Four Icons And A Story
Design Assignment: One Story / Four Icons 2.5★ For this assignment we had to choose a story and pick four…
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Read and Reflect on The Vignelli Canon
I read the Vignelli Cannon, it was interesting, but you could tell it was not written for the digital age. I learned quite a bit about design. I found out that I should not use more than 2 fonts in one design, I didn’t realize this, I am sure I have made this mistake in … Continue reading Read and Reflect on The Vignelli Canon → -
D e s i g n
I was instructed to Carry my camera (my iPhone) with me this week and take photos of objects, ads, signs, etc. that illustrate at least four of the ten concepts listed below with one photo for a different concept. color typography metaphors/symbols minimalism & use of space form/function/message balance rhythm proportion dominance unity C o […] -
Sketchy Dr. Groom on Assignment
Learning By Design Turn ideas into pictures! Visualize a blog post, TED Talk, Class lecture or even dense text from a book- through drawing. Use the pictures to symbolically represent & concretize abstract concepts, and to make connections between ideas. … Continue reading → -
Daily Create 2-14-2015
This Daily create was to play a video on the Internet Arcade site. I downloaded the program ezvid to help me do this. I put in the tags but have not seen it appear on the daily create web page. Here is my assignment. I used to play this all the time, it … Continue reading Daily Create 2-14-2015 → -
Hand-ception, Kadabra, and the Stick Family
This week we were back to three daily creates. The daily creates that I completed were: creative hands, what’s your superpower, and creative family tree. When deciding what to do for the creative hands assignment, I thought about the work of artist M. C. Escher, who made “drawing hands” (he... -
Calendars, Tokens, Pizza, and Books
Going on a design blitz was a bit overwhelming, because I couldn’t decide which objects to take a picture of. I mean everything man-made is designed and could work for at least one of the design concepts! The four concepts I settled on in my photos are typography, metaphor, rhythm,... -
Copyright and Color Guard
Reading/watching this week’s resources on copyright, fair use, and creative commons was a struggle, not because I didn’t like learning about these things, but because I just got very angry about them. I should explain. I have struggled through copyright laws before because I am in UMW’s color guard. We... -
What May Or May Not Be On Emma’s Car
Design Assignment: Bumper Sticker 3.5★ For this assignment we were supposed to make a bumper sticker. All I could think… -
What’s in a Font?
1. Color: So I began the Design Blitz this week by taking a picture of this sign I found when I was doing my independent study at the Dahlgren campus, but… -
Copyright Laws have Flaws
So I’m not gonna lie. I knew very little about the specifics of the copyright laws before I read any of these articles. I got a in trouble on Youtube… -
Vignelli, oh Vignelli
I really liked how mathematical many of the design principles of The Vignelli Canon were, probably because I am a math major. First off, I love that the International paper… -
We All Use Design Everyday
The Vignelli Canon made me realize that even little details that seem obvious are aspects of design. To me, use of space and colors are obviously design qualities because they catch the eye and are interesting (hopefully). However, I never thought of little things like flush left or centered as... -
There’s a Double Meaning in That
I chose to watch Double Indemnity this week, because I had not seen any of the movies on the list and I told my friends the names of the others and they… -
Thoughts on Copy Right Law, Fair Use, and Creative Commons
I reviewed the necessary materials although the Disney one A Fair(y) Use Tale was very difficult to listen to and understand. I get that based on copyright laws you are able to use small (in this case very small, sometimes only one word) clips or portions of something copyrighted was the principle behind the story. … Continue reading Thoughts on Copy Right Law, Fair Use, and Creative Commons -
Your new favorite background.
For my next assignment, I chose the create your own DS106 background. I checked out some other students’ post and watched the tutorial video to get some ideas, as well as some insight in how to better use GIMP to design my background. The background image was an old rustic wood background that I... Read more » -
Longs In The Headlines
http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/newspaper-design/ (3 stars) I chose to do this assignment to relate back to my character because we know that Longs can do both good and bad. I created my own New York newspaper because that is where he is from. The background is blue because that is his favorite color, although it is actually dark blue, … Continue reading Longs In The Headlines → -
Design Blitz
This week, I had to explore of design blitz. I knew some concepts those were listed on the website, but finding the objects, ads, sign, etc was really harder than I thought. Whenever I walked around the campus or street, I tried to find what would fit under any of concepts. And these four pictures are […] -
DS106 Wallpaper
http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/create-your-own-ds106-wallpaper/ (4 Stars) I chose to do the wallpaper because I felt as though it would help me be a little more creative and try to explore with things like photoshop and other photo editing tools. DS106 is themed base off the idea of noir, which is that dark, crime filled idea of things, a darker … Continue reading DS106 Wallpaper → -
A Noir Valentine’s Card
For one of the design assignments, I decided to go with designing a Noir themed Valentine’s Day card. I am pretty new to the whole image editing game, so I wanted to choose assignments that would force me to step my game up. Also, I just finished card shopping (I know its a little late),... Read more » -
Reflections Double Indemnity
I chose Double Indemnity to watch because it was the oldest film and near the beginning of production. I believe space helps frame the design and style of noir by keeping the filming in tight small spaces it keeps the feeling of you being in the film with them. Almost like you are in the … Continue reading Reflections Double Indemnity -
Radio Recording
This is for the daily create for today in which we had to record ourselves doing a radio broadcast from the past. I do not have much of a creative mind, so I used one of the ones from the past that was offered to us. I used the Americans At Work one, Circa 1939, … Continue reading Radio Recording → -
Double Indemnity
To start the title of this film had me hooked. It screams noir and double indemnity is a genius title for this film. The film features an insurance salesman, his wife who wishes her husband were dead, and one other fellow who is a claim adjuster. From research this film was up for 7 academy … Continue reading Double Indemnity → -
Mr. Groom Will See You Now
Gimp is still not my friend, but I am definitely making progress. This assignment, entitled Professor Groom Poster was worth a WHOPPING 4.5 stars. I can attest to it being worth that much, because I put a lot of time and effort into my piece. I struggled with what I wanted to do for this because […] -
Reflections on The Vignelli Canon
After reading Vignelli’s work The Vignelli canon I would have to agree with him in his statement that “Creativity needs the support of knowledge to be able to perform at its best” (Vignelli). The details he provides in his booklet are great along with the many images he provides us. He really made good choices and the … Continue reading Reflections on The Vignelli Canon -
Black & White & Re(a)d All Over? (Not a Penguin with Chicken Pox!)
Design Week is kicking my ass, just like every week. This assignment is entitled Newspaper Design (worth 3 stars.) The task?: Design a newspaper. Using word, photoshop, or whatever make a fictional newspaper, and put together the front page for today. You can use real articles or you can write your own, but the design of the […] -
Copyrighting and All That Comes With It
A lot of things go into copyrighting. It’s so much that I don’t really understand it all. However, what I do understand is that there is mostly copyrighting, kind of copyrighting, and free to the public copyrighting. As such, copyrighting can be circumstantial with parodies disrupting those concrete laws. Copyrighting has struggled to find a proper balance between the owner… Read more →
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Delilah’s License
I chose to do the license challenge and dedicate it to my character. This is her drivers license, I used a free photoshop and found my photos off of Google. -
Film Design
I sat down and watched Double Indemnity the other night, and took a look at the design of the sets for the city, the insurance company building, and the mansion. I’ve seen this movie before, but wanted to watch it again for...
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Pop Culture Gifs
For this week, we could complete two gif assignments in place of our design assignments. This is the pop culture assignment that is two points. Development: I have had previous experience making gifs. I took the Intro to Digital Storytelling class that had module were students had to create certain digital content on different media....
