I made this trading card in accordance with this assignment, which calls for making trading cards based on a movie. I chose 3:10 to Yuma in order to fit it in with the Western theme and because the cinematography works well as compositions for cards. Emmy, on the left, is ignoring the advances of Wade, a rough outlaw … Continue reading 3:10 to Trading Cards →

Jesse James has always had a special place in my heart as far as outlaws go. Granted, he was a crazy guy and certainly not a saint, but I have done quite a bit of research on him in the past and so I feel a sort of acquaintance with his questionable character. He would … Continue reading Wanted: Jesse James →

Size, proportion, typeface, grids, white space, etc. Thought and care must go into design to impart purpose. I suppose I’ve never really thought about any of this because I’ve never had to. Everyday objects: signs, water bottles, posters, flyers, corporate letters, etc are designed for their purpose. When designing most posters or projects for class […]

For this week it was all about design. I was to read about design, do a design blitz, 10 stars worth of assignments, a required assignment and three daily creates. This week was a little challenging since I don’t have much experience in the design department but I did it! First up is the daily … Continue reading Weekly Summary 2/12 – 2/19

Done with week six and if I did my math correctly we are 1/3 of the way done with this semester. This week was all about design. The first thing I did this week was read Vignelli’s Cannoon and then post a reflection about it. I really enjoyed reading this small booklet on design. All of […]

This week we had to design blitz which was to find 4 or 10 design elements out in the real world such as in magazines, newspapers, signs, etc. After taking pictures of the elements we then had to upload them to Flickr. So here are my four elements with the corresponding description above the picture. […]

While it might not be from a movie, I thought it would be fun to create a trading card for the current TV show I’m binge watching on Netflix: Sons of Anarchy. As the week has progressed, I’ve become better at layering images on top of one another using the tools at freephototool.com. I first started … Continue reading "Design Assignment – Movie Trading Cards"

This assignment of making a digital reflection of yourself was actually quite easy in my opinion. It was kind of easy because on

For Week Six, we had to focus on design. You can see in my reflection post about Vignelli my thoughts about it, but I learned a lot this week about what is takes to design and how there is always more to it than seems. You can also look at my reflection post about western … Continue reading Week Six: 2/18/16

For this assignment, we had to create a missing flyers poster of anyone we wanted. I chose to do Shrek, one of my favorite cartoon movie characters from when I was younger. I used Microsoft word to complete this assignment and actually had a lot of fun doing it! It was fairly simple, I just … Continue reading Help!

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This assignment was my favorite that I’ve done for Digital Storytelling this semester. Also, the assignment turned out to be a lot of

For this assignment, you had to customize a pair of shoes and then compare it to the original pair. I chose to use NikeID to customize my shoes, I have done this before so I was familiar with how to do it. I tried to design a pair of shoes that I would want to … Continue reading ShoesShoesShoes

Western themed designs most notably include strong backgrounds of western plains or canyons with combinations of cowboys, horses, or any other western character. The proportions and colors used to bring the 2 dimensional characters portrayed in the medium to life are usually strong in order to blend the characters with the title making them synonymous with […]

For this 3 star assignment, I had to create four icons using minimalist designs that would show a story or movie that people

Design is all around us, I knew that before reading this, but this article really opened my mind to more designs! I love how design is everywhere. I also love home remodels….which has a lot of design elements. They way the home is laid out is a design…… the way the tile is laid, cabinet […]

This assignment call Change of Scenery required you to put yourself or others in a different setting. This assignment was worth 4 stars and I had a lot of fun completing this one. To complete this assignment I used the app fotobom. I took two different pictures, one of myself dressed as an Oompa Loompa and … Continue reading Surfin’

For this 3.5 star assignment, I had to either create a TV or Movie Poster using a Minimalist design. I’ve always liked looking

When I think of a western cowboys, guns, black and white, horses, and scary music comes to my mind. Typically people have their mind set when they think about westerns, I know I did…..But, after reading Vignellis’ article westerns typically use the colors of red, blue, and yellows. The primary colors…..if black and white isn’t […]

  So my favorite purse brand is Louis Vuitton. Their designs are timeless on all of their accessories. Their major competitor is Chanel, of course another very high end brand. For this assignment I have found a representation for what Chanels’ logo would look like it LV was monogrammed in it. This image represents, to […]

Completing the design blitz assignment was fun, it was similar to the photoblitz assignment but required a lot more thinking. You don’t really think of all the elements that go into something until you are asked to complete an assignment like this so it was interesting to see all the different things I found in … Continue reading Color, Dominance, Rhythm & Typography

For this assignment I decided to customize a pair of Nike Free Runs 4.0. I picked this shoe because I LOVE them. I have 3 pairs already, but would love to have these I created. First of all I love gray, it goes with anything and everything. I also love the color mint. So putting […]

  The purpose of this assignment was to great your own logo, nothing describes me more than “Sparkle”. If I had my own clothing line this is what it would be called. “Never let anyone ever dull your sparkle” is a phrase I live by.  

I decided to do the Make a Card assignment for 3.5 stars. To do this, I used Canva. It was

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  For this assignment we had to create a wanted poster. My poster is for Sam Bass.

I chose to do the Your Signature assignment in the assignment bank for 4 stars. I created this image using

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When people think western, there is usually a set depiction in their head of what that is from what they have seen and learned over the years. When I think of western design I think  cowboys, black & white and thick bold fonts. These things are all shown across different types of western design. Like … Continue reading Western Design

For today’s daily create we had to look at clouds from both sides based on a song quote by Judy Collins. For this daily create I went through my old photos and found this photo I took of the Hoover Dam last summer. On the left side the sun is shining and on the right side there […]

For this assignment I created a trading card for the movie Zoolander. I snagged a shot from the gasoline fight which I’ve always thought hilarious. For those who haven’t seen the movie, if you couldn’t guess, the gasoline fight ends with an explosion. http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/movie-trading-cards/ I made the scene in the form of a magic card […]

Bon I did the Missing Person assigment from the bank (attached above). I used PPT to complete this assignment, but

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