I have a picture of heels because I am obsessed with shoes. I have a picture of a family because that’s what I live for. I have a picture of the color burgundy because that is my favorite color. I have a picture of college students because I am still working on a higher degree. … Continue reading Who am I

This week was a rough one. I learned quite a lot about myself through our assignments. One, that I appreciate the aesthetics and value of visual art. Two, that I’m not very good at the execution of design. I was much better when I wasn’t out of practice. Anyways, I had some fun (when I … Continue reading Weekly Summary #6 →

Looks like I missed Friday. Thankfully, Morlium had me covered. I may have to talk to him about his quality of work, though… So, happy design week. Design assignments sure do cover quite a variety of topics. I created an icon for my blog, now I have to find out how to get it in […]

I thought that I would put them all in one post to make it a ton easier! Upside down Nana in a basket @ds106dc #tdc1361 pic.twitter.com/Ws3cOAGuA9 — Gabby Christie (@christie_gabby) September 30, 2015 The first one that I did was taking a picture of something upside down and I chose to do my friends cat […]

Here’s a sports gif I found of a good football play

  There is no story behind this picture. A story implies an end, something completed. What do you call something still in its infancy? An introduction? Yes, there is an introduction behind this picture. An introduction of a man to a woman he knew well. An introduction that could occur despite the two already knowing […]

Week 6 came and went! I did most of my work huddled up in my bed because my house was a chilly 55 degree, brrrr. Fortunately I had plenty of blankets and hot chocolate to pull me through. Then finally...

I LOVED DESIGN WEEK! I absolutely love designing things and am glad I got to read up on concepts of design and how they work to better designs. I enjoyed reading The Vignelli Canon and wrote about how I interpreted Vignelli’s concepts. Once I read on how to use design concepts to better my design … Continue reading Weekly Summary 10/2/2015

Today I bought a blueberry muffin!

This is my Pokemon its name is Pureen It is a water type and it lives in water.

I must admit when I met my husband it was not love at first site.  I was drunk in London England (typical sailors) and I remember he and his friends were just as intoxicated as I was but they were being rude, loud and obnoxious.  At some point he stepped on my foot by accident … Continue reading Love At First Site

Once upon a time there was a beautiful young girl who lived on a hill with her mother and father. She had beautiful blue eyes and pure white hair and skin. Her father was known and admired across the land and when she was little she loved being a daddy’s girl. One day the little … Continue reading A Perfect Love Story

HMmm…Maze. At first I was tempted to go inception on this assignment (take 2 minutes to draw a maze that takes 1 minute to solve), and do something simple and trivial. Fortunately, I came with a better idea. I am a fan of iterative design, and the easiest way to iteratively design a maze is […]

Out of the 3 films, I chose to watch Planet of the Vampires. I’m not going to lie, I didn’t find this particular film too interesting, and it was hard to pay attention to the plot. At least that isn’t...

Over the course of this week I took the time to take photos of things that I usually see everyday. Color This is a painting that I see everyday in my apartment and it is my absolute favorite. The boardwalk itself is in a yellow tan color that has a perfect contrast to the different […]

What drew me to this assignment? An opportunity to express personality without talking about myself. How convenient. Obviously, my icon is going to be almost a square, and it has to contrast with an orange background like that of my blog. Lessgo… I actually took two iterations at this assignment. The first was a broken […]

Wow, a minimalist poster? sounds like my kind of assignment. Lots of thinking, little tedium. When it comes to deciding what movie I wanted to do a minimalist poster on, I only had a few options. The example posters all had readily identifiable nouns in their designs, and I know of very few movies with […]

Hmm…imaginary warning label. The only question is, what can I think of that could be dangerous enough to warrant a warning label? How about whatever inspired this commercial: Not stated in the commercial is the following. How could they neglect putting that in the commercial? Must be the Alliance’s payment for letting them put subliminal […]

As part of the discussion on design, I watched Planet of the Vampires. Personally, I believe there are a lot of flaws in the movie, but I won’t be talking about the plot or the acting, but instead focusing on the design elements of the movie. The unforgivable flaw in the movie is the lack […]

For the Assignment Bank project titled “DESIGNCEPTION” (worth 4 stars), I had to take a picture of objects nested within each other so I took my Inuyasha DVD omnibus and put my Taemin CD inside one of the slots and put my Pokemon Blue game in front of it.

Wow, the design article is quite a read. I will focus on just a few points of the article, lest I start to ramble (there is a certain difficulty in covering 90+ pages of material, even if it is a short read). It is interesting that the examples in the paper, such as the paper […]

If there’s one thing that I learned from reading the Vignelli Canon (of course, there are more), it’s that aesthetically pleasing things are generally balanced and set to grids, be they imaginary or otherwise. In previous graphic design classes, it was a concept I’d heard of numerous times. While I understand that this aesthetic value … Continue reading The Vignelli Canon →

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One of the things that I immediately noticed was the shifting of camera angles during dialogues. Whenever someone spoke, the camera shifted behind whomever was listening to give a clear view of them. Something as simple as that seems to work effectively because it breaks the mundanity of remaining still for too long. This dynamic camerawork, … Continue reading Planet of the Vampires – A response →

So for the DesignBlitz I had to take a picture of something that represents Proportion (the doll), Balance (yoga mats), Dominance (skull), Typography (poster), and color (Salt & Vinegar potato chips). Proportion: I took a picture of the doll for proportion because although her proportions might not be very standard when it comes to normal … Continue reading @DesignBlitz@

This is a design assignment and it was worth 2 and a half stars. For this assignment I had the chance of customizing shoes and making them my own. I went onto my favorite shoe brand VANS and chose their high top shoe known as “SK8-HI.”  I started out with the pattern part of the […]

I loved this so much. I am slightly disappointed in myself for not taking the chance to watch Alien since I’ve never seen it but with the title Planet of the Vampires- well I needed to know. The acting was so bad in the movie haha. There is this one scene at the beginning when … Continue reading Planet of the Vampires. ^o^

This is a design assignment worth 3 stars. For this assignment the task was to make a book cover of a movie without using a photo of the actor or in my case it would be a character since it is animated. I chose one of my favorite childhood movies because I thought why not. […]

For today’s daily create (10/2/15) I was supposed to take a picture outside my window. Unfortunately by the time I went to take a picture it was too dark outside. So instead, enjoy a cool window that I found online!

This is a Design Assignment worth 3 and a 1/2 stars. I had to choose a story, event, or movie and narrow it down to four icons in hope that someone will figure it out. I started out by picking a movie. I chose one that isn’t recent but was pretty well known back in […]