Alternate Book Cover: Wool

Alternate Book Cover: Wool

by @tostromcpsc106

| designassignments, DesignAssignments2187, Syndicated
February 26, 2018

Below is my alternate book cover for Wool by Hugh Howey. I chose to use a picture of silos since the characters of the novel are living in a silo. I wanted the image to be black and white so a eerie feel would be given off. In the novel, the outside world is ominous […]
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Alex Whitmore Returns

by @tostromcpsc106

| designassignments, DesignAssignments2188, Syndicated
February 26, 2018

I had a lot of fun making Alex Whitmore. However, I did fine Hero Machine to be a bit challenging at first. Once finished, I did understand it more but I definitely feel like I can learn much more about how it works. Alex is a teacher, but she’s a cool, badass, not afraid of […]
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Apocalyptic Character Generator: Jim Tomsula III

by @GMorris1988

| designassignments, DesignAssignments2188, Syndicated
February 25, 2018

Here is Jim in his favorite place…. on the farm.
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ATTENTION: LOST HAT!

by @eafinto

| apocalypse, apocalyptic, designassignments, DesignAssignments2195, ds106, help, important, Lost, lost hat, Syndicated, Writing Assignments
February 25, 2018

PLEASE CONTACT IF FOUND! LOST HAT! VERY IMPORTANT! MUST FIND!
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The Personality of James

by @Chris_tastrophe

| Assignments, designassignments, DesignAssignments2087, ds106, mycharacter, Syndicated
February 25, 2018

Character Word Cloud Behind the Scenes I used the Wordcloud generator to create this graphic for my apocalypse character, James. The themes and shapes make the graphic easy to generate while also keeping it interesting. It takes a lot of playing around to get all the words you put on the list to show […]
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A Word Cloud!

by @eafinto

| description, design, designassignments, DesignAssignments2087, doctor, ds106, Syndicated, woman, word cloud, words, Writing Assignments
February 25, 2018

Word Clouds are always fun! I remember as a kid, we would have this day in school where it was just a day for writing. The whole day was devoted to going around to different groups and “seminars” where they would show us a fun new way to write a poem, short story, word clouds, […]
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My Part in the Quest for Martha’s Hat

by @Chris_tastrophe

| Assignments, canva, designassignments, DesignAssignments2195, ds106, Syndicated
February 25, 2018

Help Find Martha’s Hat Behind the Scenes I went to Canva and searched templates for “lost.” I found a missing dog template and filled things out from there, switching the dog for a mannequin and the hat. I chose this templa...
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The Beginning of the End 2018-02-25 20:31:31

by @laasarge

| design assignments, designassignments, DesignAssignments2188, Syndicated
February 25, 2018

Addison Cruz in her natural element: passing by peoples’ eyes while she documents their every moves. She likes to be on the streets, in the action and capturing moments in society, big or small. An amateur journalist, she considers herself a ‘documentarian’ in her own […]
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Cool Letters A.K.A Calligraphy

by @eafinto

| annalise huddleston, calligraphy, Character, designassignments, DesignAssignments2101, doctor, ds106, logo, name, Syndicated, writing, Writing Assignments
February 25, 2018

As another assignment for this week, I decided to use CoolLetters.net in order to make a “logo” for my character, Annalise Huddleston! Take a look: I wanted this “logo” to look professional and inviting, at the same time. I really like how to colors contrast one another. Another fun fact about this is the fact that […]
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James and His Luscious Facial Hair

by @Chris_tastrophe

| Assignments, designassignments, DesignAssignments2188, ds106, fiction, Syndicated
February 25, 2018

Apocalyptic Character Generator Behind the Scenes What better place to put him than his own office? I wanted to make him middle aged because it fit with the wife and daughter story. He’s a pretty typical guy, and the apocalypse hasn’t struck yet, so he’s wearing typical clothes. HeroMachine3 was a very strange tool. […]
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Perkatory Café Logo

by @Anne Armour

| Assignments, design, designassignments, DesignAssignments2002, ds106, Syndicated
February 25, 2018

For the last extra Design Assignment I chose for this week was the “Create a Logo That is Simple But Detailed” assignment. There is actually…
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The Name of Evelyn Sparrow

by @Anne Armour

| Assignments, design, designassignments, DesignAssignments2101, ds106, Syndicated
February 25, 2018

For one of my extra Design Assignments, I decided to do the Generate Cool Letters assignment for my character. This was a fun assignment since…
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Hire Me, Hugh Howey: Wool Alt. Cover

by @Chris_tastrophe

| Assignments, designassignments, DesignAssignments2187, ds106, Pixlr, Syndicated, Wool
February 25, 2018

Apocalyptic Alternative Book Cover Behind the Scenes This cover was edited and created using Pixlr. To start, I set off in search of an old, metal spiral staircase with a top-down view (very specific criteria, I know). My search was inspired by the description of the staircase gong throughout the silo in Wool’s story. […]
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Dr. Annalise Huddleston in Her Natural Environment

by @eafinto

| animation, apocalypse, apocalyptic, archetype, Character, creation, depiction, design, designassignments, DesignAssignments2188, ds106, hero machine, Syndicated, Writing Assignments
February 25, 2018

Annalise Huddleston returns! I’m really loving my character, I must say! It’s so much fun getting to design, write about, and just overall create someone totally fictional! She feels real, to me, in some ways already! This week, I was able to use Hero Machine to create an animated depiction of what Annalise looks like, […]
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“California” Alternate Book Cover

by @eafinto

| apocalypse, apocalyptic, California, cover, design, designassignments, DesignAssignments2187, ds106, novel, post-apocalyptic, Syndicated, wilderness, Writing Assignments
February 25, 2018

