Designing for the Radio

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I’m excited to start off this week with an assignment that is using our radio shows, but is visual. It seems kind of ironic to me. Our group radio show is going to be about a family road trip. For some reason this is pretty much the exact picture that popped into my head when I read the assignment for designing your own t-shirt/poster/bumper. I am very satisfied that I could pull this off with little effort. I haven’t used clip art since middle school, but remembered there were a lot of cartoon-like pictures. I decided to travel to my past days and start looking through them. To my amazement, they have added so many more pictures! I think I did this process in a way that has a few pointless steps that I’m sure I could have skipped, but what is done is done. I first started off in Microsoft power point. I knew I could maneuver the pictures around, it had clip art, and I could add text pretty easily. However, I wanted to change the coloring on the pictures. They just didn’t match. So I decided to take a screen shot of the one slide I had my pictures arranged on and uploaded to Pixlr. It took me a bit to get the colors straightened out but came up with a basic idea. I didn’t want it to be too extreme.

The pictures I chose were quite simple. I wanted a radio tower to symbolize ds106 radio and a car and road to symbolize our road trip radio show.

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Radio DS 106 where will you be? Part of my design assignments…

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Radio DS 106 where will you be? Part of my design assignments from DS 107

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ds106 radio

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_cokwr: Come up with an aesthetic for ds106 radio. If you were to create a shirt, bumper sticker, poster, etc. what would it look like? See WFMU as an example/inspiration., _cpzh4: Design, _cre1l: http://wfmu.org/, _chk2m: Jim Groom, _ciyn3: 50, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3:
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Oblvion Camp: A Course To Dismember!

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This ds106 radio show may very well be your last!

The 1:00 minute bumper promoting the ds106radio show that will decisively end the #ds107 insurrection, once and for all!!
Ds106-oblivion-camp-bumper by jimgroom

The :30 second bumper that will put an end to this #ds107 mess once and for all!
ds106 Oblivion Camp :30 Bumper by jimgroom

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DS106 radio design

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I unfortunately got a little lazy. I’ve been pretty busy these past few days. But I managed to get this in my busy schedule :)

Could definitely see this on a t-shirt :D

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DS106 Radio Design

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I made a design for ds106 radio. It could be logo, or a poster, or a t-shirt, or a tattoo or an etc.

There are binary lightning bolts, billowing smoke and children running away from the explosive force that is ds106 radio.

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Design Assignment 50: ds106 radio poster

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As much as I love radio (and I used to be a DJ both on a college station and on a commercial station), I have not had the time to build up a playlist for the actual ds106 station that has been emerging during this MOOC. However, I had decided to make up a poster about the station as part of this week’s design assignments for DS 106. Then, I saw Alan’s image and just had to jump in today.

The background image is from the American Memory project of the Library Congress. Specifically, it comes from the “Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880-1920″ collection. I turn to the American Memory project for a lot of copyright-free images that work in many educational applications. If you don’t know the collection, you should check it out.

Grabbed the image, converted from grayscale to RGB in Photoshop and then added a few text layers. Voila – instant aesthetic.

ds106 radio

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ds106 Radio: Get Yer Ears On!

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I ought to go to sleep, but the shared assignments for ds106 keep tugging at me. And I cannot resist re-using this whacky flickr image.

Assignment 50 is

Come up with an aesthetic for ds106 radio. If you were to create a shirt, bumper sticker, poster, etc. what would it look like? See WFMU as an example/inspiration.

This is the optimal listening mode for radio ds106. And it is hard to think of anything with more aesthetic than this.

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DS106 Bumper Stickers

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Survey the World- DS106 Radio Poster

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As with most of the assignments I end up doing, they happen because I get distracted with my original idea with another idea, or a few more ideas. (ADD much? Or just inspired by greatness? O.o?)

So how did I end up making this poster for DS106 Radio?

OR ELSE!

DS106 Radio

Well it started with Patrick’s blog post about the assignment he created for creating your own album cover. Check it out for step by step details.

I loved the photo he ended up using because it’s the Santa Monica pier which I grew up near when I lived in California :) and because of this I decided I should create my own album cover. I did the Wikipedia article randomizer to come up with the band name and after refreshing a few times  (the article titles I first got were really bad. And I mean REALLY BAD) it came up with: Casper Jørgensen (Casper is a Danish professional racing cyclist FYI)

Then I used the random quote generator and ended up with the phrase: “Survey the World”

Now for the photo, I tried using what Patrick suggested for getting photos from Flickr,  but I kept getting “All Rights Reserved” photos, so I headed to the Commons. The photo I ended up with wasn’t so random because I kind of scrolled through the photos, but I thought this was the funniest. Love that it’s part of an Australian war memorial and that the cat looks like it’s “surveying the world”

Now that I had my three ingredients for the album cover it was time for photoshopping. I was putting all of this together when I suddenly had a flash: Instead of putting Carl Jørgensen on this album cover, why not make a poster for DS106 radio? It would be more fitting for our class and all the radio lovers would go nuts for it.

So now instead of having another visual assignment under my belt, I have a design assignment done, woo woo! :)

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