The two people who have already completed this assignment used food so I wanted to do something else. You know me -I like to be different. Where did the concept come from? In the last year, a lot of babies … Continue reading →

Greetings from the Land of Oz to Aunty Em. Tim, Hannah, Liz and I created this assignment for an in-class project today. We immediately picked the movie “The Wizard Of Oz” for the very obvious reason that we all love … Continue reading →

There are some design assignments that require you to think deep and hard, others require that you be creative, imaginative and be good at connecting the dots. When it comes to the rest, you just go with the flow and … Continue reading →

This time, I decided to tackle the “Postcards from Magical Places” assignment. I was browsing through my internal data bank of geekery, fantasy and sci-fi movies in order to think of a topic I could do this one on. I wanted the movie to be popular so the message would be easily understood by the ...

Here is the front to our postcard: And heres the back: My part in this group project was to do the writing. Once I got the template for the back of the postcard I uploaded it into Gimp and added … Continue reading →

I decided to start off my week with a simple assignment in order to get a few stars and get use to this section. This is a friend of mine who suits the chosen quote very well as he has a tendency to lose his pants. I came up with a couple different pictures, all ...

For my minimalist travel poster I used one of my favorite movies, Kill Bill, as inspiration.  Uma Thurman’s character, Beatrix Kiddo, is on a mission to kill the members of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad.  When Kiddo goes to kill … Continue reading →

For the place i’ve never been visual assignment I chose Venice, Italy. I chose Venice because I’m Italian, and I have many second and third relatives who still live their today. I chose to be creative with this picture, and … Continue reading →

Here is my bad guy business card.  I chose Robert Moses because we discussed him in class and his unethical methods of developing New York during the 1950′s and 1960′s.  He’s infamous for going into poor and minority populated neighborhoods … Continue reading →

For my bad guy business card I chose to do a business card for Jigsaw ( John Kramer ) in the movie Saw. In order to do this I used google to find a good picture that would allow me … Continue reading →

Thinking back on our conversation about web 1.0 versus web 2.0, I experienced a web 1.0 nightmare today. I spent four hours in Simpson Library today scrolling through card catalogs and microfiche. Yes, microfiche. I had to feed the film … Continue reading →

INSPIRATION; A design assignment that is an expression of myself and who I am? Get outta here! Oh well! I spent hours on this assignment, putting together different concepts about my life and trying to make it all fit and … Continue reading →

I was  both very interested  and nervous in starting this assignment. The effect looked amazing, but I had no idea where to begin with this. I checked out “steampunk” technique the author of this assignment recommended, but I could not figure out how it applied.  I decided to mess around with Photoshop for the first ...

Design Assignment: Wait, Where’d That Guy Come From? If you haven’t seen the infamous photo of prancing cera, or haven’t seen the fuckyeahprancingcera blog dedicated to the photo, then you are missing out. I thought that placing prancing cera into … Continue reading →

The assignment was to create an image of something that represents me. I am definitely a book worm, so I chose glasses as my icon. I used an icon from NounProject and Microsoft Word. I pasted the image into a Word … Continue reading →

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Did my first design assignment and decided to jump in feet first with the Really Reality TV assignment. So here’s my TV show: Malibu: the Interventions   Description: At Malibu Mornings, doctors apply a wide variety of therapeutic modalities to assist in uncovering the underlying trauma of each individual, especially if that trauma has to ...

By far the easiest out of all the design assignments on the site. I chose a picture from the assigned website and then based off the picture, I decided to use lyrics of a song by my favorite musician Rihanna … Continue reading →

INSPIRATION; My first design assignment and am loving it already. While looking through the various assignments, I saw this and immediately knew what I was going to do for this project. The movie poster I chose to use is “The … Continue reading →

I know I didn't really need a sweet gaming mouse, but dammit, I wanted one. Old faithful has a spliced cord for god's sake.

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Mission: Defamilarize , a set on Flickr. The assignment was to take a ten photos of a familiar place and make it unfamiliar, what place is more familiar than home? The process was very simple, I just wandered around my … Continue reading →

Daily Create 35: Photograph you own or someone else’s cool tattoo. Shadow Tattoo.Daily Create 34: Take a photo that emphasizes the detail of a human hand. Winter Skin.Daily Create 33: Take a picture of confusion. Word mess.Daily Create 32: Make a photo that represents something you aspire to do or be one day. Blaze.Daily Create ...

Assignment: Black out sections of a newspaper to create a new story, poem, picture, etc. Didn’t have a newspaper on hand, I but wanted to give this a shot and did have a super old book of not enjoyable to read poetry (Robert Browning, ugh) which I had no qualms about writing all over. Lines ...