I did the album cover assignment with this result:
I thought it was amusing. Edited with Picasa. That’s one dramatic pidgeon.
Feb
13
What the Font?
I decided to do another design assignment for ds106 because they’re a lot of fun. As I was scrolling through the design assignment I decided on the Font assignment. I already had an idea in mind when I was reading through the description. I decided to design the Deathly Hallows “logo” from the Harry Potter…
Feb
13
Feb
12
averaging concepts using Flickr
The assignment: “Take a concept, one word, and plug it into Flickr and take the first 50 images and average them using Photoshop or similar program.” The instructions: “Averaging Concepts in Flickr” While looking through the Visual & Design assignments over at the ds106 site, I saw this visual assignment, and had to check it […]
Feb
11
DaVinci’s Power Outlet
In honor of Thomas Edison’s 164th birthday today, I decided to do this design assignment. I knew right away that I wanted to either over-simplify something or over-complicate it. Then I decided that complicated things are more fun to draw … Continue reading →
Feb
10
Feb
10
Feb
10
Minimalist Movie Poster
I decided for my assignment that I would make a minimalist movie poster. I love the professionally done ones that you can find online, they are some of the most creatively simple pictures I’ve seen. To get started I had … Continue reading →
Feb
09
Feb
09
Ptaitt: Make some art damnit!
For one of our assignments this week , we were to choose an assignment from here. I Went with this one. The title pretty much says it all. I like this assignment mostly because it allowed me to do what I like to do. When I’m bored I turn on Photoshop and just aimlessly make […]
Feb
09
The Big Caption
My “Big Picture” assignment. I have a particular love for this helicoper more than a disdain for Mrs. Palin. The helicopter here is a Russian made MI-8 which I flew in while working in Afghanistan. I was fortunate enough to log nearly 1300 hours as a passenger. After some rapport building vodka and smokes my Ukrainian pilots trained me on how […]
Feb
09
Four Icon Challenge.
An assignment this week is to do one of the student proposed assignments on the DS106 website. I choose the Four Icon Challenge proposed by Tim Owens. The concept behind the assignment is to “Reduce a movie, story, or event into it’s basic elements, then take those visuals and reduce them further to simple icons.” […]
Feb
09
the big caption
An interesting assignment, full of possibilities — take any random photo from The Big Picture and add typographical text elements in a way that changes the message, in the spirit of The Big Caption. It took me a little while to decide which assignment I’d choose for this week, I must admit. I spent some […]
Feb
09
Minimalist Movie Poster: JAWS
I decided to do my poster on one of my favorite movies, Jaws. I used adobe photoshop.