Food Create
For this daily create I had to get a picture of me wearing my food. Now the assignment says I’m
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King of the Jungle
If I could have one superpower, honestly I could think of many, but I would love to have the ability to change into any animal I want to and at any given time. This was my daily create from 2/11/2015 of this week. The prompt was that simple. It’s a question we have all either asked ourselves... Read more » -
What’s Really in Your Burrito?…
A Wolf In Sheeps Clothing – (3 Stars) Everyone seems to rave about how great Chipotle is. And its much healthier than Taco Bell…right? But what if Chipotle was really run by Taco Bell, just so they can create that illusion. Mind Blowing isn’t? To create this logo, I had to get original copy of… -
Copyright and Creative Commons
After reviewing the copyright and creative commons laws I think that they need some help. To me I’m kind of… -
Razzle Ring
For today’s daily create, the idea was to create jewelry from real food. I happen to be eating some razzes at the time (which are awesome, and I haven’t had in a long time), so I found my old wedding band and some good ole Gorilla Glue. At that point, I proceeded to go to... Read more » -
Copyrights
I have never sat down and thought extensively about copyright laws before and certainly never considered some of the things talked about in the readings and videos. Copyrights to my have always just been something lumped together with trademarks, and siting sources. I had never considered how much copyrights can actually limit the creative process. … Continue reading Copyrights -
DS106 Wallpaper!
This assignment was my four star assignment for the week. I had a lot of fun with this assignment and learned a lot from it. I wanted to dedicate this assignment to my noir character so I started out with a picture of a place that I imagined my character would live. I then started … Continue reading DS106 Wallpaper! -
Not classical music just a book
When I was trying to read this I was also listening to classical music and I found it really funny that the song that came on when I started to read the title was Pachelbel Canon in D. I just thought the tittle of this could also be a good tittle for a classical song. […] -
Double Indemnity Reflection
This week I chose to watch Double Indemnity by Billy Wilder in 1944. I chose this because I was interested in seeing the design that was put in place in this time period. The setting was in Los Angeles in the 1940’s. The space created a dark, old theme for the movie allowing it to gain … Continue reading Double Indemnity Reflection → -
Honest video game cover
This three star assignment kind of explains itself. I have a lot of friends who enjoy playing online video games like call of duty but I cannot stand it. Whenever I hear them playing it sounds like they are playing exclusively with a bunch of little kids. For this assignment I had to focus mainly … Continue reading Honest video game cover -
WEEK 5- I’ve run out of puns.
A man walks into a dentist’s office and says “Doc, you have to help me. I’m a moth trapped inside of a human’s body!” The dentist replies “Good heavens man, you need a psychiatrist at once! But tell me, why did you come into my office?” The light was on. Okay here we … Read More → -
Laptop Lingo
This assignment was two stars and fairly easy to do. I wanted to make this assignment somewhat dedicated to my noir character. My character does not live in a time where there were laptops so I had to imagine him in a setting where laptops existed. From there I decided he would like a pale … Continue reading Laptop Lingo -
Wolf in sheep’s clothing assignment
For three of my twelve stars I chose to do the wolf in sheep’s clothing. Here I took a image of both logo’s and placed them over each other. I had to cut around the chic-fil-a logo with a tool. Then I matched the color of the KFC background and used a blurring tool to … Continue reading Wolf in sheep’s clothing assignment -
Week 5 Summary
Yet another interesting week with a bunch of fun activities. I talked a bit about the Big Lebowski, “slacker noir,” and my personal comparison of the film’s similar political nature to Chinatown. I also love Blade Runner and Double Indemnity, but there isn’t time for everything. The design blitz was a fun bit of time … Continue reading Week 5 Summary → -
I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse
Professor Groom Poster (4 1/2 stars — wow, you are an expensive assignment!) You’re making basically “a Jim Groom movie/TV show” poster. Choose a TV show/Poster and get a picture of […] -
Design Blitz
#1. Unity: This movie poster invokes unity for numerous reasons. The first being the closeness of all the photos. All the photos are the same size, all of faces, and all surround what they have in common… the title. These … Continue reading → -
Design Blitz
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They don’t call it the Hunger Games for Nothing…..
