Making Shapes Make Words| Week 6
My summary of learning visual designs this week!
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Halloween Event Poster
So for this one, I decided to create a poster for a Halloween party! I’m having one at the end of the month so it’ll be pretty useful for me. I had a lot of fun with this and am open to any suggestions to make the poster more appealing! Extra points for Halloween Costume ... Read moreHalloween Event Poster -
My Thoughts on Design
I decided for this post to focus on what I learned from “The Vignelli Cannon”, as that’s the article I learned the most from. Semantics was firstly very interesting to read about. Implementing semantics into your design elements helps more clearly form your ideas, you know what you want to accomplish so therefore it will … Continue reading "My Thoughts on Design" -
Illustrating a Song
This is another 2 star assignment that finishes my week with 16.5 stars! I had to make a design representing a song without writing any words. I made this using Pixlr.com to represent one of my favorite songs, Cosmic Love by Florence and the Machine. This is actually three stock images lined up against each … -
DS106 Logo
This 2 star assignment required me to design a logo for ds106 radio that could go on a shirt or a bumper sticker. Naturally, I went with an 80s theme! I used Pixlr.com and looked through their 80s category for stock photos. I found this little cassette picture: I first added the text. I chose … -
UMW Design Blitz
Some posters I've seen this week on campus. -
Click If You Want To Be Happier
This is my try at creating a motivational poster! One of my favorite animals is an otter, so I browsed some pics of them on Google images to start. I wasn’t sure what my message was going to be yet, but I thought this picture was adorable. I then started thinking of otter puns. This … -
This Kidd is Pretty Good
This is my first time deeply thinking about graphic design. For instance, it never occurred to me that every single manmade thing or building is designed in some way. It made my whole world feel a little bigger. As I sit in this coffee shop writing this post, I’m looking at all of the shapes … -
Its the Week-end!
I really enjoyed this week! I love getting to show my personal design opinions in a bunch of cool exercises. My favorite assignment was probably creating my own superhero. It was cool trying to figure out her backstory while I was adding her outfit and figuring out what colors I would use. The Daily Creates… -
Design Blitz
Here are the characteristics I found when doing my design blitz! It was really cool critiquing different things. The wall in my apartment has always kinda bugged me, but I really understand why now! My favorite characteristic I highlighted was the green label for the cheese. I hadn’t really thought about why they used the… -
Did Someone Say “Favorite Animal”?
I love Red Pandas -
Community Doodle
My contribution to the community whiteboard. -
Up, Up, and Away
by @Hinoiri October 3, 2019From an OC to a character with her own world, meet one of my favorite creations, Alana of En' en. -
“They have a Cave Troll”
Directions: ” Take one of your favorite movies or scene from a movie and tell the story using sound effects! There can be no verbal communication, only sound effects! Record your own sounds, use audacity, or use websites that have pre-recorded sounds for you to... -
Where am I?
Directions: ” For this assignment create a place by just using sound. For example, make the listener know where they are if outside use birds, cars, etc. You can get sounds from https://freesound.org “ Behind the Story: Narrating the Process: -
Thoughts on Design
Vignelli: I like how Vignelli acknowledges that each person has their own sense of style, but that there are rules that have to be followed within your own sense of style. I thought the point of semantics was one of the most important points. You have to know what you’re trying to create as well… -
“Can you fly, Bobby?”
I recently watched Paul Verhoeven’s 80s tech noir classic Robocop and thought it might be interesting to do a little design analysis on the Omni Consumer Products logo. The first thing I notice is that OCP is an inversion of … Continue reading → -
Kid’s Wishlist Poster
by @Hinoiri October 2, 2019I designed a poster for an event (from the assignment bank) -
Minimalist Movie Poster
I had a lot of fun with this assignment! I chose one of my favorite movies, October Sky. It’s not an 80s movie, but it is officially October now! I love this movie for a lot of reasons, but the main one (and my reason for a lot of the things I like) is that ... Read moreMinimalist Movie Poster -
Four Icons, One 80s Movie
So before I just give away the answer to my icon story, let’s go through the process of doing this. I am not good at design. I want to be good at design. Much more practice is needed. Wowza. This was a process. I am not good with technology and kind of fumbled about for ... Read moreFour Icons, One 80s Movie -
Creative Writing Club Plug
This is a design assignment worth 3 stars! For this assignment, I was tasked to create a poster for an event! As the secretary and social media director of UMW’s Creative Writing Club, I designed a minimalist-style event poster for our weekly meetings! I made this poster on autodraw.com, which seems to be my savior … -
Four Icons…One 80s Movie
For this creation, I had to compile three icons that sum of a movie! I won’t tell you which 80s movie this is, so leave a guess! I used autodraw.com for this 3 star assignment as well because I think it’s useful to create icons! I tried my best to lay down some of the … -
Footloose (but minimalist)
Here’s my attempt for a 3.5 star assignment to create a minimalist movie poster. The goal here was to use clean lines, spacing, and non-detailed elements to create a movie poster! I chose Footloose for mine. I knew what I wanted to do, but I’m not great at drawing. I came across a website called … -
Design Your Superhero
4.5 Stars My superhero: Arianna, Princess of Monrovia My superhero has the ability to speak with animals and her wolf, Loki, as been by her side since she was a little kid. For this assignment, I used heromachine in order to make my superhero. The process of creating my own superhero took longer than I… -
Wedding Invitation
3.5 Stars This assignment was harder than I thought. Canva has so many different styles to choose from. It took longer than I thought it would to choose a style. I’m really happened with how the final product looks! -
Create Cool Letters
3 Stars I used the website provided on the assignment. I originally used my name, but then when I found this font, I knew I had to change it to Jack Sparrow. I like that the font makes me think of a specific thing. I played around with the color within the font, but I… -
Minimalist Movie Poster
3.5 Stars I realized while I was creating this poster, that the Ghostbusters movie poster was minimalist in the first place. So then I had to decide how to explain what happened in a different minimalistic way. I really like the way this photo turned out! I used Canva in order to get everything set… -
One Story/ Four Icons
3 Stars I loved thinking about what icons to use to describe this movie. It was kind of hard trying to pick stuff that wasn’t too obvious, but was still easy to identify. Can anyone guess what movie this is? -
Daily Creates Week 6
@ds106dc #tdc2818 This is a collage of a picture of my two dogs pic.twitter.com/u1lxnhGt3U— Abby Cassell (@abbcass100) September 30, 2019 -
Designer
I designed an outfit for my ds106 character.
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