After seeing the example of the bumper sticker (Strong Women: You’re Following One”), it was hard for me to think of anything but activist-y topics for my own.  Since it dealt with feminism, it was especially difficult to stray from … Continue reading →

This assignment involved telling a story through four icons, which seems simple enough, right? Wrong. It is actually a lot harder than it appears. Most movies are not basic enough to entirely depict through four simple frames, let alone through icons! I tried this twice, using google images and clip art for the first one. ...

This week’s daily creates were fun for me. I’m awful at art, but I like to try sometimes, so this week gave me an opportunity to do that. I wrote a poem about an underappreciated object, I drew a bumper … Continue reading →

The Assignment: “Design Safari:” Carry your camera with you this week and take photos of objects, ads, signs, etc. that illustrate one of these concepts. At a minimum, provide an example of at least four of the concepts listed above. Share all your photos on Flickr and tag them designblitz. In addition, add a link ...

I thought this week of DS106 would be similar to last week because both had so much photography involved.  This was not the case. I was glad to read there was an other photo blitz type assignment.  Design Safari was a blast.  I carried my camera around with me all week …

Lots of things this week.  Design was lots of fun and we did lots of things that were very… pleasant.  I’ve had some experience with design before, doing various things with Gimp like designing my logo for our school lacrosse ...

Balance is something that comes in two forms like symmetrical and asymmetrical. I went with this notion I think that I wanted a picture that is really symmetrical but when I thought about it I did not want a too symmetrical. Therefore I chose a picture that had a lot of symmetrical points but then ...

This assignment was heaps of fun, as there was so many options to how to approach the task. I initially was going to draw a standard smiling face, however seeing the switch was black gave me the idea to take the next step and draw Batman’s face. I ended up using Batman‘s nose as the ...

I stumbled upon this assignment to get me started on this week’s design week. It was to make a charade type design for a song. It wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be, so I chose an easier song. I found the images on clip art on Word and just did some background ...

To build on our design concepts, I reviewed several principles of design as defined by Joshua David McClurg-Genevese in his article, The Principles of Design.  I carried my camera around with me in case I saw something that sparked a memory ...

Once a year, the Fandom Princess loved, and we mean loved, to sit and watch on her magical television a program that revolved around a boy, or statue, named Oscar. The event consisted of watching beautiful witches and wizards, trolls, elves, tributes, hobbits, and everyone the Princess looked up to … Continue reading →

The Assignment: These projects all involve some aspect of re-editing existing content to change the meaning or making something new that visual represents an idea. Minimalist TV/Movie poster design   (How did I forget to put ^ that in!) “All women can do wonders if they’re put to the test.” Season 1 Episode 2   ...

While the Fandom Princess was out in the town with the Prince one afternoon, Ghost had a plan to do absolutely nothing around the castle. This was interrupted, however, when he was strolling around the 5th floor corridor and saw a group of first year girls using special inks and … Continue reading →

My final design assignment of the week, Cartoonize Bubba (Or Fluffy) (worth 1 star), called to edit a photo of my favourite pet to make it look like a cartoon.  I used the suggested site, befunky.com, to cartoonize my photo. I uploaded a ...

Although this design assignment, found in the ds106 assignment bank, called to  Design Your Dream Animal, I wouldn’t necessarily say this animal is my dream one!  To create a new animal using at least four species, I used Picasa and Paint to create this whatchamacallit. ...

Cartoonize you pet: 1 star When I saw this assignment I was excited to do it.  Taking a picture and making it a cartoon/sketch, perfect.  I was yet to use photo editing this way.  I was bummed when I read that the subject for the image was suppose to be …

One story:  Two Stars This assignment was fun.  I instantly thought of another one of my favorite television shows.  I think for people who have seen the show the four icons will make it easy to guess the story, but for those who have only heard of it may have …

Similar to the Propaganda Poster assignment, DS106, The Movie (rated 3 stars) called to use a movie poster to depict a movie about ds106. My boyfriend has a poster of the latest batman movie in his room, so that inspired ...

Six-Word Memoir: 3 stars This assignment was a little bit more challenging than the other I have done.  I thought about what I wanted, something that is important to me and plays a large role in my life.  Shocker I chose books.  From there I thought about what books mean to me …

While browsing through the design assigments of the ds106 assignment bank, I found an assignment called Name That Single!  Worth 2 stars, this activity was to create a design for a favourite song without using words.  So, basically charades but ds106 ...

This particular design assignment was to, “take a well-known kids book and re-cast it as a computer book.” The book cover I chose to play with was One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, by Dr. Suess. When making the new cover, I considered the three most commonly used tools for a DS106 student ...

I was inspired to complete an assignment called Motivational Poster! (worth two stars) from the ds106 Assignment Bank,  because I love reading demotivational posters.  This design assigment, however, called to create an original motivational poster; something to inspire, not degrade. I found ...

Design Safari: Color This one was a little harder for me to grasp just cause when I think color, I generally think of a variety of colors, which I tried to capture in the picture with five.  Now the one part that I unintentionally did was manage to capture sunlight coming in through the window. ...

While searching through the pages upon pages of Design Assignments in the ds106 Assignment Bank, I stumbled upon an assignment called Venn Pop Culture.  Rated three stars, it called to create a 3 circle venn diagram of a pop culture figure ...

The ultimate merger assignment was to create a logo that combines to famous logos. I thought that I should merge the two most predominant logos that we see everyday as DS106′ers, twitter and flickr. The assignment was pretty simple to complete, and was also very enjoyable. I used pixlr to create the logo. I then ...

For this week’s Design Safari, I decided to focus on posters that I found around my dorm. There are a ton of them hanging up and although I see most of them every day, I have never stopped to think about their design.   There is unity in the design of the “Where is my ...

The purpose of this assignment was to pick a pivotal point in a film and rewrite the dialogue of that moment so that it changes the outcome of the movie. After browsing through a bunch of webpages, I found one that lists 40 iconic screenshots from 40 famous movies. After that, I chose my favorite ...

This week was design week for ds106. It was kind of a week of ups and downs but in the end I think I am a fan of design.  Here is a quick review of everything that I did this … Continue reading →

Your Big Break: 3 Stars This assignment was to design an album cover for a band I am in.  My band would play indie music because it is the genre I am into right now.  I chose a title and album cover that reflects my interest in books.  For the …

Since we are learning all about design this week, we had to go on a design safari.  We had to look for many different forms of design around us.  Here’s what I found: Color Color is really important for evoking different emotions.  Some colors can … Continue reading →