Ella’s Words are in the Cloud

Ella’s Words are in the Cloud

by @MaddieM02790291

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October 1, 2018

For my first assignment of the week, I decided to do the Character Word Cloud (2 stars) for Ella. I was excited about this assignment because I enjoy word clouds and think they are cool for the design elements but also for what they are able to show you. I went to wordclouds.com to create this …
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Kai Reimagined

by @justzaying7

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October 1, 2018

This is a reimagining of Malachi Gray. I stuck with the same theme of black, given the heat and energy retaining properties inherent in the color. Additionally I designed the character to be large, and physically intimidating due to his years working on an Astrobark farm, picking up large and heavy sheets of Astrobark. The … Continue reading Kai Reimagined
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Black and Steel

by @justzaying7

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October 1, 2018

This is a picture of my character’s, Malachi Gray, typical outfit in an ordinary day. Typically everyone on his planet wears black out of necessity due to the temperatures on the world generally being cool, and black absorbs more heat for their body. The jacket is abrasion resistant for working in the Astrobark fields, as … Continue reading Black and Steel
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4 Pics 1 Slide 1 Movie

by @justzaying7

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October 1, 2018

Any guesses? This is an easy one! I want to give you a hint…but I’m not going to. Figure it out. This was the first assignment I will have completed in the design section for week 6! It was definitely challenging to put together the picture (I’ve never done anything like this before) but it … Continue reading 4 Pics 1 Slide 1 Movie
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Beware The Beast of Gévaudan!

by @FCMaisano

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October 1, 2018

The assignment of using “Historic Tale Constrvction Cit” to make a tapestry story seems go to very well with our theme, so it’s rounding out my starred assignments this week. However, the link provided in the assignment doesn’t work, so I googled it and used this: https://htck.github.io/bayeux/#!/ For the story and design of this tapestry, I decided […]
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Places to visit in Arlington

by @FCMaisano

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September 30, 2018

1-Arlington Historical Society 2-Ball-Sellers House 3-Pentagon Memorial 4-Potomac Overlook Regional Park 5-The Observation Deck at CEB Tower 6-Zero Gravity Corporation 7-Fashion Centre at Pentagon City (AKA Pentagon City Mall) 8-The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier 9-Nicecream 10-Livin’ The Pie Life My family and I moved to Arlington not too long ago, so I have’t explored […]
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A Cryptozoologist’s Postcard

by @FCMaisano

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September 30, 2018

So, for this assignment of making a postcard, I chose to do one of Australia, again based off of my character Maria’s trip with her friends to find the yowie and the bunyip. The assignment creator used Canva to create her postcard (I also just noticed that her name is also Maria. Funny coincidence!), so […]
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A Cryptozoologist’s Business Card

by @FCMaisano

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September 29, 2018

Front Back For this assignment, I created a business card for my character Maria Segreti. In order to do this, I used the website https://www.canva.com/ since I don’t have Photoshop like the assignment says to use and I didn’t want to buy it. To do so, I simply made an account on this website. I never have […]
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A Wordy Question Mark

by @FCMaisano

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September 29, 2018

So, for my character Maria Segreti, I made her a word cloud with this website. For the words I picked, here’s the word list: 2 cryptozoologist 2 folklorist 1 chupacabra 1 skinwalker 1 artifacts 1 hellhound 1 magazines 1 professor 1 adventure 1 research 1 backpack 1 folklore 1 prepared 1 discover 1 lecture 1 […]
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Ora, Ora, Ora

by @OraMyAura

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September 7, 2018

This task was pretty simple – to write your name in a different, really unique way. So, I decided to give the referenced website a try – coolletters.net and it was definitely pretty cool to see all of the different fonts that you are not used to seeing everyday. The below 3 are what stood …
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Week 2 – Daily Creates, Assignment Bank and Customizing my Blog

by @DigitalStoryTeller

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September 7, 2018

The Daily Creates This was fun and interesting to see what the “create of the day” challenge on Twitter was going to be. I was impatient waiting for the next days create, I am not a very patient person. The three “create of the day” that I chose were, Can you hear me knocking strangely, …
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Post-Apocalyptic Design

by @suzzcat

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September 5, 2018

I decided to create an outfit for the main character Solara, or Mila Kunis. I decided to make an outfit for her post-apocalyptic movie, The Book Of Eli for this assignment because this used to be my favorite movie, and she’s such a bad ass in it! She is literally who I would want to be …
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The Beatles 2019 Europe / US Tour

