You Could Cut It Will A Knife……..

You Could Cut It Will A Knife……..

by @ldeitrick

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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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Assignment Bank 1 (Week Six)

by @melseykooring

| designassignments, designassignments61, ds106, Syndicated
October 4, 2017

Valentines Alternative This week I was asked to complete a total of 10 stars worth of design assignments and to center at least two assignments around Jester. Well, that presents no problem to me at all – as I normally focus my assignments around him anyways cause it is so much fun! So when I […]
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Super Tattoo (Week Six):

by @melseykooring

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October 4, 2017

Super Tattoo For this assignment, I was instructed to create a tattoo design that represents your superpower or explains what you would do as a superhero. I obviously took the opportunity to create a tattoo centered around my character – Jester. I decided that creepy smiles is the one characteristic of Jester that he is […]
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Four Icons..One Story

by @PamlanyeJordan

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October 3, 2017

The last and final design assignment I completed this week was worth 3 and 1/2 stars and was called One Story / Four Icons. I love bored games, trivia, and guessing games so this assignment called my name! First I had to decide on a movie that I could boil down to just 4 main images/icons. … Continue reading Four Icons..One Story
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Word Cloud- Little Brain Themed

by @PamlanyeJordan

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October 3, 2017

The next design bank assignment I completed was the Word Cloud assignment, it was worth 4 stars. I decided to make my theme for this word cloud Little Brain. I incorporated some words that describe his powers and life. Brian Smalls Secrets Minds Smart Sidekick Super Thoughts To complete this assignment I used world.net! I … Continue reading Word Cloud- Little Brain Themed
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Design Your Superhero!

by @PamlanyeJordan

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October 3, 2017

The next design assignment bank project I did was worth 4 stars and was the Design Your Superhero assignment! I was so excited to do this because I could make Little Brain my superhero sidekick into a real image! To complete this assignment I used the second superhero generator linked because the first one required … Continue reading Design Your Superhero!
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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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Super Word Cloud

by @courthardy2018

| # weeklyassignments, Assignments, designassignments, DesignAssignments2087, ds106, Syndicated
October 3, 2017

For this assignment, I was to create a word cloud of my own. I decided to relate my word cloud to my character for this class. To create my word cloud, I went to a free word cloud website to start my design. First, I […]
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Morph Shadow’s Super Tattoo

by @courthardy2018

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October 3, 2017

This week, I decided to complete the Super Tattoo assignment as a part of design week. However, instead of creating a tattoo that describes me as it states in the description of the assignment, I created one for my character Morph Shadow. Morph Shadow’s tattoo […]
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DesignBlitz (Week Six):

by @melseykooring

| designblitz, ds106, Syndicated
October 3, 2017

DesignBlitz This week I was asked to complete a designblitz. My task was to Carry my camera with me this week and take photos of objects, ads, signs, etc. that illustrate at least four of the ten concepts: color typography metaphors/symbols minimalism & use of space form/function/message balance rhythm proportion dominance unity Below is my take […]
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Thoughts/Ideas (Week Six):

by @melseykooring

| designthoughts, ds106, Syndicated
October 3, 2017

Reflection This week I was asked to read a few articles and write a reflection on how design can advance a story along. I decided to focus on the work of Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou. More specifically, his Strip Panel Naked segments. Before looking at his articles, I never consciously focused on design aspects of really anything […]
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Fast Forward or Rewind?

by @ldeitrick

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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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From Screen to Page

by @PamlanyeJordan

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October 2, 2017

This was a tough assignment! I went through a lot of trial and error to get to my end result. I first had to go screen shot the scenes from the movie that I wanted to use. I decided to pick a fan favorite with Mean Girls because the drama in that movie lends itself … Continue reading From Screen to Page
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Lava Springs

by @ashedwardz

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October 2, 2017

Lava Springs is the perfect destination for any traveler! Between the adventurous snorkeling trips and relaxing spa heated by the surrounding lava, you will find yourself living your best life. I originally was just going to use the snorkeling picture that I took on my family vacation to Grand Cayman[Read more]
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Chromokinesis Ink

by @ashedwardz

| digital storytelling, ds106, supertattoo, Syndicated
October 2, 2017

This super tattoo is quite high-tech. It has the ability to shift to it’s background/surroundings for a limited amount of time, generally around 15 minutes at a time. It can be set at different patterns, like the one shown above that blinks on and off.
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My ds106 Open Course

by @OliaVoronkova

| ds106, Syndicated
October 2, 2017

Free Online Social Media Marketing Course I love learning and I try to do it on a daily basis. My parents always tell me, that “If you don’t learn you degrade” and I believe this is true. This is why I decided to start my new Social Media Marketing course called ds106. I’ve read quite...

