“I have a machine which is capable of crossing the barriers of time and space. I will tell you its secrets if you do not explode the bomb,”
This is Marie’s favorite line from Dr. Who and the Daleks. You can often find her watching this after the kids are put to sleep.
The “Event Poster” task was the second assignment from the bank that I decided to complete. I’m expected to make a poster for an event that is coming up, which could be anything I want, so this assignment should be rather straightforward. Above is my finished project. I used the character I created for the course, who is educating young adults and college students about wise financial decisions. He is putting up these event posters throughout New York City in the hopes of drawing in a lot of Columbia and New York University students. As an investment banker, Julius feels that those who lack knowledge about investing or managing their money should be educated. The image I made with DALL-E 3 from ChatGPT 4 has weird characters and misspellings, which I don’t understand. Why is his name Julius Lawrence spelled Julus Lawrennce and investment spelled Iiveestiment? I’m not sure why that is the case, as I provide clear guidelines, and mispronouncing words is not one of them. I hope a large number of people show up for Julius’ investment information session; I think it will be very beneficial!
Well, it happened, and it was only a matter of time. Xander made it onto the cover of Vogue Magazine. It is no surprise here that Xander made it onto the cover, he is a well-rounded man with a great mind as he says. As a result, there needed to be a cover for the magazine and one of the assignment bank assignments just happened to be to create a Vogue cover for someone. Therefore, I decided to create a magazine cover for Xander as he was the latest celebrity to make the front page. As you can see, he is main point on the front page with various pieces of text around and behind him. I use an AI chatbot to create the image because I needed to have Xander on te front and not some random clipart. Also, it was interesting to see a certain aspect of the image after its creation. I think that the AI chatbot drew inspiration from Tony Stark and the Iron Man films because if you look at Xander’s chest, it looks like there is an arc reactor powering his heart. This was really cool and interesting to see mainly because it was unexpected from the image generator stating that I have never spoken to given it prompts that are related to Iron Man. You can also see in the background the actual title of the magazine along with his name and different accolades and technologies that he has invented. I really enjoyed creating this cover because it turned out to be something that might actually be on the cover of a magazine one day and it was interesting to see how the image generator took inspiration from a place (Iron Man) when I have never spoken or said anything about it and so that was cool to see.
Using PhotoChrome, I entered the word “Artificial Intelligence”, and this was the image that was created. The colors used were all near grey and blue. I assume that this is since the color blue can be associated with technology in a way. The color grey is due to the images with city buildings and computer hardware.
The cartoon ad assignment with so much potential I had to try.
Have you ever thought a particular cartoon character would make a great advertiser? Well here’s your chance. Take an existing product or even a regular item and have a cartoon character do their best salesman impression.
I chose this one because I love making designs, especially for odd things like this. This assignment tells the story of Snow White becoming an ambassador for Airbnb because she is the perfect example of what not to do. She decides to break in and sleep in dwarf beds instead of: asking, finding a friend (she knows all of the animals in the forest they gotta have a place), making her own shelter, or literally just any other option. This post doesn’t hold too much meaning as you can only convey so much in an advertisement and it was made by me so I wouldn’t hold too many serious story elements in it beyond a laugh.
I used Canva again because it is perfect for quick and easy designs like this one. To perfect my craft I looked up examples of Airbnb billboards and riffed off of their well-known design that pop up everywhere. Past that, it was as easy as finding the image of Snow White about to be clubbed and plopping it into Canva.
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My attempt at making a movie infographic for the movie, Baby Driver.
Create an infographic that visually explores a movie (or a series of movies). Click and zoom in on the featured infographic to the left that explores the Mad Max trilogy. In this example the infographic looks at all the key aspects of these three movies, including their respective box office success, kill count, the price of fuel in the UK, US and Australia at the time of the films’ release, the weaponry used and the iconic vehicles that made the films stand out so much. This brilliant example intrigued me, and I couldn’t resist turning it into a ds106 design assignment.
I chose this assignment because I am a huge consumer of movies and TV shows so this would finally be a chance to use it. After looking at the example I wanted to create mine to have the inclusion of some iconic imagery that would pull focus to something cool. So I choose Baby Driver because the cars are such an iconic part that would look amazing on an infographic as well as it being such a detailed amazing movie. This infographic gives the viewer a brief rundown on some small trivia and captures the important parts of the movie that make it so incredible. By taking the story of a movie and putting it into a quick and easy-to-read instead of scavenging through scattered wiki pages, interviews, and reviews it becomes the perfect digital story format.
To make this assignment I knew I wanted to focus on the cars since they are the focus of the movie so I found a list of all the cars used. I then found images of all of them with proper coloring on the web and used a background remover tool to make each image transparent. After compiling all these images into Canva along with a few extras relevant to the movie I added some facts I found on IMDb and Moviepedia. I then immediately deleted all the images that piled up on my desktop, only worsened by my indecisiveness over what I wanted to include in such a small space.
Please enjoy an assignment I put too much time into and enjoyed way too much.
For this assignment, I was asked to hop into a video game and build a small world.
I created a world inside my “Teapot” in the game Genshin Impact, adding my two pets that I obtained throughout my playthrough to show my appreciation for dogs 
The rest of the landscape and the Asian themed building is all made by the AI generator within the game.
For my final prompt in the Assignment Bank, I chose to make a charity ad. The prompt was, “Create an ad to inform people about a charity and encourage them to donate. It can be a real charity or you can make one up!” Here is my ad.
I chose something that is very important to me right now: ending the genocide of Palestinians. I made this in Canva with the intention of spreading awareness. The watermelon represents the Palestine flag.
I’m not going to apologize for bringing politics into this when 26,083 Palestinians (majority children and women) have been murdered for their existence. Gaza has lost access to phone service and Internet. People’s stories can’t be told, people can’t connect to their families.
I don’t think it matters what side you’re on, if you have the opportunity to donate a few dollars for eSims for those in Gaza to connect with their family and allow journalists to continue to inform the world of what’s going on, please donate.
There is always more we can do. I’m attaching more links to send help:
eSims for Gaza – purchase eSims for Gazans without Internet
GoFundMe – sends money to CareForGaza, which helps displaced Gazan families
Pious Projects – help provide hygine kits for women in Gaza
Click to Help – one daily click helps a donation be sent to Palestine
There’s so much more than what I’ve listed, so I encourage you to go out and find different ways to help.
Thank you for listening.
This beach pic, is now an oil painting, by using the AI tools on BeFunky. First, on Instagram story, I added the header text, because the assignment instructions said to do that way. Then I saved the image with the text and uploaded it on BeFunky. They have a large tool bar, and I used the oil painting tool to create this look of texture.