Month: February 2012
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Bad Guy Business Cards – David Lynch Edition
So what’s really surprised me recently is how my phone could suddenly be such a big part of my design process. I’ve used Photoshop and Illustrator for years, to touch up photos, create logos, set typography, etc. But in the past few weeks I’ve been bouncing images back and forth between my mac and my…
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CUNY Week 5 – RRRRRRRRR Design
cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by Nick Sherman This week is probably my favorite week of DS106 as we get to spend time making art while thinking about images, type, and layout. We had a great start yesterday in our face-to-face class yesterday despite the ds106 site being down for…
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Karateka – Animated Floppy GIF
If there is one videogame I’m certain that I spent a few hundred hours playing, it’s definitely Karateka on the Commodore 64. Karateka a simple fighter game, which like most games of that time was really hard to complete, as there was no option to ‘save’ and pick up where you left off. The game…
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York College Album Cover Design Blitz
Your going make an album cover using three random pieces of content for your design. This classroom design blitz is based on the album cover ds106 assignment. First you will go to this site of quotations and the last four to five words of the last quote on the page will be the name of…
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CUNY – York College DS106 Sites
cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by Keith Bloomfield With the ds106.us site under maintenance this morning, please use this post as reference list of all York College Spring 2012 student sites. Please take time and comment on your fellow students’ work! http://geofinesse.com/ http://www.cashedapeters.com/ andrewjohnsonct101.net natashahope.net http://Kathyzonex3.net/blog www.tantani.me naptownsyungwun.com www.generousworld.net kiara-lashawn.me…
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Freedom From Fat Cats
This fat cat started like probably a lot of other fat cats, you find the cat find the painting or vice-a-versa. Well I found this fat cat all plump and orange and it reminded me of Norman Rockwell’s Thanksgiving Dinner, which is actually the “Freedom From Want” painting from the Four Freedom’s series. Replace that…
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CUNY Week 4 – Visual Assignments Charge!!!!
cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo shared by Tom Olliver This week begins the our first trip to the ds106 assignment bin, which is filled with dozens of digital media project assignments contributed by people in the ds106 community. For this week we will be working on visual assignments, and you will need…
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I’m Still Chewing on that Over-Branding of DS106 Comment
I’ve been thinking a lot about the over-branding conversation that Stephen Downes started on Alan Levine’s blog post I Want You to Make Art (Dammit). Downes did not like the use of ‘DS106’ in propaganda, and called it “over-branded.” After Alan tried to defend the work as students celebrating the class, Downes continued that it…
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Groom QR Code
While doing a search for propaganda ideas, I found this site that celebrates all sorts of Star Wars fan art. There’s probably a few dozen pieces to inspire new ds106 assignments. One in particular caught my eye, as ready for some ds106 riffing, Darth Vader QR Code. It was apparently created by a Greek graphic…
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A purely unapologetic piece of DS106 branding
Cogdog’s DS106 propaganda post was taken to task by Stephen Downes for “over-branding” ds106. Is the DS106 to much hype? Not real enough? Adrift in a cult of personality? F****THAT #4LIFE. As Martha mentioned in her comment on Cogdog’s post, there’s nothing but love out there in ds106. No hating on someone for not being…