Calligraphy Fun

Calligraphy Fun

by @schooltaylorr

| Assignments, design, designassignments, DesignAssignments2101, Syndicated
February 22, 2018

I had never thought about it, but my character, Felicity, would TOTALLY be good at calligraphy. I chose to do the assignment, Generate Cool Letters,…
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URGENT URGENT HELP US FIND THIS MISSING HAT!!!!!!!!!!

by @jetjenk43

| design, designassignments, DesignAssignments2195, ds106, Syndicated, the end
February 21, 2018

If you know the whereabouts of Professor Burtis’s hat please contact myself or the HCC department. Time is of the essence. If you took it or know who took it no charges will be filed. All I ask is that you please reunite her with her hat ASAP. Proudly brought to by Canva. …
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Book Cover Remix

by @schooltaylorr

| Assignments, design, designassignments, DesignAssignments2187, Syndicated
February 21, 2018

I chose to read the War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells for this class, and so I made it’s alternative cover. This was a…
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World War Z: Alternate Book Cover

by @jetjenk43

| design, designassignments, DesignAssignments2187, ds106, Syndicated, the end
February 21, 2018

Here is my Alternate Cover for the book World War Z. So I choose to do my alternate book cover in a stair step fashion with my text, something different than I had seen with most of the book covers or movies I looked up for this book. The title World War Z is either …
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Carson Gordon in the Flesh!!!!

by @jetjenk43

| design, designassignments, DesignAssignments2188, ds106, Syndicated, the end, WeeklySummary
February 20, 2018

I had fun creating the bad ass Carson Gordon on the website Hero Machine. Carson Gordon Is a prior veteran from the United States Army who has a background in medical. He is an expert in teaching and practicing life saving techniques and is an expert in shooting shit. He looks forward to taking on the …
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Happy International Heutagogy Day!

by @https://twitter.com/MCorbettWilson

| #DHSI, #DigPedLab, #HASTACScholars, #netnarr, Choose_Metro, design, Image, openlearning18, Projects, Serendipity, Syndicated
February 18, 2018

I declare February 18th as International Heutagogy Day! Heutagogy (based on the Greek for “self”) was defined by Hase and Kenyon in 2000 as the study of self-determined learning. I’ve amended their definition to include Self-Directed Theory, thus...
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Storytelling with Photos

by @umwequestrianista

| design, Media Assignments, photography, Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments2152, VisualAssignments2172
February 12, 2018

Photography and Narratives: Pictures are a great way to help tell a story through imagery and scenery that portray emotions or events. I am excited to get into the photography portion of our course and start adding characters and conflicts to the journey through my pictures. Visual Assignments: I chose this assignment because I thought …
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Motivation is a myth

by @StaceyElouise

| Assignments, Best Work, design, designassignment, DesignAssignment2075, Syndicated
February 5, 2018

Motivation is a MYTH. Does motivation really exist? Think about it. How do you get motivated? You realise you have no choice so you have to get it done. So you do it. That’s not motivation. That’s compulsion. You want to change your life but only because others make you feel bad about the way … Continue reading "Motivation is a myth"
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A postcard made from the heart.

by @natashabmedia

| design, DesignAssingments, DesignAssingments2059, Syndicated
January 27, 2018

Hello there! Hope you’re having a moderately adequate day, if not better? This blog post will consist of the assignment “Destination Post Card“, this involves choosing a location, using an image and adding text. I immediately knew I wanted to create a postcard for Suffolk. Although it would be more conventional to find a picture… Continue reading A postcard made from the heart. →
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Travel, Photography, and Design!

by @dandennis_media

| Assignments, Best Work, design, Syndicated
January 19, 2018

This assignment within ds106 looks towards the designing of a postcard of a destination. For me this was great as before Christmas, I and my girlfriend went to Edinburgh for a short weekend city break. Whilst I was there I took many photos on my Nikon D3200 and got some great shots that could be used […]
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Minimalist TV/Movie Poster (Design)

by @charlottelfish

| design, designassignments, DesignAssignments43, ds106, Syndicated
January 16, 2018

Still in design I have now completed this 3.5/5 stars assignment. This assignment consists on designing a minimalistic movie poster: Trying to go with the sense of minimalism I have used 2 icons as my images, some text for featured … Continue reading →
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Motivational Poster (Design)

by @charlottelfish

| design, designassignments, DesignAssignments1887, ds106, Syndicated
January 15, 2018

For this assignment, the aim was to create a motivational/humourous/sarcastic poster. This is worth 3 out of 8 stars. My finished product looks like this: Two things that made me create this: I first thought i’d do a different Ice … Continue reading →
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Learn to edit Wikipedia

by @https://twitter.com/MCorbettWilson

| #HASTACScholars, #storycenter, #WISR, design, openlearning, Projects, Reflections, Syndicated
January 11, 2018

