I guess you can say that I’ve fallen in love with making minimalist posters this week since this is my third one. I have been enjoying the challenge of making them this week and learning how to use GIMP in the process. My best friend got me hooked on Bravo’s Watch What Happens: Live with ...

So I’ve done this assignment once already. But I failed to fully read the assignment and see that the icons had to be from The Noun Project, not pictures. So I’m back to redeem myself and you get to have … Continue reading →

This week we had to complete three more daily creates. Monday: Take a photo of someone nice and cozy in a blanket. Maggie looks so cute, warm and snuggly in this picture! It’s adorable! In analyzing this picture, I say … Continue reading →

One of my favorite things about ds106 is Bagman. The character created by Brian Short is a bit of a legend among those involved in ds106 and rightly so. When I saw that there was an assignment to help out Bagman’s Presidential Campaign, I jumped on the chance to make a poster for him. After ...

I spent a lot of time indoors this week, studying for midterms and doing work for my internship and volunteer positions.  That being said, I didn’t get to check out many outdoor examples of design except for while I was … Continue reading →

WOW. Who can believe that week 6 is done already?? Time is just flying by.I know this week felt like it flew by because I was having so much fun with designing!! This week and last week, photos, have been...

One of the few problems that I had when I read The Hunger Games was the lack of description about most of the Districts. This did not really affect me in any way until I saw the Minimalist Travel Posters Based In Movies Assignment and I wanted to pick a District to create a travel ...

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This was the quickest assignment I have ever done, but it was still some fun. The assignment was to take a title of a well-known book and re-design the cover to suggest something entirely different. I looked at the best-selling books on Amazon to get an idea. Then I figured, why not make something Nicholas ...

I started this assignment with high expectations. I was going to make a movie poster into something animated. Making a poster even more epic? Definitely going to be good. I researched some posters of movies that came out this year on IMdB. After browsing around for awhile, I picked two posters that I thought would ...

To continue on my 15 star design assignment quest, I completed a poster redesign called DS106 Propaganda Posters from the ds106 Assignment Bank.  This 3 star rated assignment called to take a propaganda poster and tweek it to publicize ds106. I found ...

For my final design assignment for the week I decided to do the two star assignment that has you create an icon to describe yourself. As the picture they had Mickey Mouse’s ears, which made me a little sad because I wanted to do Minnie with a tiara (I just love her). So I decided (continue reading...)

Yes. The title of this blog post is supposed to be said {or hummed, which ever you prefer} in the way you would Surfin’ Safari by The Beach Boys. Because this week was design week in digital storytelling, it was important...

For this week’s assignments, I am focusing on design. For my birthday on February 23rd, I received both seasons of Game of Thrones on Blue-ray/DVD. I can’t stop watching it. So my mind has been on Game of Thrones all week. The moment I saw this assignment to make a minimalist movie/tv show poster I ...

So I was so lucky to be nominated to be the member of the Fab 5 to write our group post (which is obviously quite an honor).  Here is a quick run down of what we’ve got planned for our … Continue reading →

Looking at different design assignments, I came across a two star challenge that just seemed to be screaming my name! The assignment calls for making a word come to life using just font, spacing, and size. I was up for the task and knew exactly what word I wanted to do and what I wanted (continue reading...)

This image was created for the “Really Reality TV” assignment where you generate 2 words and create them into a TV show. I decided when I was going to generate my pair of words, I would NOT change them no … Continue reading →

Magic is some pretty serious stuff. I mean just imagine the responsibility of having magic, what qualifies as something that needs it, who would you use it on, how would it change you? All of that power can really go to someone’s head and it can either make you evil or good, we see it (continue reading...)

I wanted to do a minimalist cover for Tales Of The City, one of my favorite book series, but I noticed that there was no minimalist book cover assignments, so I made one. I wanted to show off the location of the books, which are set in San Francisco, and chose the Golden Gate Bridge to represent the ...

Monday’s DC - Take a photo of someone that is nice and cozy in a blanket. Don’t judge. I was on my way to class when my dog Lexi was all bundled up on my couch looking like a snuggle pup! I...

My last design assignment {:(}was to Design a Computer Book for Kids (***). The task for this assignment was to take a well-known children’s book and redesign it as a computer book. I looked at the website that was in the assignment details. I...

I have been loving every second of design week. The assignments are my favorite part. The next assignment I chose was to create a movie poster for DS106 (***). This was very fun! I almost want to do it again. When I...

For my next design assignment, I clicked on the “random” button. I tried reading through all of the assignments and picking which one I wanted to do, but I couldn’t pick!! The assignment I was given was If Movie Posters...

As per usual, another post is being dedicated to Cinderella. What can I say? She’s my favorite. So it was only natural that when I had the opportunity to create a movie poster in the most simplistic manner, I chose to do Cinderella’s cover. Just out of curiosity, I decided to search what some Cinderella (continue reading...)

For my last star design assignment of the week I chose “The Big Caption,” mainly because it was one star and that’s all I needed. For this 1-star assignment all you have to do is pick a picture off of … Continue reading →

Well not just yet… For my next 2-star assignment I chose “A place I’ve Never Been before.” I saw this over on Brittany’s blog (her’s is amazing) and new I wanted to do it too. The premise behind this assignments … Continue reading →

For this assignment, we had to summarize the main plots of a movie into four icons.  You can try to figure out what it is. I got all the pictures from The Noun Project and compiled them into one image ...

I’ve got another 2-star assignment for you all! I’ve recreated a classic Virginia bumper sticker to incorporate some ds106 love in it. For this assignment I used Picmonkey. I grabbed “black wallpaper” from google images and added in text and … Continue reading →

Joe Flacco got lost on his way to Disney World. For this Assignment, we had to insert someone into a picture where they don’t belong.  Since Joe Flacco was Superbowl MVP, he was supposed to go to Disney World for ...