Storytelling with Photos

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

| AnimatedGIF, Assignments, audio, Daily Create, design, Mashup/Remix, Syndicated, Video, Visual, Web
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

| AnimatedGIF, Assignments, audio, Daily Create, design, Mashup/Remix, Syndicated, Video, Visual, Web
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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Fast Forward or Rewind?

by @ldeitrick

| #designweek, #ds4life, design, designthoughts, ds106, Syndicated
October 3, 2017

Design can be used to tell stories a variety of ways, including illustrating inner thoughts, change in mood, action, and even time alteration. In Strip Panel Naked: Negative Space in ‘Jessica Jones’ and Strip Panel Naked: ‘Unstoppable Wasp’ And Dealing With Complicated Layouts , Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou explores the use of design elements to signify the characters …
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New Theme: Radcliffe 2

by @llilli5163

| design, radcliffe, Radcliffe 2, Syndicated, Themes
September 27, 2017

Introducing a business-focused twist on a classic WordPress theme.
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My College Degree as a Digital Humanities Project

by @https://twitter.com/MCorbettWilson

| #Chose_Metro, #DHSI, #DigPedLab, #netnarr, #openlearning17, #storycenter, design, ds106, Image, Projects, Reflections, Serendipity, Syndicated, Text
September 16, 2017

I’m developing a new model for adult learners so they can avoid the experience I had while trying to improve my skills at a Community College. Combining Self-Directed Learning, Computational...
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Learning Strategies and Goals

by @https://twitter.com/MCorbettWilson

| design, Ideas, Image, Projects, Reflections, Syndicated
September 5, 2017

“A university training…aims at raising the intellectual tone of society, at cultivating the public mine, at purifying the national taste, at supplying true principles to popular enthusiasm and fixed...
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My First Visit to a Mosque

by shaunv1

| abu dhabi, blogging101, design, islam, middleast, mosque, photo101, prayer, religion, Syndicated, Travel, uae, Unity, vagabond, Vagabond Wisdom, worship
February 9, 2015

On Friday, I visited the Sheikh Zayed Mosque in Abu Dhabi. My first time at a Mosque and I was blown away by it’s majestic beauty. It is the eight largest mosque in the world and its design unites the cultural diversity of Islamic world, the historical and modern values of architecture and art. It … Continue reading My First Visit to a Mosque
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