I cheated a little on this assignment, not going to lie. I did this awhile back… a couple years actually. I made one for myself and my best friend Ryan for christmas. We have them hanging in our rooms, his in North Carolina, mine in Virginia, to remind us of each other.

You’ve gotten a little glimpse of my room as well. It’s pretty spiffy.

At least when it comes to finding the letters in your surroundings! I couldn’t find many places that had R-O-B-E-R-T hidden in the area, so I just went around and cropped letters off of different signs.

I was going to post all of the pictures that I used so you could see what I worked with, but then I realized, we’ve made photo sets on flickr…why don’t I embed one and it won’t take up so much space?

BAM! Pictures.

Working with GIMP has been getting a little less frustrating…not because it no longer sucks, I’m just learning to cope/accommodate for it’s suckiness…Nonetheless, I’m not letting it get the best of me and I’m continuing to pump out design work! From those pictures, I put them together and spelled my name:

I didn’t want to have a lame white background, so I took another one of my photos with a good backdrop and ATTEMPTED to angle it against the wall…well that didn’t exactly work because I couldn’t get it right and then every time I tried my computer would freeze up because the file size was so large. It probably could’ve been blended into the photo a little better, but I think me and the GIMP had enough of each other for one night. One thing I’m realizing is…I want photoshop. I want a new computer. I want a nice camera. Christmas is right around the corner, anyone interested in helping out a broke college student?

10/15

I did the letters in your surrounding assignment this week

“Create your name from objects in your environment. Use either Creative Commons images, ones of your own, or a combination of both to find the letters of your name hidden in your surroundings. ”

For this assignment I decided to give myself a theme: Bridges. I really enjoy traveling and I think this photo portrays that, I’ve actually seen at least on of these bridges, maybe more.

I used photos of bridges I found through a search on the creative commons site, saved them to my computer, opened them in powerpoint and then took a screenshot of the photos lined up. This probably was not the best way to create the project but I don’t have any photo editing programs on my computer (yet) so it was the first thing I thought to do.