The Kidd is alright

The Kidd is alright

by paul bond

| chip kidd, design, ds106, Syndicated
October 3, 2018

I picked up a copy of Chip Kidd’s book at my local library. What the Brain Pickings article says about it, that it “refus[es] to talk down to them or confine their inborn curiosity to narrow adult expectations about what … Continue reading →
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Final Project

by @tabbycat07

| design, ds106, finalproject, Syndicated
June 21, 2018

My final project. It has been a long journey, but I made and I have gained so much new experience. Let’s Talk Art Design Pictures
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Design

by @tabbycat07

| canva, design, ds106, finalproject, museums, Syndicated, Travel
June 21, 2018

The design of my final project is finished. I made a travel brochure through Canva, using the template New York Travel Brochure. I list all the museums I have visited in London and the United States.
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Week 2 End

by @tabbycat07

| @ds106dc, canva, dailycreates, design, ds106, questionoftheweek, summary, Syndicated, twitter
June 3, 2018

It is that time of the week again. Time to summarize what I have done since Wednesday. First, I completed two daily creates, which can be found on my Twitter. These two were all about design and romance. @ds106dc #tdc2335 #ds106 Congratulations #alanandcori pic.twitter.com/EHESTix5pQ — Abby Brock (@tabbycat07) June 1, 2018 I made a wedding Read More
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DS106 Wallpaper

by @tabbycat07

| butterfly, design, ds106, flower, fourstars, hummingbird, Pixlr, Syndicated, wallpaper
June 3, 2018

Time to show off my love for ds106. I had to complete an additional 4 stars worth of design assignment(s). I choose to create a wallpaper because when I think of designing, I think of image editing and layering, which is one of my favorite image editing things to do. I created my wallpaper through Pixlr Read More
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End of Week Two

by @JordanC61692137

| design, ds106, end of week, Reflection, Syndicated, Weekly Reflection
June 3, 2018

During this week we had to complete several assignments. The first task was to recreate our favorite book cover. Personally, I am not a huge reader so this made choosing from books much easier. The book cover that I recreated was If I Stay by […]
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Monroe’s Alternate History

by @JordanC61692137

| Alternative History, design, ds106, graphic design, Marylyn Monroe, Syndicated
June 3, 2018

Marilyn Monroe the iconic “blonde bombshell” sadly passed from an overdose on the barbiturate, a sleeping medication. If this media figure would not have passed away at the young age of 36 she would have grown her name and fame to be more grand. Marilyn […]
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Contrast & Tattoos

by @JordanC61692137

| contrast, design, ds106, graphic design, Syndicated, Tattoo
June 3, 2018

Compasses; they use to tell us what direction we were headed. In today’s world we have applications such as Siri or Waze to guide us around. What inspired the compass tattoo was my area of study. Currently, I am studying Geography and Geographic Information Systems […]
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Helen & Paris

by @tabbycat07

| alternatehistory, design, ds106, helenandparis, Pixlr, Syndicated, troy
June 3, 2018

For this assignment, I had to create an image of an alternate event in history. I made an image of Helen and Paris enjoying a sunset together with no war to worry about because the Trojans never accepted the wooden horse from the Greeks, so the Greeks ...
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Midweek 2

by @tabbycat07

| @ds106dc, color, dailycreate, dailycreates, design, designblitz, ds106, Instagram, midweeksummary, summary, Syndicated, twitter
May 30, 2018

This has been another eventful first half of the week. I first completed 2 daily creates. The first was Fonts Matter. I had take a message and change the font to create a new meaning, so I changed the phrase “the sky is the limit” from a light and happy to thought, to a little Read More
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How Do You Play?

by @tabbycat07

| background, canva, color, design, ds106, Play, Reflection, Syndicated, TedTalks
May 30, 2018

Recently I have watched two TED talks, one of Paula Scher and the other of David Carson. Scher offers a great view on how she incorporates serious and play into her design. Playing with designs and colors allows us to get creative and see images in a new light. Carson talks about the emotional response to Read More
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MidWeek 2 Reflection

by @JordanC61692137

| design, ds106, question of the week, Reflection, Syndicated, Weekly Reflection
May 30, 2018

This week the Ted Talk videos along with the Canva tutorials helped me in several ways to reconstruct how I look at tackling design. This week when completing the DesignBlitz challenge I was able to see the aspects of design that was shown in the materials come […]
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Design Video Reflection

by @JordanC61692137

| canva, design, ds106, graphic design, Syndicated, TedTalks
May 30, 2018

The following video is of Paula Scher presenting at the Serious Play conference in 2008. During this video the key point being made was in the difference between solemn and serious play. The idea of being ignorant to things creates serious play/work. Serious play is something […]
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An Adventure to Remember

by @schooltaylorr

| Assignments, design, Syndicated, Visual, writing
April 29, 2018

*Submission for Taylor Malone and Elizabeth Finto. The three elements we used were Writing, Design, and Photography. *Disclaimer: Kenneth L. Davis is a real person,…
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An Adventure to Remember

by @eafinto

| apocalypse, apocalyptic, design, ds106, My Stories, new york, photography, seattle, story, Syndicated, The E.N.D., vermont, writing, Writing Assignments
April 29, 2018

**Submission for Elizabeth Finto and Taylor Malone – The three elements we used were writing, design, and photography. **Disclaimer: Dr. Kenneth L. Davis is a real person at Mount Sinai Hospital – we used his name, but not his occupation. The picture is not actually him, and I’m sure he is a wonderful doctor and […]
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NEW from ?

