Week 6 Down

Week 6 Down

by @BegaKayla

| Syndicated
February 21, 2020

This week we focused on Design and how certain elements may make or break a picture. I started off the week doing my daily creates which I found to be very exciting and I learned a lot of new techniques. After this I posted my reflection to the Brain Pickings Article. I found this assignment …
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Show and tell with Nyarlathotep

by paul bond

| ds106, ds106things, Syndicated
February 21, 2020

There is a storytelling principle of “show, don’t tell.” So one might say: On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air instead of “I was driving through the desert … Continue reading →
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6 weeks down!

by @eamds106

| Syndicated, Week 6, WeeklySummary
February 21, 2020

Weekly Summary Design Reflection I had an interesting time reading more into design and the theories behind it. However, as mentioned in my blog post, I feel like sometimes thereContinue reading6 weeks down!
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Weekly Summary 6

by @1215007705141780482

| Syndicated, WeeklySummary
February 21, 2020

Missing Person Contradiction Creation Motivational Poster Favorite Movie Quote Chip Kidd & Design Design Blitz #tdc2961 #ds106I think it would be cool if there was a claymation of the college's cafeterias ...
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Design Blitz

by @1215007705141780482

| Syndicated
February 21, 2020

Color: The white helps bring out the red message. Red usually means something bad or important. Signs that are red and white mainly signify regulations that you must follow. For example, this sign indicates that the object is part of the Fire Department Connections. But the white background helps signify to anyone that this shouldn’t […]
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Chip Kidd & Design

by @1215007705141780482

| designthoughts, Syndicated
February 21, 2020

Reading this article about Chip Kidd’s book, Go, really opened my eyes to design. Day to day I walk around and witness so many different designs but I never really questioned it. After reading this article I started looking around my room and asking myself ‘Why was this designed this way?’ The example of the […]
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Minimalist Poster

by @lgperez19

| Assignment Bank, designassignments, DesignAssignments43, Syndicated
February 21, 2020

I read another classmates post who mentioned Canva as a good source to design a poster. There is options for posters, videos, cards etc. The obvious choice for this assignment was a poster. I only used three elements to complete this poster. I’m ...
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Favorite Movie Quote

by @1215007705141780482

| designassignments, DesignAssignments1974, Syndicated
February 21, 2020

Bad Boys for Life is my favorite movie for 2020 hands down. I didn’t come into the movie theaters with a lot of expectations because I didn’t watch the first two. But boy, was I impressed. The action, the plot, the climax, the suspense, the music, the acting, everything was on point. It kept me […]
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Motivational Poster

by @1215007705141780482

| designassignments, DesignAssignments1887, Syndicated
February 21, 2020

To all the single people out there, the kings and queens, I just want to let you know that you can make that shot. Basketball players don’t just shoot once and then give up. No, they keep shooting. They keep practicing until they can shoot and make the basket with no problem. And I want […]
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Contradiction Creation

by @1215007705141780482

| #DesignAssignments2075, designassignments, Syndicated
February 21, 2020

This assignment was actually very creative. I enjoyed the idea to have a beautiful picture but a depressing or negative quote. I wanted this to be related to the 1980s so I had a picture from 1980s California. Just look at the scenery. The palm trees, the blue sky, the still ocean, the cars parked […]
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Missing Person

by @1215007705141780482

| designassignments, DesignAssignments1888, Syndicated
February 21, 2020

Charlie Brown is missing! Please call this number if you have seen him. We need him back on Peanuts now. I chose Charlie Brown so I could relate this assignment to the 1980s theme. Charlies Brown is a very important piece in the Peanuts comic strip. He’s always the one that suffers a lot, even […]
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Quote for the Week

by @Maeve_ds106

| Syndicated
February 21, 2020

For my first Assignment Bank project this week I chose Favorite Movie Quote. This assignment asks creators to insert their favorite movie quote onto a picture for its correlating movie. Since we are working with the 80’s pop culture theme this semester I went on the hunt to find a famous movie quote from popular […]
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Là con gái th?t tuy?t ?!?

by anndang65

| Syndicated
February 20, 2020

Lâu lắm rồi mới đặt tay lên bàn phím viết một cái gì đó dành cho những cảm xúc của bản thân, thay vì những chiếc research proposal chồng chéo nhau đến mức đôi lúc mình cảm thấy ngạt thở. Thực ra thì, cuộc đời mình khoảng thời gian mấy tháng nay nói là vui […]
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Storytelling through pictures

by @ymartine4

| designassignments, DesignAssignments1670, Syndicated
February 20, 2020

I am a thrower on the UMW varsity Track and Field team and sports play a big role in my life. I was trying to find pictures of my progression through sports but it was hard to find them from the earlier years so I just focused on track. I didnt take many pictures or …
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this glorious bath

by @lizlynnkondzel

| Assignments, designassignments, DesignAssignments365, Syndicated
February 20, 2020

so i’m a big fan of john green’s podcast the anthropocene reviewed. its a brilliant podcast, i HIGHLY recommend giving it a listen. In one of the episodes, he quotes a friend of his (Amy Krouss Rosenthal) “Death may be knocking at my door, but i’m not getting out of this glorious bath to answer […]
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girls just wanna have fun!

