This week was a lot of fun for me. I really enjoyed the “Design” category and felt like all the assignments were something that I really wanted to do. I really liked the Assignment Bank choices for this week and will probably look into doing some more form this category in the following weeks. I …

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@ds106dc #tdc1874 it's not perfect, but it'll do pic.twitter.com/HCRv2hbEv5 — Katey Matragrano (@kateybug17) February 25, 2017  

For this image, I chose the topic of “Typography”. This was an advertisement for Mr.UMW that my club had created. We chose to do a lot of bright colors and different fonts so that it would draw the attention of those walking by. The theme for the event is the 90’s, so we decided that …

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This week’s Design Blitz forced me to take a deeper look into pictures and art that is around me and that I see every day. All of these photos were taken of art that I walk by on a daily basis. 1. The first photo is of a piece of ivory artifact that is in …

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In this Netflix series I noticed a lot about common design principles. Designers strive to have performance and durability in their designs. They want their designs to help others. I noticed many of the designers on the Netflix series liked to draw or were good at drawing. They used drawing as a way to express …

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This week had us looking at elements of design. Of all the things we have looked at so far I must say that this one was the strangest feeling since design seemed much like base photography for a bit, however design focuses much more on the principles of what makes it aesthetically pleasing and efficient. Ultimately when it came to the assignments I was not that engaged compared to prior weeks, however, the reading “Vignelli Canon” was highly interesting and I am really glad I read it. In fact, I am really tempted to re-read it. http://igtherioncrossek.com/uncategorized/design-thoughtsideas/ http://igtherioncrossek.com/uncategorized/advertising-using-a-cartoon-character/ http://igtherioncrossek.com/uncategorized/minimalist-tvmovie-poster/ http://igtherioncrossek.com/uncategorized/motivational-poster/

Design week was a little hectic. Mostly I should correct my other classes and responsibilities were rather hectic and that made this week crazy. That withstanding though design week was a fun one, it made me think more critically about the way that image editing week and design are separate but interconnected at the same […]

I have many thoughts about designs now that I have read the Vignelli Cannon and watching Abstract: Art of the Design. I had some ideas and opinions about design before this week of course but these two sources helped me think critically about design. Right of in the Vignelli Cannon I realized design is not […]

So for this I just searched “peaceful pictures” and saved that to my laptop.  Then I opened pixlr and added a text box and just changed the color and position of my letters. It was funny to try and think of something awful and gloomy to put on this when it’s such a great picture, […]

Now I am going to start off with the fact that I found this assignment rather difficult. I did not expect it to be when I read the assignment but I had more trouble trying to find some of the particular examples. I also kept debating/rationalizing to myself what was a design element because at […]

@ds106dc #tdc1874 pic.twitter.com/niHYjTujWf — Taylor (@tmckenzierich) February 24, 2017

First I just wanted to say that I really enjoyed watching both of these episodes and getting to pear into the mind of professional artist was really cool.  I watched the first two episodes, one was about Christoph Niemann who is a German illustrator for “The New Yorker” and the second being about Tinker Hatfield, […]

To round out my star assignments for this week I completed the Design a License Plate assignment worth 3 1/2 stars. I thought this was a good one that I could use along with out theme with my Agent. The one issue I ran into was that my agent’s whole thing is that she is kinda […]

I simply couldn’t pass up the opportunity to watch Netflix for homework, so I watched a couple episodes from “Abstract.” The first episode I watched  was the second one, which documented Tinker Hatfield and his footwear design career. I chose it because it looked interesting, but I was shocked to see that it was about …

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So for the pick 1 of 3 assignment for this week I chose the Destination Postcard design assignment. I went with this one because I realllly like postcards. Love them! I actually send them to people rather frequently and even send them to people living on campus (cause hey no postage needed). So this assignment […]

For this assignment, I included my secret agent I created! First, I found a template for an ID card. Then, I used an app to add words and the picture, which I found online. I used that picture because when I think of a spy, I think of spies in decades like the 1960s, and ... Read more

Typography: Use of Space: Proportion: Repetition:

For this assignment, I watched two episodes from the Netflix series “Abstract: The Art of Design.” At first I was kind of unsure of how interesting it would be just because that is not something I would pick out to watch on my own, but it turns out I really liked it. The two episodes ... Read more

@ds106dc #tdc1869 On a boat in Charleston is my happy place pic.twitter.com/Zxwi6YG6Bh — Hannah Bruns (@hannahbruns7) February 19, 2017

@ds106dc #tdc1873 Johnny English, James Bond, Juni Cortez pic.twitter.com/dsWlKGYuyA — Hannah Bruns (@hannahbruns7) February 24, 2017

@ds106dc #tdc1874 the most perfect circle ends in a smiley face! pic.twitter.com/TmSmUcGQEN — Hannah Bruns (@hannahbruns7) February 24, 2017

I read The Vignelli Canon by Massimo Vignelli. Which talks about various aspects of graphic design. I liked it a lot and it provided me with many details on what techniques to utilize to become a better graphic designer. Some http://sebenaler.info/wp-admin/post.php?post=125&action=editexamples of the topics he covers is semantics, pragmatics, discipline, and visual power. I will …

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I hope y’all can guess my movie! Trust me its not that hard. I picked four images that I thought were good representations of my movie. I think that these four images display the movie very well. I used Instasize to create this collaboration. I enjoyed this assignment because it made me really think about …

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I absolutely love the movie “The Sandlot”! And Hamm was definitely my favorite character in the movie! I decided to do this quote because its a classic and almost everyone knows it. I also recently watched The Sandlot for about the 50th time. I made this photo from a photo that I edited in Preview. …

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I decided to do the contradiction creation assignment. I found this photo on the internet and then edited it to add the text using Preview on my macbook. It was pretty easy once I learned how to do it. I decided to caption it “Nature Sucks” because clearly that is a contradiction. If you look …

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The design work was really interesting this week, I think I just became addicted to that Netflix show Abstract, even though I was dreading watching it at first, towards the end it was hard to put the remote down. I will defiantly finish up the series this weekend. It was fascinating to hear other artists process when … Continue reading Week 6 Summary

One of the best movies, and one of the all time best quotes.

This week for ds106 was all about Design. This week was fun because I could finally put my creativity to the test. I always enjoyed the concept of design even though the only thing I could draw is stick figures. Nonetheless I am more of the brains in any design operations so I was able […]