King's Thoughts and Whatnot

The Process Do you ever get sick of the same old memes? Maybe you've got some clever ideas for new memes but don't know how to do it. Well, it's your lucky day. Put down that pillow pet. Put away the half eaten box of Crave. It's meme making time. First, pick the person you want to embed in your meme. For example, I used the beloved president of High Point University, Dr. Nido Qubein. Decide what event or background you want to put your character in. For me, I wanted to make a joke about how many nutcrackers are all over HPU's campus around the holidays. (It's more than 100 in case you were wondering). I put Nido in the foreground of a picture watching the famous festive ballet, The Nutcracker. To top off the image, I added a program in his hand with a big nutcracker on it, similar to the one's on campus. I finished by adding the caption "When you get a false lead to more nutcrackers". I got the idea for this meme from the one that was floating...

Overview: For blog assignment four, we created name plates using inspiration from the colors captured in a photograph of our choosing. After an artsy photoshoot, we took our image and extracted three colors from the picture. Using Indesign, we created our own color palette of nine swatches featuring two different tints for each color. By having a variety of tints to play with, there was more flexibility and options when making our name plates. These name plates as seen below will aid us in brainstorming the construction of our LinkedIn profiles.  Part 1: The Photograph Around the time of this assignment, I had the pleasure of going to the American Association of Art Therapy Conference in Miami. After our long conference sessions we had free time to explore Downtown Miami. I knew this would be a great opportunity to capture the colors of the city. Along the beach, there's a neon district that illuminates the streets at night. The photograph seen below ...