Among the choices of three: Double Indemnity, Blade Runner, or The Big Lebowski, I watched Double Indemnity. In the film, it was really hard to tell the time and the place. Since it is a black and white film, I could know the time by shadow and the streetlight.     As you can see above pictures, the shape […]

I watched TBL about two weeks ago and listened to the DI radio show last week. This week, I decided to watch them both. I will be writing primarily about Double Indemnity. First off, I was curious about how the actress looked as a blonde since I remembered that was a detail they mentioned in … Read More →

This is the recommended one story/four icons assignment worth 2 1/2 points. This is a fun assignment, though I suspect my creation won’t offer up much of a challenge for potential guessers. At least I certainly hope not! This should be an easy one. In the off-chance you’re curious and can’t figure it out, I … Continue reading Fantastical Four Symbols →

One Story/Four Icons (2 1/2 stars) Story Behind Story I really wanted to make this as ambiguous as possible; I wanted to make it challenging. However, after completing the assignment, I […]

For this Design Assignment, titled “One Story/Four Icons”, people were to reduce a story, movie, or event into their main focus and find four icons that visualized the focus. I used the website mentioned in the assignment posting to find my icons and then I put these visuals together in Photoshop and created a jpeg … Continue reading 4 Icons, Can you guess the movie?

For the Design Assignment, “Create Your Own DS106 Wallpaper”, the assignment was to create a wallpaper for ds106 using a digital imaging software. This wallpaper for ds106 focuses on this semester’s theme of noir106 and I also incorporated some imagery so the wallpaper could connect with my original character. I chose to do this assignment … Continue reading On the case, On my desktop

The purpose of this Design Assignment titled “Bumper Sticker” was to create our own bumper sticker and I decided to connect the bumper sticker to my character, Shelley Layton. The bumper sticker acts as an advertisement for her private detective work and the bright color of the sticker makes it catch your attention and read … Continue reading Shelley Sticker

The Daily Create – Play with your food. For this daily create, I decided to make a pasta necklace. This was actually more difficult to create something interesting with so I decided to put on my Spider-Man mask. “Why?” You may ask yourself…The world may never know.

Upon suggestion by the professors in the weekly post, I chose to complete the “One Story/ Four Icons” assignment. I liked the challenge of breaking down a movie into its basic parts and assigning four icons to represent the story. The prompt specifically states: This idea was first suggested by Tom Woodward and has been a long … Continue reading 1, 2, 3, 4…Guess What Movie These Icons Stand For!

This was a little challenging for me. Design was a tricky aspect to master; I think I ended up with about 10 or 15 pictures because I was never fully […]

This assignment was to illustrate at least four of the ten concepts of design photos that were given to us. The ten concepts given were color, typography, metaphors/symbols, minimalism & use of space, form/function/message, balance, rhythm, proportion, dominance, unity. Here are my photos and my thoughts behind each one: 1. This photo was taken on … Continue reading Design Blitz

In honor of the holiday, for the daily create today “play with your food!” in which we had to make jewelry out of real food,  I chose to make a ring with a heart. I used a noodle to make a double band for my ring and sliced a red apple up to make a … Continue reading Valentine’s Ring →

I began my search for design assignments by trying to find one worth 4+ stars, as required this week. I sorted the assignments by star value and looked at all of the 4-star assignments first and found the perfect one! The “Create Your Own DS106 Wallpaper!” seemed like an ideal way to relay my understanding of the class, … Continue reading Peek-A-Boo DS106… I See You!

So week 5 is always about the time in the semester where life gets hectic, so naturally that means that I was not able to complete my ds106 work until…