Rating: 2 out of 5.
For The “Vogue Challenge,” I edited a photo I took and added the word “Vogue” to the top of it. It’s suppose to look like the cover of a Vogue magazine. To do this, I took my photo into photoshop and created a text layer …
Rating: 4.5 out of 5.
For this assignment, I had to combine the logo of rivals. I decided to do Popeyes Chicken and Chick-fil-a. I began by getting a picture of both of their logos. Then, the photos were imported into Adobe Illustrator. I removed the P from Popeye’s …
This week was all about the elements of design and how we can incorporate them into our projects. I’ve learned about elements of design before an I am also going over them in another class this semester. Our first assignment involved looking over some suggested readings and record our thoughts …
For our assignment bank this week, we had to do 10 stars worth of design assignments. Design is my favorite category out of all the assignment bank options. I did two assignments worth 4 stars and one assignment worth 2 stars. To create my designs I used Photoshop and …
The Railroad Crossing sign uses lines to share a messages. The two parts of the sign cross each other and the message being shared is that a railroad is crossing a path.
ColorGambino’s Pizza sign uses the colors green, white, and red. These are the colors that are …
I’ve taken design courses in the past, so I am fairly familiar with it. The elements of design are:
line color shape size space texture form contrast value typography symbols & metaphors balance rhythm unity & harmonyGraphic design is purposeful planning that uses any combination of forms, pictures, words, …
For my daily creates this week I did “bad art”, my favorite drink and international smile day. For “bad art” I took a stock photo of a corporate worker and pasted a party hat and birthday gift on top of it. I don’t really have a favorite drink, but I …
This week we were assigned to do a design blitz. For the blitz we were supposed to take pictures of objects or ads, etc. that showed some element of design. For my photos I took pictures while I was at Marshalls and used some pictures that I already have in …
After looking through some of the suggested readings, I have come to the conclusion that design takes more space in our life than I had thought. Of course, everything has to be designed by someone, but I’m not thinking about it all of the time. When I’m eating my Frosted …
Parks and Recreation is one of my favorite sitcoms and so when I was trying to think of a fictional couple to create a wedding invitation for, Leslie and Ben came to mind. This design assignment is worth 3 stars and asks you to create a wedding invitation as if …
I love correcting records, so this ds106 design assignment felt like it was right up my alley. For this 3 1/2 star assignment I needed to pick out some photos, personal or found photos, to use to create a “rad” collage for fictional album art.
After digging through the cobwebs …
Shart
This daily create was to make really bad art. No problem
Savior Star
This daily create was to show who the saving star would be to come save earth. An apposite of the death star. This is from my favorite video game destiny 2
Swiggity Swag
This daily create …
Senior Smiles
This daily Create was to show off a smile. I had recently taken my senior photo’s so why not flex a little
Peachy
The daily create above asks us what the best way to quench your thirst. Being the sugar addict that I am I had to chose …
This assignment asked us to create a creepy sound. Being the fan of horror that I am I saw a very weird sounding chance. This was quite the challenge teaching myself garage band and audio mixing. …
This Assignment tasted us with creating an old time movie poster from a new gen movie. I chose The Boogey man himself purely because it was on TV…
This five star assignment challenged me with combining two rivalry brand logos to make an… abomination I guess. Either way, I love it…
The area of design in recent life. I personally love designing images and things like a website. Though I am an amateur I do enjoy practicing and learning new techniques. For example the elements of design and color patterns. Starting from the basics that may go over looked something as …
The link within the image to left is to a website called WNYC which is the website for a New York radio station. The specific link directs to an audio file of a “Radio Lab” discussion between their hosts and one Suzanne Simard and a …
For this week’s assignments I worked with audios along side my daily creates on twitter. I haven’t experimented a whole lot with audio, so I found these assignments fun and new.
I first began with listening to a story and writing the blog Audio Story. I wrote about how …
For this assignment I had to put two songs together into a conversation. I decided to do the songs Driver’s License by Olivia Rodrigo and Green Lights by Kyd the Band. To create this mashup I began by downloading the two songs and an instrumental version of Driver’s License. I …
I don’t listen to podcasts and audiobooks very often. I always forget how entertaining they can be. For this assignment, I listened to From Tree to Shining Tree.
I think that the background sound effects, noises, and music adds a lot to the story. The music helps set the mood. …
This week was all about audio!
My first ds106 audio assignment involved reordering a musical I know. The idea was to either completely reverse the order from end to beginning, or to mix the songs around in an order of your choosing. I kind of did both. …
Bob Ross might be famous for his happy trees, but as this episode of Radiolab will tell you, the real things are more yappy than happy.
First I just wanna say that I had no idea fungi and trees worked together to …
Today’s Daily Create asked us to replace the word “love” with Monty Python. I felt Rihanna’s We Found Love In A Hopeless Place was a great mashup for the peasant scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I used an online meme creator to complete this one.
Over …
We had a pretty easy week with only a couple of assignments. We had to listen to either a live radio show or the Radio Lab story, 1-2 or 4 stars worth of audio assignments from the assignment bank and 3 daily creates.
I didn’t get a chance to listen …
As usual, we had three daily creates for the week. I did a “Keep Calm and Carry On” poster remake, made a ransom note and sent someone to cool down the Earth. I used Google and links from the @ds106dc tweets to create my daily creates. For the poster, I …
For this weeks assignment bank, we had to choose an audio assignment worth four stars. I chose to do “Music Mashup”, where you pick two songs and make them into one. The hardest part was actually picking the songs I wanted to mashup. I would try a few different …
I didn’t get a chance to attend the live radio shows that were going on this week, so instead I listened to Radio Lab’s From Tree to Shining Tree story. Their story was basically about how trees and fungus work together in nature to order to survive. They talked about …
In preparation for my favorite holiday, I decided to complete this #ds106 Audio Assignment which had me mixing together different spooky sounds.
I used FreeSound to find different public domain tracks and Audacity to mix them together. I focused on creaky wooden …
For this #ds106 Listening Assignment you are supposed to reverse a musical. The question is whether you can change the narrative by doing so. I didn’t think the story would necessarily change that match from simply reversing the order of the songs, at least not for my chosen musical, Wicked. …
