This poster I made speaks to me as I have taken a strange route to get to where I am at. I was always into sports and more physical tolling things growing up and I think that has helped me stay mentally strong. One thing I was never involved in …
For this assignment I had to make a business card that resembles myself and the kind of things I love to do.
As you can tell, I love to hike, ski, write software, and game. Those are definitely my four favorite things in the world to do. This is my …
This assignment was a lot of fun because there is a new game I have been playing called Valheim. It is basically like Minecraft where you can build, survive, and craft things.
Above is the picture of the castle I made. It took quite a bit of materials and is …
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 …
For my last Design Assignment I chose to complete Cartoon Me. I actually almost did this assignment during week 2, but decided to save it for another time! Summary: Remake you (or someone you know and love) into a cartoon character. Draw you on a piece of …
Happy Friday everyone!!!! It’s been quite an interesting week working with design. I started by looking through all the readings and videos, and clicking through the articles with all the hyperlinks! You can read about that experience in my design thoughts post. After I spent some time actually learning …
One of the assignments this week was to create our own menu, and I chose to make a burger menu! I used a template from Canva.com and was able to find a great template to customize. I loaded the menu up with all of my favorite appetizers, types of burgers, …
For my last assignment this week, I decided to attempt the poster project that we talked about in our Weekly Assignments post for this week. I was a bit stuck when I was trying to think about what I was going to put on my poster; there are so many …
Only week six? Not even double digits?! That’s crazy to me and I am slowly falling behind in my work and seeing a little bit of burnout. I think this is a little evident in the work for this class, but I still really enjoy all of the work I …
I received this flyer after getting my COVID test and it reminded me of a lot of the flyers that I got sent home to show my parents in elementary school. It was really interesting to me to see that they would make such an important and informational piece …
Being honest, I understood that a lot of time, money, and energy go into the design of most products around us, but I always felt that it was such a waste. I had heard stories of medical companies spending so much money and time to ask people questions about a …
For the other projects I’ve done so far, I’ve been using templates and premade designs to make another product. I decided to try to produce something that was more hands on, so I worked on the Create Your Own Logo assignment! This assignment just asks you to design a …
For this assignment I took a basic silhouette picture off the web and added a little quote to create the poster! Motivation often comes in simple one liners for a lot of people and that’s what this poster aims to capture. See it and get going! …
For this assignment out of the design principles section, I chose to create a cover for VOGUE magazine. I did this before I saw that on the homepage there was a recently added “Vogue Challenge” assignment. So I’m keeping it here for old times sake! I was inspired to do …
For one of my weekly assignments under the Design Principles category of the Assignment bank, I decided to create my very own logo. I really like fox and hence why I designed this logo for a company called RedTail Outdoors. I had this idea of geometric shapes because I’ve …
This week we had some fun daily creates and I actually learned about icebergs! For this weeks daily creates I went with some fun options and got to play around with more photography! On my twitter its easy to see what I chose to post but if you aren’t following …
I decided to take it upon myself to add my own design assignment into the bank of assignments for design because I felt there was nothing really there that satisfied what I was looking for and that is bringing it back to basics! It’s important to see more in design …
For starters, this is my post about what I learned watching the videos and my overall thoughts about design.
This is my designblitz activity! It was really fun to look around and pinpoint what I learned from the videos.
These are my design …
For one of my weekly assignments, I chose to create a poster/collage about certain aspects of my story. For starters a lot of my story is based on food and family or what I like to call the F&F. Since I am Italian, I had to include a picture of …
For this assignment, I needed to create a magazine cover for whatever topic I wanted. I previously stated how much I enjoyed Nintendo on the second week of class, but I thought it was fair to bring it up again. I loved playing Nintendo games and still do, the Zelda …
For this assignment, I needed to use a website called MY CUSTOM SKIN which helps you create a laptop cover. I chose a few of my favorite things, as if this was a book cover trying to hook you into the story. For starters, I put my name on the …
For this assignment, I needed to create a fun and interesting license plate. When I was bored in high school, I would look up on my computer cool plate commendations for my “dream car”. When I was doing this assignment, I wanted to select a cool background that reflects where …
This is my Design Blitz assignment for this week.
This photo represents unity as all the individual elephants are the same shape and size, but together they make something much bigger. There is a sense of wholeness and unity because they are all touching.
This photo represents dominance. There is …
This post is about what I learned from this weeks readings. I learned how color can focus the viewer on what is important. For instance, a white background allows the view to focus in on the objects or people in the photo, given there is little background distractions. Color can …
For my DesignBlitz, I chose to do the 4 concepts of color, proportion, balance and typography. For the first one, proportion, I took a picture of my teammate at the UMW tennis center after practice ended to show the size proportion of a person compared to the building size. I …
As I scrolled through the Design Assignments in the ds106 Assignment Bank, an image caught my eye:
At first glance, I thought it said “Memelets”, not Mermlet’s. My misreading paired with the title of the assignment (“Create a Logo that is simple but detailed”) inspired my idea for …
One of my favorite groups of all time! I am a concert junkie and every time they have been in the area, I was there. Covid has really bummed me out because I had a festival and a few concerts planned. There was a point in time I went to …
For this visual assignment, I literally sat, staring out my window while I worked and wished I was outside. The last few times I was off and planned to go anywhere, it was raining. We were instructed to create a contradicting graphic that was somewhat “anti-motivational”. I honestly hate being …
One of my favorite movies is The Wiz. Michael Jackson and Diana Ross brought a whole different feel to the story line. Before the movie, The Wiz was a musical in Baltimore and later lead to Broadway in the 70s. Initially, the show did not have very much support and …
