638 Posts Tagged "ds106"

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Laptop Weirdness

cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by blakie I’m getting a tad worried on the road- my MacBookPro seems to be acting up. More than its occasional inability to wake up from sleep, now it seems to go to sleep by itself, and oddly, it always seems to be about 10 […]

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106 Photos

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Ever since ds106 started, I’ve had this rabid obsession for photos with a 106 represented, starting December 18, 2010 (a month before the first open class launched), when I saw a pole along a canal in Mesa Arizona. This is the Illustrate 106 assignment It […]

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Take a Friendly Trip Down the River

Take a fine trip down south, maybe just a wee bit of adventure. Meet our local friendly folks who just want to say “hi”. You will squeal with excitement. This is a minimalist travel poster assignment for ds106, though not quite minimal in graphic design, maybe concept?. In photoshop I use the Cutout filter to […]

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Bad Baby Macguffin

In checking out some of the student visual design work for ds106 (which the CUNY students are really going far and powerful with), I could not resist one more Macguffin. A better real estate decision could have avoided dealing with that whole building full of freaks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ogfqfnt2Aaw Thinking again on the idea of a regular […]

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From an Iconic Movie

It felt time to play a Four Icon Challenge assignment in ds106. it’s always hard to know if you make these too challenging or too easy, I am thinking this one is the latter. My approach, as I usually cannot recall movies all that well, is to watch some YouTube clips to remind me of […]

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I Coulda Been a Contenda

I’m keeping up with Scottlo’s Productivity ds106 radio segments, where he plays music for 25 minutes and we try to get a task done. Here I am taking on the assignment bank from ds106. What is there to say about Pick A Bad Photo, Apply A Vintage Effect And Write Something In Helvetica — pretty […]

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Corporatize Your Friends

Here’s a half-baked ds106 Design Assignment, feeding off of the MacGuffin-ing, but one to spiff up your blend and magic brush skills in Photoshop. Find a billboard or ad that features a friends or colleagues name, and modify it to personalize the ad. I got inspired while in thr DC Metro seeing billboard after billboard […]