Author: iharris
Designing an App (or its icon anyways)
While perusing the resources provided for elements of design this week, I was suddenly struck by an idea of another type of artwork. Surprisingly, a search of what I was looking for didn’t turn up, so I decided to submit my own. Since we need to come up with …
Animated TV Poster
Wow. This one was way more difficult than it needed to be. I found out that making GIFs is actually a LOT easier in Adobe Flash. But I’m broke and stuck with GIMP, so…
Anyways, based off this design assignment, I decided to make my own, but inspired off …
Daily Create: Empathy Map
For today’s daily create, I get to show my feelings on our very own Wire106 course! I made sure to illustrate not only my struggles, but my gains from this class as well. It’s definitely a lot more work than I initially expected. Especially design week in general. When …
The Wire in all its 8-bit glory
Since this week is focused on the elements of design, I decided to make a The Wire inspired cover of an Atari 2600 game. Utilizing the provided fonts from the Atari Age forums, and a template from here, I was able to have a basis to design this:…
Week 5: Lights, Camera, Action!
Just like how last week focused on sound, this week focused on the visual aspects of art. My prediction was right! As a result of this focus on visual art, I had loads of visual assignments to work on:
Minamalistic Art
For my last visual assignment of the week, I decided to try out this one that limits our usage to only a few basic shapes: 4 lines, 5 dots, and one curve. I decide to do an artistic rendition of a space view of our home. The 5 dots make …
What an obscure name for a band
Continuing the trend of visual assignments for the week, I worked on an album cover that utilizes random quotes, pages, and pictures. The band name was chose from this wiki article, and the album name was taken from this random quote by Charles Schulz: “Don’t worry about the …
What a view!
Inspired by this small assignment, I decided to see what if it would look like if I had a house on Mars. I used this image of the Martian surface taken by the Curiosity rover, and an image of a window pane found on google, and GIMP as the …
Selective Color Focus: Blue!
I liked this assignment because I thought that it was a nice way to learn the tools available within a free editing program like GIMP. I took a photo of my backyard, and decided to focus on the blue of the pool.
