Being tasked with going on a design safari to find examples of key elements of design I decided to walk around downtown Fredericksburg to see what I could find. I figured there would be many prime examples in the area … Continue reading →

Hey ds106ers. How are you embedding your links in your weekly summaries using word press?  My post-editor won’t let me add them and canvas won’t let me name the link…

TedTalk Design Safari Design Assignments: Novel In Four (this one was pretty cool) Smiling Lemur   Giving and Getting Feedback     Daily creates: Moo (did this cutting it close.…

I like interacting with other students in our class. I am usually busy, but when I do reach out, I hear back.  And visa-versa. I had one other student ask…

I learned a lot about design when I was in high school.  We studied balance, rhythm, minimalism, form, color, when looking at the design of buildings.  I was in an…

This is a really cool talk. I want to be able to think about things beyond their normal use. I would never have thought of paper making sound. What really…

I found the original picture here I picked these words Always Believe In Yourself To Succeed because I have had a lot of adversity in my life and lost both of my parents before I was 18 years old. I always remember one of my teachers and my aunt telling me that I am a […]

Two down and three to go. This week was definately hectic with my two other classes so I unfortunately slacked on the DS106 part of my schoolwork but maybe not

  The Fireworks Show at Lake of the Woods was amazing. It was even better being on the water and watching it on the boat. It was definitely a great experience.

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  This is my first time working with www.befunky.com website. It was recondmended by the http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/cartoonize-it/, so I thought I would go with the recommendation of ds106. I went to befunky and uploaded picture of our beloved pet T.J. when he was six months old (RIP) from my computer. Everything was straight forward from there, since the assignment […]

I have been studying the cows, eating with them at every meal, and disguised myself as one of them for the entire week to really get into the spirit of

            Photo from :http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2270060/Classic-album-covers-given-makeover-using-pictures-kittens.html   For this assignment I had to use a classic album cover and twist it. I chose the ever famous Blondie’s

This has been a challenge to say the least. I believe that sometimes we get so busy with our daily lives, we forget to appreciate the little things in life. So this week, I took an extra special attempt to pay attention to the aspects of my life which I neglect. My results are interesting! Please […]

I have gotten encouragement to do better both from fellow DS106ers and from seeing their work. I realized this week that I need to comment more and give more feedback.

    When designing this six word memoir I used an image of myself in Labadee, Haiti and inserted it into www.Pixlr.com (please see my tutorial in how to make a bumper sticker http://www.frederickhowell.com/uncategorized/my-neck-n-back-presents/ to see how to insert images) and inserted an image from my computer. I added some text and an image from Pixabay […]

Well, I haven’t received any feedback so far on my posts from anyone other than Professor Polack. I’m hoping I will get some soon so I can get some tips on what I am doing right/wrong! I have left about 4 or 5 comments on other blogs the past few days.  I try to tell […]

We have always had thoughts or funny situations that would make a great bumper sticker, but it may be that it is something you can find ready-made. Well next time the situation arises, with this tutorial you will at least be able to design one of your own (of course you have to find another tutorial […]

For my last design assignment, I decided to make a motivational poster.  I had a really rough start to my week so I thought a little motivation was just what I needed.  I keep a journal of my favorite quotes, and that’s where I found this one. On Sunday, I was home with just my […]

ds106 Design Assignment for Word PowerFul I picked this word because to me it represents strength in what you do. You may talk about a speaker, but once you put the word powerful in front of it, you are stating this person is an expert in what they do and this makes them stand out […]

In a TEDxPhoenix talk, artist Kelli Anderson shows off her work on redesigning paper to give it a whole new purpose and meaning. Just when I thought art couldn’t go much further artist like Anderson always prove me wrong by essentially redesigning … Continue reading →

      Amanda wanted to be made into a Lemur!  So here is the final product!  Yet again I used pixlr.com! I used the blending tools, laso tool, and…

made this with word and screen shot it to put it into an image format.  kind of lazy, but effective.   I thought it was cool   I am happy…

While looking through the Design Assignment choices I clicked on the “Pause Four a Moment” assignment. http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/pause-four-a-moment/ After looking it over, I decided that it didn’t seem too hard and that it would even be fun. Well, I tried to follow the tutorial but nope, that was not for me because I don’t have photo […]

  sooo what is the novel???   I just used google.  I had issues with the noun project.  I don’t think I will have any issues with usage sine there…

This assignment was probably my favorite out of all the ones we have done so far. This design assignment was to create an animated movie poster. After looking through some of the previous ones that others had made in the past … Continue reading →

For my third and final Design Assignment, I decided to create some fortune cookies! Using the Harry Potter series (I’m rereading the books right now, which is why so many of my assignments have been HP themed), here is what I came up with: Google was very helpful for this assignment,  however since I’m kind […]

I have not really gotten much feedback on my posts. I got a response or two on daily creates I have made, but, for the most part, I’ve gotten very simple responses. Aside from the ones by my professor answering my questions, my comments have been lacking in usefulness. I would love to get some […]

The Daily Create #908 “Time Travel. Explain Twitter to Someone Living 100 Years Ago.” It might be impossible. It is at least nearly impossible to explain such a complex system of innovative technologies to a person who is about to experience life on earth during World War 1. They barely had cameras! A person from […]

I am loving these design assignments! For this one I chose to do The Ultimate Merger, where you have to combine two logos from different companies into one, as if the two merged together to form the ultimate company. The … Continue reading →

My Six-Word Memoir It reflects back on a life experience I had with grief. Recently, I lost a friend who, with his age, had a variety of health problems. I symbolized this by the different colored cancer ribbons. He was an incredible man and neighbor that I had the pleasure of knowing for the past […]