The majority of my clothes, apparel, and accessories are either nike or under armour. Here is my daily create on twitter and flickr

Radio Show Group: I am in a group with Kelsey, Andrew, Adam, and Sean. Our team name is “Grumpy Desperados”. Participation/Comments: It was fun to see other people’s assignments. I learned how to use new and different resources from commenting on posts. It is also valuable to look at how people did certain assignments so as … Continue reading Weekly Summary

Once again it is fun to see other people’s assignments. I try to ask people how they did an assignment, what resources did they use, so I can compare it to my assignments. This helps me find other ways, possibly more efficient ways to complete future and current assignments. I commented on seven blog posts, and … Continue reading Participation/Comments

I chose my friend’s suite in Eagle Landing as my location for this assignment. I chose Eagle Landing because It was the most convenient place at the time and I knew I needed to take a photo of someone else so I figured I would use my friend. It was a fun experience, I did not … Continue reading Photoblitz Reflection

Blue Ridge Mountains This photo is taken from Skyline Drive of the Shenandoah National Park. It is about one hour away from my house. The mountains are the most beautiful this time of the year because all the colors of the foliage are out and very vibrant. After paying attention to the tips of how to … Continue reading How to be a better photographer

The Work Itself: This visual assignment asked to take a picture of an object and create as many augmented versions of it as possible. My object is a recycling bin in the convergence center. I chose this object because since it has a lid on top, it makes sense that fictional objects could be emerging … Continue reading Apophenia “Recycling Bin”

Here is the link to my best set on flickr. These are various photos taken and compiled over the duration of this class to this point. These are my favorite photos because of the appearance, creativity, and good feelings that the photos elicit. The shadow picture is cool because you can see the shape of the shadow on … Continue reading Best Set Reflection “Pimp up your Flickr”

My new road sign. I’m glad there are not real signs like this because it would create more accidents than without it. This is an example from The Design Museum. Here is the flickr and twitter link to this daily create. 

Today’ daily create was to create a short story in pirate dialect. This was a funny assignment. Pirate lingo is very humorous and raunchy. It is amazing that some of the words are used in the english language to this day. Here is the link to my soundcloud and twitter

My friend helped me make this latte art this morning. The decoration is made from pouring milk into the coffee. You can make whatever design you can think of! Here is the link to my twitter and flickr.

The Work Itself The assignment is titled “Here Kitty, Kitty”. Instructions are to Combine two or more animals together to make it an unusual type of animal and place it in it’s natural habitat. I combined a butterfly and polar bear. This animal is called a “Bearfly”. Telling the Story Behind the Story I chose this assignment … Continue reading Here Kitty, Kitty 7/22/15

WWIII The Work Itself This visual assignment was created previously by a student. I had to take any picture and change the color hue of the picture to completely change its appearance, then post it on flickr to show the world! This is a google image of the U.S. Pentagon that I edited using Pixlr … Continue reading Pentagon Color Changer 9/22/15