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

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 […]

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 →

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, […]

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

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 →

The Design Blitz assignment consists of taking photos of things you see as you walk around during the week and illustrating four of the ten concepts of design. I already knew of a few objects and signs I wanted to photograph for this assignment, so I took the photos relatively quickly. These are the photographs … Continue reading Blitz Pics

This is the scene poster assignment worth 3 1/2 points.   I decided to keep my Taxi Driver theme running strong, though I actually tried to challenge myself a little bit more this time. For a project from last semester, I had set my computer to take a screenshot of the film every other frame … Continue reading More Taxi Driver →

I chose to create a website banner (4 stars)  for one of my design assignments this week. This website banner is related to my character, Edie Waz. It is a combination of some snippets of her life. Her bar, where she grew up, some things from the stories I’ve posted about her already, etc. I chose this assignment … Continue reading Edie’s life banner →

I’ve always thought minimalist posters were an artistic and creative way to show the plot/main focus of a story through only a few shapes and colors. For this assignment, “Minimalist TV/Movie Poster” we were to create a poster that captures a story through minimalist design and iconography. I decided to use the movie Clue as … Continue reading A Minimalist Murder Mystery

This is the budding entrepreneur assignment worth 2 points. At first glance, this bottle of wine may not seem like anything out of the ordinary. Oh how wrong you are, petty peasant! This is the finest accent wine, fresh from the gardens of the Stephanus Rechtorus vineyard. What’s accent wine, you say? Accent wine is … Continue reading The New Thing in Wine: Accents →

For one of my design assignments this week, I chose Professor Groom Poster (4 1/2 stars). I am using this assignment as my “4 stars or higher” assignment in the 12 required stars. I chose this assignment because I thought it would be fun and because we had to pick an assignment with a high rating. In … Continue reading Jim Groom- Noir Detective →

Design an Invoice (3 stars) Create an invoice for a transaction that has happened in a film, TV series, etc. For example, Boba fett’s invoice to Jabba the Hutt for capturing […]

  This is the create your own DS106 wallpaper assignment worth 4 points. Here’s my wallpaper! With these sorts of things I always start off small, almost get finished, then spend way too much time trying to perfect some tiny aspect I don’t like. Then after I curse the name of GIMP for a few … Continue reading A New Paper for the Wall →

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…

Apps Galore (3 Stars)   For this assignment, I assumed that smartphones could actually be a thing in the 1950s because I felt this assignment sounded like a lot of…

Blade Runner is an interesting mix of science fiction and noir. It is set in Los Angeles in 2019 (so basically any day now they should be creating flying cars), and the design element of space plays an integral role in setting up the noir feel of the movie. There...