by @lizlynnkondzel

| Assignments, designassignments, DesignAssignments332, Syndicated
February 20, 2020

this assignment was pretty straight-forward, and i didn’t have to edit any photos! giphy? much more user-friendly than gimp! the goal of this assignment was to make a gif out of something pop culture. I decided to do this one because what better way to incorporate our theme of 80s pop culture than with a […]
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Decorate the UMW rock

by @ymartine4

| designassignments, DesignAssignments1742, Syndicated
February 20, 2020

When I saw this assignment I thought it was perfect because last year my friend and I actually did this in the middle of the night so I didn’t have to photoshop anything since we spray painted it. The process involved going to walmart late a...
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Kitties in a Bucket

by Downes

| 2020365, Syndicated
February 20, 2020

February 19, 2020. OK, not really a bucket. But they're all doing better after a (scheduled) visit to the vet for a check-up and (as it turns out) more antibiotic, anti-worm (precautionary), eye medicine (for Charlemagne, who had an eye ulcer), and an ...
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Fish

by Downes

| 2020365, Syndicated
February 20, 2020

February 20, 2020. It was snowy and sleety outside, not a good day to drive on the highway, so I worked out of the home office and made quite a bit of progress reviewing and summarizing codes of ethics. This fish is a pad I put under my computer to mak...
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Design Blitz

by @BegaKayla

| designblitz, Syndicated
February 20, 2020

This week we were challenged to carry around our phones and take pictures of signs that we saw. I feel that at first I was being too picky about what signs I decided to take a picture of so I decided to take one walk from my house to my classroom at school and use …
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Weekly Wrap-up!

by @IngrahamAllison

| Syndicated
February 20, 2020

Daily Creates: Reading thoughts: My favorite reading from this week was “A Kid’s Guide to Graphic Design by Iconic Designer Chip Kidd.” I learned some interesting facts that I had never thought about before. Design Blitz: I really enjoyed this activity because it got to get up and walk around a little. Below are the …
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Guess the 80s movie…

by @missgoofyxx

| Blog, designassignments, DesignAssignments358, ds106, Syndicated
February 20, 2020

I decided to go with the recommended assignment since I thought it was cool. I also made it related to the theme, which made it more fun for me. I used the recommended website for the icons and then I just used powerpoint to string them next to each other. It was easy to search […]
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Be My Valentine?

by @BegaKayla

| designassignments, DesignAssignments1619, Syndicated
February 20, 2020

For my last design assignment from the assignment bank I chose to create a valentines day card. I chose to do this with a twist including our class theme of the 80’s. For this assignment I used Canva since I already had some previous experience using it. I selected a template that already existed, deleted …
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Designing a Decision

by @missgoofyxx

| Blog, designthoughts, ds106, Syndicated
February 20, 2020

I chuckled when I noticed the kids book listed on this week’s weekly assignment post. That’s a wonderful book and I think it’s a great book for kids to have because it makes them aware of all the design aspects in the things around them. There are fliers, posters, billboards, store signage, ads, and countless […]
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Dear, Young Student Debtors…

by @jollykyles

| designassignments, DesignAssignments2450, Syndicated
February 20, 2020

You’re not alone. Debt sucks. But there are ways we can overcome it. I’m not saying I haven’t overcome debt yet, but I can assure you that I will, and it’s possible for you to do so as well. Easily. Figure out how much you owe B...
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One Story / Four Icons

by @abiles11

| designassignments, DesignAssignments358, Syndicated
February 20, 2020

This was my favorite assignment this week. It really made me have to think. The move that these Icons represent is the 80’s hit movie, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. I felt like this assignment was having me find the 4 most essential elements to the movie. There were things in the move that […]
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Minimalist TV/Movie Poster – Braveheart

by @abiles11

| designassignments, DesignAssignments43, Syndicated
February 20, 2020

One of my favorite movies is Braveheart, so I wanted to make my minimalist poster of it. A main symbol in the movie is a sword, it is the tool that is used to fight, but in the movie it also represents a tool to gain freedom. I was planning on adding more than just […]
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Wishlist Kids Donation Design Post

by @abiles11

| DesignAssignments2226, Syndicated
February 20, 2020

In the Assignment bank, this wishlist poster was supposed to be for the children of AlDemerdash Hospital. Since there is a hospital in Fredericksburg that shares the same name as the school, I decided to modify the the hospital that these kids we...
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Favorite Movie Quote

by @CRLunn

| designassignments, DesignAssignments1974, Syndicated
February 20, 2020

I love movies, they are truly one of favorite guilty pleasures so this Design Assignment was an obvious choice for me. The prompt involved adding our favorite movie quote to an image from the movie.Honestly, it will be hard for me to document my process for this assignment because it just came to be so …
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Event Poster – UMW Car Show

by @abiles11

| designassignments, DesignAssignments2472, Syndicated
February 20, 2020

Car Show on Ball Circle! #ds106 #DesignAssignments #DesignAssignments2472 pic.twitter.com/cYgnhN4T5F— Alec Biles (@ds106alecbiles) February 20, 2020 UMW very own Car Club is hosting their first car show! hope to see you all there!
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