For the Favorite Song Assignment, I’m suppose to choose my favorite song, remove the vocals, and see if people can guess the song by listening to only 30 seconds of the song. Choosing which song is my favorite is nearly impossible for me, so I chose a song that I have been very fond of … Continue reading Guess This Song

Ah yes, such a frantic week. This week I learned that general design is one of my strong points. I’m able to work up a design fairly quickly, and I think I do a good job in making things pleasing to the eye. This weeks assignments: “Create an App Icon” “Missing Person” “Create a T-shirt” … Continue reading Week 6 Summary

I am completely new to photography, so I’m no expert in photography. However, I have been studying design for quite some time, so analyzing the design quality of a photograph is right up my alley. I took a lot of photos with a camera that I rented out from my school and got some decent … Continue reading Analyzing Photography

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/create-a-t-shirt/ This assignment asked me to create a T-shirt. Since I have recently finished “Stranger Things”, I decided to design a shirt that has one of my favorite scenes of the series on it. I created a silhouette of each character of the scene and turned it gray. Using Adobe Illustrator, I image traced the … Continue reading “Create a T-Shirt” Assignment

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/missing-person/ This assignment asked me to create a poster for someone who is missing. It’s straight forward, but I decided to have some fun with it. I used InDesign for this assignment, and I did it from scratch. My main concern for this assignment was making it as readable as possible. Choosing the right font … Continue reading “Missing Person” Assignment

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/create-an-app-icon/ The premise for this assignment is pretty simple. Create an icon for a phone app and write about it on your blog.  I chose to create a logo for my band (Room 347). The name of the app would be “Room 347 Music”, hence the M in the logo. The color scheme for the … Continue reading “Create an App Icon” Assignment

I have a great idea for an internet radio show that my classmates and I could do. The show would essentially just be about pop culture. It would be about things that us nerdy digital media students could talk about for days. This could include things like Star Wars, Doctor Who, music taste, or even … Continue reading Radio Show Ideas

Assignment link: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/what-a-song-might-mean-to-you/ This assignment asked me to record myself explaining what a song means to me. The part of this assignment that made me thing the most was deciding which song to talk about. I’m a music fanatic, so there’s a whole library of songs that are meaningful to me. Thus, I decided to go … Continue reading What Andy Mckee’s “Drifting” Means to Me

Assignment link: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/your-theme-song/ I couldn’t help myself when I saw an assignment that involved writing your own theme song. I chose to write my own theme from scratch. I used FL Studio to recreate something I had already written on my bass. The long winded way to do this assignment would be to record my own … Continue reading My Own Theme Song

B-Flat Assignment Link to assignment: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/b-flat/ Following this week’s theme of audio, I decided to do something with music. This assignment requires me to take the vocal line of a song, and make it flat. I chose to do one of my favorite songs, Man in the Box by Alice in Chains. This assignment was relatively … Continue reading Pitch Shifting Alice in Chains

I’m a bit late to the party, but that’s okay, I’m always fashionably late if I’m late. First off, I don’t think it’s necessary to rewrite the bit I wrote about the ds106 assignments did this week, so I will provide a link to that blog post. Link: https://mdseim.wordpress.com/2016/09/13/ds106-assignments/ The assignments were the bulk of … Continue reading Week 3 Summary

A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing The first assignment I did was the “A Wolf in Sheeps Clothing” assignment. My task was to take a logo of a company and redesign it representing the company’s rival. Thus, I chose to do the Jayhawk representing K-State. I chose the Jayhawk because I’m evil and like to create … Continue reading Ds106 Assignments

When I walked into the classroom this last Tuesday, I couldn’t help but grin as I saw all the friendly faces back in the same room again. I sat down in the spot that I always sat and awaited for class to start. At that point, I learned that we were going to have some … Continue reading Week 1 of Digital Media 2

Jack Black Soundboard http://www.realmofdarkness.net/pc/sb/jb/1 The different categories of sounds made this one stand out to me, as opposed to the random assortment of some soundboards. SGT Hartman Soundboard http://www.realmofdarkness.net/pc/sb/hartman/2 This soundboard added different colors and more organization to build on the theme of categories. Death (Family Guy) Soundboard http://www.realmofdarkness.net/pc/sb/fg/death The typography is atrocious, but this … Continue reading Cool Soundboards

Sh*tting Sparkles Monica Daniels http://monicaedits.tumblr.com/ Monica Daniels’ colorfully named blog features her, a professional video editor, dumping her thoughts about several different things, along with some Q&A. She mostly sticks to things related to the world of editing, which is what attracted me to her blog. Digitalfilms Oliver Peters https://digitalfilms.wordpress.com/ Here we have a blog … Continue reading Digital Media Blogs

“Stick is the hottest new toy on the market. Kids love Stick. They can’t get enough of Stick. Stick sells millions of units every month.It’s sweeping the nation! At least it will when you and your marketing machine convince them it is. Forget that it’s really just a common stick that you would find at … Continue reading The Stick!

Over the years, You Tube has become a cultural sensation. It’s made some gamers into millionaires, every-day musicians into pop stars, and even created its own culture. It has become the go-to website for anything that has to do with watching videos. Oh, and it’s free to host your content on there, making it a … Continue reading You Tube: The Digital Media Haven

It’s no secret to the world of design that Comic Sans is absolutely atrocious. Me, being someone who likes to question group think, looked deeper into why Comic Sans has such a bad rep. I stumbled upon a video that captivated the story of Comic Sans fairly well and looked into why it has been … Continue reading Comic Sans- The Infamous Typeface

In my Fundamentals of Visual Literacy class, we made designs that are being sent out to be cut into a metal design. I decided to go with the Skyrim logo. It’s simple, easy to do, and recognizable. The process is quite simple, I just created the design with the pen tool and colored it black.

Cubism is a type of art that found its beginning in the early 20th century after some innovations by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. It consisted of small tiles or shapes put together to make a bigger picture There are two types: Analytic and Synthetic Cubism.  Analytic Mostly geometric shapes and limited to a number … Continue reading Cubism

darker than black

I present to you my first design project. I took a photo of Dave Grohl and recreated it with Illustrator. It turned out fairly well. I’m actually proud of this project.

Our task was to mimic one of Picasso’s drawings, but the catch was that we had to do it upside down. This was so we thought of the lines as just lines, not shapes or objects. We were playing a clever trick on our mind. What you see above was the outcome. It was all … Continue reading Picasso pls

Not the best drawing skills, but here you have the negative space of a stool.