Design Assignments – Truthful Movie Poster – (3 stars) The Hunger Games movie is one of my favorite movies. It has a great plot, fantastic characters and gripping action scenes. However, the first time I saw the movie in theaters, I got dizzy watching some of the actions scenes. The Hunger Games stories in the… -
Design Blitz
To collect these pictures my roommate and I took a walk around Melchers and the Library finding many design concepts. Although I did not find an example of metaphors/symbols, rhythm, dominance, and unity, I did find the following: Color- The use of the color pink on top of the black and gray catches the eye … Continue reading Design Blitz -
Design Canon
The Vignelli Canon by Massimo Vignelli,while written before the popularization of digital design, still greatly pertains to how to successfully create a design and what complex thinking and planning can go behind what someone could consider a simple design. I appreciated the fact that he used visual examples in his book to match up with … Continue reading Design Canon -
Copyright & Creative Commons
My own impression of copyright low, fair use doctrine and the creative commons movement? Copyright is very important for the owner but not as much for receivers. Sharing my work with other to share knowledge doesn’t mean they can use my work without referring it to me. I have had a bad experience with some … Continue reading Copyright & Creative Commons → -
Fifth Week Summary
This week was FANTASTIC! I really loved doing all the assignments were given. I was interested in design (my minor is digital studies) but did not take any classes those are related to the design so I learned a lot this week. From completing DesignBlitz, I learned about concepts of design and how they effect […] -
R Type of Fire and Edible Earrings
This week I had a ton of fun with the daily creates. The first one I completed was “What’s Your Superpower?”. I chose fire manipulation because, well, I’m kind of a hippie at heart. I have more of an anthropological,...
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Vignelli sounds like a pasta
The concepts in this booklet were fine, but it greatly suffers in mistranslation. This book was not meant to be read on a screen, but rather on paper; felt between the fingertips. It is formatted for this as well. I found it difficult to get through the text and stay engaged because of this. The … Read More → -
Daily Creates
For my daily creates this week I chose to do the food jewelry assignment and the old fashion radio broadcast assignment. I also chose to do the make a video of the arcade game assignment but after trying to get the arcade game to work for over an hour I had to give up and … Continue reading Daily Creates -
DesignBlitz
For this assignment we were asked to take pictures that fit into different categories. This is my DesignBlitz! Color: In this category we had to find things that represents color. It could be lack of color that makes the thing have more meaning like the pictures that I picked. The first one is black, white, […] -
Me as a Cartoon
Cartoon You: 3 1/2 points For my 4th assignment to reach the 12 star minimum, i decided to make myself into a cartoon. Here i found a picture of me from a project my sophomore year. I then went onto cartoonize.net and changed my self into a cartoon. Below is the picture of me as […] -
Design Blitz-krieg Bop
I never realized all that goes into the advertisements, signs, and billboards in Fredericksburg before undertaking the DesignBlitz this week. I went on a journey through all parts of town, searching for different mediums to individually represent four design elements. There were many options, but the clearest examples I could find include a movie poster, a billboard, an advertising sign, and … Continue reading Design Blitz-krieg Bop -
Design Blitz
For my design blitz, I chose to take pictures of design elements that I found around downtown Fredericksburg I thought that this Sign for Carl’s ice cream was a good example of form/function/message. The sign is clearly custom for the establishment and uses a fancy font and and image of an ice cream cone in … Continue reading Design Blitz -
The Vignelli Canon Reflection
This was a very interesting read for me after I fought myself to fully engage into it. There were so many things about design that I have never thought of especially about its origin and why things are designed the way that they are. One of my favorite points that he brought forward was the … Continue reading The Vignelli Canon Reflection →
