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For this assignment I was tasked to take one of my favorite shows with a large cast and to make a cover for a “How to___” book or app. I chose to do Always Sunny In Philadelphia and instead of doing one singular character I did it about the main …
Well, clearly I am getting popular in the noir106 community because I was approached by someone who wants to write a book about my life! My one stipulation was that I would make the book cover to satisfy the “How to________” assignment (3.5 pts). They agreed, and this …
Design Assignment #2: How To… (3 stars)
For this “How to ______” assignment I wanted to model the iconic “For Dummies” books but include elements of McNulty on the cover. Using GIMP I uploaded images from the covers of the “For Dummies” books as layers. I painted the background of …
Original Assignment (3 1/2 stars)
Ask anyone in my family, and they will tell you that I am a Law & Order SVU fanatic. I know for a fact that I’ve seen every episode. Now I don’t watch a lot of TV, but when I’m unwinding on the late night …
Thomas Carlyle once said, “A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.” So basically I did this assignment for this week. We basically had to choose a type of main character that appears in a lot of the episodes in the TV show. Then afterwards, we can either create …
I decided to do the How To _______ design assignment and create a book cover for a book on how to be a certain character.
I decided to do make one for Ziggy as his quirks and “skills” would be easy to come-up with.
I used a screenshot I took …
“One day, perhaps on a short stroll during your lunch, you take a side street that you’ve not taken before, and come upon a store. Like a lost memory from your childhood, it’s a bookstore of nostalgia, squeezed between a barber shop and a shoe-repair nook, from a time before …
’ve been on a ST:TNG (follow the link if you don’t know what that is) kick recently, so I decided to model my guide on the ever-present Commander Riker…
The world must know how to become like Brian O’Connor. I’ve learned these ways, they have improved my life drastically!
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I picked this assignment from the Design bank because I thought it weaved into my Final Project narrative nicely. I think if I had anything to suggest or provide a “how-to” it would be for discovering or even reclaiming culture or identity that has been lost because you were born …