A UMW DesignBlitz

A UMW DesignBlitz

by @FCMaisano

| designblitz, ds106, Syndicated
October 3, 2018

Since Saturday, I have trying my best to observe all of the signs, posters, etc. around this campus to make this blog post. Here is what I have come up with! Color View this post on Instagram This is a photo for my DS106 (Digital Storytelling) class. On my blog I talk about the color […]
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The Kidd is alright

by paul bond

| chip kidd, design, ds106, Syndicated
October 3, 2018

I picked up a copy of Chip Kidd’s book at my local library. What the Brain Pickings article says about it, that it “refus[es] to talk down to them or confine their inborn curiosity to narrow adult expectations about what … Continue reading →
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Movie to Images

by @chloversgarden

| Assignments, designassignments, DesignAssignments358, ds106, images, Stories, Syndicated
October 2, 2018

Can you guess what movie these icons represent? I chose these because I think they represent the most iconic (haha) scenes in the film!
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Friends TV Poster

by @chloversgarden

| Assignments, designassignments, DesignAssignments43, ds106, Syndicated
October 2, 2018

The tv poster I decided to make was for the tv show Friends.
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Digital Designing

by @chloversgarden

| designthoughts, ds 106, ds106, images, Syndicated
October 2, 2018

I used to work as an office assistant where I had to create flyers and pamphlets. Looking at what links were up it made the process of creating art seemContinue readingDigital Designing
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A Story in Four Icons: Can you guess the movie?

by @JessicaDS106

| designassignments, DesignAssignments358, ds106, Syndicated
October 2, 2018

View this post on Instagram Tell a story with only 4 icons. Can you guess the movie? #ds106 #DesignAssignments #DesignAssignments358 A post shared by Jessica (@jessicads106) on Oct 2, 2018 at 6:15pm PDT My third assignment this week, worth 3 stars, is this one, which was recommended for the design category. The assignment is described … Continue reading A Story in Four Icons: Can you guess the movie?
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The Shape of Words

by @JessicaDS106

| designassignments, DesignAssignments2087, ds106, Syndicated
October 2, 2018

View this post on Instagram Word cloud for my character, Callen Zelrich #ds106 #wordcloud #DesignAssignments #DesignAssignments2087 A post shared by Jessica (@jessicads106) on Oct 2, 2018 at 3:58pm PDT The second assignment I chose to do this week, and the second one related to my character, is this one, where I was tasked to create … Continue reading The Shape of Words
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What’s in a Name?

by @JessicaDS106

| designassignments, DesignAssignments2101, ds106, Syndicated
October 1, 2018

As my first assignment, and one of two related to my character this week, I chose this one for 3 stars. The assignment was to write your name in a unique way, and I transformed it into creating a logo for my character’s name. When playing with the following website, www.coolletters.net for making logos, I ended … Continue reading What’s in a Name?
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How To Design

by @JessicaDS106

| designthoughts, ds106, Syndicated
October 1, 2018

Our theme for this week of the course will be design, which is one I’m very much looking forward to! To start out, I read a few resources on design to learn more about it. Like many topics on this course, I don’t have much experience with design (except perhaps with PowerPoint design, which I’d … Continue reading How To Design
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Be a Fruit Loop

by @MaddieM02790291

| designassignments, DesignAssignments807, ds106, Syndicated
October 1, 2018

For my final Design Assignment (2 stars), I decided to create a Motivational Poster! for Ella Maguire. She is going through a challenging time accepting who she is. She has been learning a lot of new things about herself, and they are not necessarily easy things to have to accept. Once again, I feel like …
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Guess the Story

by @MaddieM02790291

| designassignments, DesignAssignments358, ds106, Syndicated
October 1, 2018

For my third Design Assignment, I did the One Story/ Four Icons Assignment (3 stars). I thought this would be a fun assignment because I love the idea of reducing stories to their basic pieces. I tend to be a wordy person, so I always find activities that push me to be more short and …
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Is Oxford like Hogwarts?