One of my design assignments from this week was to create an alternate book cover for the post-apocalyptic novel I am reading this semester! The book I chose to read was California by Edan Lepucki. I have just barely started this novel, but thanks to the upcoming spring break, I will have plenty of time to read […]
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CHARLEE Lettering

by @KatieHartraft

| Assignments, design, designassignments, DesignAssignments2101, Syndicated
February 25, 2018

For this assignment, I had to use the cool letters website to get inspiration for writing my name. I instead used my character’s name, since after a while my own name started to look too weird to continue. The first Charlee represents her collected-yet-still-getting-the-ropes nature. Next is her bolder […]
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Charlee, We’ve Got You Covered

by @KatieHartraft

| Assignments, design, designassignments, DesignAssignments1732, Syndicated
February 25, 2018

Charlee Faraday, featured above in her own issue of Charlee Magazine. I decided a great post to add to the building of my character, Charlee Faraday, would be to do the assignment “We’ve Got You Covered.” I used Canva for this assignment, finding a template magazine cover and altering it […]
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Be My Valentine?

by @cypherpunk106

| Assignments, designassignments, DesignAssignments1619, Syndicated
February 25, 2018

Hello everyone! My last assignment for this week was to create my own Valentine’s Day card. I was tasked with making an image and modifying it with a cool effect. I was especially supposed to be *funny* and... Read More
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cypherpunk106 Moves In

by @cypherpunk106

| Assignments, designassignments, DesignAssignments2188, Syndicated
February 24, 2018

Hello everybody! One of my assignments this week was to use Hero Machine to design and create a representation of cypherpunk106. After creating cypherpunk106, I was to place them into a setting that makes sense. Once again, there was... Read More
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Trapped in a Jacket

by @cypherpunk106

| Assignments, designassignments, DesignAssignments2187, Syndicated
February 24, 2018

Hello everybody! One of my assignments today was to create an alternative book cover for “Oryx and Crake”, the novel I am reading this semester. I was tasked to use design concepts I have learned this week in... Read More
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Shaving my Head for Childhood Cancer Research

by @JillianAviva

| designassignments, DesignAssignments2202, Media Assignments, Syndicated
February 23, 2018

For my second design assignment, I decided to add my own assignment to the assignment bank. The assignment I made is to create an ad for a charity. I created an ad for St. Baldrick’s, which raises money and awareness for children’s cancer research. In about three weeks, I will be shaving my head at …
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World War Z – New 2018 Cover!

by @KatieHartraft

| Assignments, design, designassignments, DesignAssignments2187, Syndicated
February 23, 2018

I have created my own cover for the book World War Z by Max Brooks! Below is the original cover: And here is my cover: I tried making my version less gritty (except for the Earth) and more modern, since much of the book looks retrospectively at the past […]
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My Interpretation: of the 8 principles of design.

by @jetjenk43

| design, designassignments, designblitz, ds106, Syndicated, the end, writing
February 23, 2018

So I figured I could find things around my home, around my neighborhood, my immediate area, but to my luck I couldn’t really find anything to fit the eight concepts. In my area there are a lot of construction signs but I figured this would be bleh so I chose not to take pictures of …
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Tala’s Word Cloud

by @JillianAviva

| designassignments, DesignAssignments2087, Media Assignments, Syndicated
February 23, 2018

I used wordclouds.com to create my character, Tala’s word cloud. I used her backstory to retrieve the words for her cloud, and I deleted the filler and unimportant words so the word cloud would be more representative of her. I decided to make her cloud in the shape of a tree for two main reasons. The …
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Special edition Vonnegut cover!

by @ShaBoy_Daniel

| assignment, designassignments, DesignAssignments2187, Syndicated
February 23, 2018

At first the finch was supposed to be smaller and in the middle of the book. This giant finch just seemed to work better!
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MISSING HAT: IF FOUND CALL 911

by @tweetingfortheend

| designassignments, DesignAssignments2195, Media & Writing Assignments, Syndicated
February 23, 2018

HAVE YOU SEEN MARTHA’S HAT???? SOS SOS SOS
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Winifred in a Cloud

by @Sam_ara106

| design, designassignments, DesignAssignments2087, Syndicated, Week Six
February 23, 2018

This is the word cloud that I created to describe my character, Winifred Hart! I used colors that went well together (purple, blue, and green are next to each other on the color wheel), and picked a shape that would separate the words, but clearly become one larger image. This represents how all of these […]
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Lost Hat

by @Sam_ara106

| design, designassignments, DesignAssignments2195, Syndicated, Week Six
February 23, 2018

Information can be found on the poster! Please help find and return this hat. I found two things difficult about this assignment: creating a background image and determining the “last seen.” For the background, I ended up using a free Canva background that looked like lined paper. I then added a filter to make it […]
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California Book Cover

by @Sam_ara106

| design, designassignments, DesignAssignments2187, Syndicated, Week Six
February 23, 2018

The book cover I created for California is not too different from the original, but I think it tells a lot more about the plot than the forest that the real cover depicts. In my initial Canva search, I found many abandoned places. This one caught my eye because of the nature that the couple is […]
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Winifred’s Place

by @Sam_ara106

| design, designassignments, DesignAssignments2188, Syndicated, Week Six
February 23, 2018

I tried to base Winifred’s appearance loosely on the picture that I used for her on my previous post: The goal was to make her appear kind and approachable in order to match her friendly and loving personality. I placed Winifred in front of her house, which I also identified in my post introducing her. I […]
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