Turn my friend into a superhero or a super villain by preplacing an existing character’s head with my friends**. The hero’s body is ok but my friend’s face could never be on a hero or seem like a hero . … Continue reading →

Before After       The logo is an important part of a company. For this assignment, you are to choose a company and re-brand them. Take their logo and remix it, or start from scratch and make it your own piece of … Continue reading →

This a Design assignment involving a famous book portrayed in a completely different way by title given.  I think this worked out perfectly.  Not only is this a terrific match up of greatness by any standard, but the title really … Continue reading →

Design Assignment where a photo from The Big Picture ( http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/) is combined with lyrics from a top 100 song.  This may be my favorite assignment yet.  This was a great mash up, and a terrific idea for a design … Continue reading →

This design assignment involves making fortunes that characters in movies could have found useful.  This is a very fun assignment and I would recommend it to anyone who need two more stars and doesnt know what they want to do … Continue reading →

This is a Design Assignment where a movie, story, or book is broken down into four simple icons.  This sounds incredibly easy but the amount of attempts and failures I had in finding the right icons online in the right … Continue reading →

This is a Design assignment where you make a banner of a favorite superhero of yours.  I don’t have any favorite super heroes really.  I’ve never read comic books as a kid.  But I do watch a lot of anime.  … Continue reading →

So class on Thursday was my favorite one yet. I just really loved it! For one thing, I wan’t feeling too positive about my work for the design section, but after seeing a bunch of the awesome work that everyone else in the class was creating, it inspired me to step  it up! Secondly, I ...

The DS106 Propaganda poster assignment is one Design Assignment that involves the manipulation of a propaganda poster so that it now supports ds106 and associated activities.  One of the fundamental concepts behind this class is the idea of free open … Continue reading →

DS 106 The Movie is a design assignment that involves the manipulation of a movie poster so that the title is the same but the plot is now about our digital story telling site.  This was actually trickier then it … Continue reading →

Poisonous.  Our waiting is poisonous.  We sit, idly, hoping that others will see the light of our works and come to us.  Our axis-mundi, our light of the world, Jim Groom, venerated as he is, grows weak. Do you truly believe we are all made of the same molecules?  That all of us will jam at ...

Poisonous.  Our waiting is poisonous.  We sit, idly, hoping that others will see the light of our works and come to us.  Our axis-mundi, our light of the world, Jim Groom, venerated as he is, grows weak. Do you truly believe we are all made of the same molecules?  That all of us will jam at ...

Here is another 3 star design assignment that I picked: If Movie Posters Told The Truth. I have become infatuated with editing and playing around with movie posters, comic posters, magical places, and posters in general. I think the idea of manipulatin...

I made a postcard from a movie Into the Wild. This movie is based off of a book of a young man who decides to throw out everything he has in his life and just goes into the wild. The main character is Chris McCandless and he later dies in the movie in the woods.

Design Assignment 367:  Time to let out your inner Big Brother! Create a propaganda poster for ds106. Use your photo editing software of choice and write a message to inspire ...

I came up with this idea while working on the propaganda poster design assignment. This didn’t quite fit in with any other assignments already there (please correct me if I’m ...

I’ll be honest: I don’t know much about graphic art. I’ve seen it. I’ve spent a lot time wandering the rooms of the MoMa looking pensive, and ds106 is currently producing a lot of hot art. But nothing has made … Continue reading →

I send my credits to Bavatuesday for his inspiring remix cover of the Big Lebowski video game and this great little assignment. Sifting through box covers of 5200 games for my own, I found this classic “Kaboom!“.  Instantly I thought of an old throwback of mine, Bomberman.  How could I not bring the two together?  A ...

I send my credits to Bavatuesday for his inspiring remix cover of the Big Lebowski video game and this great little assignment. Sifting through box covers of 5200 games for my own, I found this classic “Kaboom!“.  Instantly I thought of an old throwback of mine, Bomberman.  How could I not bring the two together?  A ...

Got another design assignment done. Decided to go with the “Re-brand ‘Em” assignment by Chris Randles. The assignment was to change around or re-create a logo for a well known company. I mixed up the Target logo with a darts … Continue reading →

Design Assignment 358: The assignment is to reduce a movie, story, or event into its basic elements, then take those visuals and reduce them further to simple icons, four of ...

Create a Pokemon card for yourself, what are your powers? Well, this shall be a fun assignment to do I used to watch so much Pokemon back when I was just a wee kid to the point that my brother and I could recite the 150 original Pokemon. We were pretty...

Here is my postcard from Narnia. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was one of my favorite childhood books so I figured this would ignite some nostalgic passion from the wonder years. I used photoshop for this assignment and added pics I found off google.  Then I just added the pics and text layers.  ...

For this assignment, I had in mind several books that I could use, but I settled on The Giver. One of my favorite books I fell in love with in 8th grade, this book expanded my horizons of a whole new world conceived by the brilliant author, Lois Lowry...

Saw this design assignment from the one and only Jim Groom himself and instantly knew what I wanted to do for it. Decided to “remix” the cover of one of my favorite childhood games, Harvest Moon, by making the oh-so-clever … Continue reading →

Just got my (very) late start on this week’s design assignments (3/15 stars) with a fun one posted by Daniel Zimmerman. The assignment was to create a propaganda poster that could be used on ds106ers. I chose to alter the … Continue reading →

To quote another DS106 pioneer, I spent entirely too much time on this assignment. In fact, I created several different potential icons for myself, but I was never fully satisfied with any outcome. I can’t even say that I am … Continue reading →