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Spiderman 2.0

by @courthardy2018

| # weeklyassignments, Assignments, DesignAssigments2113, designassignments, ds106, Syndicated
October 2, 2017

This week, I decided to complete the Superhero Makeover Assignment, worth 3 stars. I was asked to give a superhero a makeover by redesigning their costume. Because I created my character for the class a few weeks ago, I decided to kind of take this […]
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Reflective Designs

by @courthardy2018

| # weeklyassignments, Assignments, designthoughts, ds106, Syndicated
October 2, 2017

I decided to start design week off with reading The Vignelli Canon by Massimo Vignelli. To begin his booklet, he explains the most important principles of design to him; semantic, syntactic and pragmatic. Semantics to Vignelli is the meaning behind the design. I think this […]
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Who is in control?

by @LilahKBB

| # weeklyassignments, designthoughts, ds106, superds106, Syndicated
October 2, 2017

Controlling Movement | Black Widow (2016) (Youtube) My first reflection is on the video above where the person goes through a comic and explains the expertise of the artist to play to the reader. By that I mean to engage not only their interest but their eyes and to use the way their eyes read …
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Week 5 Summary

by @ashedwardz

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October 1, 2017

This week was just as challenging as I thought. I had a very difficult time with audio assignments. Although, it was very eye opening. My favorite was assignment was the Radio Tweet Along. It never crossed my mind how significant sound could be in storytelling. I liked how I could[Read more]
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Photography – Week 5

by @jjprime1994

| ds106, Syndicated
September 30, 2017

Summary: Lots to learn about photography this week, mostly old news for me but some new info as well. For this i figured I take this chance to share some of my photos I took and edited using Photoshop in Summer while I was in U.K. Assignment Post: Cipher Typography Photo Images Silly Movie Poster …
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It’s GLaDOS?!

by @jjprime1994

| ds106, Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments2106
September 30, 2017

Is that GLaDOS? Did she survive?? GLaDOS (Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System) is an artificial intelligence created by Aperture Science. She is the main antagonist throughout Portal and the first half of Portal 2’s single-player campaign. As the overseer and highest of authorities of the Enrichment Center, GLaDOS resides in the Central AI …
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Silly Movie Poster

by @jjprime1994

| ds106, Syndicated, visualassignments, visualassignments1987
September 30, 2017

For this assignment, I used Photoshop’s selection tool to highlight the parts I want from the picture as shown below. Then made copies of it on the Iron Man movie poster
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Cipher Typography Photo Images

by @jjprime1994

| ds106, Syndicated
September 29, 2017

For the theme of our class, I used a photo of Ironman and typographic tool for this assignment. I must say the effect worked really well. Before After
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Weekly Summary #5

by @ldeitrick

| #audioweek, #ds4life, ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
September 29, 2017

I have zero experience editing audio. Zero. The closest I’ve ever come to being a sound producer was burning CDs on my desktop with Napster was still a thing. Needless to say, this week’s audio assignments were a challenge for me. The process was slow, sometimes painful, and on a steep learning curve. The greatest …
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Weekly Summer- #5

by @PamlanyeJordan

| ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
September 29, 2017

This week was a tough one! Audio editing is so much harder than I had anticipated! I definitely procrastinated a lot this week just because I was so overwhelmed with the audio editing aspect! To start the week as always I have my daily creates! Daily Creates- Week 5 Then I downloaded Audacity and slowly … Continue reading Weekly Summer- #5
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Sound Construction Site

by @ldeitrick

| #AudioAssignments, #AudioAssignments70, #audioweek, #ds4life, #stripitdown, audio, AudioAssignments2019, ds106, Syndicated
September 29, 2017

So, audio editing is a work in progress for me. I spent a lot of time working on each assignment, only to finally realize I wasn’t going to modern, electronic Mozart on my first try. My pieces aren’t going to sound like what I hear on the radio or at DJ event, if they did, …
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Sound Effect Story

by @PamlanyeJordan

| #AudioAssignments, #AudioAssignments70, ds106, Syndicated
September 29, 2017

This audio assignment was so interesting. Telling a story without words takes a lot of creativity! To complete this project I used the recommend freesound.org website to find some sound effects for my story. I then downloaded them all to my iTunes account. One I completed that I uploaded all my sound effects to garage … Continue reading Sound Effect Story
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Week 5 Audio Compilation.

by @Maggieo_13

| # weeklyassignments, ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummery
September 29, 2017

This week for Audio we had a decent amount of work to do and it was more difficult for me because I had to use a lot of different apps and tools I was not used to. I began with think about audio storytelling. Then I did all my daily creates. Then I moved to […]
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Rule the World

by @ldeitrick

| #audioweek, #ds4life, audio, ds106, superherosoundtrack, Syndicated
September 29, 2017

A superhero soundtrack was tough on me from a creative perspective. I really didn’t want to do a voice-over because I felt like it fit my character or her story. I didn’t know how I could adequately relay her story in a quick voice-over. Instead, I decided to go a very minimalist, abstract direction with …
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