by @dannpannn

| design, photography, Syndicated
April 29, 2018

We received a letter from an unspecified location. It sounds like the person was in distress. With their last hours they helped the world and sent us a symptom list so we could better understand the virus. God Bless their soul and may they rest in peace this symptom list is going to help a […]
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MINNESOTA

by @dannpannn

| design, Syndicated
April 29, 2018

Evidence dug up from class suggests that a symptom of this virus is the desire to eat things that aren’t supposed to be eaten. Researchers in Minnesota found a dead body that had rapidly biodegraded to nothing but the bones and remains. Inside the body they found that the person had eaten things such as […]
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By Golly I think I Finally Cracked the Code!!!! My Final Project

by @jetjenk43

| audio, crackedthecode, design, ds106, finalproject, Media Assignments, Syndicated, the end, Video
April 24, 2018

Here is how it has all gone down over this past 13 weeks. I’ll let you all be the judge: Samara Wong a member of Apocalyptic Airwave was starting to gather lots of evidence when all of a sudden her and her group were notified that they had won some kind of “Digital Project Contest”. …
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But Do We Have A Story For You!

by @eafinto

| annalise huddleston, apocalypse, apocalyptic, design, ds106, fiction, Final Project, My Stories, photography, story, Syndicated, theendoftheend, Weekly Updates, writing
April 23, 2018

The End of the End is upon us! Crazy right? For my final project, I have decided to work with my friend, Taylor Malone (one of the girls from my radio show), on a final story! I can’t wait to start the process of writing our story! We already have our plan and ideas for how […]
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What’s the Meme

by @dannpannn

| design, Syndicated, visualassignments, visualassignments386
April 17, 2018

This meme is centered around the premise of the novel. the main plot. the government develops “Captain Trip” a super deadly population control intended virus they well, “trip” up they release the virus to the public and well kil...
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Week 12

by @dannpannn

| design, Syndicated, Video, writing
April 17, 2018

When i learned in week 11 that daily creates were only supposed to be 5-10min to complete my mind was blown. they usually take me like 20 lol ANYWAYS… not a problem in week 12 since we dont have any! This week for the assignments I chose: 3 stars: Destination Postcard 3 stars: Why so […]
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Destination Postcard

by @dannpannn

| design, designassignments, DesignAssignments2059, Syndicated
April 17, 2018

No place like Boulder, Colorado Stomping grounds of the .6% of the population that arent dead! This assignment was inspired by the land that Mother Abigail directs the band of survivors to. But… Seriously Stephen King… why did they have to start by establishing democracy. Couldn’t you have come up with some interesting apocalyptic government […]
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Alternate Book Cover Pt 2

by @Anne Armour

| Assignments, design, designassignments, DesignAssignments2187, ds106, Syndicated
April 16, 2018

So I decided to make a gif version of the Alternate Book Cover assignment given to us. I actually found this one to be kinda…
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The Best Assignment I’ve Ever Done

by @schooltaylorr

| Assignments, design, designassignments, DesignAssignments2187, Syndicated
April 16, 2018

As I’ve mentioned, I read H. G Wells’ The War of the Worlds for my book. I decided to do the Animated Gif Book cover…
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War of the Worlds Charades

by @schooltaylorr

| Assignments, design, designassignments, DesignAssignments358, Syndicated
April 15, 2018

4 Pictures. One book. Can you guess? So I read H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds for my book, and loved it! I chose…
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Phalanx, the Cure for All Your Pandemic Worries!

by @KatieHartraft

| Assignments, design, designassignments, DesignAssignments807, Syndicated
April 13, 2018

I knew I wanted to go into design again, and a thought that kept resurfacing was the fake vaccine that was prevalent in World War Z. Phalanx was a vaccine for rabies, and since the zombie pandemic was initially labeled “African rabies,” it was sellable. The whole thing was a […]
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Come One, Come All to Yonkers!!!!

by @jetjenk43

| design, designassignments, DesignAssignments2059, ds106, hellofromYonkers, Syndicated, the end
April 12, 2018

I decided to do the Destination Post Card 3 STARS: Create a destination postcard for a setting from my novel World War Z. I decided to create this postcard to try to draw individuals to Yonkers, New York. I painted the picture as if Yonkers is the hot spot to be at. Realistically this is far …
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World War Z Book Cover GIFitized!!!

by @jetjenk43

| design, designassignments, DesignAssignments2187, ds106, Syndicated, the end
April 12, 2018

For this assignment Animated GIF Alternative Cover a 5 Star assignment we were to revisit the apocalyptic novel cover from earlier this semester, but make it an animated GIF this time. I was unable to make the background of my original cover animated, so I found a clip that included a helicopter, like the helicopter …
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World War Z…..A MEEMEE!!!

by @jetjenk43

| design, ds106, Syndicated, the end, visualassignments, visualassignments386
April 12, 2018

I created this meme for the 2 star visual assignment What’s the Meme? I created this meme for one of the scenes within the book. One of the battles the individuals lined up in a firing line, by this time there was a better plan of attack where firing line took turns or shifts, in …
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You get A daily create, You get a daily create.

by @jetjenk43

| Daily Create, design, ds106, Media Assignments, Syndicated, the end
April 9, 2018

My First Daily Create My first daily create, that I shared with the class is I wanted the DS106 class to create or use a pre-existing GIF to describe their experience within the DS 106 class. I chose this GIF to use as my example, because through out this DS 106 we have had to …
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