by @kspeonygarden

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July 8, 2018

Hello, everyone! In my mid-weekly post, I answered the question regarding what might happen if The Beatles had never broken up. I wasn’t quite sure how to translate that into an image–at first I thought about editing photos of John Lennon and George Harrison and edit them to look as old as Paul McCartney and... Continue Reading →
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Dean & Hepburn

by @ds106_aaliyah

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July 7, 2018

What would have happened if James Dean hadn't passed away?
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Holding Out for a Hero

by @kspeonygarden

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July 7, 2018

Hello, everyone! For the additional design assignment, I decided to design my own superhero. I made my hero one who can control water, and named her Eventide. To design her, I used HeroMachine 3. I honestly found the website to be rather difficult to figure out at first, and I found coloring (namely, copying the... Continue Reading →
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By the Book

by @kspeonygarden

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July 6, 2018

Hello, everyone! Last week, I mentioned that one of my favorite book series is the Theatre Illuminata trilogy; while all three of those brooks are pretty flawed, in hindsight, they will always have a special place in my heart. So, for the alternate book cover assignment, I chose to create a new cover for the first book, Eyes... Continue Reading →
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GATSBY

by @ds106_aaliyah

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July 5, 2018

My spin on a classic's book cover.
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Elvis has NOT Left the Building

by @Pringleduckface

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June 3, 2018

When asked to think of an event in history that would change history I immediately thought of, what if Elvis…
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A room with a view

by @LeslieMiyazono

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June 3, 2018

This post is for the Alternative History Image assignment in the DS106 assignment bank. The image is a picture of the High Line in New York City. Opened in 2009, the High Line is a public park built on a historic freight rail line elevated above the streets on Manhattan’s West Side. In the background, …
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The Creation of Elvis has Not Left the Building

by @Pringleduckface

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June 3, 2018

To create this assignment I started with a plain desktop background template on Canva. This is a good size that…
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Alternate History

by @Pringleduckface

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June 3, 2018

I love conspiracy theories and I love laughing at fake news. One of my favorite websites is Snopes, one of…
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Pay Attention to the Woman Behind the Curtain

by @Pringleduckface

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June 3, 2018

Get to know some more about me with some fun word clouds. I used word art.com to create all four of these…
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Uninspirational Quotes

by @Pringleduckface

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June 3, 2018

Who doesn’t love uninspirational quotes with a pretty background. Mindy Kailing is such a queen so I felt like I…
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Postcard Shenanigans

by @Pringleduckface

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June 3, 2018

Christmas in Chicago is always a beautiful time. There is a good chance of snow, the lighting is gorgeous, and…
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Wish you were here!

by @LeslieMiyazono

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June 3, 2018

This post is to fulfill the Destination Post Card assignment from the DS106 design assignment bank. It is worth three stars. The image of the post card is an aerial view of New York City in which the World Trade Center twin towers are prominent. Since both the North and South towers are intact, …
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Use your words carefully

by @LeslieMiyazono

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June 3, 2018

This assignment is to fulfill the Character Word Cloud task found in the DS106 design assignment bank. It is worth 2 stars. A word cloud is “an image composed of words used in a particular text or subject, in which the size of each word indicates its frequency or importance.” The chosen theme for this …
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Keep Our World Wet

by @Hollis Pultz

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June 3, 2018

If not Global Warming, Then What? Continuing along my steam-train of thought with the question of the week, I decided to consider the environmental issues that would be associated with a developing world that ran on steam. Even in the real world, power-plants rely on steam generation to create electricity: nuclear, coal-fired, and gas-fired plants …
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Keep Our World Wet (Tutorial)

by @Hollis Pultz

| designassignments, DesignTutorials817, Syndicated
June 3, 2018

Effective Design for Public Service Announcements Here I walk you through designing a PSA billboard encouraging the public to engage in global responsibility by driving electric. We will be using Canva as our editor, Unsplash for our background photo, the Degraeve Color Palette Generator to analyze our background colors, and the Adobe Color Wheel to …
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Blast from the Past, Henry Ford

by @Hollis Pultz

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June 3, 2018

Inspiration Served with Dr. Pepper I was craving Dr. Pepper earlier, in addition to a quiet place to work on my alternate history assignment, so I set out on a trip to the local Sheetz. After I arrived, I got my Dr. Pepper, had a seat in the lounge, and got to work thinking about what …
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Blast from the Past, Henry Ford (Tutorial)

by @Hollis Pultz

| designassignments, DesignTutorials2255, Syndicated
June 3, 2018

Unveiling the Model E For the alternate history assignment tutorial, we will be using Pixabay and Adobe Photoshop. The photos from Pixabay include Henry Ford, an electric-car charger, and a parking lot.
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