My Design Thoughts

My Design Thoughts

by @mto_morgan

| designthoughts, Syndicated, Week 6
March 4, 2021

The article in reference: A Kid’s Guide to Graphic Design by Iconic Designer Chip Kidd It really is amazing how design touches just about every aspect of daily life. Every website, logo, advertisement, and much more contain different principles of design. This quote speaks to me: “Everything that is not made by nature is designed by someone.” I guess I just did […]
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Designer Dilemma

by @V20Kai

| Syndicated, Week 6, WeeklySummary
February 21, 2020

Week 6 was one of those weeks where, in hindsight it wasn’t that bad, but during the week it was a struggle. I started my week with a daily create where I drew (and colored via the photo editing app on my phone) a big hear hugging a little heart. This was a cute and […]
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Don’t Overthink It: Everything Has Some Kind Of Design

by @V20Kai

| designblitz, Syndicated, Week 6
February 21, 2020

When I first looked at the Design Blitz assignment, I found it overwhelming and didn’t know what kind of designs I should share, but it wasn’t until today (the last day of Week 6), that I realized just how much I was overthinking this whole assignment. It didn’t have to be posters, it could be […]
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Week 6 Summary:

by @kvawterds106

| ds106, Summaries, Syndicated, Week 6, WeeklySummary
February 21, 2020

This week was really rally really fun for me. All of the assignments in the bank looked appealing and it was hard to choose only...
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DesignBlitz:

by @kvawterds106

| designblitz, Summaries, Syndicated, Week 6
February 21, 2020

For the designblitz assignment this week we had to chose four concepts from the list about design that we saw around us. The one I...
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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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When You Need to Be Motivated to Be Un-Motivated

by @V20Kai

| #DesignAssignments2075, designassignments, Syndicated, Week 6
February 19, 2020

Because of my dry humor, I did not hesitate to do the Contradiction Creation design assignment. I love motivational quotes just as much as the next person, but sometimes they can be a little (no–very) cheesy, and what better to destroy all this positivity than with a dash of pessimistic realism? At first, I wanted […]
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Have You Heard of “Yosakoi”?

by @V20Kai

| designassignments, DesignAssignments2472, Syndicated, Week 6
February 19, 2020

「よさこいを知っていますか？」Do you know yosakoi? I am not–and never will be–tired of bringing in my Japan adventures into my work. When I decided to do my third design assignment on an Event Poster, the first two things that came to mind were bhangra and yosakoi. However, the first actual event that came to mind between those […]
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A Little Less for a Little Mermaid

by @V20Kai

| designassignments, DesignAssignments43, Syndicated, Week 6
February 18, 2020

So far, this design assignment has been the most challenging for me, and I would like to say that this is because I didn’t know how I wanted to approach it. I decided to do a Minimalist TV/Movie Poster for Disney’s The Little Mermaid (1989). What initially came to mind was using a blue gradient […]
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Message behind the Design

by @eamds106

| designblitz, Syndicated, Week 6
February 18, 2020

DesignBlitz is almost like a PhotoBlitz. You’re still taking photos and looking for specific things, but different specific things. Before starting the assignment, I read through the Design Resources pageContinue readingMessage behind the Design
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80’s Karaoke Poster:

by @kvawterds106

| Assignment Bank, designassignments, DesignAssignments2472, Syndicated, Week 6
February 18, 2020

For this assignment I decided to use Canva to make a Karaoke night poster that I would see on a college campus like ours. The...
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Lyric Typography Poster

by @kvawterds106

| Assignment Bank, designassignments, DesignAssignments529, Syndicated, Week 6
February 18, 2020

I chose this song because it is not only my favorite song, but gives also gives a really inspiring message. Seeing this song is such...
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“A Kid’s Guide to Graphic Design” Response

by @kvawterds106

| designthoughts, Syndicated, Week 6
February 18, 2020

“It doesn’t occur to most people that everything is designed-that every building and everything they touch in the world is designed,” This quote to start...
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Can You Guess the 80s Movie?

