Assignment 5 - Colourful Asia

Concept : Asia - A Thriving Business Hub

Using a "Asia - A Thriving Business Hub" as a theme for this assignment, this piece of work focus mainly on the business aspect. It aims to portray as an up and coming economic giant. Office buildings are being used to highlight the theme.

In this first and second draftwork, blue background was being used. There are also outlining of the buildings to show that mancy cities in Asia surrounded by coastal areas. The outlining is more prominent in the second draftwork whereas in the first draftwork, only a light shading is shown. Different colourfuls are being applied to the buildings to show the vibrancy of Asia.

Lastly, in the third draftwork, black background is being used with blue outlining. A different colour scheme is being applied to the buildings. It aims to create a cool and professional image of Asia being a business hub.

Feedback :

1. Poor colour combination

2. Too many colours are being used for the buildings
3. Suggestions : USe different shades of black for the buildings to build a professional image for the business theme

4. Place the word "Asia" nearer to "Your Business Hub" as tthere is not much relevance with Asia being a business hub.

Assignment 4 - iN2015

Concept : Evolution of Transportational Tools

There is much to explore for this assignment as there is no specific way / style to do it. The poster aims to motivate people to come up with further possible forms of transportation tools. It begans with humans using their own legs to move themselves around to the stage whereby distance is much shorten with transporation like airplanes. The ultimate would be moving towards "Distance is no longer a barrier". Perhaps, in the near future, humans can travel around simply by doing teleport. We see teleport being used in games but in the future, it could be really possible for us to do that.

YOU DECIDE WHAT"S NEXT !!!

Assignment 3 - U C What I C

In this assignment, we are supposed to take pictures to tell a story. Ms Chiang showed us work done by previous semester students and I should say they are really fantastic. Some are rather interesting and funny. As usual, inspired by my own stupidity, I told a "real life" story.

I have myopia of about 500 plus degress for each of my eyes. I can't live without my specs!
Sometimes when I wake up in the middle the night without wearing my specs and that's when the story begins... My secondary school uniform (St. Margaret's) is a one-piece dress. I would usually place it hanging outside my wardrobe. So... when I wake up without specs, I would imagine it to be a ghost figure. (Shocking myself for nothing)

Yup, that's how the story came about and I know people reading will only have this word in their minds - LAME.

Feedback :

1. Pictures taken were not very clear, poor lighting effects.
2. Storyline was not really straight forward to some audience.
3. The picture of the uniform should not be taken with something green in the background (Green stripes from the cupboard).
4. This classmate asked, "What was he not wearing specs in the first place?" - I really dont know how to answer this question. I mean, there will be times that you don't wear specs ??

Infographics - An Undergraduates's Monthly Expenses

Feedback :

1. Use at most two (2) fonts for synchronization.
2. Re-arrange the items and use the wallet to show a total sum for the expenditures.
3. Show a receipt sticking out of the wallet instead of the $50 note to show the total expenditures per month.
4. Remove the heading "Where has all the money gone?" as it is rather inappropriate.

Assignment 1 - Me, Myself and I

Four Preliminary Concepts :

1) Long Hair

Alright this is kind of lame. I've used hair to represent myself for a very lame reason. My family and friends have been trying to get me to cut my long hair but I'm really reluctant to cut it short. Gosh, I have also been dropping much hair and that's why everyone has been telling me to cut my hair short. Though I will eventually go to the salon, I would tell the hairdresser not to cut too much. What a waste of money! Sometimes, I think I can't stand myself as well. Might as well not go to the salon right..... (Friends reading this post would certainly nod their heads!)

Feedback :
This idea is not good and I shouldn't develop further from this concept. Seriously, I agree with Mr Low. This idea is indeed a bad one.

2) Theme : Badminton

This second piece of artwork was done using the badminton as the theme. Badminton is a sport that I like very much. I was a badminton player during my secondary school days. Using the shuttle cock, racket and the net really brings back good memories of my badminton days. It may be simple as it seems but playing this sport isn't easy. The 3 items are supposed to represent my name in short "Viv". I had wanted to form "Vivian" but I thought it would be weird to force in "ian" using the same stuff (i.e using back the racket again for the second "i").

Feedback :
The idea is too simple and not much concept thinking is been involved. The last letter "v" looks like alphabet "w" instead.

3) Theme : Yoga

People seeing this design might think that I practise yoga. The answer is "NO". Hahas!! I wish I am man! I like this idea of using yoga as a form of representation. What has sparked me to use yoga to represent myself ??

The idea came in mind because I had promised this friend to go for yoga classes together since early 2008. Guess what? I have not signed for the class yet. She suggested going for yoga together to reduce stress. I was complaining to her about my school work. All the sucky programming stuff that simply sent me going crazy and going bonkers. I sucked at programming even though I'm a computing student. What an irony...

Hope this artwork can make up for the yoga lessons...haha! The alphabets "a" and "n" are my favourite design. I find the body posture is beautiful and elegant. Also, yoga requires much patience and I think I seriously need that. This artwork also serves another purpose. That would be to tell myself to be more patient. I don't think I can do any of the pose. My body is not that flexible. So, let this artwork be my motivation!

4) Theme : Brain

Brain Version 1 (without my name)

This last draft is really my favourite piece of all. Not that I'm smart or I think I'm smart. In fact, I'm quite brainless. Like I explained in class of how this idea came about, sometimes I wished I have a brain that works smarter and faster. My desire for this brain will get stronger during April and November every year. The class must have thought that I'm crazy.

Brain Version 2 (with my name)

Version 1 is first draftwork of this theme, without my name representation. So check out version 2 where I incoporated my name onto it.

Initially, I tried to do up the design without bolding my name but the effect coudn't be seen. So I had no choice but to slightly bold it to bring out my name. I felt that I did rather little for this last artwork. The design seems so simple and effortless.

Feedback : The idea is rather okay and Mr Low said I should develop further using this theme. I personally like this idea very much too!!

FINAL

Red colour is used to bring out my name and the rest of the brain's blood vessels were coloured using like peach pink. I hope this simplicity would bring out the desired effect.

My heart almost stopped beating when Mr Zhixiong said "Isn't this a form of typography?" I really got a big shock!!! Typography is a NO-NO for this assignment and it was mentioned by Ms Chiang several times during the assignment briefing.

After some discussion and feedbacks from the class, the design seems okay and its not being classfied as a form of typography. Seriously, I almost died of shock. REALLY.

My classmates have given me constructive feedbacks which are really useful. Thanks for the suggestions!! :)

Feedback :

1. Use a different colour scheme for the blood vessels and my name.

2. Do not bold the name and let the vessels' thickness be the same but using different colours to bring out my name.

3. Use same colour for the name and the blood vessels but with different thickness.

I cant upload pictures !!!

Pls pardon me for a while. I have been trying to upload the pictures but i dont know why blogger is giving me such a hard time.

Class Activity 1a

Hmm... a machine to increase creativity by 100 times. I think i seriosuly need that. This exercise is obviously meant for me!! haha!! It kind of got me shocked when I was being told to draw the machine. My mind was blank actually.