Design Assignments

DaVinci invents the Kitchen Sink

_cokwr: Tell a story by breaking it down into the common elements and themes and recreating it as a sketch. What would a laptop designed by Alexander Graham Bell look like?, _cpzh4: Design, _cre1l: http://www.timmmmyboy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/x__pb_jutlDetail-580x435.png, _chk2m: Tim Owens, _ciyn3: 8, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3:

Spreadsheet Invasion

_cokwr: Excel is usually a place where people go to suffer. It is time to reclaim it. Animate a scene using colored Excel cells as your medium. , _cpzh4: Design, _cre1l: vimeo.com/16845078, _chk2m: Tom Woodward, _ciyn3: 1, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3:

Minimlist Travel Posters Based in Movies

_cokwr: Create a minimalistic travel poster for a location in film, TV series, etc. Look at these awesome examples using the various locations in the original Star Wars trilogy: http://screenrant.com/sr-pick-minimalist-star-wars-travel-posters-robf-44551/, _cpzh4: Design, _cre1l: http://cdn.screenrant.com/wp-content/uploads/bespin-cloud-city-travel-poster-570x880.jpg, _chk2m: Jim Groom, _ciyn3: 57, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3:

WIRED Feature – What’s Inside You?

_cokwr: Based on the regular Wired magazine feature "What's Inside" found in the paper version of the periodical. (http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/15-07/st_redbull) Create a what's inside poster all about you. Make it humorous, make it serious, extra points if you can turn it into a formidable replacement for your CV! , _cpzh4: Design, _cre1l: http://www.techsavvyed.net/?p=1752, _chk2m: Ben Rimes, _ciyn3: 150, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3:

Design an Invoice

_cokwr: Create an invoice for a transaction that has happened in a film, TV series, etc. For example, Boba fett's invoice to Jabba the Hutt for capturing Han Solo see http://geek-tasticcom.blogspot.com/2010/10/ever-wonder-what-standard-rate-is-for.html, _cpzh4: Design, _cre1l: http://www.geek-tastic.com/storage/invoice.jpg, _chk2m: Jim Groom, _ciyn3: 58, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3:

Infographic Life

_cokwr: First, begin by spending a set period of time documenting things about your life. How much coffee are you drinking each day? How many miles do you walk/ride/drive to work/school/bars? You can use http://www.daytum.com to capture this data, or go old school with pen and paper. Now, take inspiration from infographics all over the web, including the Feltron Annual Report, and create something beautiful and interesting from all that data., _cpzh4: Design, _cre1l: http://feltron.com/ar10_04.html, _chk2m: Tim Owens, _ciyn3: 52, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3:

I Can Read Movies

_cokwr: Create a film-based book cover using the aesthetic framed by Spacesick here: http://spacesick.blogspot.com/2009/01/i-can-read-movies-series.html See the original images here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/spacesick/sets/72157614482499746/with/3198823976/ , _cpzh4: Design, _cre1l: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3388/3276447572_ba2af80e03_m.jpg, _chk2m: Jim Groom, _ciyn3: 55, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3:

Movie Fortunes

_cokwr: Design some fortunes for hypothetical fortune cookies that characters from a book, movie, or series of books or movies could have gotten during their escapades., _cpzh4: Design, _cre1l: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tempestuousseas/5429518741/, _chk2m: Tempest, _ciyn3: 59, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3:

Re-brand ‘Em

_cokwr: The logo is an important part of a company. For this assignment, you are to choose a company and re-brand them. Take their logo and remix it, or start from scratch and make it your own piece of art. Need inspiration? Here's a cool site (http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/) that blogs about recent changes in company logos, and posts both the new and old versions. It can really highlight what subtle changes can do to a logo. , _cpzh4: Design, _cre1l: http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/, _chk2m: Chris Randles, _ciyn3: 118, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3:

Wait, where’d that guy come from?

_cokwr: Photoshop someone(s) (or something(s)) into a picture that isn't supposed to be there. Here's the original inspiration for the project: http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20110629_1.htm, _cpzh4: Design, _cre1l: http://words.shannotate.com/?p=88, _chk2m: shannotate, _ciyn3: 149, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3: