3. mwatanab

    Top Gun

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    October 7, 2012
    From the Movie Trading Cards assignment: Design trading cards for your favorite movie. Use a screenshot from a film an use it to create a trading card in the spirit of the class Star Wars movie trading cards. Also see the imagine trading card for The Shininghere. Idea inspired by Sean Hartter’s rendition of Brazil trading cards inthis ...
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  4. amelialord

    Sum it up 6

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    October 7, 2012
    This week I did the Design Safari 4 Daily Creates radio show contribution write up and 15 stars of design assignments: Light switch Book Cover Bridges Radio Promo Venn Diagram Where I’d Rather Be
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  5. amelialord

    Design Safari

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    October 7, 2012
    On my Design Safari I found five examples that include design elements we learned about this week: color typography metaphors/symbols minimalism & use of space form/function/message balance rhythm proportion dominance unity My first example is and advertisement for Obama 2012: This design purposefully choose the colors red, white and blue, to represent America, mainly blue for the Democratic party. The typography is simple and clear and the 0 is a well known symbol representing Obama. The main message, Vote for Obama 2012 is dominant and other information is smaller. Next I have the cubby for the fridge in my apartment: This is a bad design. The cubbies function is to … Continue reading →
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  10. sgtsocks

    Becoming A Design Star

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    October 7, 2012
    Week 6 was like Week 5 but vamped up with a taste for design. This we I created art, altered existing pieces, and examined art in my environment. We had to do an assignment similar to the Photoblitz this week, so I had to beg my girlfriend for her camera back…and then I forced her to go on a walk downtown with me so I could take photos. Luckily the rain decided to hold off this week. Our main assignment was a Designblitz which asked us to take photos throughout the week of different designs in our surroundings. More can be found about my blitz here and here is the … Continue reading →
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  12. amelialord

    Radio Show contribution

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    October 7, 2012
    My team has decided our theme for the radio show will be “Things to do around DC.” We are going to focus on the hassles the city puts you through when trying to see the sites. The hassle I’m going to bring up and look into is going to be the ticketing and towing around the city. Tourist just want to have a nice day seeing the sites, but are constantly having to worry if their car will be there or be fined when they get back, unless they want to go back and move or feed the meter it every 2 hours. I’m going to try to interview friends … Continue reading →
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  13. cogdog

    Randomly Randomly to Name That Single

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    October 7, 2012
    What do you do when not sure which ds106 Design Assignment to do? Spin the random chooser. Seems like a good thing to do, hence this little bit of design work. The assignment this is for is Name That Single: Create a design for a favorite song by using just simple designs and NO WORDS…Basically a design assignment with the rules in charades. IE: for No Doubt’s “I’m Just a Girl” I would just have a symbol of a girl. Shall I give a clue? The lead singer of this band is female. Some might quibble that I have violated the instructions for no words with my math symbol. So what? Who cares? the point is not to just stay within the lines, but to experiment with the concept. To select my song, I also used the randomness of the shuffle in my iTunes to pick this song. I’m standing ...
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  14. amelialord

    Where I’d Rather Be

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    October 7, 2012
    Last but not least this week I did the assignment Greetings from DS106: “Tell us where you are, where you’re from, or simply where you’d rather be and build a greeting card.” I LOVE going to the lake. My family has a cabin on a lake in Canada that I wish I could get to more, and then of course Lake Anna right down the road will do too. To me the Lake is everything I could ever want; its relaxing to sit on the dock watching the calm water and the boats driving by, its refreshing to jump in the cool (shark-free) water, and it’s exciting to go tubing … Continue reading →
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  16. amelialord

    Bart Simpson

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    October 7, 2012
    For the assignment Venn Pop Culture, “Design a Venn diagram of three circles, each representing an attribute, where each overlap defines a figure from popular culture.” I created a Venn Diagram of Bart Simpson’s characteristics: When I saw this assignment I was still in the mindset of cartoons from the light switch assignment. The cartoon I grew up watching (to my mothers dismay) and still watch today is the Simpsons. Therefore, my main character in this Venn Diagram is Bart  Simpsons. THe first three characteristics I could think of for Bart are that he’s obviously a cartoon, going on my theme, he’s yellow and he’s male. Then I was about … Continue reading →
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  17. amelialord

    ds106 Radio Promo

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    October 7, 2012
    I decided to make a bumper sticker for ds106 Radio “Come up with an aesthetic for ds106 radio. If you were to create a shirt, bumper sticker, poster, etc.” I made a bumper stick for DS106 radio. I drew it, cut it out and scanned it in. I don’t have many design applications on my computer, not even paint.. so drawing and scanning works best for me. I think the minimal use of color and the use of “white space” (which is gray in this case) make it eye catching. I also really enjoy typography, I think this typography is simple and easy to read which is the best for … Continue reading →
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  18. amelialord

    Daily Creates Week 6

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    October 7, 2012
    This week I did 4 daily creates: World Vegetarian Day: Look mom I do eat vegetables! Imagine your own personal font: I really liked this daily create, typography is very structured yet can be very creative and I like that balance. From memory draw t...
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  19. sgtsocks

    Let’s Go On A Safari!

