Reading and Resource Reflection Video Reflection: Jad Abumrad brought up great points in his two short clips. In the first clip, he talked about making connections with people through audio. He explained how the absence of pictures in radio gives people the paint brush to create the image themselves. Furthermore, Jad brought up the term […]

Comment and Participate This assignment was a real joy for me because I was able to explore some amazing blogs by some amazing people. Each individual’s blog that I observed had its own unique elements. It was fun looking at what I could’ve done different that they did or what I feel I did better […]

Choose Your Own Design Charity Ad: (Three and a half stars) It’s amazing how many lives a simple donation can save, yet lots of people still tend to be greedy. Donating is one of the simplest ways of contributing to an organization. It doesn’t even have to be a lot of money, any amount can […]

Alternative History So many questions can arise when you think of how different the world would be if a historic event happened differently. So what would’ve happened if Steve Jobs presented his new book instead of the first ever iPhone? What if the technology company apple was never created? The amount of lives that would […]

Alternative Book Cover Imagine a world today without any smartphones. I know, you can’t. These rectangular devices that seem so helpful and harmless are actually one of the most dangerous devices of our generation. For this assignment, I created a book cover that displays an assortment of photos of people appearing to be attached to […]

Question of the Week: If you could change one thing in our history what would it be? Smartphones are one of the most known and used devices all around the world. Over 2 billion people in the world are owners and regular users of smartphones! These devices that were just plain old phones and were […]

Design Blitz The design blitz assignment was beyond entertaining for me. I love looking at and comparing different designs and finding what’s unique in each design. Many of the eight basic principles of design, such as alignment and hierarchy, can be found on most covers for books. Many book covers tend to be aligned to […]

TED Talks Sometimes the best kind of design comes from the enjoyment of the process and simplicity of the design, and that is what Paula Scher and David Carson emphasize in their own ways during their TED talks. Paula Scher talked about how the most distinguished designs comes from something called “serious play”. Serious play […]

As someone who takes dozens of sub-par photos everyday, the Tips for Better Photography page helped me improve my skills dramatically. The page helped me think about photography a completely different way. One of the problems I used to have was my “rapid-fire” habit. I used to take one second or two per picture, but […]

For this photoblitz assignment, I decided to use objects scattered around in my house. Most of the photos I took happened to be from objects located in my room. In order to take good quality photos, I kept the tips I read from the article in mind. The main tip I took was to take […]

Hey Everyone, My Instagram for this class is youseph_a59. Below you will find images that best describe my life for the past decade. Family, Friends, Football, etc.  

Hello Everyone, My name is Youseph Asaad and I am a rising Sophomore at UMW. I grew up and still live in Springfield, VA, with my parents. I graduated from South County High School, located in Lorton, VA, where I played varsity football. I came to UMW because I wanted to further my skills and […]