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
Make a five second film. Try to keep it funny! This assignment was inspired by 5secondfilms.com.
I suggest you draw from your own life experiences of strange but funny moments.
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.
Use creative commons licensed images to design a poster about how groovy Creative Commons is! Use a tool like Creative Commons Search to find licensed images and then use photo editing software to add a message, call to arms, rallying cry, urgent plea.
Include as well a creative commons logo– look to the creative commons itself for ones to use.
Most importantly, in your poster image be sure to give attribution credit to the source image.
Let’s face it, ds106 is a difficult ship to sail. Besides the shark-infested copyright waters and the mine filled seas of comment-apathy, it can be hard to keep the ds106 boat going forward all the time. So let’s honor the fact that the site will more than likely continue to endure growing pains, and provide some excellent “technical difficulty” signs/gifs/media that can be displayed the next time the site goes down….wait, it’s working now, right?
Are you bored with money? Is George looking old and tired? Let’s give him a digital facelift! This assignment is inspired by this gallery (http://imgur.com/a/VOH3n) of cartooning on bills, but you’re not limited to drawing. You can draw on a bill and upload a picture, or use image editing software. Nor are you limited to American currency (http://www.margonaut.com/newblog/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/spock5.jpg). Now go out there and make that money!
Take a screenshot of the current Twitter Trends (on web) and use the words and hashtags to make a lyric or poem.
Help create Camp Magic MacGuffin! Visualize the tent or cabin you’re staying in; show us what Lake MacGuffin looks like! What other places will you visit on your stay this summer? Is there an obstacle course? A broiling volcano? Yikes!
