Week 6 Summary I started off the week with the longest assignment of all of them, reading Vignelli. I didn’t particularly enjoy this assignment because I don’t like reading all that much, but I can say that I still learned a decent amount about design from it.  It was a bit repetitive, but it was an […]

This is a poster for the upcoming baseball games tomorrow.   3 Stars

This wanted poster is for the infamous bank robber Andy!

Daily Creates Week 6 #ds106 #tdc1501 #dailycreate Definitely food and sleep pic.twitter.com/D359JAqbTi — Christina Gaul (@chrissy_gaul) February 17, 2016   I think this is the cutest photo of a cat and a baby. Also, I completely relate to the fact that food and sleep is all I need in life. #tdc1502 #ds106 #dailycreate seeing both […]

This week was full of designs! In order to get started, I reflected on the Vignelli Canon of good design practices. I then used what I learned to interpret Western design and the making of today’s logos. Once I finished reading and analyzing, I put it to the test through my own assignments. I created … Continue reading Designing the Scene →

This poster came out of an assignment that asked us to make a minimalist TV/Movie poster. Unsure of what to do, I decided to go with something I’ve been enjoying quite a bit lately: Gunsmoke, an old radio show which later got a TV series adaptation. I made this poster to reflect the Old West idea … Continue reading Gunsmoke Visualized →

Design Blitz Clemonlemon: This week, me and my roommate found a clementine that was shaped like a lemon. This is a great example of minimalism because it is simply a clementine on a napkin, and it is only 2 colors. Snowy Sunset: Earlier in the week, it snowed and it was a picture perfect moment when […]

The booklet on design really helped me learn about many things I didn’t know about design previously.  I didn’t understand how much design was in our daily lives.  I always had ideas of design from things I have had to previously do through school or my previous jobs, but what I took away from this […]

Week six is over. Design was pretty interesting. I personally had no idea there was a whole field of study devoted to it. I supposed I’m more familiar with traditional fields such as biology, chemistry, geology, physics, etc. and not the artsy ones. A lot of work went into this week. Here’s the rundown. This […]

This week was one of my favorite weeks of Digital Storytelling because I actually enjoyed completing every assignment. It fit with the types

As I was looking through some of the western design on the movie posters, some of the major themes that stood out to me were color, typography, balance, dominance, and unity.  The colors almost always show some sort of mystery; this gives the watcher impelling thoughts to watch the movies.  The typography allows for the […]

I completed three daily creates this week. The first one asked us to interpret the meaning of life. The meaning of life: I think it’s to make friends and have fun. @ds106dc #tdc1501 #ds106The meaning of life: have fun, make true friends pic.twitter.com/3yvQDOOAIK — Michael Anzelmo (@mezzmello) February 17, 2016 In the next tdc we […]

Cheshire Cat Assignment: Minimalist TV/Movie Poster Assignment Description: “Create a tv/movie poster that captures the essence of the story through the use of minimalist design/iconography.” You’ve Gone Mad: My all time favorite movie is Alice in Wonderland, the Tim Burton Version. Also, my favorite character in this movie is the Chesire Cat. Therefore, naturally, I made […]

To reinforce my understanding of design principles, I decided to embark on a design blitz. My first photo was of the cup that held my coffee. I believe it’s a fitting example of rhythm. It’s repeating coffee beans give it a sense of rhythm. There are just enough in various orientations to hold a viewers […]

This week I captioned a painting, turned a dog into a GIF, and chose my favored mode of Western transportation. Here are the tweets:

This photo displayed to me the aspect of “unity” in design.  The same poses, similar clothing, and colors all portray this effect. This photo of myself reminded me of “balance” in design.  My interesting facial hair choice, is rather balanced. This photo reminded me of “dominance” in design.  The color and background allow for my […]

This week, as everyone knows, we focused on design. I thought that this week was very similar to photography in terms of what we were looking at as characteristics of design. I really enjoyed reading Vignelli’s booklet. One of my favorite things about it, besides the content was how clear it is that Vignelli loves … Continue reading "Designing Everyday"

Looking through the posters and based on the Western genre type movies I’ve noticed a few different things. Generally, in terms of color there seem to be about 4 colors that dominate in westerns and on the posters: yellow, brown, red, and black. These colors are usually in some type of hue throughout the movie. … Continue reading "Themes in Western Designs"

This week I have learned a lot about design. Whether it be from reading Massimo Vignelli’s “The Vignelli Canon” or by completing the

Assignment: One Story/ Four Items 3 Stars Assignment Description: “This idea was first suggested by Tom Woodward and has been a long standing popular ds106 assignment. The assignment is to reduce a movie, story, or event into its basic elements, then take those visuals and reduce them further to simple icons, four of them. Write your blog post up […]

For the DesignBlitz assignment, I chose to work on color, typography, balance, and proportion. I did this by choosing what concepts I wanted to focus on, and then looked for different things to represent the concepts. This is what I got. I toke a picture of my mom’s flowers from valentine’s day to represent color, […]

Once again this week, we had to complete 3 daily creates. They were all pretty fun this week. For my first one, I had to add some text to an existing gif. I added some glittery text since it was for a birthday and played around with the text some. I used the site recommended … Continue reading "Daily Creations"

Before reading The Vignelli Canon, there were many aspects to graphic design that I did not think about. For example, Vignelli states that there are three aspects in design that stood out to him. These three were semantics, syntactics, and pragmatics. As I read, I found myself taking notes because there was so much to […]

The design week was very fun, and was the week I was most comfortable going from the onset. Reading the Vignelli Canon allowed me to gain deeper insight to the world of design. I applied this to my brief investigation of western design. These principles were also using during my design blitz. However, before I read … Continue reading Week 6 Summary

This assignment was actually the first time I uploaded anything to flickr, I always preferred to just upload it through the site, since flickr is kinda annoying to use. I made sure to do this last, after being exposed to various aspects of design all week. Balance: Our very own belltower at Mary Washington. It’s … Continue reading Designblitz

I created this assignment through computer applications paint and PicMonkey. I used a picture of my dog, ChiChi, that I already had, and then added text to the image through PicMonkey. For the white background (layout), I used paint to create the dimensions I wanted for the poster.  This was my outcome. NOTE: I did notice […]

As a lover of books, I was at awe when I saw I could recreate the cover of one of my favorite classics. I have the Barnes & Nobel’s hardcover edition of Dracula, by Bram Stoker, and I was absolutely love the way they designed the cover. For this edition, I wanted to recreate Dracula, […]

For the 10-star-worth design assignments, I decided to do create my own wedding invitation. I used the computer applications paint and PicMonkey to do so. I created a pink-salmon color layout on paint, then transferred it to PicMonkey, where I added a “wedding style” banner and text. It was a difficult assignment in the sense […]

This week’s DesignBlitz was the assignment I was least looking forward to this week. I don’t know why I felt this way, but

This week we were asked to do a design blitz based off of the logos or signs around us. While I was thinking about this assignment, I realized that most of the items around us have a design or logo somewhere on them. So, here is a survey of the items in my room, more … Continue reading Design Blitz →