After watching Title Design: The Making of Movie Titles, I’m intrigued. Fonts are something I have not looked at in-depth in a long while, and…

Assignment 4: The Big Hip Hop (1.5 stars) For this assignment, I had to choose a photo from The Big Picture, which is a website that has some of the best images taken by Globe photographers in the past month, and then add popular song lyrics to it. I scrolled through and came across this […]

Assignment 3: Valentine (4 stars)   This assignment required me to make an extremely early Valentine’s Day card. I had to take whatever love-oriented picture I wanted and add something that made it for Valentine’s Day. I started my google searching the word “love”. I found this funny picture of heart hands I chose it […]

Assignment 2: On the Cover of a Teen Mag (4 stars) For this assignment, I had to take a picture of a political or education figure (or someone you would not see on a magazine) and put their face on a teen magazine. It caught my eye because 5th grade me was a huge fan […]

Assignment 1: One Story, Four Icons (3 stars) The goal of this assignment was to reduce a movie into its basic elements and then turn those elements into visuals or pictures that represent them. I chose this assignment because I love movies, and figured it would be something fun to get me into this new […]

This assignment required us to really put what we have learned about Design Principles to the test, and take pictures of four of the ten concepts in design. It’s very important to practice stuff like this, especially when learning something completely new. This is a foreign concept to a lot of us, and if we […]

@ds106dc I took this picture of the UMW Belltower in 2013, but it looks like it is from long before #tdc1726 pic.twitter.com/4PMidSZqSv — emily dzubak (@emillaaaaaaay) September 29, 2016 I love this filter on photos. I think it’s so cool that you can make something look older just by changing the contrast or exposure. This […]

@ds106dc circles inside of circles! #tdc1725 pic.twitter.com/dvJorLMGzL — emily dzubak (@emillaaaaaaay) September 28, 2016 This Daily Create was a bit random but I went with it!! I just googled pictures of circles and picked the one that I thoug...

Massimo Vignelli and Ed Benguiat are two artists that pursued a career in graphic design. Both artists had no idea that they would ever get into this field, as Vignelli studied architecture and Benguiat doing other things. However, both of them have become two of the most influential and successful designers in the world, just […]

For this assignment I chose, I had to create a wordcloud (not to be confused with soundcloud!) relating to what I have learned from ds106 thus far. This was fairly simple to do but finding a program to actually work was challenging. I decided to use Wordclouds to do this. I got to enter my words and ...

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After taking sometime to read and reflect on The Vignelli Canon, I have a clearer understanding of the message being portrayed. I know a lot of people, myself included struggle with the concept of design, or the meaning of each … Continue reading →

While reading the chapter “Think Process, Not Product” I gained a lot of insight on sharing what I create. This works in more ways of life than just written work. I have a personal sewing business and create my own clothing. I used to share my process, from the beginning to the end. I see how ...

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to figure out what story I’m talking about given these four images. (No, that’s not a hint.) This one should be pretty easy, guys. I have faith in you. If you can’t figure it out, look here for the answer. This was the three-star “Four Icons, … Continue reading 4 Nouns 1 Story →

They were not any instructions for this design assignment. The only clue to this assignment was a picture with words describing what a long distance relationship meant for the viewers. Therefore,  I chose to make a collage of my current long distance relationship. I used Fotoflexer.com to upload my photos of my computer and edit my photos. I … Continue reading “Long Distance Relationship

For today’s Daily Create, I had to find and take a picture of concentric circles. I was in the library and happened to notice this lamp: @ds106dc Concentric circles in a lamp at the library #tdc1725 pic.twitter.com/qtMQftYnrO — Maureen (@gingerchic21) September 29, 2016

#tdc1725 @ds106dc #ds106 Colorful circles that symbolize peace, justice, & tranquility. pic.twitter.com/1cF0T0NPin — Mark Madison (@kipdoe) September 28, 2016

Kleon’s book, “Show your work!” offers two purposes for his message in his book.  He announces first, “Thinking process, not product”. Kleon’s book offers key essentials in order to getting things done effectively. Self-discipline during the process of adversity is the difference maker of achieving an end goal. Taking one day at a time and scheduling well … Continue reading “Think Process and Share Something Each Day”

★★★★☆ First design assignment! I’m starting out with this assignment where I’m supposed to make a poster for an upcoming event. I decided that I’d instead make a poster for an event in the history of one of my conworlds. My girlfriend and I are working on a sci-fi world together. In this...

For the minimalist movie poster Design Assignment I made a poster for Inception. I really liked this movie and I thought it would be easy to do since it has a small symbol that I could easily outline for a poster. That symbol is the spinning top that Leonardo Dicaprio’s character used to tell if … Continue reading Minimalist Inception Poster (3.5 star) →

The goal of this assignment was to take a picture of something recognizable and make it unrecognizable. This was worth 4 stars.  I used my phone to take a really blurry picture of an object in my living room. Here is the link to the original assignment: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/blackmail/ Can you tell what it is? Take a … Continue reading What am I looking at??

Getting a bit of a late start on this one. Crazy week. September 28th, 2016: @ds106dc circles in circles in….hexagon? #tdc1725 pic.twitter.com/3004x4YnqH — Corey Staier…

The goal of this assignment was to add Barack Obama’s face to a movie! This was worth 2 stars. I used faceinhole.com to add his face. Here is the link to the original assignment: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/obama-tize/ “This is so fetch!” -Barack Obama Enjoy! 🙂

I did the missing person assignment in which you had to create a missing person poster for a fictional character. I chose to use Goku from Dragon Ball Z since it was my favorite TV show as a kid (and now…). I followed the missing person poster in the assignment bank as a guide.

For this design assignment we had to create a simple, but detailed logo. I saw this as the perfect opportunity to create a logo for my website.  I just put my domain name in pristina font with my slogan in Segoe. I added the lightning bolt to make it interesting and to symbolize my slogan. … Continue reading Simple But detailed (3.5 star) →

This week I chose the assignment where we had to create a logo that was detailed but yet simple at the same time. I found this interesting because I have my own sewing business and used it as an opportunity to potentially revamp my public image! I used free logo services to create my personal logo. It ...

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They’re many benefits to taking a first step to something you are a brand new too. As individuals we will not know what we are good at if we do not attempt to try. Massimo Vignelli and Ed Benguiat are two design geniuses that took on designs because they like to be limitless when it … Continue reading If you can design one thing, you can design everything”

The goal of this assignment was to create an honest title for a video game. This assignment was worth 2 stars. I used DigiWidgets to edit my photo. Here is the link to the original assignment: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/honest-game-cover/ Every mom loves a good game of just dance! The moves are right in their area of expertise.

I completed a visual assignment worth 4 stars. The goal of this assignment was to take a picture of something really zoomed in and get people to guess what it is. I didn’t have any trouble completing this task. Here is the link to the original assignment: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/thats-not-what-i-expected/ What do you think it is?