“I like brooding in the rain.” “Also: mourning the death of my parents.”

Left class tonight feeling very inspired to create some design!! Also, Mr Jim Groom himself helped me figure out (some of) the source of my frustration(s) yesterday! I couldn’t download icons from “The Noun Project” website because they are saved as some weirdo SVG file, and I don’t know what to do with that. But ...

I have some news. I am in love. With the NounProject. It is a fantastic site full of simple yet dynamic icons that are for public use. It has inspired me to start designing my own icons but my roommate … Continue reading →

For my third design assignment, I chose Bad Guy Business Cards assignment. I created my bad guy business card on Hannibal Lecter from The Silence of the lambs. I got the picture from google image and I pasted the picture to paint. It was an easy assign...

I am happy to say that yesterday’s frustrations with technology have not spilled over into today! I had class for much of the day and was feeling very hesitant to get back to my room and work on some design assignments because of all the bad vibes I was feeling yesterday. But, today Aviary and ...

This is my 2nd Design Assignment. This is my One Story / Four Icon one. The icons are pretty self explanatory. (3 Stars)

Hey everybody for my 3rd design assignment I have animated this cover  of one of my favorite mangas/animes D. Gray-Man (I apologize for the clown the author has a very weird thing for clowns) and now I’m going to teach you how to make this snowy effect in Photoshop CS5 using my example here: The first ...

Atoms quivering, Flash and Superman vanished from the starting line.  In the first picosecond of the race, impossible acceleration hurdled the two superbeings against the fabric of time, freezing themselves in watery and unsavory purgatory of space. Flash, glancing over at Superman, saw sublime determination and clarity.  Sweat dripping from his forehead, Flash realized, even ...

My Google-esque image. March 30, 1964- Jeopardy debuted on television. I love Jeopardy, so this could not be any more perfect!

I was in the middle of this assignment when I came up with my idea of new design assignment, and I just submitted my idea.  So where were we… Designment ...

Design Assignment 365:   Pick your favorite quote OR make up your own phrase which describes a philosophy that you try to live by.  It can be about love, friendship, family, ...

Just kidding. That was an overstatement. The first assignment I actually completed earlier today (before work) but didn’t have time to blog ‘em up. After getting back from work, I completed this next assignment. So don’t be fooled by the time warp that seems to have occurred here. This is the “Little Caption” assignment, which also happens ...

This is my first design assignment. Be easy on me, please. I was feeling very overwhelmed with GIMP and got annoyed and frustrated, so I decided to give it a little rest and move on to something else for a bit. I found this assignment and thought it would be perfect for taking a little ...

After a fated event Makoto Konno gains the power to literally “leap” into the past, she of course uses this power in small ways to better her life: get to school earlier, retake a test she fails, take the last pudding before her sister does, etc. However she soon has to face the fact that ...

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Spirited Away is a captivating, colorful film by Hayao Miyazaki.  In continuing with theme from Princess Mononoke, I have painstakingly dragged a little paint bucket around to capture Spirited Away’s colorful mysticism and create the Aburaya Bathhouse minimalist travel poster.   The method you ask?  Colors were sponsored in part by Kuler, featuring Oil Flame, Japanese ...

I just saw The Vow with Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams because of it’s supreme chick-flick attraction with great actors and an intriguing story line.  I don’t know why I had such high expectations…great movies just aren’t made any more.  I liked the plot, but the characters were underdeveloped and the writing was too cliche.  ...

Expression of myself  assignment is not as easy as you think because you gotta dig down deep. First of all, there’s one picture on top of the the background. This represents just how far I have grown in my college years.  I am on a track I never thought I would be on and have ...

You guys, I just created the ultimate Valentine’s Day card of our generation. Click the image to be taken to it: It’s a card idea I’ve had for a few months, and I’m super happy I finally got to make it. I really wish I could find a way to sell it to Hallmark or ...

Part of our ds106 Valentine’s Day blitz, here’s my recaptioned romance cover: Yeah. Definitely could’ve told her in a less awkward way there, guy.

I spent entirely too long on this assignment so my hand is cramped up beyond belief. Time to invest in a mouse: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/i-can-read-movies/ I used the movie “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” for this assignment...

Designment Assignment 342:  Really Reality TV – Follow this formula to create your own reality TV show for the ds106 Network.     This assignment sounded like a lot of ...

This assignment was great, simply because you can use so many different lyrics and basically interpret the pictures in any way you want. I used “You Gonna Fly” by Keith Urban because the song creates a great sense of love … Continue reading →

Starting off with my first design assignment I have chosen to give some notoriety to the villains of anime. The baddie featured here is a popular antagonist from the anime Bleach, Ulquiorra Schiffer 4th strongest of Aizen’s army of arrancar and a terrifying proof that being #4 isn’t anything to scoff at. I chose to ...