The Abebooks Weird Book Room lists a collection of titles so farcical you would think they are made up, but they are not. “Grandma’s Dead: Breaking Bad News With Baby Animals”, “Beyond Leaf Raking “, and “Goats: Homeopathic Remedies” are all actual book titles — “finest source of everything that’s bizarre, odd and downright weird in books.”

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 blurb for your blog post where you include your designed book cover. Go weird!

If the postal service was going to honor DS106 with a stamp, what might it look like? Design a stamp that features ds106 elements. Make it commemorative and collectable. This example here is taken from the one created for a Post Card from Magical Places representing Camp Magic Macguffin, but it could be any design that says “ds106 is #4life”

This assignment is part design and part writing actually. You are to create an themed or genre compilation album cover design and playlist for a fantasy release. Freedom Rock was an infamous release in the nineties, remembered mostly for its kitsch commercial – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eGWW8KOQio

Animate a magazine cover. Preferrably one with monstrous cyclops pounding on dragons.

In the vein of Stephen WIldish’s “Yoda Venn” (see http://stephenwildish.co.uk/ for all of of his designs), design a Venn diagram of three circles, each representing an attribute, where each overlap defines a figure from popular culture.