Design Assignments

Something that would make you lol if you read it in a newspaper.

Step 1. Imagine yourself reading the paper in the morning.

Step 2. Think of something (a story) that would make you laugh and brighten your day if you read it.

Step 3. Using any resource availible to you, make a fake news article, that incorporates your sense of humor. Even if it is an inside joke that only you and a handful of people would get (laugh).

2 for 1 Movie Mate

What happens when you combine two existing movie titles to create your own movie? Movie Mate Parodies, of course. This project allows students to show off their creative side while demonstrating mastery using masking, non-destructive editing, adjustment layers, blending modes, filters, and the type tools. 


Use your creative mind to meld two titles together. If you are stumped or have hit a wall – look at this version of a lesson plan for high school students in which several titles have been put together already for you to search and complete – reduce by one star if you use from the list. You will need to become an Adobe member to view resource files (free).


Increase by a star if you also turn it into an animatec GIF! 

3D Magazine Collage

Take some of your old magazines and newspapers and create a 2D or 3D collage/sculpture of words and pictures that represent a common theme (ex: color, media subject such as animals or food, things you like, etc.). Explain why you chose your theme and what some of the individual pieces mean to you.

DS106 Fashionista

It is your chance to be creative! grab a skeching notebook and a pen or use an online tool to design an outfit for a wedding party! you will be designing the best man’s suit or the made of honor’s dress If you want to used an online tool a god one would be IdrawFashion: http://www.idrawfashion.com

Have fun an be creative!

Storytelling Through Pictures

Storytelling is the best way to get a message across, to be creative and to speak ones mind. For this assignment you can tell the story of your life through pictures in whatever way you chose. Whether you tell us about your life as a child and show pictures of the best times of your life, like walking and rolling (maybe a future gymnast?) we want to see! You could even make a timeline of the most important parts of your life, like getting your license and loosing your first tooth. Or maybe all about you’re college experience, the friends made and lessons learned. Tell us your story, through pictures. Try not to use words, let the pictures speak for themselves and have fun. Take some thought into it and really reach far and try to show us what your life is made of, whats important to you. You can make a college or a timeline, whatever you think acurately shows the story of what you are trying to show the best.

Are we there yet?

Take an existing image and change the concept in where you are at and what you are doing. 

DESIGNCEPTION

Create a design assignment that includes a least 3 things in the picture, and at least one of those things has to be inside another. The example, for instance, includes a black magnet and a microchip inside a small black box and these together were all put together and then added into the photo of old video games.

Design a License Plate

Design your own license plate! You can use an online site, alter a preexisting photo, or make your own from scratch. Make the license plate describe either your or a character. Your license plate design should have two part to it: designing the background for the plate and designing the font. Be creative with it. 

magazine layout without a computer

The goal of this assignment is to focus on layout and hierarchy of a page. You take a magizine and cut out elements of it and crop and paste them down onto a new page to create your own layout. The example images of the assignment are for single pages, but for this assignment you shoud do a whole spread. Here’s a guide to layout of a magazine spread

Valentine

Create you very own Valentines Day cards. Go ahead and make a funny spoof valentine that would make people laugh! Use at least one image and modify it in some way to create a cool effect. Afterwards, go ahead and send that baby out to people who would get a kick out of it. You can be sentimental if you want to, but funny cards are prefered!