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    October 7, 2012
    This week’s main assignment was similar to last week’s Photoblitz. This week we had unlimited time to take photos throughout the week of different design in our surroundings. The designs we were looking for had to deal with color, typography, metaphors, minimalism, form, balance, rhythm, proportion, dominance, and unity. At the end, we were asked to pick our 4 best photos and describe them. Here are all of the photos I took this week for the assignment: And here are the 4 that I chose as my best to describe: This is a church in Downtown Fredericksburg, and I find that this is a good example of a symbols. Churches … Continue reading →
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  22. anyideas

    NEW TOYS!

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    October 7, 2012
    This week I had the pleasure of getting to use Photoshop, I downloaded the trial from adobe and absolutely loved it. It took some getting use to and there was a bit of a learning curve but I started to get the hang of it fairly quickly… just wondering if I can justify spending that much money on photoshop because I don’t think I can live without it anymore. I had some problems too with my internet which kept dropping out on me. it didn’t stay out long but it was definitely something that got annoying to deal with. This week we did a lot of work in design, we learned about different aspects about design such as … Continue reading →
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  23. anyideas

    Radio Poster

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    October 7, 2012
    A Haunting Theme Park Experience, a ds106 Radio show bring you into the horrors and terrors of the spooky halloween themes these amusement parks take on in October. This was my version of the ds106 radio Poster for the group radio show project we are working on. Our group has come to the agreement that an amusement park would be a great theme especially now in the fall where they often change there appearance drastically in celebration of Halloween. When making this  photo I used a picture of Kings Dominions replica Eiffel Tower, with red Halloween Haunt lights on, added some parentheses to the top beacon to transform it into a radio tower (which I had to expand the canvas … Continue reading →
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  24. anyideas

    Rookie Malcolm Reynolds Card!

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    October 7, 2012
    If Firefly had a trading card set I would most definitely collect all of them. Now technically we were suppose to do a trading card for a movie, but I could only really think of Star Wars, Lord of the Rings and Firefly. seeing as Star Wars and Lord of the Rings already have trading cards I decided to go with Firefly (they have a movie called Serenity too so I guess I’m not too far off assignment). Not before I go into this any more if you have not seen firefly I highly recommend it, it is only one season and a wrap up movie (Fox canceled it after the first season for who … Continue reading →
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  25. anyideas

    United we Blog

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    October 7, 2012
    War War 2 posters are always interesting things to look at, and usually quite humorous too. For this assignment we were to make a Propaganda Poster for ds106. I looked on google for a good while trying to find a poster that I could use and came across this one, which I don’t know if it is actually a real one but It looked the part at least. It was quite a simple task to do I simply erased the word Win at the bottom and typed in the word blog. Because those blog together… write a lot of posts. It still bugs me that the font doesn’t quite match up and the coloring … Continue reading →
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  26. anyideas

    Norton Hears a Worm!

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    October 7, 2012
    First thing I thought of when they said childrens book, I had to find something Dr. Seuss. Now Horton Hears a Who! was a perfect choice for this childresn computer book assignment because as soon as I read Horton I thought Norton AntiVirus. A quick little thing in photoshop making the H into an N though I didn’t like that it was so subtle of a change so I tried finding something that was Iconic to Norton, I stumbled across the stethoscope and the fun began. Now this was my first REAL project with Adobe Photoshop, and if you have never used it before you are really missing out on something amazing but terrifying at the same time. I … Continue reading →
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  27. anyideas

    Cinematic Truths

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    October 7, 2012
    A truthful Movie poster, this was something that baffled me for the longest time. I couldn’t figure out what movie I wanted to do, and if I had a good movie I couldn’t think of that it was really about or why someone would REALLY go see it. Then I remembered mystic, the mutant who spends basically the entire movie wearing nothing but the blue paint they used to make her character. Now personally I love the X-men comics, as most of the the people who probably went to go see this movie do, so nostalgia was a huge factor in getting me to go see this movie. But a lot of my friends who were not … Continue reading →
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  28. anyideas

    Shhh… it’s Design Season.

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    October 6, 2012
    And we are hunting design. I found all these examples in magazines that my family subscribes to.   Function, in advertising it is very important to sell your product… and to let the viewer of said ad know what you are selling… this one was easy to figure out what they were selling… but only if you looked really closely. a very small picture of a bottle of alcohol (Even smaller print about drinking responsibly). but the large print has something to do with chasing a rabbit… unless this booze is going to give you hallucinations like some bath tube moonshine this ad did very poorly on it’s major function. selling me a product. Symbols and … Continue reading →
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  29. anyideas

    Sentiment

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    October 6, 2012
    This Typeface is actually a little special to me even before this assignment. It’s the same font I used in my tattoo. it was a really easy project I simply drew it out on a piece of paper and took a picture. I got a little bored when doing it though so I ended up playing around with some of the effects available in Picasa and this is what I ended up with. The U in my name however looks really bad but I spent awhile trying to fix the lettering that I just kind of became content with the way it looked. Vegetarian Day was apparently on Monday, so I looked up vegetarian in google to find some … Continue reading →
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  30. twerkooo

    ZOMBIELAND

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    October 6, 2012
    This week we were asked to 15 stars worth of design assignments. The one that I thought would be fun to do (considering it is the first week of October and Halloween is soon) was the Zombify Yourself Assignment. On … Continue reading →
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