Design Assignments
View Assignments sorted by
newest | title | ratings | examples | views |
There are 9 Design Assignments. Try a random one? Not impressed? Then add an idea for a new Design Assignment.
Oh, the places you’ll go!
So far, 0 people have completed this assignment and it has 0 views.
For my next design assignment I chose a 3 star entitled Children’s Book Cover. The assignment was to recreate a children’s book cover using shapes. The best way to do this from what I read in other blogs was to use Paint. Which was good news for me because that’s what I usually use for my assignments. I decided to recreate Oh, the Places You’ll Go! by Dr. Suess. I started my making different colored circles with the shape tool. I thought these circles were too big so I went back and made smaller ones. It wasn’t till just now that ...
Under Construction: Cat in The Hat
So far, 0 people have completed this assignment and it has 0 views.
“Create a children’s book cover using primarily cutting and pasting. Imagine you’re cutting shapes out of construction paper and gluing them onto another piece of paper. Except it doesn’t have to be paper. You can make a cover for a book that already exists, or make up your own. “ 3.0 Stars By the time I made it to this assignment, I was pretty much done messing with GIMP for the next ten years. Although I was starting to nail down some techniques, there are things right now that are just really, really frustrating. I decided to take a break ...
So now Lawrence is a star…you’re jealous
So far, 0 people have completed this assignment and it has 0 views.
So for this design assignment, I had to create a Children’s Book Cover (worth 3 stars). Spencer Scott’s character, Donnie Rawlen is an established writer so I thought this would be the perfect way to incorporate him with Lawrence. The assignment was to create a children’s book cover using primarily cutting and pasting. I downloaded a paint app for my mac and created this bad boy using that. I obviously had to do some drawing for the hair and faces but everything else was pasted. You’re probably wondering…how does this pertain to Lawrence? Well he is the main character in this book, ...
Friendship for Life
So far, 0 people have completed this assignment and it has 0 views.
Mencius once said, “Friendship is one mind in two bodies.” That’s true though, friendship is a good thing to have in life. Especially you can have so many awesome times with your friend, especially doing funny things like: Anyways, Jay created a children’s book cover (3 stars) because he feels like writing a story to all the little kids of why making friends is important. Jay used paint to do this assignment for now to show what he’s going to create soon. Here is what he created: Hope you guys like it! Would love to hear your thoughts about it in the comments ...
The Giving Tree
So far, 0 people have completed this assignment and it has 0 views.
I decided to the Children’s Book Cover assignment worth 3 stars. As a kid there was one book that I would always have my Mom and Grammy read to me. It is a book that I will likely read to my own kids. This book is The Giving Tree, by Shel Silverstein. It is a pretty sad book actually about a tree that will do anything for this young boy. The boy used to sit in the tree’s shade and swing from its branches but as he gets older he starts taking from the tree. He takes branches to build ...
Rainbow Fish!
So far, 0 people have completed this assignment and it has 0 views.
My favorite childhood book wasn’t the average one. I fell in love with the Rainbow Fish series. My mom and dad would read them to me until I learned how to read and then they had to sit through me reading it to them! I had drawn a picture of a new design, and then I remembered we were supposed to cut and paste to redesign it so I took some pictures and tried to make a story within the book cover. Placing was the key for me in making this assignment the best I could. I made the title ...
Theoretical Physics for the Common 5 Year Old
So far, 0 people have completed this assignment and it has 0 views.
While browsing the design assingments for the ds106zone, my eyes lit up when I saw the childrens book cover assignment. Back in high school, my friends and I would debate theoretical physics at the lunch tables. We jokingly refered to these as being dumbed down to a five year old level of understanding and thought that would make a great book title. Well, here’s the chance. I leapt into flickr and started browsing for creative commons licensed photos I could modify and use non commercially. I found a black hole photo and a photo of a lego space shuttle. I ...
Mission: DS106 – Design assignment sprint
So far, 0 people have completed this assignment and it has 0 views.
It’s great to be at camp during summer vacation. This week I found another block of time through which to sprint after a number of ds106 design assignments. I had some trouble narrowing down which assignments to tackle until I began them; clearly, I do not yet have the patience or chops for some of the work, so it’s great that the ds106 community has shared so many different ideas for assignments. I hope to contribute some ideas this summer and fall as I try to implement a more ds106/MOOC feel in my middle school classroom. Here are my basic ...
Children’s Book Cover
So far, 8 people have completed this assignment and it has 5808 views.
Create a children's book cover using primarily cutting and pasting. Imagine you're cutting shapes out of construction paper and gluing them onto another piece of paper. Except it doesn't have to be paper. You can make a cover for a book that already exists, or make up your own.