Before I read The Vignelli Canon I thought of design solely as things like posters, logos and flyers. After reading through Vignelli, I realized design is so much more. Design is all around us and everywhere in our lives. Design can be posters, flyers but its also the way your house is built, the way … Continue reading The Vignelli Canon

#tdc1500 @ds106dc #tdc1500 milestone! Nothing like realizing you've accomplished something huge! pic.twitter.com/1thEVSGomE — Carlee Budd (@cbudd_ds106) February 16, 2016 I’m

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What is the meaning of life? I don't think there is one exact meaning, make life whatever you want it to be #tdc1501 pic.twitter.com/1VwRv9wOdJ — Jenna Steele (@jsteele_ds106) February 17, 2016

Happy birthday/anniversary ds106 daily create! I feel like daily creates are a huge part of the ds106 experience so its crazy to think that one has been posted for 1500 days so far. #dailycreate #tdc1500 pic.twitter.com/RHIZXZltYD — Jenna Steele ...

Wanted: Dead or Alive Assignment: Most Wanted Outlaws ds106 Style Assignment Description: “For this assignment, students will create a Wanted poster for some of the most wanted outlaws/groups of the Wild Wild West. While it may seem like a basic assignment, I think it will be fun and perfectly fitting for this course! Here is a […]

After reading Vignelli’s booklet, The Vignelli Canon, I have a newfound respect for design and people who use design in their everyday life. I realize that we use design for basically everything after reading Vignelli’s booklet. Everything from choosing a title for a paper to actually creating art is a use of design. Before reading … Continue reading "It’s All in the Details"

This assignment was really neat, mainly because I enjoyed looking at the image representations for each word that can be found at The Noun Project. These simplistic icons are just fun to look at. I finally decided on representing a modern western movie and it’s story. I picked out the icons that not only portrayed … Continue reading "Design Assignment – One Story / Four Icons"

I really enjoyed completing this week’s work. By reading the provided resources on design I learned a great deal and as such, I was able to focus on certain topics and implement them into my work. For some of these readings I wrote blog posts reflecting on things I learned and what I found interesting. … Continue reading Week 6 Summary 2/12-19/2016

This week I reviewed all of the provided resources within our class’s design resource page. By doing so, I learned a great deal about design and different techniques that can be used and observed in images. One of this week’s assignments was to complete a design blitz. For this design blitz we were to take … Continue reading Design Blitz!

This week was all about design, I found this week to be really interesting. It is easier for me to relate to design because in a way we are with it all the time. I started the week with the Assignment Banks. There I did most wanted and got to experiment a little with photos and text. … Continue reading "Weekly Summary"

In the western titles, I saw a consistency in large typography. Which makes sense because you want your movie title to be the most seen to the eye. There is a lot of color fading in poster and some of them are even black and white. All the photos have a olden look to it. … Continue reading "Examples of Design"

This picture represents typography and the flow they create. I love this picture because I was playing scrabble with my family, and we put all this together to spell out our names. To me, this photo represents balance, the arrows gives the up & down balance. This picture represents dominance, the building on top of … Continue reading ""

So since this week is all about design we were assigned to do a design blitz. It’s like the photo blitz only you have a lot more free reign on what you want to take pictures of. I actually found this quite challenging since I was limiting myself to certain objects. I finally got it … Continue reading Hopefully first time’s the charm

I completed the “Create Your Own Magic Cards” assignment. http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/create-your-own-magic-cards/ I’ve played magic before. I understand enough of it to know that I don’t like playing it. However, I thought it would be amusing to create some trading cards based on the movie Goodfellas. Using the website http://www.mtgcardmaker.com I created a set of four cards. Two […]

I just completed the one story, four icons assignment. http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/one-story-four-icons/ I chose four icons that represent a movie. I used symbols found on the internet to create a simple design. After obtaining the images, I resized them all to try to balance out the overall image. Problems weren’t encountered during the completion of this assignment.

The meaning of life is to keep dreaming and have fun! #tdc1501 #ds106 pic.twitter.com/cRDI6sU8Dq — Maria Rivas (@marsbars610) February 17, 2016 #tdc1500 Congrats! pic.twitter.com/EKZgVs423u — Maria Rivas (@marsbars610) February 16, 2016 ...

Vignelli starts off by giving the reader an insight to design and how he uses new techniques to challenge himself. Which is why he created this book, so others could challenge themselves when talking about design. He goes right into the 3 aspects he believes are the most important: Semantics, syntactics, and pragmatics. For me, … Continue reading "Vignelli"

I’m planning on doing two 4+ assignments this week, so I’m starting with an easy 2 star that would cap

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I completed the most wanted poster assignment. http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/most-wanted-outlaws-ds106-style/ For this assignment I chose Henry Longabaugh, the Sundance Kid. I read up on his various robberies and figured someone should catch him. (According to one source, Henry Longabaugh was never caught by the United States authorities. He died in Bolivia. However, there are claims the Sundance […]

Since it is a design themed week we had to look at several different western designs/artworks and discuss the design characteristics. I first looked at title stills from old western movies. The first thing that jumped out at me was the big use of contrast, color and dominance in the stills. The words in the still are […]

This assignment called for us to create a wanted poster in the style of the wild west for one of

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The Vignelli Canon The Vignelli Canon was written as a guide to design in every shape and form. It is interesting to see how great design comes to form, even if you don’t have the talent for it. Part 1- The Intangibles Starting off with Semantics, it describes how we design whatever we have to […]

Today’s daily create asked you to make a visual representation of the meaning of life (and we couldn’t use “42”). I’m 100% Italian on both my mother and father’s side so the meaning of life for me is food. More specifically, pizza. Just kidding- life is a lot more than pizza, but pizza is pretty great. I […]

The meaning of life. #tdc1501 #ds106 #dailycreate pic.twitter.com/pYWfrG6zJS — Kelsey Dean (@kelsfords106) February 17, 2016 1500=CelebrationCelebration=Fireworks#tdc1500 #ds106 pic.twitter.com/V4AAPyiWb2 — Kelsey

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For the minimalist movie poster assignment, I had to first choose a movie for it. I chose How the Grinch Stole Christmas

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For this design reflection I observed different western themed images and have applied my newfound knowledge on designs that I learned from The Vignelli Canon  and the design resource page. First of all, I am amazed at how many different aspects are taken into account when creating or looking at a design. Ranging from typical … Continue reading Western Design Reflection

For today’s daily create we had to create a visual image to celebrate the 1500th daily create milestone! I went to google and searched “birthday cake with too many candles” and saved a picture I liked. Then uploaded the picture to paint where I added “1500” to the front of the cake. I wanted to do a […]

For my last assignment to round off 10 starts is to design a cereal box. I had a lot of fun making up my own cereal and creating a box. In real life it would obviously be a sleek matte black box with nutrition on the sides and fun games on the back or small … Continue reading Muscle Flakes