This assignment was to create a DS106 propaganda poster using a WWII poster as its basis. I chose a poster I found on the Canada at War Forum and used Photoshop to remove some of the existing text and replace it with DS106 content. …
Tag Archives: DesignAssignments
Alternative Magic Realism
This assignment is to take a cover of a well-known book and re-design the cover to suggest something completely different. I scanned my bookshelves and selected Orlando by Virginia Woolf, giving Lord Jim a miss.
Orlando to most people means Disney World, so I found an image of the Magic Kingdom on Flickr by Oscar_shen (BY-NC-SA) to use as a part of the cover.…
Acme Doodle – Learning By Design
I have wanted to try visual note-taking for a while and have given it a couple of tries, but find that I drift to using mostly words. I bought Mike Rohde’s The Sketchnote Handbook last fall as inspiration. This week I attended a symposium on MOOCs and Libraries so decided to try visual note-taking in one of the sessions. …