Typography   I’m a huge sucker for great typography. I love different typefaces and pairing the right ones together. This book cover for Bruce Holsinger’s The Invention of Fire is a fantastic example of good typography. Right away you know the book is probably set in the Middle Ages (the calligraphic Gothic script in “the” paired with […]

For this assignment, I watched two episodes of the Netflix series Abstract: The Art of Design, specifically the episodes on graphic design and illustration (which I thought were the most fitting for this week). First, I was surprised to see I’d seen Paula Scher and Christoph Niemann’s work in my every day life. Once I got […]

Thanks to yet another great font from dafont.com (this one called Road Rage), I created a signature/inital/monogram logo for my spy character, Roderick Rush. There’s something really cool about a sort of combined signature, like Albrecht Dürer’s. I was looking for a font that conveyed something youthful but visceral, edgy but not over the top, […]

  For this assignment, I had to design a tattoo with at least two design elements included. It’s not the prettiest or cleanest tattoo design in the world, but it works for this assignment. I chose a viking theme for this one. The left side is a bearded axe, one of the most common viking […]

  NGDIDJTSN PKRNPDOF PUQC TS QNVNJ CUJRPNR CPQ.       This is the secret message of my own cipher. I used a substitution alphabet keyword cipher. Basically, the way this type of cipher works is where you put your keyword to the first letters of the alphabet, and then you just align the rest of […]

Archives So sorry this isn’t set up correctly. I have been sick all week and still am but here is what I have. Post Card – http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/destination-post-card/ Word Cloud – http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/character-word-cloud/ Reverse Feelings – http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/contradiction-creation/ And of course my Daily Creates: @ds106dc #tdc1867 How I picture a time crystal in my head pic.twitter.com/DtK8SqZjnf — Krystal Heflin (@k_heflin) February 18, 2017 @ds106dc #tdc1871 this guy's inner voice definitely lied to him! pic.twitter.com/fMwU0CMk36 — Krystal Heflin (@k_heflin) February 22, 2017 @ds106dc #tdc1873 pic.twitter.com/N6fs79QstJ — Krystal Heflin (@k_heflin) February 24, 2017

This is the result of my first “design blitz,” and it was challenging coming up with impromptu photos that incorporated noticeable and applicable design elements. This first one is a whiteboard in our apartment and noticeably uses typography to display major or important parts of the board, such as bold letters for the FIFA 17 … Continue reading "Blitz the Design!"

Week 6 was all about design. I learned about the different aspects of design such as typography, balance, unity, and many other aspects. Design is interesting and I never knew how much thought process and analysis goes into making a design. Blog post about The Vignelli Canon. Abstract: The Art of Design . Here is …

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For this week I had to make photo editor my bff and learn how to use a logo site.  I thought that most of my assignments this week turned out to be fairly quick. That or I have finally gotten my footing in this whole photoshop thing. The TDC this week that was on the […]

I thoroughly enjoyed this week’s assignments. I did not have too much difficulty, relative to those of last week’s, and it took less amount of time to complete them overall. For my daily creates, I completed 3 and they are posted on my twitter for view. I noticed that I use Paint extensively to edit images and add texts. I …

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For the Movie Trading Cards assignment, I created a trading card of Conan from the movie, Conan The Barbarian (one of my favorites). I already had some of my favorite shots from the movie in my head. The image I chose is somewhat of a meme on the Internet–Conan’s expression is pretty amusing here. So, […]

Archives This one was fun. I had to find an image that conveys a feeling and then create a quote that conveys the complete opposite. Then I had to combine them. To begin with, I couldn’t really decide which way I wanted to go. I ended up just google imaging until I found a picture I liked. Then came the hard, the wording. I decided to take one of my favorite quotes and just reword it a bit. Here is the final product!

The color scheme of this photo was too bomb not to make into an anti-motivational poster.  Pixlr has become my friend this week so I was able to make this fairly quickly.  Just a bit of font change and positioning and voila.  The perfect thing to make you give up on all  of life’s aspirations.

It was such a beautiful day out so I thought I would post a picture that expressed this. I hope this gives everyone motivation throughout the day! This blog post was inspired by a motivational quote. http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/contradicti...

I really enjoyed this week. I thought that the design challenges were a lot of fun and I got to expand my knowledge of different tools that I could use to create a variety of different things. I think that my favorite assignment was the movie quote assignment. I always enjoy working with funny quotes …

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There were several things I noticed that one video shared commonalities with the other. They both embodied a sense of passion and exhilaration. Have passion for what one plans to achieve through design, and be exhilarated in the process were the key messages that I ultimately got. It seems like everyone wants to be great doing great things and they all …

This word cloud was inspired by Bitcoin hitting its all time high in terms of price yesterday. Bitcoin is a digital currency. It is a secure platform through means of cryptography. The created of Bitcoin is an unknown person who goes by the name of Satoshi Nakamoto. He created Bitcoin in 2009 but disappeared from …

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This week has gone by quick. Nothing too crazy to complain about this week. The Vignelli read was interesting, and the assignments helped me learn about a few more tools, and figure out a couple tips and tricks.  Still need to get my time management down.   Here are this week’s Twitter Daily Creates. @ds106dc #tdc1874 …

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For the Destination Post Card assignment from the design section of the assignment bank, we have to create a destination postcard by taking an image from a location and put a message over it. My post card, is from The Shire in Middle Earth, of course. I’m a big fantasy dork, and I love the Lord […]

I originally thought that this challenge would be pretty simple. However I found that that was not the case. I don’t really hang around campus much since I am a commuter student, so I was pretty limited on where I could look for these photos and ended up pretty much using things around my house. …

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I thought this week was a little easier than past weeks. I liked almost all of the assignments. I already am pretty familiar with Photoshop and graphic design. One of the harder parts of this week I found was making two of the assignments related to our spy characters. A big problem I had this week … Continue reading Week 6

For this assignment, I watch the Abstract: The Art of Design. I watched the photography episode on Platon and the graphic design episode on Paula Scher. In the photography episode, they profiled a famous portrait photographer, Platon, who has taken photographs of average people as well as famous figures like Barack Obama, Colin Powell, and Vladimir Putin. While … Continue reading Abstract: The Art of Design

  Not a lot of people understand or know the details of design, but everyone’s a critic of design. Constantly we judge objects on their style, fashion, lines, curves, colors, texture, and abilities. One product that everyone is guilty of judging is a car. At one point in your life, you had to have said a …

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For this assignment, I decided to head off to the library. There, I discovered posters, books with colorful covers, furniture, and even fish tanks that captured the elements of design principles very well. –Color: I thought these couches were super adorable because they embodied same form and design, but with different colors! The colors chosen here, red, blue and lime, were eye …

Today logos surround us everywhere. Every product has a logo. Every website has a logo. Every sports team has a logo. So how can you make your logo stand out? Well one idea is to keep your logo simple that relates to your product. An example of this is the Bitcoin logo: The bitcoin logo …

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I really enjoyed this week, it has been one of my favorites by far. I think I like design so much because it allows you to be so creative. You can take your own pictures and use them, you can take pictures from the internet and use them, and you can combine the two! I ... Read more