For this assignment, I was to create another GIF, one focused on an athlete celebrating too early. I looked up the top 10 biggest blunders where they celebrated too early and I remembered this play by Eagles wide receiver Desean Jackson. In this play, he was just inches from the... Read more"Celebrating Too Early: Desean Jackson touchdown uh oh"

In The Vignelli Canon, I liked how Vignelli talked about the three different aspects of design that are most important to him. I enjoyed being able to, essentially, get into the mind and thought process behind another designer’s choices. Reading about the semantics aspect in his book helped me to think more about what I …

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Wow! This was a challenge. Once I figured out how to use GIMP, I actually liked it. Not as difficult as I thought it would be. For this assignment I chose a photo taken of me with the folks  who worked with me in Afghanistan. […]

The purpose of this assignment was to pick a movie scene to turn into a GIF. I chose the scene in Tangled, where Flynn and Rapunzel are at the Snuggly Duckling. While they are at the Snuggly Duckling, Rapunzel gets all of the big thugs to share their dreams with her through a song. I picked …

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I chose to do the four star design assignment to edit a game cover to make it more honest. I chose this assignment because of my love for games and the amusement I get out of seeing funny images and fails from games. This I my attempt at being funny. May I introduce the honest...

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For this assignment, I was to create a GIF of what I considered the greatest sports play of the year. I am a big baseball fan, serving as the captain of my high school team and an overall, all around avid baseball viewer, so quickly I knew to go to... Read more"Best Sports Play GIF – Ozuno of the Miami Marlins"

The goal of this assignment was to create a sporting gif that depicted a certain element in a sporting activity. The sport I chose was soccer because it is a sport I love. I found a video on youtube that had Tosun’s goal against Benefica. Once I had the video url, I changed it from …

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The four concepts I chose to include in my design blitz are color, dominance, rhythm, and proportion. One of the ideas about color that I learned this week, had to do with what different colors mean and what they can say in a picture. I learned that warm colors are not only more inviting, but they …

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For this design assignment, worth three stars, the goal is to make a postcard for a destination. And here is my postcard. Welcome to the beautiful state of Alaska. I chose to do a postcard for Alaska because it is one of my favorite places that I’ve been. I loved the open spaces and cool...

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My saluki hounds are notorious for keeping a close eye on critters, people, and vehicles that come near our house. They are the original “Neighborhood Watch” DesignAssignments DesignAssignments64

Weekly Summary Week 2 Well, this has been a week. I didn’t spend that much time outside my house, except to go to the Exhibit at the VHS,  and felt like the incompetent sibling as my sister went to scholarship dinners and what another while I stayed at home studying for my summer courses, Praxis, […]

Daily Create Week 2 – # 4 Feet on the Ground, Head on the Stars http://daily.ds106.us/tdc1973/ #ds106 #tdc1973 #ds106dc He’s got his head up in the stars and I’m glad to be the stable ground, no matter how uncomfortable his nails are. pic.twitter.com/L6L1jqFBdg — De. Norman (@de_normal1) June 4, 2017 Yes, this dog is indeed […]

Last year I took a business trip to Cairo, Egypt. The day I was leaving my host insisted on taking me to the Pyramids for one quick photo to help prove that I had been there. I particularly like this photo. It was actually a […]

  This design assignment, worth three stars, was to take one of your favorite movie quotes and put it over an image from that movie. Picking the movie for this was the hardest part. I was originally going to use a quote from RWBY but that’s not a movie. Next I thought to use a quote...

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I love contradictions. Having survived a number of heavy rolls at sea I always found it funny when my land lubber friends would wish me smooth sailing as I would depart for another 9 month deployment at sea. DesignAssignments DesignAssignments 2075

The purpose of this assignment is to take an existing image and change the concept in where you are and what you are doing. I started with a picture I had taken at a clinic a couple years ago. I used a photo editing application, called Movavi, to remove the background and add a new …

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The goal of this assignment was to create your own, one of a kind shoes. I chose to customize a pair of Nike Mercurial cleats using Nike’s website. I chose to do a pair of Mercurial cleats because when I played soccer, these were a pair of cleats I owned at one point. I used …

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In honor of National Donut Day I decided to challenge myself with recreating the Sugar Shack Logo/Trade Mark. This was actually a great deal of fun. I decided that I would use my old friend Power Point because it has most of the functions required […]

The goal of this assignment was to pick a favorite movie quote and insert it into a picture from that movie. I chose a quote from the James Bond movie, Skyfall. The quote was from a scene between Bond and Q in the art gallery. I started with a picture I found from the internet. …

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Creating an emoji or avatar of myself was fun. I found an app for my iPad that allowed me to take a picture of myself and then using the facial information go thru a menu of matches to build a pretty decent “cartoon” likeness of […]

The purpose of this assignment was to design a tattoo that could represent your personality and then apply different colors to it to represent different moods. I started with a  tattoo that said “I believe.” I gave it a simple, but elegant font because I don’t like to make a big fuss about things. I …

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The purpose of this assignment was to create a destination postcard. I chose a picture of the Hawaiian island, Maui. Once I found the picture, I used my Fotor application to add text to the picture. The text I chose to add was, “Welcome to Paradise.” The assignment was worth 3 stars and the link …

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Although this week’s assignments took longer to complete than last week’s, I feel like I have much more knowledge on design concepts and how they are implemented. Each assignment I created I was happy with the outcome. I even surprised myself with how well some of them turned out. I used GIMP, and I did …

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Choose one of your favorite movie quotes and insert the quote over an image from the movie you chose. Some of my favorite movies ever are the Harry Potter series. There isn’t one I don’t like. ABC family frequently runs Harry Potter marathons, especially during the summer. So when I chose this assignment for 3 …

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This is a Gif of David Tyree, of the New York Giants, making a nearly impossible against catch against the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLII in 2008.  Right before the catch was made, Eli Manning made an insane escape from pressure to avoid a sack.  This catch set up the game winning touchdown, …

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I know, the title of this post strikes fear into the hearts of even the strongest women. But alas, taking a summer class means this sometimes. This week was tougher than last week because I was away for part of it, but I didn’t let that stop me from daily creating! Although there were more …

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Reduce a movie, story, or event into its basic elements, then take those visuals and reduce them further to simple icons, four of them. Write your blog post up but do not give away the answer! I clicked on this week’s suggested assignments because it was late and I needed inspiration. When I saw the …

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Here are the connections I made with my classmates this week. I gave some tips and admired work, and responded to comments I received.

I wanted to first learn a bit more about design, so that’s why I opted to do my design blitz later in the week. After reading through and listening to some of the materials provided, I had a better understanding of design concepts and what makes a good design. I tried out some techniques in …

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