If Movie Posters Told the Truth Improve movie posters to make them more accurately reflect the content of the film. Inspired entirely by theshiznit.co.uk. (3 Stars) I think everyone knows that Liam Neeson knows how to play one character and one character only.  That character just so happens to be Liam Neeson.  Neeson is the […]

Event Advertisement Create a poster for an up coming event. (4 Stars) When I found this Event Assignment in the Design Bank I was very excited and super comforted because creating event advertisements has been part of my job in CPB for over a year now.  The following are just a few of the event […]

Branding For this assignment you will make a business logo for the business of a character of your choice. Be creative! Use an application like Photoshop or a website like http://www.designmantic.com/ to create your logo. Make it personal to the business while remaining professional. (4 Stars) I was very excited to deal with Branding, because it […]

Are We There Yet? Take an existing image and change the concept in where you are at and what you are doing. (3 Stars) Obviously I am flying away from all of my responsibilities and stress in this picture, but ended up a little bit further away from Orientation than I was meaning to.  The […]

I found the booklet by Vignelli to be very informative and helpful. In the begging he brings up the term semantics, I had never heard of this term before. I found the term to be interesting because when I look at designs, I don’t necessarily think to understand all aspects …

Here is my GIF for GIF Your Sassy Animal assignment. As you can see, Bruce is giving some serious sass. Not really he’s just playing. Behind the Creation Bruce is my one year old cat and like most cats we play hide and go seek. Usually he will be around a corner and I slowly […]

Back when I was in High School, most of my friends could play instruments.  We met up for a couple of jam sessions and my best friend would sing and play the trombone for them.  We had one really good session which involved him singing of a girl on the rooftops.  That’s what inspired the album […]

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Pick a picture Choose the title of your album.  When you have the title you want, mess around with the size, font, and placement till you feel comfortable.      When making the final decision, imagine a costumer picking up the CD in question, will they be able to read the title? Although image two may […]

To achieve this image, you are going to want to find yourself a picture with no words on it.  Although, you might want to find a picture with enough space to put words on, this does not have to mean blank space, it can be a solid color or a group of colors that will […]

I remember when 2 truths and 1 lie was popular when I was younger. It was one of many little games that my friends and I would play. I don’t think I have ever played and described something else other than myself, so was little trickier to come up with something to say for DS106. … Continue reading 2 Truths, 1 Lie

I’m sure you all have someone extra special and dear to your heart. Why not show that person just how special they are to you by making them a personalized gif birthday card! Heres how… Using giphy.com upload a video that is unique to your special person. Use a youtube link …

I chose to take on the “It’s Your Birthday, Happy GIFfin’ To You!” gif assignment mainly because it will come in handy. These next couple of months are full of birthdays in my family, including my niece’s who’s my princess. I’m sure you guys can tell since she’s made several …

Here is the poster I made for the Motivational Poster (3 stars) design assignment. Credits to Taylor Nguyen for the photo. Yeah, turf burns are no joke. Behind the Creation As I was scrolling through the design assignment bank on the ds106 website, I saw this assignment and immediately knew what I was going to do. […]

Start out by finding which video you’ll be using for your gif. Once you’ve found the video you’d like to use, go ahead and upload it to your youtube account. Make sure the video is set to public view, it won’t work if it’s private. Next go to giphy.com and …

I have seen gif’s all over tumblr and always thought they were so cool. Never have I ever even attempted to make one up until now. For my first gif, I went with the home video design assignment. I am ALWAYS taking pictures or recording videos of event that I …

Here is my Tweet for this Daily Create @ds106dc I don't know how to swim, my dad use to be a semi-pro soccer player, and I have never broken a bone. Which one is it? #tdc1600 — Hasan Shami (@hshami17) May 26, 2016

@ds106dc 2truths/1lie #ds106 is the first class I've taken online. #ds106 brings out my creativity. #ds106 is super time consuming. #tdc1600 — Joskamery Tavarez (@joskamtav) May 26, 2016

After donating his beloved blood, Dracula is in need of some motivation. Create a motivation poster that would lift his spirits by following these steps. Start off on canva.com, upload the photo you’ll be using onto one of the pre-designed templates under the layout option. Re-size the photo to your …

Everyone needs a little motivation sometimes right? How about sarcastic motivation?… we can use a little of that also right? RIGHT! Everything is better when its funny. Creating a motivational poster for this design assignment was fun. I think it really brought some creativity out of me. I donated blood …

I’d like to help you stay true to yourself… follow these steps to show the world how you define yourself. For this we’ll be using canva.com, upload a plain t-shirt template (can find this on google images). Once you have your template, go ahead and resize it to fit the …

A t-shirt I personally designed… HOW GREAT! The create a t-shirt design assignment allowed me to do just that. As soon as I saw this assignment I knew I would make a t-shirt with a quote on it. As cheesy as it may sound, I love quotes. I can almost …

Traditional invites are so old school! Add a personal touch to your event by making your own advertisement poster or flyer! If you’d like to add any personal photos to your flyer like I did, start off by going to fotoflexer.com to remove any background from the photo that you do …

Invitations are so outdated. The new thing to promote events now are flyers and posters. Learning how to make one may come in handy for whatever future events come up. For this event advertisement assignment I decided to make a poster for a real event thats coming up. MY BIRTHDAY! …

No crime scene is identical. Show us your crime scene by following these steps. Start off by heading over to FotoFlexer.com. Make sure you have an idea of what you’d like your crime scene to look like ahead of time. Save all of the pictures you’ll be using since we’re …

School is suppose to be one of the most safe environments for students. As we all know, unfortunately that is DEFINITELY not always the case. For this create a crime scene design assignment I decided to pursue the unsafe aspect of school environments. Coming from a military police background and …

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Here is my poster for the Missing Person (3.5 stars) design assignment. I decided to use Jesse Pinkman who is a character in the TV series Breaking Bad. Don’t worry, if you have not seen the show or are currently watching this will not spoil anything. I know there is at least one person in this […]

My boyfriend is a personal trainer at the YMCA and he wanted me to help him with some advertising like, flyers and ads to advertise his summer camps. Although after a few flyers we started thinking that we should work more on his personal identification or in other words his own brand so he could […]

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