Ah, design, I know yee not at all.  Even though I’ve never designed before, I felt pretty good about my work this week.  I think the elements are pretty fundamental and universal, and the concept isn’t hard to grasp.  I’m not really into the nuances of aesthetics, but I get it (I think? I hope?).  … Continue reading (Insert Creative Title for Design Summary)

  This is my “Vintage-ify a Place” project! (worth 2 stars) I forgot it was supposed to be a place so I made a photo of my friend’s and I cosplaying vintage-ish. I thought it turned out well so I kept it anyways… XD Okabe Rintaro——–Itaru Hashida (Daru)——- Makise Kurisu from the anime Steins;Gate (original … Continue reading ~Vintage Cosplay~

“The Love At First Shot” assignment! Context: They are at the beach with their daughter and some extended family watching as their family is being- well- family. They are both kind of embarrassed but when they look at each other they know that they have been through worse together and look forward to facing even more … Continue reading Love-*

This week I looked at signs, ads, and other objects and the concepts of design. I found four uses of design while making a grocery run and coming back home. To begin with I noticed this new flavor of Fanta, mango Fanta. The thing that caught my eye on this soda was the color. This … Continue reading DesignBlitz in the Grocery Store →

All images from WFMU’s Beware of the Blog
Music: “Scary music for a Horror Movie film score creepy synth” by geoffpeters

10/02/15 – 10/16/15

This week and next we will be working on producing radio shows. The shows will be broadcast on ds106radio the week after they are due.

Group Radio Show Guidelines

The radio show will be a group … Read the rest

  Prior to this week I never paid close attention to the details that go into successful visuals for example, the design elements. The Vignelli Canon was an interesting reading and although, it was short I found the information to be very informative. The different pictures throughout the reading are what caught my eye. I […]

As my last design project this week I have made a Movie Poster of Professor Groom!  I am proud of how this one turned out . . . It seemed so simple.  I don’t use anything fancy like photoshop; this was done using Microsoft paint.  I am getting pretty good with Microsoft paint even if … Continue reading Professor Groom Poster

Okay so some of you are probably marking down the days until Halloween; but I used my design time to get a jump on Christmas!  Since I was able to make a stickman post-it note GIF without too much trouble I found another GIF assignment to do.  I made the Christmas Card Gif – I … Continue reading One good GIF deserves another!

This week we were asked to watch some films and comment on the use of design.  I have Netflix at home which I pay for and barely use, so I decided to put it to good use this week and view the Black Sabbath trilogy.  Actually I found watching these old films to be a relaxing … Continue reading Black Sabbath Trilogy

Today I give you four icon pictures that should hint at a specific movie. These icons were found here and were all chosen to represent one of my favorite movies. Guess in the comments if you think you have it! This was a 3.5 star design assignment for Ds 106

Rhythm:   Balance   Minimalism & Use of Space   Dominance   Proportion DesignBlitz My professor told me to take a camera around with me wherever I go this week.  I noticed that I paid more attention to my surroundings. I read some of the articles in the Design Resource Center to ensure that I […]

This photo was taken of my boyfriend and I on our vacation to Florida this past summer.  (Don’t be fooled the photos were totally staged by his mom and sister) LJ & I have been together since we were seniors in High School so.. I guess we are considered to be High School sweethearts <3 […]

Planet of the Vampires directed by Mario Bava was peculiar in the way he designed the planet to be displayed. The way that the setting of the planet that they landed on had a unique layout. Bava would do close shots of the fog which in turn represented the parasites as they had taken over […]

How I did it: I wasn’t crazy about the design week since I am pre-internet era.  However, I was able to combine the two for this old school/new age GIF.  I drew a stickman flip book on post it notes (totally old school).  Poor little stickman learns about gravity.  Then I went new age on … Continue reading I made an animated GIF for you!

Halloween shopping can be expensive. To illustrate this I decided to make a witch made of a barcode. I decided to go about this in what I believe to be an interesting way. Instead of cutting the barcode into pieces I decided to find a silhouette of a witch and edit out the black piece essentially … Continue reading Halloween Shopping →

I found this assignment to be fairly easy.  First, I went to Google and searched Nike and Adidas logos.  I saved the Nike logo to my desktop and opened up the paint application.  I copied the Adidas logo onto the same document and combined the two logos together by cropping.  I believe that Nike and […]

Every profession has a set of ethical standards, or cannons, which it strives to follow in order to be a worthy endeavor.  Even the profession of creative design, where the ideal of design is to think outside of the box of ordinary thinking or standard expectations.  In the Vignelli Cannon by Massimo Vignelli, it says “Design without discipline … Continue reading Professional Ethics

The catchphrase I chose to illustrate is one that I heard when watching re-runs as a kid. It might not be hard to guess but the picture might throw you off of who said it. For this assignment it wasn’t hard to actually complete I just joined three images together to get the phrase. without … Continue reading Seeing and Speaking Tripple →

When it comes to computer wallpaper, I am quite the aficionado. On my desktop I run a two monitor display so I like to make it so there is one large continuous image going across my background instead of a copied image so I am no stranger to computer wallpapers. Today I made a Ds106 … Continue reading Ds106 Wallpaper Creation →

  Hydrangea, Washington Monuments, rainbow, road, different types of sign with different writing fonts,intersection before getting to UMW,bicycle space, coffee and pastries. http://

While I took the time to fully read this brochure I came to the conclusion that I had no idea what measures had to be taken in order to be successful in design. It started out with the semantics. Anyone can think that an image or a creation was pretty but is their depth? When […]

This week we were prompted to choose which movie we wanted to watch (I like it). I choose Black Sabbath, why? because is the name of a rock bad I like. Black Sabbath is composed of three stories that I am going to reflect below by separate. However, what I could see from the three … Continue reading Black Sabbath →

Assignment (3 1/2 stars) For this assignment, we had to create a motivational poster. I chose to focus on the concept of teamwork, and found this picture that I thought worked perfectly. It’s not very often you see cats and dogs getting along together in the first place, but much less so working together to accomplish… Read More

So I’m not the most observant person in the world. I just learned that the rainy weather outside is actually part of a hurricane and that it is also approaching daylights savings time. I had to google when it was to make sure that it hadn’t already happened. I’m a mess. Anyways~ this is the … Continue reading Change? What Change?

Assignment (3 stars) For this assignment, we had to find a picture of an animal that we have, and then edit the photo by adding something funny or crazy to it. The photo above is of my dachshund, Spencer, after I added a mustache, hipster glasses, and the bottom part of a sombrero. He’s already… Read More

Assignment (4 stars) For this assignment, we had to find different adjectives or items that describe ourselves, and then fit them into an acronym of your name. To complete this assignment, I first thought up of five different words that could represent each letter of my name. I then found different pictures on Google that could… Read More