For the bumper sticker assignment (3.5 stars) I used the pixlr editor which is online. It took me forever to come up with my simple slogan. I was trying to be creative and didn’t want to sound like anyone else. I was discouraged when I checked out other people’s stickers …
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 …
The Creative Mashup was an assignment to mix up a classical painting with a scene from The Wire. Since McNulty and Lester always go to the railroad tracks at night, I stitched together a scene of them at the tracks with Van Gough’s “The Starry Night.” I just used paint …
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 …
I don’t know how you can watch Brother Mouzone and not want to make a READ poster. I know I’m not the first one to do it. But since I’m all about the GIFs, I had to animate it. I … Continue reading →
The assignment was to create an image of a popular song while also including a picture of myself. This assignment was worth 3 stars, but it took me forever since I figured I’d start using GIMP instead of just sticking to paint and making sloppy pictures. Here’s a little on …
I did the What They Did After The Wire design assignment.
After things went sour on the docks for Nick, he ran off to New York and assumed a new identity of George Mendez. He became a prison warden in a women’s prison and was able to unleash the fury …