Join me at the Western Institute for Social Research (WISR) in Berkeley, California, next Monday, January 15th at 6 pm Learn to edit Wikipedia! Bring your laptop and we will all sign into the online course and discuss the eventual creation of a WISR Wikipedia page. Click on the flyer to enroll or download the […]
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Vintage-ify A Place

by @MatthewJLetts

| design, Syndicated
December 23, 2017

In this assignment I decided to choose a mythical place from one of my favourite movies, “Star Wars”. The objective was to take a place from my favourite spots in the world, home town or a fictional place that deserves its own poster. As the Star Wars movies are about futuristic wars between factions over … Continue reading Vintage-ify A Place
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Design Your Superhero

by @MatthewJLetts

| design, Syndicated
December 21, 2017

My superhero was created through the website http://www.heromachine.com/heromachine-3-lab/. My hero was inspired by Katniss Everdeen from the Hunger Games Trilogy. I combined features from her like the hair, face and cape with features from cyborg, whos a DC character. I made it look like she is a half human, half machine, which is a reason … Continue reading Design Your Superhero
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Now You’ve Lost Me

by @jamesrxss

| Assignments, Best Work, design, designassignments, DesignAssignments1753, Syndicated
December 21, 2017

I’m British, and basically it’s a long story but that somehow automatically enrols you in being a MASSIVE fan of the Great British Bake Off. (Pre Channel 4 I have to say, but that’s another story. Us British also seem to love going to a maze, whether it’s in a formal garden of a country […]
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Anything is Possible if you just believe

by @RiannaL05

| design, Syndicated
December 17, 2017

Blog Image – Cinderella Story So for this assignment I decides to do the most memorable move quote that I know of. It’s from the movie ‘A Cinderella Story’ and I think it fits with the image that I used as it shows the two main characters, portraying cinderella and the prince. It shows that anything... Continue Reading →
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Frozen Emotions

by @RiannaL05

| design, Syndicated
December 15, 2017

So I decide to do this assignment because I had a movie in mind straight away. Frozen. Now I’m not saying I hate this movie but I don’t love it. Like it’s good but it got waaaaay too much hype. In my opinion Moana was much better and didn’t get much hype. Now I started... Continue Reading →
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DISTRESS SIGNAL PROMO

by @girlycurlyfries

| #DesignAssignments2111, Assignments, design, designassignments, Radio Show, Syndicated
October 12, 2017

Here is a promo I’ve created for Distress Signal, a podcast where we plan to feature games and activities related to our superheroes, and include information on news about the superheroes (us) to help the listener understand the hosts more and be able to connect as if they are living in a superhero world. For… Read More DISTRESS SIGNAL PROMO
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Hi

by @p16215559

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October 12, 2017

This is the excerpt for your very first post.
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Weekly Summary #6

by @ldeitrick

| #designweek, design, ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
October 6, 2017

Read/Watch and Reflect Design can be used to tell stories a variety of ways. This week in ‘Fast Forward or Rewind,’ I explored Hassna Otsmane-Elhaou’s analyses of design elements used in comics to illustrate inner thoughts, change the mood, convey action, and even create time alteration. Creative anomalies in their usual structure provided the audience …
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Strike a Pose.

by @ldeitrick

| #designblitz106, #designweek, design, designblitz, ds106, Syndicated
October 6, 2017

Ok- I cheated a little on this one. I wasn’t able to get enough photos throughout the week, so I dug into my photo archives. I LOVE the cover of this book. At first glance, it looks bold and minimalist, but there is a little more to unpack. This book is about racial inequality in …
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M.M. LOGO

by @girlycurlyfries

| Assignments, design, designassignments, DesignAssignments2002, Syndicated
October 6, 2017

If Malevolent Melody had a logo I think it would look a little something like this: It incorporates all that she is about which includes her magical keytar, music, and her colorful energy!
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4 icons 1 story

by @girlycurlyfries

| Assignments, design, designassignments, DesignAssignments358, Syndicated
October 6, 2017

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Made of Words.

by @ldeitrick

| #designweek, design, designassignments, DesignAssignments2087, ds106, Syndicated
October 6, 2017

What makes a person who they are? What shapes you? These were the questions I asked myself when creating a word cloud based on Khatykra. I used WordArt to create the image, and I am very pleased with the results.
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The Matrix

by @girlycurlyfries

| #DesignAssignments2111, Assignments, design, designassignments, Syndicated
October 5, 2017

One of my favorite shows is Broad City. It stars two girls who live in New York and get into very funny situations. I wanted to do this assignment on a show because it connects more with me than a movie scene would. I screenshot 21 stills from an episode called “The Matrix,” about Abbi… Read More The Matrix
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design blitz

by @girlycurlyfries

| Assignments, design, designblitz, Syndicated
October 5, 2017

For this assignment I wanted to keep it in the area. I took a few pictures of the campus advertisements based off of the well location and the fact that it was eye catching enough to be picture worthy. Here is some things that I’ve found as well as the design characteristics spotted: Blood Drive… Read More design blitz
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First blog post

by @natashabmedia

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October 5, 2017

This is the excerpt for your very first post.… Continue reading First blog post →
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You Could Cut It Will A Knife……..

by @ldeitrick

| #DesignAssignments2111, #designweek, #ds4life, design, designassignments, ds106, Syndicated
October 4, 2017

The Women comic strip I was a layout editor in high school, so I was excited for the challenge of creating a comic strip from a movie scene. I mean, that’s basically what yearbook editing is, presenting a year’s worth of high school action into a single book of head shots. I chose to work …
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Coming Soon

by @ldeitrick

| #designweek, #ds4life, #khatyrka, design, designassignments, DesignAssignments43, ds106, Syndicated
October 3, 2017

Creating a movie poster based on Khatyrka, I immediately had the idea to show a woman’s shoulder with a tattoo of a quasi-crystal. The first mission was to find a quasi-crystal image I though would work. While googling for images, I came across some hard mental octagonal die, and thought about changing the concept …
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