I decided to create a READ poster for one of my design assignments.

I just recently watched The Wire season 2, episode 10 and wandered upon the perfect reading related quote said by Brother Mouzone:

You know what the most dangerous thing in the nation is? A nigga with a library card.

So I made a READ poster out of it, using a screenshot I took from the episode. I edited in the text using GIMP and uploaded it to Flickr.

I realize that out of context of the show and this assignment, some people might take this as racist. Hopefully they’ll get the reference, though.

I was struck by the “Create A READ poster” assignment because of the attention spent on D’Angelo’s education, both book learning and life knowledge. When I looked at this poster I thought about the moment when D is in jail and reading The Great Gatsby and I decided to use that scene to make a reading poster out of.

D’Angelo talks about how everyone’s past is available when we read. He discusses Gatsby and what we know about his past and that, even though Gatsby has books and other fine things, he does not use them because he still has not changed on the inside to become the refined man he says he is. D’Angelo constantly fights with himself about what he is because of his family and ‘job’ as opposed to who he wants to be. “What came first is who you really are,” he says, and yet D tries to escape the life that created him.

To make this I uploaded a screenshot from episode 6 of the Wire to my new friend canva.com and used some of their free text suggestions to come up with a cool overlay design for the text. I decided to write “You can always learn something about yourself” because of D’Angelo’s comments on the reading, as well as from his life experiences. I also find myself learning something with each book I read about who I am as a person.

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Okay so when I choose this Assignment : http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/create-a-read-poster/

I didn’t know what I wanted to do. So I thought about it and decided that I didn’t want it to be boring and then I remembered!

A few months ago, when the new doctor for doctor who was chosen, I saw a picture posted on facebook or something similar and saw a half-naked Matt Smith with a book!

SO I decided that would be so much fun to make into an assignment and give people a hoot. I mean for those who are scared, you don’t see anything, just his naked arms but still, you can imagine what would be there!

I then decided on a made up quote that alluded not only to Matt Smith being half-naked but to his old role as “the Doctor” from Doctor Who.

Let me know what you guys think!

Also, I’m not that big of a Doctor Who fan but I have seen a few episodes, so please don’t try to fan out with me about the show, cause I can’t sorry!

Here’s Matt!

So to make this, I just searched for the picture, copied and pasted it onto Paint. Then I just used Text to add the words, and there we go! A pretty simple assignment!