A photo shared from InspiroBot that makes you really think about if these are randomly generated or not. Re-posted here because it did not seem to share on my twitter earlier.

  I created a poser for my favorite New York Giants player: Odell Beckham Jr. Odell is the highest ranked player on the New York Giants and is a top 5 receiver. The Giants have recently won two super bowls but it was before Odell Beckham Jr. joined the New …

Can you guess? At the beginning, they have an encounter that involves a tasty burger, and later a personal addiction leads to the downfall of another. Then som unsavory events occur in the basement of a gun shop, and it all cumulates in a wallet being returned to its rightful owner. The timeline of these […]

  I attempted to edit this photo by turning it black and white and searching through filters on my iphone to give that grungy look. I didn’t have any props to look like a civil war era person but I used a chair to resemble the original picture on this …

Derived from one of my favorite quotes, “May the bridges I burn light the way”, from Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue. The first version is all in black, and what I would assume embodies the quote itself. The second is in orange, which along with the yellow and red versions, exemplify the guiding light of […]

Game of Thrones is my favorite show, I can’t wait for the newest season to begin in a couple of days. I used my gamer-tag, Darkstar, as my house. Sadly, I couldn’t find a way to create my own symbol so I used a star and a medieval sword from …

This week (week 2) was all about design. We were still focused on photography more or less but this week was all about setting up the pictures/looking at the design side of things. This week started out with a quick read: The Vignelli Canon. This was a great way to start the week as it laid …

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I do love this movie, and my first time watching it, I had no real idea what was going on. I imagined it would be something like Pulp Fiction, where after a few viewings I would finally see a plot, but this movie is not a Tarantino film. I still do love it all the […]

  Here a few icons to describe my favorite movie:   I used GIMP, combining four photos to create the four symbols.   The answer is in the tags lol

Throwback to when me and the rest of the band went up Mt. Everest, no big deal. Background photo can be found here. Original Photo:

  I used GIMP to create this image. It was hard to keep a good picture quality, but it is still clear enough to understand. I used a picture of me “Jumping out of finals” on the last day of exam week last semester, and put myself in a dark …

I was able to take away some very useful information after reading The Vignelli Canon earlier this week. It wasn’t as quick…

So this week our assignment was to keep our camera with us as we went about our business and to take pictures of things that represent specific design elements. This assignment was very fun and really gave me a good appreciation of the design elements because we had all week to look for them. So …

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For my fourth daily create, I had to make a photo collage of the three things that make me the most happy, I chose pictures of my family, my dog Nigel and my lacrosse team. I used the app Pic Stitch to create this collage. #ds106 #tdc1612 here are the three things that make me … Continue reading "This is what makes me happy"

This design blitz was very fun! I carried my camera with me all week (in some cases my iPhone), and took pictures of things that I thought represented some aspects of design that we are studying. I will go more in depth analyzing the aspects of design that I found but the 4 I tried …

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For my third Daily Create, I made a GIF of Bart Simpson dancing, because I thought it was an accurate representation of my mood at the time. Any time I get to incorporate The Simpson’s into my school work, this is how I feel. #Ds106 #tdc1738 I’m GIFing it up! pic.twitter.com/1OwpPAjkHs — Jack Belodeau (@Belodeau_Jack) … Continue reading "Bart Simpson is my Spirit Animal"

This week’s main assignment was the design blitz. I enjoyed participating in this assignment because it allowed me to see…

For my second Daily Create I had to take a very serious selfie, it wasn’t as easy as it sounds, my front camera on my cell phone is a little broken so taking this picture was somewhat of a struggle. my most serious critical face #Ds106 #tdc1648 pic.twitter.com/yYiMuGCbWf — Jack Belodeau (@Belodeau_Jack) July 9, 2017 … Continue reading "Im Very Serious"

For my first Daily Create I had to make a GIF of a person or an animal walking, and I decided to try to make a GIF of a person walking as goofy as possible. So I went through several youtube videos until I found one that I liked. I made this GIF out of … Continue reading "Daily Creates"

https://www.flickr.com/photos/156395145@N07/albums/72157685966387556 These four photos show four individual design characteristics. The first, a picture of Richard Engel’s book demonstrates Color. It suits a book on conflict in the middle east to have the red and orange glow of combat and burning oil rigs in the background of a dark and cool night far from home. The […]

This is my final design assignment for the week, for this assignment I was tasked to make a collage of places to visit near where I live, I live right outside of Washington D.C. and there are so many things to see in the city. I chose to pick images of monuments and Government buildings … Continue reading "Sightseeing in Washington D.C. Design Assignment 5"

My fourth design assignment for the week was the required assignment where I had to take a picture and edit it so that I am somewhere else and I was doing something different. I used a picture that was taken on Halloween 2015, my friends and I were dressing up as characters from the movie … Continue reading "Red Carpet Design Assignment 4"

Colors – The top of the trees are really highlighted by warm colors that give off the feeling of the sun setting.   Dominant – The tennis ball in this picture dominates the background   Typography – By using my name in a font used by an anime, people understand …

My third assignment had to be 4 stars or more, and I chose to do the assignment “Advertisement Using a Cartoon Character”. I picked this assignment not only because it was 4 stars, but I also thought it would be fun to use one of my favorite cartoon characters in an assignment. I am a … Continue reading "D’ohn’t you want some Budweiser, Design Assignment 3"

Reading this was quite the eye opener for me as I am very new to design and this week has helped to show me so many things that I have never noticed. While exploring part one of the booklet, I realized these are the sort of backbones of design. The intangibles are aspects that without …

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For my second design assignment I was tasked to create some sort of graphic, and design the overall graphic to convey some sort of feeling or theme, but then have text saying something completely contradictory to the theme or feeling. I thought it would be funny to take a picture and a quote from a … Continue reading "Rocky’s Great Advice Contradiction Creation Design Assignment 2"

Reflections- I made two reflections based on the readings, videos and podcasts that I used in my design creation this week: 1. Vignelli’s Cannon Reflection: Noticing the Unnoticed: Reflecting on Vignelli’s Cannon 2. Reflecting on “We Are All Artists” and several other resources: Everyone (Even Fred, the YouTuber?) is an Artist DesignBlitz: The Good, the …

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DesignBlitz- To see my DesignBlitz album, visit my Flickr. Color is my favorite concept to consider in design. I’ve always been fascinated by the physics of light and light energy as well as the biological and chemical significance of color. In nature, color is never random. Trinidadian Guppies demonstrate evolving colors and patterns on their …

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I chose to do this assignment for one of my five due this week, because I really enjoy the sneaker culture. I love looking at all the crazy types of sneakers that are being released these days, and I thought it would be fun to create my own. For this assignment I chose to customize … Continue reading "HypeBeast Sneakers Design Assignment One"

I started off this week mostly getting my bearings on Monday. First, I looked at the necessary assignments for this week, and then read up on some of the materials on design given to us.  Graphic design is not my … Continue reading →