For yesterday’s daily create we had to make a youtube video showing a game that we chose to play at the arcade, I will be honest and say that I did forget to do a daily create last night after the games because I went home and then got stuck driving in snow.. But as … Continue reading I Will Never Be a Gamer.. →

This week, we could pick between three films to watch. I chose to watch the Coen Brother’s The Big Lebowski (1997). I decided to watch The Big Lebowski because I have heard about it being good, but I have never watched it. To be completely honest, I really did not like the movie. The plot line to […]

I chose to watch Double Indemnity as my movie of choice this week because when I looked both movies up it seemed more interesting to me! At about the time of 2 minutes and 45 seconds there is a portion of the movie that really hints at the design noir idea, we see a very … Continue reading Video & Noir Film Design. →

For one of my week five assignments, I chose to do the assignment, Website Banner that was submitted by Meredith Fierro. The assignment is to, “create your own website banner! This will go on your website like your featured image. Have fun with this and be creative!” This assignment is worth 4 points. I picked […]

Typography- This picture os of a typography print that my roommate made. Together, we run a small business called “Written and Redeemed” creating and selling custom typography and calligraphy. Balance- This picture is of me rollerblading through the halls of my dorm. I’m really bad at it. It was hard for me to stay balanced … Continue reading Design Blitz

I chose to watch Blade Runner to look for film design because I thought I’d be interested in it the most out of the 3 choices we were given.  I recorded it on my television using Xfinity On Demand instead of buying it from Amazon because recording it on my TV was free  The only … Read More

The space in The Big Lebowski has a ghettoish feel. Everywhere the dude went was an ugly broken part of Los Angeles (except for the other Lebowskis house). This helps frame the design of this film by whoever created the design had to focus on this ghettoish type. They gave the dude a crappy car … Continue reading Lebowski Review →

1.Balance: I chose this picture in order to show balance because I took it during the week in one of the times I was walking around campus exploring a little bit this week. It was on the little stage behind Trinkle and it was a nice little area. I think this shows balance because it … Continue reading Design BLITZ →

For today’s daily create we had to make food jewelry..it was the ultimate fail. Me and a child my mom and I babysit found a picture of letter pancake necklaces, so we made the pancakes (took a picture for the memories), then attempted to lace the string in the right away around the letter to … Continue reading Food Jewelry Fail →

This design assignment was something I used to do on a weekly basis. I just did not want to over do it on the graphics. I also wanted it to look simple, like someone with some knowledge of publications did the flyer. This is to promote a craft fair for my character’s shop. Her shop … Continue reading Promotional Flyer- 2 Stars →

The daily create assignment for 2-12-15 was to make your own family tree. I decided to draw mine out! Here is my family tree!

The daily create assignment for 2-11-15 was to show your super power in a photo. I would definitely be super girl and I would have my sidekick wonder woman by my side!

This week, we were assigned to read The Vignelli Canon by Massimo Vignelli. It is a design resource that was created by a graphic designer, Massimo Vignelli. I really like how Vignelli encompasses the elements of design and points out important facets of design and how things are portrayed or perceived by a viewer. Anyone can […]

This assignment was kind of fun. The idea is to take a picture of Professor Groom and put him into a movie poster. I used photoshop to  create a different version of the Maleficent poster with Professor Groom in it. Here is the link.  

This  design assignment was to take four icons and tell what movie it is. I chose a movie that I have always liked. It was hard to think of four icons for it. but I hope that it isn’t too easy. For the picture click  here

This daily create is to go on to the internet arcade site and video tape you playing one of the games. After that you are supposed to upload it to youtube. Well, I choose to play Q-Bert. It is an oldie but goodie. It took me several tries to get used to how the keys … Continue reading Internet Arcade Video →

So we learned about some copyright law, its history, and as it stands today. I found it interesting that “fair use” isn’t a right per se, just a “legally defensible position” and that there aren’t really any rules. If you want to use a piece of media, there’s no sure way to protect against a lawsuit besides paying for the… Read more →

Well, it was interesting. There was a lot of…I guess thoeretical?….talk at the beginning. Conceptual. Like nothing that you can turn around and DO something with, which was kind of annoying. Hostly after the first few paragraphs I just skimmed. It was all so abstract it got sort of annoying, like a little pretentious, you know? but I mean I… Read more →

four stars: So I am a huge fan of Magic: The Gathering. I have many cards and still play regularly, as do many of my friends. So I was super psyched to see that there was an assignment where we get to create our own. I made four cards, all creatures. The first is Totoro from My Neighbor Totoro. I… Read more →

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 →

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 →

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 →

  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.

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....

Below is my video for this week. I entreat everyone to watch and help me to understand the evidence that I unearthed this week. I’m also sharing the photos I revealed in the video, in case anyone wants to download them and do any additional analysis. First, these two pictures I was able to pull … Continue reading Burtis Files: Week Five

Spending significant time educating myself about copyright and fair use has made me feel powerful. Knowledge is my armor of choice. While I am grateful to finally understand the issue, it has definitely made the world a less innocent place to me. It makes me a bit ashamed to live in a world where art […]

‘The Vignelli Canon‘ by Massimo Vignelli is a truly useful read. I am particularly fond of the organization of the booklet: First, there is ‘Part 1′, which describes the pillars and idealism behind Design. This section outlines goals that design must reach- such as simplicity and elegance. It touches on the fact that design has […]

Of all of the weeks of ds106, I would have to say that the week of design had more time-consuming tasks for me. I am very interested in design and creating visuals (it may be something I will pursue in … Continue reading →

So it was a bit difficult for me to get this design blitz going but now that I have, I’m looking for the elements of design everywhere. 1. Proportion This is a poster hanging in Combs Hall advertising the UMW play The Drunken City.  When I first saw this poster I immediately thought it would … Read More

For this week’s “Watch some films” assignment, the choices were between Double Indemnity, The Big Lebowski, and Blade Runner. I have already seen Lebowski and Blade Runner, and am actually meant to be studying Double Indemnity right now for my film class. That paired with my fondness for Billy Wilder made it easy: I would […]