For my Barcode Transformation I decided to add barcodes to a manatee silhouette!  Manatees are one of my favorite animals, and I really wanted to see what one would look like as a barcode.  I created the first half of the image using Paint as GIMP was giving me difficulties, but switched over to GIMP... Continue reading →

For my Ultimate Merger, I decided to combine two of America’s most prominent fast food franchises: Subway and Pizza Hut!  SubHut would function similar to Subway now…except they would deliver!  Customers could build their sandwiches online, and have them delivered to their front door in 30 minutes or less.  Pizza lovers should not fear, as... Continue reading →

This Ultimate Merger assignment was really fun and interesting. We were suppose to take two businesses and merged them together to create one logo. The process to create this logo was not too challenging, I found a colorless logo and took that image and put it in the Color Splash app. From there I was […]

For this daily create I took the photos really tell about me, and what means the most to me. I also took pictures of some of the work that I feel I did the best on.

In this assignment, we were suppose to take a head of someone famous and place it on the body of an animal or the other way around. For me this assignment was easy to think about the image I wanted to create. The process to create the image was a little more difficult to make. […]

Who doesn’t like a Safari? Especially when your goal is to take pictures! The approach I took to this design safari was looking at all the examples and thinking in the back of my head where I have seen these in my everyday life. I thought I would take an angle in this assignment that […]

  3 stars For the final design assignment of this week, I decided to make a logo for my site. I’m a fan of more minimalist design, so I may not necessary use this logo on the site, but it’s… Continue Reading →

I thought this was a really neat assignment and something that I had never done before. I am quite a novice to digital design and thought this would be far more difficult than it turned out being. After searching though Google images for a bit I settled on a poster which promoted increased weapon production […]

This assignment took me a little while to figure out. The execution was fairly simple however it was a bit of a challenge to come up with a good concept. The story in question could be very deep depending on the context but personally its a relatively minor tale on disappointment. I applied to a […]

What a week!! The weeks seem to be moving by faster and faster now. This week I focused on some of the things that my other summaries had been lacking. One thing in particular were the names of the posts, Professor Polack suggested that I not just use the name of the assignment as the […]

Design Blitz: Color: My first image was taken downtown, it is of a sign that represents complementary colors very well. The entire sign is basically just two colors, blue and orange, which are complementary of each other.   I also found a painted building that was not painted in complementary colors. Although the store does […]

Another assignment I chose for this week was the “A Place I’ve Never Been” (3.5 stars) assignment. Seeing as I haven’t been to a lot of places, I had quite a few choices! One of my good friends lives in… Continue Reading →

A combination of three of my favorite daily creates in honor of it being the 1000th daily create.

For this assignment, we were to take a movie poster and edit it to tell the real truth about the movie. The process of this was very simple and fun. The tough part was picking a movie and deciding what to say about the movie. After thinking about it for a couple minutes I knew […]

This assignment which was worth 3 and 1/2 stars was to create a poster using  a photo of yourself and incorporating an object in it as well. The object and your picture are then used as hints to a song that people must guess. This song may be tricky, I do not know exactly how […]

DesignBlitz Color creates mood, draws attention to key elements. Good designs can use bold color or none at all (lack of color or monochrome makes a message too). What colors work well together? What methods of using color are more effective? What do saturate colors say as compared to pastels? Metaphors/Symbols: What are best practices […]

The design techniques I chose to hunt down and capture were: Typography, Color, Symbols, and Minimalism. Typography is basically using different fonts to appeal and get certain messages across. While at the stat fair of VA with my mom I was walking around thinking about examples of this. I figured this would be a great […]

For this assignment, I again had a hard time choosing only one song or lyric! I have so many favorite writers and lyricists, so I decided to choose whatever came to mind immediately when I thought of a line that... Continue Reading →

This turned into an assignment that once again broadened my horizons. I attempted to use paint, and Picasa but neither worked to my satisfaction. I googled the best apps to use for transporting a face onto another picture and I happened upon the app gimp. Gimp did exactly what I needed it to do, I […]

For this assignment I was very nervous. The assignment itself was easy enough but for me finding any type of editing software normally takes me hours. Fortunately, this time, it took me less than a half hour. I used this very simple and neat site called Hipster Logo(link). All you have to do is type […]

I picked this design assignment because I love music. I picked one of my favorite songs that is by a female country singer (hint). Even though I don’t think I am that good at drawing, I tried my best and since it is one object that describes the song, I picked the most prevalent thing. […]

I knew I had to do this design assignment when I saw that it was about creating a tattoo. I love tattoos and I have one of my own so far. What made this even better is when I saw we had to tie in what we’ve learned about design this week and I tied […]

My favorite childhood book wasn’t the average one. I fell in love with the Rainbow Fish series. My mom and dad would read them to me until I learned how to read and then they had to sit through me reading it to them! I had drawn a picture of a new design, and then […]

Mostly everyone has seen the classic Baby on Board car bumper/windshield sticker. Here is an example:  As soon as I saw the description: Design a Bumper Sticker, I wasn’t sure of what to do. Randomly in my head came an image of the baby on board sign that I see all the time because I […]

This assignment I choose because it hits a little close to home, not the assignment itself but the place I chose to represent that I have never gone before. If you can’t tell by the picture I chose Thailand. Even though it was way before I was born, my father was stationed there during the […]

When I think of WWII propaganda, I immediately think of the Uncle Sam’s “I want you” for recruiting soldiers. So of course when I saw this in the redesigning posters post on week 6, I thought of that right away and had it planned out what I wanted to do. I used the picsart app […]

I myself am very knowledgeable about movies. Especially ones from the 1980s and further back.  So when I saw this assignment I was extremely excited. This story takes us back to before most of us were even born. The key is to pay attention to details. I will admit this is fairly easy because I […]

  Today is a milestone for the daily create, number 1000! To acknowledge the special occasion we had to put together a collage with three daily create pictures to match the power of three the creates had met. I made a collage out of the Lune, Jim Groom portrait, and the national dog …

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Our group met up on Thursday night. We began by introducing ourselves since none of us knew each other . Then we decided that the best form of communication was not email (which is what we had been using) but a group message would be way more convenient. We then decided on how to create […]