While watching episode 10 of The Wire this week, I kept the list of design characteristics Jim listed in his assignment post in mind, just to see what would happen. I ended up taking quite a few screenshots, as many… Continue Reading →…
I decided to do the How To _______ design assignment and create a book cover for a book on how to be a certain character.
I decided to do make one for Ziggy as his quirks and “skills” would be easy to come-up with.
I used a screenshot I took …
Hi there! Since this week is Design, I thought I would go ahead and make my own assignment. I was looking through other assignments and saw one called Where are They Now? This assignment takes the cast of the Wire and looks to see what other works they …
Guess my song! I decided to do the “guess my song” assignment as my last assignment and have some fun with it. I uploaded a photo from my birthday to Photoshop. It was the perfect photo for what I had in mind because I was holding something. I …
After watching the scene with McNulty drunk driving and then drunk crashing, I thought it would be funny to do an ironic bumper sticker pertaining to McNulty for the bumper sticker assignment. I used canva.com to make this and it was pretty easy. Coming up with the tagline …
This is going to be a combination post: talking about Season 2, Episode 9 of The Wire and explaining my first visual assignment for the week.
First, a discussion on Episode 9:
Honestly, when I was watching the opening scene I thought it was funny how they were all just …
Weird Book Room | Your assignment is to design the cover of a book title so weird that it will look like it will fit right in to the Weird Book Room. Be sure to include a little bit of jacket… Continue Reading →…
Pictures into Words | Take pictures in your surroundings that look like letters and turn them into a word! Try not to use pictures of actual letters, but I understand that some letters are hard to get! Worth 2 stars. For this… Continue Reading →…
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:…
I love minimalistic designs for basically everything. From posters, to jewelry, minimalism is just really cool to me, so naturally I was drawn to the assignment, Minimalist TV/Movie Poster which is worth 3.5 stars. This assignment presented the perfect opportunity to make my design Wire related and that is exactly …
