I decided to complete the Your Favorite Sports Teams Mashup. For this assignment I used the Baltimore Ravens and Orioles logo.
Then Using photo shop I cut out the O logo and merged it onto the Ravens logo. I used the magnetic lasso for the process. Then I …
While watching season 4, episode 10 of The Wire, I was surprised to hear Bunny listening to Billie Holiday. For such an important character, we seem to know so little about his personal life, such as his likes and hobbies. So for my second Bunny relayed assignment for the final …
I did the design assignment “Let’s See Some ID” to create this image that I’m going to use as a component in my final project. This is a rendering of a fictitious airplane ticket from Baltimore Washington Airport to London’s Heathrow Airport. I downloaded an image for an old plane …
When I think of Bunny Colvin, I don’t really picture an artistic person. It’s challenging to think of assignments that relate to his role on The Wire. But a certain scene from Season 4 episode 11 inspired me.
Word clouds seem to be a pretty big thing today. And so …
The Visual Assignment “Before and After” is about combining the past and present into a single image. I chose to do that with an image in a rear view mirror (that I placed there with the help of Photoshop). Here we have someone looking forward to what is down the …
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Actual Site: brickshelf.com + google.com
This was an easy one to put together. I decided to use Brickshelf, which is a site to post various LEGO creations, and Google. Using PowerPoint I was able to attach the Brickshelf image and recolor the the words to fit the Google color …
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For this assignment I decided to find two teams (Heat and Redskins) and combine their logos together. I used PowerPoint to make the logo, and managed to fit them over each other to be like a Redskin comet. In the end, I decided on the team name the Heatskins.…
This assignment was a to take the original assignment “Computer Books for Kids” and remix it as a mood swap. It’s from the original Dr. Seuss story “Green Eggs and Ham” which is a journey of learning that prejudices and closed minds limit your ability to learn and experience new …
This assignment was perfect to show how much Herc has changed since season 1. Although there were so many moments I could have picked from, I picked what stood out to me the most. The first thing I remember of Herc was the incident with the desk. Then, I loved …
Ziggy ruminated on the inevitability of being unable to escape his past through the creation of his theme song which merges the shooting that got him incarcerated with Gnarls Barkley’s “I Might Be Crazy.”
http://www.maggiestough.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Ziggy-Sobotka-Might-Be-Crazy.mp3
