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Familiar Microsoft Windows Interface
Star Trek references
Transfer progress bar
Error report

In this "screenshot" we get a glimpse of what may have happened if the Starship Enterprise sported Windows machines. I don't consider myself a trekky, nor do I own a Mac, but I can't help but get a chuckle from this well done image.

Goodbye Bush!

Headline "History in the making"
Photograph of President Obama holding a child
Veet "Goodbye Bush" advertisement

Advertisements have always been opportunistic. Any large scale event is sure to draw the creation juice from marketing professionals. Just think superbowl.

Here we have a fine example of that concept. The Veet advertisement pictured is very simple, consisting of nothing but 2 words (not even about the product!) and a logo. Yet, it is somehow extremely powerful. It takes full advantage of the political state of America. Why not? Props to the designer.

Spaghetti O's? No... Alphabet Soup

Actually, I think I prefered Spaghetti O's when I was younger. But now that I'm all grown up and in college, Alphabet Soup has become the dominant force in my life (at least for this week). Here are some photographs I took in Lithia park that may remind you of some of our favorite literary characters.

A

D

T

X

Y

Ambigram

During one of my adventures in the world wide web, I came across something I thought was pretty cool. It's called an ambigram. Wikipedia describes them as a graphical figure that spells out one or more words not only in its form as presented, but also in another direction or orientation. Here is a fine example of an ambigram:


When I first saw it, I just couldn't stop looking until I figured out how it works. Doesn't it make you want to try to make one of your own? I think it's amazing. The movie is pretty good too.

Scratch Assignment

I came into Digital Media Foundations in the second week of the term. I didn't know where the lecture section was given, so I accidentally walked into Arnie Abrams' Intro to Multimedia class. Eventually I found the right room, but when I walked in, I thought I was in the wrong place because I expected to see Miles. Dennis invited me to come in, so I did. Needless to say, it was a good thing I did.

For the first assignment, I had no idea what I was going to do. I sort of just sat down and started drawing. Out of that, the idea came to me to explore figure/ground reversal with positive and negative space. Most people have seen those optical illusions that can be two different things depending on how you look at it. With these first two images, I tried to direct the viewer to see what I wanted them to see. The last one was just something I thought looked nice.

What do you see?