[slicker-flickr tag="designblitz"] This week we were assigned to go on a design safari, we were to go around taking photos of objects and places to evaluate them in terms of design elements and quality. The McDonald’s sign used dominance and function/message. The yellow arch, which has become a staple in McDonalds …

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The design assignments were definitely the most time consuming part of this week.  As a bit of a perfectionist, I spent way more time on the design assignments this week than I probably should have.  However, I feel that extra time I spent elevated the quality of what I produced. Design Safari My Design Safari for this week was... Continue reading →

My friends and I always joke around saying that we should make a band and an album. So when I saw the assignment Your Big Break I decided that it would be cool to make that a reality. This was a three star assignment. Breaking news! Long awaited debut album for Dunsparce has finally come out. […]

For my final design assignment, I chose to do “Name That Single” (2 stars): Create a design for a favorite song by using just simple designs and NO WORDS…Basically a design assignment with the rules in charades. I decided to use… Continue Reading →

Well I have to say this was the funnest week for me so far. I truly enjoyed all the design assignments we got to work on this week. I loved working with different software and apps to change and edit images to create our assignments. These assignments also taught how to use some software. For […]

Original Assignment (3.5 Stars) I had obtained this photo through a trailer for season six of Burn Notice, which was the second to last season of one of my favorite TV series. I started watching Burn Notice ever since the first season, and I loved the suspense, action, and comical value it had in each episode. […]

While looking through all the design I was having a hard time of thinking which assignment I should try next. I ended up finding the Scene Poster assignment worth 3.5 stars. I decided to make a poster for another one of my favorite shows Regular Show. I think that I made a gif about the […]

Today I went to Busch Gardens. I had a lot of fun riding rides. I am loving October so far with Octoberfest yesterday and Howl-o-Scream today

This particular assignment had me go out and see what particular kinds of pictures under a certain category I could take while doing my routine things. I was able to use what I learned last week about photography skills and techniques and attempted to implement those while taking the photos I took. The photos I […]

The Design Safari was my favorite assignment of the week.  I came across many different examples of good and bad design elements, and decided to include my four favorites here. Color Though technically the sky is not something that can be designed per se, I was amazed at how well the vibrant colors of the sunset... Continue reading →

After a great weekend with my friends, today I felt chill like ice cubes. I just relaxed all day and did some homework.

  For the ultimate merger, I decided to combine two classic soft drink companies. Those two being Coca Cola and Pepsi. This assignment started off very well and then I hit a bit of a nag with sizing but in the end turned out alright. I started with the simple Coca Cola logo… I went […]

Well this week was just like every other ds106 week and was fun filled and entertaining. I must say that I have a pretty impressive butt shaped imprint worked into my desk chair seat cushion. This week was about design, but it encompassed many different aspects of design and required us to use our skills in various areas. […]

Taking photos that had the different concepts was very tricky but interesting. It was challenging in the fact that you were not just looking for anything, you were searching for certain elements in the objects. However, it was very interesting look at the objects from a different point of view. Color The first one I […]

After spending most of yesterday at Oktoberfest and other festivities with my friends, I woke up this morning having no motivation to do anything whatsoever, and just wanted to stay in my bed all day and watch some football, and not to mention a mild hangover, which was a nuisance. However, that would be only […]

For the “Throwback Riddle” assignment (2 stars), I had a hard time thinking of riddles from my childhood that I could also find icons for. So, instead I decided to go for the option of using an everyday phrase. I… Continue Reading →

Another week means another four Daily Creates!  I got a little more hands-on with my creates for this week. Create 1: Water and Glass Movement.  Probably the least exciting create of the week.  Just water moving around in a glass, however, one can not deny the beauty and rhythm of the moving water. Create 2:... Continue reading →

Daily Creates  Pirates have landed I created a story that the Pirates took all the criminals in the world…wishful thinking right? Well I am more of a visual person, so I decided to add a picture with the writing to  give it form and have the picture symbolize the pirates leaving the island on ships […]

The design safari set out to have me looking for different types of photography opportunities. I was able to utilize some of the skills that I learned last week about photography and apply them to this week where I was trying to find ten different concepts about design. There was color, typography, metaphor/symbols, minimalism/use of […]

Original Assignment (3.5 Stars) For this assignment, I decided to do a pretty impossible, but awesome idea of merging Microsoft AND Sony. These two companies are the top dogs of entertainment and electronic media, most notably for their Xbox and Playstation gaming consoles, respectively for Microsoft and Sony. I used google drawings for this simple […]

I found this assignment to be the most difficult of the creative designs so far. I figured out pretty quickly that I wanted to do Call of the Wild by Jack London and thought a wolf silhouette would be a great image to start out with. I then did a Google image search for a […]

Original Assignment (3 1/2 stars) Ask anyone in my family, and they will tell you that I am a Law & Order SVU fanatic. I know for a fact that I’ve seen every episode. Now I don’t watch a lot of … Continue reading →

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Original Assignment (3 Stars)   I noticed this assignment right away when I was browsing through the long list of possible design assignments I could do, and I remembered right away I had an old photo of some of my friends from high school during homecoming. It was a bit embarrassing looking back on this […]

I watch a lot of movies so this assignment was right up my alley. However, I’m not sure how many movie lovers take this class so I chose a movie which is fairly well known but might not have been seen by anyone recently. It can be tricky sometimes to find icons which display what […]

Original Assignment (3 stars) Sometimes sequels can be a hit or miss in the film industry. For this assignment, I found a movie poster on Google for the film Taken 2. I enjoyed the first one, but the second one, … Continue reading →

Original Assignment (3 Stars) This assignment was pretty difficult for me because I am not that all familiar with photo editing software, but this was fun at the same time for me. I simple googled “World War II Propaganda Posters” and I noticed the iconic Uncle Sam poster right away and I decided to use […]

I woke up this morning the day after OktoberFest and did not have a hangover or any of that nonsense associated with drinking. However when I went to go look in the mirror I did notice that one of my eyes was open significantly more than the other one. Then I realized why. The huge […]