Micro-Assignment: Schwartz

Soft, moist, chocolate souffle with a running, rich chocolate filling. Topped off with juicy raspberries and sprinkled with powdered sugar. Sure to water any tongue with its delectable flavor!

Micro-assignment: LaSorsa

The ultimate childhood cookie meets a New York classic to create a dessert for the ages! Crunchy Oreo cookies are baked into a rich, creamy cheesecake filling. Topped with whipped cream, cookie crumbles or even plain, this dessert is sure to satisfy any sweet tooth.

Futuristic Fonts

At first glance this font looks sort of cool--it's futuristic and definitely stands out from the rest of the crowd. But I don't think this is a good thing. The strange looking letters take away from what the word is saying. Instead, the reader just focuses on how interesting it looks and may become distracted. Imagine a word like EFFORT..it would have a consistent, giant line through the first three letters, which would hands down distract a reader from the word's context. I think letters like Y and M should be a little less eccentric, and stick more to its original roots. Things like this will put the reader more in their element, which would increase both comfort levels and effectiveness.

Micro-Assignment: Seo

Banana Split from Dairy Queen - Three rounded soft vanilla ice-creams covered with three different kinds of whipped toppings, including strawberry, pineapple and chocolate and nestled between banana which splits into a half.

"Letter Response," Stefaniak

What should be so important as a person's safety is seemingly ignored by the font used in this warning. As a sticker on the inside of a subway door, it should use text that is alarming at the least. A loud, largely bold and uppercase type might do the trick, but instead, the lowercase letters and extremely large x-height detract from the reality of what the message is trying to convey. If you lean on the door and the door happens to open, you won't fall onto a fluffy mattress of feathers and pillows of which the font gives the impression. Instead, something severely harmful might be the result.

Micro-Assignment, Stefaniak

Creamy, delicious ice cream that's also pleasing to the eye. The green tea base makes it taste healthier than most desserts, too!

Micro-Assignment: Igbeare

Moist red velvet cheesecake. Baked in a sweet dark chocolate crust. Glazed with cream cheese frosting. Fresh minty sprigs added on the top.

Micro-assignment - Palladino

Creme De Menthe Brownies - recipe courtesy of Paula Deen. I love when my mom makes these brownies - they're fudge-y, very chocolate-y and have Andes Candies baked into the brownies and sprinkled on top of the icing.

Week One - Rinder

This advertisement in a newspaper is terrible. It's advertising a sale at a Fabric store, but it takes a lot more than a glance to even figure out what any of this says.

The text is extremely crowded with fonts of different sizes, styles and baselines. There are serifs, san serifs, and huge futuristic fonts.

The advertisers could have easily avoided the clutter and difficult reading ability by using fewer font-families and text sizes. Also, it would have helped to only have the headings in capital letters, and not every word.

Micro-assignment - Rinder

Cheesecake with sliced, crispy almonds on top, and fresh raspberries on the side.

Micro-Assignment Example!

Crispy rust-brown banana fritters stuffed with a dollop of custard-yellow vanilla ice-cream, topped with a cheery and chocolate sauce dribbled all over it.

Micro-Assignment! Deadline-Monday 10 a.m.

Welcome all of you!

So, you've finally made it here. Great! Now the next step is to figure out how to blog. Many of you may be fluent with this already. Whether you are or not, I expect this assignment will quite literally be a 'piece of cake' for you. Before you can do anything else, I would like all of you to do a quick test post. Follow these instructions:

1) Click 'New Post' on your top right. In the main text area, write a line or two about your favorite dessert. Be specific- talk about colors, aromas, textures.
2) Download a picture of your favorite dessert from google images. (It does not have to be exactly what you described, just find something close enough. But only JPEGS of medium size, around 100kb please).
3) Upload your picture to blogger. To do this, click on the small image of the scenery near the spell check icon. Choose the file from your saved location and follow the steps till you hit the 'done' button.
3)Title your posts relevantly, as mentioned in the handout.
4) Meta-tag it.
5) Publish your post.

This is fairly simple. It should not take you more than 10 minutes to do. The purpose of this micro-assignment is to find out if any of you need more help with the basics of blogging. I will publish an example to show you how it's done. It's due Monday at 10 a.m. and have fun while you're at it!