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It’s Spring Break
It’s spring break y’all, this is going to be a short summary. This week was a lot of meetings (I think two-thirds were unnecessary, but my team may disagree) so I don’t have much to link to. I talked about it here. I did the design project. I also did this assignment to get better with Audacity and this one to check the box for the group/ I commented here, here, here, and here. That’s all I got. Ciao!
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Radio Show Progress Week 1
Alright, I have not done my part yet for the show, but I’m not going to before this is due so I’m just writing this now. This week we planned our show and outlined it as well as assigning roles in the creation process. We have everything set up and outlined/planned. We met in person on Monday to talk about it. We have a timeline, and we came up with some characters as well as how they’re introduced. The hardest part was really creating the plot and getting everyone on the same page. We all had different ideas and it took us a while to realize we weren’t on the…
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Radio Bumper
The prompt This is a fairly straightforward assignment, done out of necessity, so it has a fairly straightforward finished product. We need bumpers for our radio show, so I made one for when we come back from a commercial break. It’s pretty simple. I took some stock music I already had (I have a stash just for this kind of thing, ok?) that was about 15 seconds long. My voice recording wasn’t that long, but luckily there was a bit of a break in the music, so I cut it there and had it fade in quickly so it sounded more natural. I used Audacity. There’s really not much for…
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Gandalf and Pippin
The prompt Ok, this may seem random and like a waste, but I promise it’s not. Our radio show has more characters than we have actors, so I wanted to try my hand at editing voices so they sound like two different people before offering this up as something we could do. I think it worked out pretty well, although there is a little distortion and I would have to keep playing with it to get it perfect. The quote is from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien. It’s the point where pretty much all hope is lost and Gandalf, the…
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Radio Show Design Project
So, not going to lie, we haven’t actually decided on a name for our show yet, but I thought this name was clever (it’s a play on “death of the author”). Our show is about the murder of Bob Ross and the trial that followed. I drew this by hand in Krita, and although it’s slightly off center from the edges of the file, it is more or less centered on itself. I thought about adding some blood, but I was having trouble with it and I felt like it didn’t need it. If I were to redo it, I would move the eyebrows down a little, but I like…
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But I have promises to keep
I have been running around like a chicken with its head cut off all week, and I’m going to keep going until very late tonight, so while I have a moment let me write the summary. Daily Creates: For my assignments, I designed a book cover, a charity poster, the cover of a dime-store noir novel, and this weird contradiction poster. I also did the design thoughts and design blitz. I commented here, here, here, here, here, and here. I think that’s everything. Now I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep. Ciao!
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Design Thoughts
Should I have done this earlier in the week? Yeah, probably, but I didn’t, so here we are. One big thing that stuck out to me was that ambiguity isn’t necessarily a bad thing. I would think if you’re trying to design something, you would want the purpose to be clear or people would get frustrated. But Vignelli says that ambiguity can be good when used correctly. It makes the viewer engage more with the piece, and the multiple meanings con complement each other into a new meaning. I also liked how it demonstrated the concepts it was discussing as it discussed them, it made it really easy to understand…
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Dime-Store Noir Book Cover I’m Really Proud Of
The prompt Ok, I’m really happy with how this turned out. I love those cheap, predictable-as-all-get-out mysteries and action books, so I was immediately drawn to the prompt. Also I love this outfit and maybe I wanted to show it off? This may or may not be inspired by the cover that is the thumbnail for the assignment. My friend took this photo of me on the steps of Monroe Hall. I made a cigarette out of an index card since I’m too young to get a real one but they look cool and old-fashioned. I put the photo in Canva and used the Windel effect to make it look…
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#TeamSeas
The prompt I’ve always been passionate about charities and ocean pollution in particular, so I was drawn to this prompt. I chose #TeamSeas because it was so popular for a little while. I wanted to remind people that it is still very much active. You can still donate. The main audience of this poster is already familiar with #TeamSeas, so it was more important to have an eye-catching poster than something covered in information. I chose a simple font that would be easy to read. The image is from Pexels. I chose it because it showed the human element of the trash cleanup rather than just the problem like many…
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Design Blitz
I went on a walk around downtown today to take photos for this. I’m going to be honest, I had a hard time finding anything that caught my eye. I had a hard time finding anything that I thought, “Wow, this is a good/bad example of that concept!” Eventually, I just ended up taking pictures of anything I found interesting and put my top five together on Flickr. This is building is called the Big Ugly. It is big. And ugly. On its own, it would not be an ugly building. If it had been surrounded by more like it, no one would look twice at it. Instead, it’s surrounded…