by @V20Kai

| designassignments, DesignAssignments358, Syndicated, Week 6
February 18, 2020

Now that I finally have a bit of a break in my week, I did my first design assignment, One Story / Four Icons on an 80s movie to tie it to our course theme. All of the icons are plot related, whether they pertain to a specific part of the story, the story as […]
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Wanted: Captain America

by @eamds106

| designassignments, DesignAssignments1888, Syndicated, Week 6
February 18, 2020

Spoiler Alert: This post will spoil Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Infinity War. During my weekly deep search into the assignment bank, I came across the Missing Person assignmentContinue readingWanted: Captain America
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Derry Carnival

by @eamds106

| designassignments, DesignAssignments2472, Syndicated, Week 6
February 18, 2020

I was browsing through the assignment bank and saw the Event Poster assignment. It caught my eye because the example was the Stark Expo and I just recently found myContinue readingDerry Carnival
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Literal Lyrics

by @eamds106

| designassignments, DesignAssignments94, Syndicated, Week 6
February 18, 2020

Another fun assignment I found in the bank was the Name that Single assignment. In this one, you use a simple design to describe the name of the song andContinue readingLiteral Lyrics
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Four Picture Movie

by @eamds106

| designassignments, DesignAssignments358, Syndicated, Week 6
February 17, 2020

For my first assignment of the week, I decided to do one of the recommended ones: One Story / Four Icons. This assignment asks you to take a story/movie/whatever andContinue readingFour Picture Movie
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Truthful Movie Poster:

by @kvawterds106

| Assignment Bank, designassignments, DesignAssignments639, Syndicated, Week 6
February 17, 2020

For the truthful movie poster I decided to incorporate our course theme of the 80’s and use one of my favorite 80’s movies The Breakfast...
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Week 6 Daily Creates

by @kvawterds106

| Daily Creates, dailyassignments, dailycreates, ds106photography, Syndicated, Week 6
February 17, 2020

I used the link provided to create the colors that would best represent my name. I am not quite sure what these colors mean but...
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What is Design?

by @eamds106

| designthoughts, Syndicated, Week 6
February 17, 2020

These two articles were very different from each other, but they were both insightful in their own ways. The first article gets really detailed about all of the different aspectsContinue readingWhat is Design?
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Laptop Lingo:

by @kvawterds106

| Assignment Bank, DesignAssignments1534, DesignAssignments2202, Syndicated, Week 6
February 17, 2020

For this assignment I used three photos from unsplash.com and photoshop. I knew I wanted to create a pretty collage of nature photos so I...
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Wedding Invitation Assignment:

by @kvawterds106

| Assignment Bank, designassignments, designassignments1750, Syndicated, Week 6
February 17, 2020

For my first design assignment this week I chose the wedding invite option. I chose this one for two reasons. The first being that wedding...
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What Makes Excellent Design?

by @V20Kai

| designthoughts, Syndicated, Week 6
February 16, 2020

Today I read Massimo Vignelli’s The Vignelli Canon and a Brain Pickings article about Chip Kidd and his book on design for children to gain a better understanding of what makes an excellent design. Honestly speaking, there were many things I never considered. In all the times that I have ever “designed” anything, I merely […]
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Week 6: Summary

by @camowalker22

| Syndicated, Week 6, WeeklySummary
October 4, 2019

This week I learned how to design posters or book covers. I really enjoyed this because it allows you to be creative and tell a story before putting any description below it. Being able to create posters based on the classes theme of the 80’s was fun to do. The design blitz we were asked…
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Week 6: Playing Catch Up

by @laasarge

| Blog Post, blog posts, Syndicated, Week 6, week reflection
February 26, 2018

By now, my desktop has become littered with saved images, PhotoShop files, drafts, transparents, half-edited messes and more. Spring break is calling my name and my computer would like a clean out, please. But I had an enjoyable week of doing one of my favorite […]
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Designer Dash

by @laasarge

| blog posts, design assignments, designassignments, designblitz, Syndicated, Week 6
February 26, 2018

This week we were tasked with a design blitz, the sequel to the ever popular photo blitz. I luckily went to the grocery store this past weekend, which gave me the perfect material to snap. There were ads, signage in the store and products that […]
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Week 6: A Recap

by @eafinto

| alternate cover, apocalpyse, apocalyptic, Assignments, California, Daily Creates, designblitz, ds106, Reflection, Syndicated, Week 6, weekly question, weekly update, Weekly Updates, word cloud
February 25, 2018

We’ve made it through Week 6! I didn’t know if I’d make it! This week has had its absolute ups and its awful downs. For one thing, I had to say goodbye to my sweet yellow lab, Molly, on Thursday after 14 years together! I hate it, but I’m getting through it! Besides everything that’s […]
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You’ve Got Mail

by @cypherpunk106

| Syndicated, Week 6, Week Six, Weekly Posts
February 25, 2018

Hello everyone! Week 6 is over and that makes me sad because I really liked this weeks’ work. I really did enjoy thoughtfully creating and using the skills I learned through our design lessons. I started this week... Read More
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Design is Adult’s Play

by @laasarge

| blog posts, media reflection, Syndicated, Week 6
February 25, 2018

This week I absorbed two Ted talks by famous graphic designers who have done work for the The Met Opera, Quicksilver and more. I’m not sure if this was how it was meant to be taken, but to me the two speakers seemed like two […]
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