Original: My Picture: For Design Assignment 1053(2 stars), we had to pick a celebrity I idolize and make ourselves into them. I chose to edit myself onto Adam Levine’s face. I picked Adam because, I’m a big fan of Maroon 5 fan. They never stop putting out good music. It’d …

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Hands down, this has been my favorite week of DS106 yet. I’m a graphic design junkie. I design logos and layouts for websites, I do a lot of design for the school paper, and I’m the layout designer for the… Continue Reading →

Daily Creates Design Blitz Design Assignments This week was all about design. I learned to look deeper at objects and places to see what makes them effective pieces due to their design. Do they have proper balance, do they have emotion inflicting color, do they have a rhythm within the …

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As the weeks go by, I have found myself enjoying the content on these assignments more and more. This week is no exception. I started off by doing the Visual Assignments first after reading some of the prompts which piqued my interest. My first was the Six Word Memoir which was fairly tricky in coming […]

Is it just me or was this week suuper busy? I completed most of this week’s work by Friday, and yet I still sat down six hours ago to finish two more assignments and I’m just finishing up now! Design assignments take… Continue Reading →

One of our assignments this week was to do a design blitz. This means take pictures of objects, ads, signs, etc. that display some of the design qualities that we have been given. We have been given nine design qualities,... Continue Reading →

DAILY CREATES DESIGN SAFARI CARTOON A FACE! (1.5 stars) MOVIE IN FOUR ICONS (2.5 stars) MINIMALIST MOVIE/TV SHOW POSTER (3.5 stars) MINIMALIZE MOVIE/PHILOSOPHY (2.5 stars) LYRIC TYPOGRAPHY POSTER (4 stars) + LYRIC TYPOGRAPHY TUTORIAL COMMENT FOR SARA COMMENT FOR HOPE... Continue Reading →

For this week’s designblitz, I mostly looked through magazines, newspapers, etc to find examples. I feel like these places typically have great design, and occasionally a really really bad one to serve as a warning. The examples I pulled this… Continue Reading →

For Design Assignment 1319 (3.5 stars), the goal was to create another poster to represent a popular song. I won’t tell you the song name, but I’ll hint its an alternative genre hit with a reference to marry as you can see from the poster. As far as the design elements …

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Another week down! We’re about at the half way point now, huh? These weeks are flying by, but hey, I’m not complaining. Anyway, this week was  packed with assignments dealing with the art of design. I believe I accomplished the … Continue reading →

1) TDC1000!   The goal was to combine at least three TDCs to celebrate the creative power of The Daily Create activity in honor of its 1000th post! I loved my recent eye/features drawing, so I made that the main... Continue Reading →

This week was a lot of fun. It was totally out of my comfort zone. I had never done a most of the things I completed this week. The radio show I am working with Rachel and Kelsy. We have been throwing ideas around on canvas. We are thinking about going in the direction of […]

This week I managed to complete all four Daily Create’s! Woo hoo. 9/29: First, I completed TDC995- “The pirates have landed…” “…and they stole Kim Kardashian’s ‘booty'” I realize this was very immature, but I thought it was kind of… Continue Reading →

For my fifth and final design assignment for the week I chose the assignment Guess The Song, where the idea is creating a poster for a popular song, without telling the name of the song, and incorporating an image of you... Continue Reading →

This was a tough assignment. Although similar to many of the concepts from last week, this felt a bit more abstract. As I was going around looking for interesting content, I had to repeatedly question whether I was on the right track and if my pictures fit the narrative. For one, it made me appreciate […]

I had a bit of trouble this week in regards to finding “design” in everyday life. I’ve never been a very organized, minimalistic person, so it’s hard for me to observe places, signs, houses, etc. and see designs. The assignment… Continue Reading →

So, since Titanic is my favorite movie, one of my oldest family friend’s fathers loves to watch the film with me, and here’s the kicker: he openly admits he loves it because his man crush is Leonardo DiCaprio. Now, I... Continue Reading →

For Design Assignment 1413 (4 stars), we were to put Jim Groom into a movie or television poster. I chose to put him into one of my favorite television shows, NCIS. I haven’t kept up with it lately, but its such a well constructed show. I chose to make him into …

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Daily Create 1: TDC to the power of 10 It was actually surprisingly fun to go back through some of my Daily Create photos to put together this collage. We’ve only been at it a month, but there were definitely… Continue Reading →

Daily Creates: The Pirates Have Landed Glass and Water Movement Empathy Map Feelings I simply came up with a story of Pirates raiding an Office Depot (out of all places) to simply steal all their paperclips (out of all things right?). Perhaps they have some reason for it, but my guess is that they just […]

This week was all about to design. The main feature of this week was the design safari. I started out the week by looking at what each of the ten characteristics of design meant and then tried to photograph examples of each throughout the week. It was not exactly difficult to find examples but I […]

This week has opened my mind and my eyes to see the world around me in a completely different way. I never really noticed the rhythm on floors, or the burst of color inside restaurants, the symmetry of the buildings. I feel as though I am seeing everything for the first time. Reading the design […]

So this post is dedicated to my daily creates from yesterday (10/4) and today (10/5). For yesterday, the daily create was TDC Powers of 10. Yesterday was the 1000th daily create, so our task was to make a compilation of our three... Continue Reading →

As usual, I started this assignment by over thinking. My mom’s an interior designer, and I’m in a design class this semester. Since I might go into marketing, I have to be familiar with aesthetic principles such as the ones... Continue Reading →

For this Design Assignment I created a movie I have grown into to become one of my favorite movies. I won’t give away the title, but I will say it is considered a scary movie. I say I’ve grown to love the movie, because I really don’t like scary movies. …

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Hello all! I recently downloaded GIMP, so from now on, I’ll be using mainly that program to create my edits. Before I switch mediums, however, I want to offer you a tutorial on Pixlr for this assignment from the Design... Continue Reading →

First reading the description for this assignment I knew I was going to have to shift my mind. I was not going to be able to think the way I normally do. I was going to need to look at everything in a different way, finding the design in everything I saw. For color, I […]

I decided to the Children’s Book Cover assignment worth 3 stars. As a kid there was one book that I would always have my Mom and Grammy read to me. It is a book that I will likely read to my own kids. This book is The Giving Tree, by Shel Silverstein. It is a […]

For this Design Assignment, we had to turn a old World War II propaganda poster and make it for ds106. I chose to take poster take warned about the wastefulness of driving alone, you can see the old poster here, and turn it into a poster about commenting on others pages. …

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The fourth design assignment that I chose was Motivational Poster! The objective of this assignment was to create a motivational poster, something similar to this: Something simple, but something that conveys a point, and a general idea. To start this assignment, I... Continue Reading →