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.