This week I needed to complete 12 stars from the Design Assignments. It was hard to pick the assignments I wanted to work on this week. all of them were fun and took a little time to figure out how to complete. Character Word Cloud    2 Stars I used words that relate to the …

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Have you ever seen a billboard promoting either a product, film or even a public service announcement and thought to yourself, “I can do better than that”. Well that’s exactly what I thought as I was able to create my very own billboard thanks to the awesome website PassItOn. The site allowed me to use …

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For this design assignment I was instructed to add or place myself or others into a setting that they would seem out of place in. For this particular task I wanted to incorporate my created character, Rocket Richard. Being that my character is a hockey player I wanted to somehow place him and fellow players …

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If you watch professional hockey or live in the DMV area you’ve probably heard of Alex Ovechkin. He is a 14 year veteran and captain of the Washington Capitals. Throughout his 14 year career Ovechkin has placed himself along the greatest players to ever play the game. He has won several individual awards and has …

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View this post on Instagram A post shared by DIGITAL STORIES DRAKE (@digitalstoriesdrake) on Oct 5, 2018 at 3:22am PDT I like this one a lot. It’s made using art that I made yesterday and I really like it as the background. I don’t like the font but I couldn’t find a template that let … Continue reading Design a License Plate

View this post on Instagram A post shared by DIGITAL STORIES DRAKE (@digitalstoriesdrake) on Oct 5, 2018 at 3:22am PDT I created a minimalist t-shirt out of a design I made the first week. I really like ~fashion~ but I like minimalist comfort ~fashion~. I really like how this shirt turned out and I think … Continue reading Create A T-Shirt

View this post on Instagram A post shared by DIGITAL STORIES DRAKE (@digitalstoriesdrake) on Oct 5, 2018 at 3:23am PDT I made this maybe humorous picture postcard of a place I visited in Ireland. I liked it a lot and it’s definitely a joke I promise. I really like how I got the text to … Continue reading Destination Post Card

View this post on Instagram A post shared by DIGITAL STORIES DRAKE (@digitalstoriesdrake) on Oct 5, 2018 at 3:23am PDT A word cloud of words associated with Irri! It made me think of his characteristics more than I have before and I think I fleshed him out a little more. I put them around a … Continue reading Character Word Cloud

View this post on Instagram A post shared by DIGITAL STORIES DRAKE (@digitalstoriesdrake) on Oct 5, 2018 at 3:22am PDT Irri in an alternate universe! I got to put Irri in the middle of a scary looking space thing and I really like how it looks! I assume he’s having fun. I hope he is. … Continue reading Alternate Universe

This assignment asked to create a new logo for the DS106 class – how exciting!  Once again, I used spark.adobe.com to do so – trying to get used to better understanding some of these sites better by doing different things on them. This wasn’t difficult to use – there was actually a lot of designs …

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This assignment required me to make a card using an online design program.  I used spark.adobe.com to create this card and used my character, Gallapher.  The main purpose of Gallapher is to come through the night to restore self-esteem and self-worth to children and then gallop off into the night afterwards so that was the …

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This is the superhero character I created using https://www.dckids.com/dc-super-friends/htmlgame/name/super-hero-me.  Needless to say, it was the first time I’d ever done anything of that nature and although that site was pretty basic, it was fun and my kids were so startled to see Mommy creating a Super Hero character!  The inspiration for the costume design come from …

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