This assignment was to create a propaganda poster for DS106 using a WWII poster. The process of completing this assignment was rather simple. I scanned through Google images to find the perfect poster to convey my message, and I came up with this one: After that, I used Pixlr to edit the image and change ...

Making movie trading cards is easier than I thought it would be when I decided to do the Movie Trading Card Assignment. I wanted to make a more traditional movie trading card and not a Pokemon card so I lucked out when I found this trading card from Silkwood. I chose to base my trading ...

Can you guess this movie? The assignment was to depict a movie in four basic icons. I had a lot of fun working on this assignment, and worked hard to create identifiable objects with my minimal drawing skills. While I could have done this assignment using Pixlr, or another photo editing software, I chose to ...

Alternate Book Cover: 3 Stars Another book cover!  This assignment involved taking a well known book and create a different cover for it with a different story to it.  I chose Harry Potter (I did not pick a specific one, just the series in general). I went with a literal …

How to…: 3 Stars This assignment had me pick a character from a tv show, movie, or the like an make a “how to” book based on that person. The person I chose was Lorelai Gilmore from the television show Gilmore Girls.  She has a strong personality and character.  She …

There was a lot of Disney this week, mainly because I had so much freedom to do anything I wanted with Design week. I really really enjoyed this week, it seems that each week I like this class more than the week before! This week I embarked on a magical journey about trying to find (continue reading...)

For my last design assignment I decide to do If Movie Posters Told the Truth which was worth three stars.  I decided to to Tangled as my movie poster.  I started out with this movie poster for Tangled. I decided the truthful bit of … Continue reading →

Snuggled up in a blanket: Evokes both cold and warm and cozy at the same time! This photograph has a BALANCE through the use of COLOR.  The brown shoes, white socks, and  blue pants balance the brown hair, white skin, and blue part of the blanket, with the red of the …

Last week I was in the ocean on a photography ship, but this week the ship landed on the shores of an undiscovered place. Me and my crew disembarked and named this place Design Island. We scavenged the land and … Continue reading →

I totally got this idea from Kailtyn and her post greetings loved ones.  As you may have read on here by now (at least twenty times),  I AM GOING TO DISNEY IS LESS THAN A WEEK.  And I’m kinda pretty … Continue reading →

Color: Has visual impacts on the viewer and vary in tone, shade, and light.  It can create mood or emphasis depending on combination and organization. This image uses color to create interest and to catch the eye of the viewer.  The colors and tones used do this while still allowing …

During this week we had to go around and take pictures of elements of design.  Here’s what I got. This was my example for color.  There are many colors in the photo, but the red of the cup instantly draws ...

It’s daily create time!!! Once again, I found myself lacking the time to write up a blog post about the daily creates during the day, but I did have the opportunity to do them throughout the week, so that is good! So here is a collection of daily creates that I have completed during the (continue reading...)

As soon as I saw this assignment that asked us to photoshop someone or something that shouldn’t be there into a picture, I knew exactly what I would do: Slender Man. Slender Man Now, if you don’t know who Slender Man is, I pulled a few lines from a Wiki article on him: Slender Man generally ...

I spent a very long time trying to come up with a six-word memoir to describe my life.  Unfortunately my drawing skills are far behind my ability to think up images in my head, so I ended up having to … Continue reading →

Earlier in the week I did the Lyric Typography poser assignment and ended up changing the assignment around a little bit because I had so much fun with it. Even though it ended up being my favorite thing that I … Continue reading →

For my next assignment I decided to do ds106 Bumper Stickers which is worth two stars. As soon as I saw this assignment I knew that I had to recreate this bumper sticker As a resident of Virginia, I see this bumper … Continue reading →

  This week was all about design. The assignments were fun, the design safari was a bit of a challenge for me, but I learned a lot along the way and my radio show group and I began working on … Continue reading →

In the kitchen at Mercury, the dwarves that prepared all the meals for the students in the castle were friendly and always enjoyed seeing friendly faces in between meals. The Fandom Princess was a frequent visitor to the large kitchen. She would sit on a stool and tell them stories … Continue reading →

Unlike the photoblitz assignment, I really disliked this assignment. I’m not sure why, but I just felt like I could find what I needed too. But that’s okay, it can’t all be fun and games. So what did I find … Continue reading →

Design Safari, a set on Flickr. During this week I found myself going on a safari for different designs throughout my apartment. I thought about it for a while and different aspects of design and was surprised at what I found. I knew that I wanted to include the picture of names on the wall (continue reading...)

The Fandom Princess and her sister were of course very, very close (of course, there were times when the princesses got on each other’s nerves, but what are sister’s for?) One day, an owl delivered a note to the Fandom Princess while she was away at school. It was from … Continue reading →

Now, whenever the King and Queen would go out for long rides around their kingdom to see how things would fair, they would take the same carriage that they had been riding in for years. The carriage was large and majestic, led by 6 silver horses with jet black hooves … Continue reading →

Sometimes when the moon was half-full and the night was warm with a light breeze, the Fandom Princess and a few of her friends would leave the castle late in the evening and venture into the forest. There, the smells of sweets, the sounds of a flute, harp, and laughing … 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. PSA Billboard This is silly, But I had fun making it, and figuring out how to say what I wanted to say.  PLUS!  I can’t even tell you how hard ...

As a surprise to you all, this is the one, and possibly only, post in which there will be no preface story. Shocker, I know. The reason is because this is an important post to me. Granted, it’s in response to one of the assignments from the Design Assignments Bank … Continue reading →

Once, when the Fandom Princess was in her second year at Mercury, she was given six little blue flower seeds by her Herbology professor. The professor, who was known throughout the land as having a green thumb (she quite literally did have a green thumb on her left hand) told … Continue reading →

cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by World Bank Photo Collection The dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information. Its universality is essential: the fact that a hypertext link can point to anything, be it personal, local or global, be it draft or highly polished. There was a second part of the dream, too, dependent on the Web being so generally used that it became a realistic mirror (or in fact the primary embodiment) of the ways in which we work and play and socialize. That was that once the state of our interactions was on line, we could then use computers to help us analyse it, make sense of what we are doing, where we individually fit in, and how we can better work together. – The World Wide Web: A very short personal history ...

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. Six Word Memoir All I’m gonna say is this.  This is worth WAY more than 3 Stars.   A memoir in 6 words.  Sounds easy right?  Well, I guess it ...

Last week I had some pretty L.A.M.E. blog post titles, and basically confusing “point” assignments. Hell. They aren’t even points.  They are STARS!!!!   ↓ Updated Stuffs. Steve Loves Hamburgers * Troll Quotes ** A Valentines Day Card I NEVER Want to Receive ** Color Splashed, Kinda ** Games I Never Play ***