Improve movie posters to make them more accurately reflect the content of the film. Inspired entirely by theshiznit.co.uk

Apparently, street gangs in Chicago, like the Hell’s Devils, used to have calling cards (see the gallery: http://bit.ly/pyuOEl). This makes me think that poor marketing gives evil-doers a bad image. Help some of them out by creating business cards for them. But not the Joker – that’s too obvious.

Make a super-hero origins strip about your online persona, or the persona of someone else. You might want to use Pixton (http://www.pixton.com) – you might want to use something else, or draw it freehand if you are super-talented. But capturing the mood and making the story “feel” right are key, you might want to track down some super-hero origin strips to get the idea.

See the originas of the Apocalypse

Pick a movie poster and animate it. You can see an awesome example and quick explanation by Michael Branson Smith here.

Givien the popularity and ubiquity of animated GIfs on the web right now, it is time to get jiggy with them. Animate a comic book cover. Check out Kerry Callen’s examples for inspiration.

_cokwr: Remix classic bumper stickers to promote the cause(s) of ds106, ds106radio, and ds106tv., _cpzh4: Design, _cre1l: http://www.michaelbransonsmith.net/blog/2011/05/28/ds106radio-bumper-stickers/, _chk2m: Michael Branson Smith, _ciyn3: 133, _ckd7g: DesignAssignments133, _clrrx: DesignAssignments, _cztg3: DesignTutorials133

_cokwr: Take one of the people from ds106 and make them a monster profile a la Gary Gygax's classic 1977 Monster Manual. Make it a playing card, using a series of pre-defined qualities from the manual. You can see an example of this here: http://bavatuesdays.com/the-ds106-99-47-dds106-monster-manual-cogdog/ , _cpzh4: Design, _cre1l: http://bavatuesdays.com/files/2011/05/dds106_cogdog_front.jpg, _chk2m: Jim Groom, _ciyn3: 130, _ckd7g: DesignAssignments130, _clrrx: DesignAssignments, _cztg3: DesignTutorials130

_cokwr: This description of the exquisite corpse parlor game is taken from Chapter 9 of the open source textbook "Digital Foundations: Intro to Media Design with adobe Creative Suite" - link: http://is.gd/0KDvsj "Exquisite corpse” is a parlor game that the Surrealists developed in 1925. In this game, each player submits images (drawings, paintings, photographs) of heads, torsos, and legs, and they are combined to produce surprising new bodies. We have played this game with students using images of each other that we captured in class on a digital camera, as well as by using images from pop culture, found on the web. Collaging celebrity and politician body parts can provoke thoughtful discussion. Images of students are on the wiki, but it's more fun to try this with pictures of your friends or family! For this assignment you can work with friends, family or just yourself. Make photos of body parts like face, hands, ears, arms, legs, torso (front or back), etc. Use an image editor with layers to combine the separate parts into a surprising new body. If you need help you can follow the tutorial here - http://is.gd/0KDvsj - which includes example files you can practice with, but afterward make your own Exquisite Corpse and share it on your blog., _cpzh4: Design, _cre1l: http://art100scc.blogspot.com/search/label/exquisite%20corpse, _chk2m: Cheryl Colan, _ciyn3: 147, _ckd7g: DesignAssignments147, _clrrx: DesignAssignments, _cztg3: DesignTutorials147

_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: DesignAssignments8, _clrrx: DesignAssignments, _cztg3: DesignTutorials8

_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: DesignAssignments1, _clrrx: DesignAssignments, _cztg3: DesignTutorials1