Double Indemnity (1944) is a movie in which Neff an insurance salesman meets Phyllis during his run. They flirt and end up planning the death of Phyllis’s husband so that they could be together. This movie is very similar to The Postman Always Rings Twice in which there is a theme of a femme fatale. … Continue reading Noir Films: Double Indemnity

One of this weeks assignments was to create a movie poster that captures the story through minimalist design. I created this poster for my character Conway. It is a black and white picture of the magazine and bullet to his gun that he does his “work” with. It looks noir to me using the contrasts … Continue reading Conway’s movie poster →

This week were asked to watch one of three choices of movies. I chose to examine Blade Runner and how the film incorporates elements of noir. The directions were to examine, “how the space helps frame the design and style of … Continue reading →

I found the article pertaining to the history of copyright laws very informative and it was interesting to see how the public’s opinion and government’s opinion concerning copyright and fair use has changed so dramatically over the years. For example, back in the 1700s you could only have your work copyrighted for up to fourteen … Continue reading Copy Rights and Wrongs

Copyright and plagiarism seem to go hand in hand. You would never quote a book in a paper without proper citations, but what about when you use a picture for an assignment or a powerpoint? How often do you give the artist credit? In today’s society, we rarely give credit where credit is due, especially […]

Newspaper Design (3 stars) 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 […]

I mean, I guess DS106 is for life, but seeing as I was talking a lot about the balance of design this week Daily Creates Creative Hands SUPERDream Creative Family Tree... Read more >

Copyright is a very complex subject. We touched on it a little bit in my Freshman Seminar class last semester, and I came to one conclusion then: copyright is restrictive and does not even get fully enforced. After reading and watching the materials for this post, I came to a similar conclusion. However, these resources give … Continue reading Copyrights and Copy-wrongs!

This week we working on design. This could include web design, picture design, really any type of design used to be visually displayed or to draw attention to something. We were directed to begin the week by reading The Vignelli Canon. … Continue reading →

For this week, we were assigned to read The Vignelli Canon by Massimo Vignelli. I definitely learned a lot from the Vignelli piece, and it also made me think a lot about design as a whole. There were so many things said in the piece that stood out to me, but I am only going […]

Week 5, the design of noir, was an interesting one. The actual assignments I loved, although this week was a struggle. I had so much going on with school and out of school and it was hell trying to work through this week. To start I’ll go over the daily creates I did for the … Continue reading Weekly Summary 2/9/15 – 2/15/15 →

Here is my final 4.5 star design assignment for the week! I chose to do the Professor Groom poster. The idea initially came to me when watching this week’s video giving us our assignments. I immediately thought of saving private ryan. Initially I wanted to photoshop each of the major player’s heads into place of […]

WE MUST PETITION THIS FRIENDS! For real, this was a really effective and creative way to convey the importance of copyright and how it effects both me as content creator... Read more >

Today’s daily create was to make jewelry out of food. I used my FAVORITE parmesan goldfish, some ribbon, and some glitter glue to hold it all together.

One of this weeks assignments was to create a design blitz using the ten concepts that were given to us. This assignment was rather tough because I felt so overwhelmed with all of the concepts. They literally show up everywhere without me even knowing it. This pictures are things located around my house that are … Continue reading Design Blitz →

I decided to do the “Origins of…” assignment (3 pts) not for my online persona but for my character. Even though my character is not a superhero, there is one thing that almost all superheros have in common: they have a tragic back story (usually having to do with their...

Image 1 My first image of the design blitz was taken of a crank bait fishing lure that i use to fish for bass. For this photo i looked at the concept of dominance. To me, this image says dominance with how magnified the crank bait is and it is the only aspect to the … Continue reading Design Blitz →

Exquisite Corpse (4pts): -The purpose of this assignment was to create a person out of different body parts. I create this person using a combination of 7 people’s body parts: including my sister (Karina’s face), friends (Corrie’s torso, Teagan’s arm, and Brittany’s leg), teammates (Purity’s arm and Jenna’s leg), and myself (half my face). I … Continue reading Creating Frankenstein

Today’s Daily Create assignment was to “Play with your food!” where you had to create jewelry using food. I looked through what food I had in my room and found that pretzels were the easiest to manipulate into different shapes and you can break off different section of the pretzel to create open spaces to … Continue reading Pretzel Chic

This week’s Daily Creates encompassed a number of different methods to test my creative abilities. I was very picky with which ones to choose. So picky, in fact, that I waited to complete Sunday’s. You can call me a rebel if you like, but I think it was more because I was unsure of how … Continue reading David, Hands, and AppleJacks

This week we had to watch one of three possible movies. I decided to watch “Double Indemnity” by Billy Wilder. Here are the questions we were given to consider while watching: How does space help frame the design and style of noir in these films? What design elements of noir are not specific to a … Continue reading Double Indemnity

I watched Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity. Just to start off I want to say that it was rather boring and it may have been because it was in black and white or it may have just been a boring movie. Something that I found really interesting though was a part where the main character mentioned the […]

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…

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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. […]

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 →

  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 →

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 →

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 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…

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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