by @MaddieM02790291

| #DesignAssignments2075, designassignments, ds106, Syndicated
October 1, 2018

Not really… Looks can be deceiving. When our program went to Oxford to spend the week, we had somewhat of a rough week. It was still a good experience, but Oxford has a sense and feeling about it that is unlike any place I have ever been. It is very cold and studious. It is …
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I saw the Henge

by @MaddieM02790291

| designassignments, DesignAssignments2059, ds106, Syndicated
October 1, 2018

For my second Design Assignment, I decided to do the Destination Post Card Assignment (3 stars). I spent a lot of time buying, writing, and looking at post cards in the various cities I went to while I was abroad, so I thought this would be fun! I went to my Facebook to see what …
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Ella’s Words are in the Cloud

by @MaddieM02790291

| designassignments, DesignAssignments2087, ds106, Syndicated
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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It was Designed that Way…

by @MaddieM02790291

| designthoughts, ds106, Syndicated
October 1, 2018

It was interesting to notice the difference between The Vignelli Canon and Brain Pickings article about Kidd and his book. Part of the reason Kidd created his book was probably because of literature such as The Vignelli Canon that uses bigger words and is more academic in nature. I felt like Kidd’s book and the article about it …
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Complex Yet Maybe Not

by @FCMaisano

| designthoughts, ds106, Syndicated
October 1, 2018

There is a quote commonly attributed to Einstein, though he never actually said it, that goes: “everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler”. I feel like this is what Chip Kidd’s book Go is about. He makes the basis of design seem easier to understand, while not being condescending or dumbing down […]
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Beware The Beast of Gévaudan!

by @FCMaisano

| designassignments, DesignTutorials613, ds106, Syndicated
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

| designassignments, DesignTutorials1724, ds106, Syndicated
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

| designassignments, DesignTutorials2059, ds106, Syndicated
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

| designassignments, DesignTutorials1533, ds106, Syndicated
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

| designassignments, DesignTutorials2087, ds106, Syndicated
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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Weekly Summary – Week 4 – Picture the Myth

by @DigitalStoryTeller

| # weeklyassignments, ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
September 29, 2018

This week was about the photography, the visual side of digital storytelling. I analyzed my photography skills. My photography skill have plenty of room for improvements. I did have to look online for collage building sites. it was fun looking at all the different types of collages. I enjoyed making the digital collages. The visual …
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How to get a head in the world

by paul bond

| dailycreate, ds106, Syndicated
September 29, 2018

“There’s two kinds of people in this world, my friend: Those who work for a living, and those who own things for a living.” is the way I usually paraphrase Tuco. But today’s Daily Create challenge was to make something, … Continue reading →
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Week 5

by @chloversgarden

| ds106, Syndicated, Weekly Summaries, WeeklySummary
September 28, 2018

I find music one of the best parts about life. I LOVEEE sounds, whether its helping me walk from one side of campus to another or listening to a friend’sContinue readingWeek 5
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Becoming a Super

by @chloversgarden

| #AudioAssignments, #AudioAssignments70, Assignments, ds106, Stories, Syndicated
September 28, 2018

This assignment fit my character very well. This clip provides her transition from human to animal. It starts with her jumping from the Cat statue to the ground, gathering herContinue readingBecoming a Super
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Discussion Ideas

by @chloversgarden

| #AudioAssignments, #radioshowideas, ds 106, ds106, Syndicated
September 28, 2018

I really enjoy childhood books, like the Rainbow Goblins, that have a sort of eerie/evil twist to them (the Goblins are killed at the end by the flowers drowning themContinue readingDiscussion Ideas
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King in a Different Room

by @chloversgarden

| #AudioAssignments, Assignments, AudioAssignments2227, ds106, sounds, Syndicated
September 28, 2018

I chose the song King, by Years & Years. I love their music and am a fan of their sound so I made this song’s base very prominent while tryingContinue readingKing in a Different Room
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Normal Noise

by @chloversgarden

| #AudioAssignments, Assignments, AudioAssignments2298, ds106, sounds, Syndicated
September 28, 2018

To do this assignment, I took a sound track that I had recorded from the Jepson Fountain and turned it into a robot sound. I thought working with a continuousContinue readingNormal Noise
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Weekly Summary-Week 5

by @richelleholnick

| ds106, Syndicated, Weekly Summary, WeeklySummary
September 28, 2018

My oh my, what a week! I found out how much sound effects change a television show or movie. I also realized how many sounds are in my every day life! Check out my audio reflection. Then, I listened to my first radio show and also had my first live twe...
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Radio Show Ideas

by @richelleholnick

| #radioshowideas, Assignment Bank, ds106, Syndicated
September 28, 2018

A radio show about legends, myths, and folklore. How fun! I think it would be fun to explore the origins of some of the most well known legends. I would start ‘family friendly’ and grow more sinister as the show went on. The first one I wou...
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