Friday, September 24, 2010

Sunday, September 12, 2010

How to..

1. How to spend money?
Who am I: consultant
Who are them: poor money management person
What for: create awareness on spending the money wisely
1st Task: decide to buy or not
2nd Task: know that price does matter
3rd Task: ignore your own desire
Outcome: have extra money and saving
Showcase: gallery

2. How to be a 21st century young generation?
Who am I: 21st century youngster
Who are them: young generation
What for: updating with info to be a better person
1st Task: know what happened.
2nd Task: know the language.
3rd Task: know the people.
Outcome: having no problem communicate with each other
Showcase: gallery

3. How to have fun as a kid?
Who am I: happy fellow
Who are them: grown up people
What for: recall childhood memory and happiness
1st Task: wear childlike outfit
2nd Task: find the snack that always be eaten in childhood
3rd Task: talk and act like a kid
4rd Task: get more friends to join you for that day
Outcome: having the fun like a kid back then
Showcase: gallery

Interesting websites







Sunday, February 21, 2010

Photo editing

[ This is the spring photo which edited by me. ]



[ Before ]

[ After ]

For my own photo editing, I made the original photo become a instax mini polaroid photo. The color is adjusted to be more vintage. A fingerprint is 'brushed' onto the photo to enhance the feeling.

Thursday, February 11, 2010

room sweet room



Photos above are what i have done for the 1st project for perspective studies. It was an project of ideal room in one point perspective .

Top view, front evaluation and side evaluation must be done before hand. Next, start to draw out the scale and construction lines for everything. This can be considered as the hardest part which mostly of us did it wrong for the 1st time. Lastly, trace the construction lines out on a whole new paper and refine it with proper furniture.

" Stefie, did you shade your room?", I asked.
" I think that is unnecessary and somemore it might makes your artwork dirty.", Stefie answered.
" I 'll never do such annoying troublesome thing to suffer myself too. ", she continued.
" That is just an excuse lorr. Haha. ", I teased.
Stefie just replied me with her famous 'Wohohohohoho' .
That's why I just left my work in neat form without any shading.

But, this can't be the ideal room of mine after all. Because this is just another piece of rushing work which I finished it on the last minute. Well, simplicity makes the work nice. :P

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

'how to..' assignment

Well, this is what done by my groupmates and me for the 'How to..' assignment for Visual Communication. In order to complete this assignment, we actually have to draw out or snap down steps to instruct people how to do something. For our group, we decided to teach people how to insert the film into your manual camera since three of us also get involved with lomography. We snap down every steps and then stick those photos onto antique black card which has been made into film strip shape. We made a container that looks like a film roll in the end to put in the film strip with photos. Tadah! It's ready for presentation then.

I'm very happy having Alvin and Audrey as my groupmates for Visual Communication. Hopefully we can corporate even better and do something more amazing for the final assignment. :)

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

User-testing evaluation

First of all, I have to thank to everyone that helped me out with the user-testing of my icon design. *90 degree bow*

After the evaluation of the user-testing, I did some changes and enhancement to both set of icon design. Since majority thinks that the color combination is nice and not bad, I just made a little bit of change.




The weakness of my icon sets was some of the icons can't be recognized. But, I think this has been overcame after the changes.

The strength of my icon sets are the overall design and color combination. Majority is satisfied with those elements.

Finally, this assignment has come to an end. I really felt grateful that you all were willing to help me. :)

Friday, January 29, 2010

signage

For the first visual communication assignment, a signage that related to environment-saving has to be created. What I did for this signage assignment is


asking people to use energy-saving light bulb.

Well, actually it is a rush work which I managed to finish it 2 hours before the class. I feel lucky since it is now chosen to be exhibited on next week. :)

Thursday, January 28, 2010

flowchart

1. Why do you want to use flowchart in your mobile interface design & screen interface design?

Flowchart is a way that can show the process of creating the design in a proper system. Through step by step, I can show out the functions of the design. I can identify the problem encountered. The solution can be found and enhancement can be done through the flow chart as well. This is the simplest logical way to get to the aim.


2. How will it help your user to meet the interactive goals?

First of all. the answer for flowchart is usually either 'yes' or 'no'. these simple yet concrete answer won't make the user confuse or hard to follow up the interaction. It is user-friendly while helping the user to understand the whole thing more easily. 

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

user-testing on my icon sets

The picture above is the final outcome of my vector icons and pixel icons. A user-testing has to carry out in order to improve those icons more. So, please feel free to complete the questionnaire and give comment on this. I will gladly accept everything. Thanks a lot.

Q0. What are you major in(no matter working or studying) ?
________________

Q1. What do you think the icons above are representing?
a. home, music, gallery
b. contact, music, gallery
c. home, contact, music
d. others...(please specify)

Q2. What do you feel about the color combination?
a. nice
b. not bad
c. under average
d. awful

Q3. Can the color combination brings out the vintage mood?
a. yes, obviously
b. yes, but not that much
c. no, not at all (please state the reason)

Q4. Which theme I used for my icons set?
a. cute
b. button
c. sewing
d. colorful

Q5. Do you feel that both sets of the icons look consistent?
a. yes
b. no (please state the reason)

Q6. Which icon(s) you think is/are harder to be recognized?
(Vector icon from left to right I, II,III)
(Pixel icon from left to right 1, 2, 3)
Please state the reason

Q7. Any other relevant comment regarding to my icons?
________________________________________

The answer of the questionnaire can be left at the comment. If you can't do so, you may leave at the chatbox as well. I feel thankful on your help. :)

Monday, January 18, 2010

Class studies

It's already the third week for this semester. I have been exposed to things that I never get in touch before. Even for AI, I learned more skill to do vector design.

This the pixel buddy icon I did for my friend. He complained his skin color in the icon was too dark after all. :P

This the icon class practice I did in class. i never try to make an icon with so much details before. Learned how to manage gradient in order to get the effect.

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Red stripe on my neck

Mostly of my friends knew that I am a person that likes to take photos. By December of 2009, I receive a Canon 450D as my christmas present. Well, I'm still not familiar with all of those setting yet. Mr. Monitor-Albert, I know you do read this and you better teach me everything you know as fast as possible.

But, what I want share you all here is LOMOGRAPHY that I get in touch at the early middle of 2009. My first lomo camera is black slim devil from ultra wide & slim series. Here comes some photos snapped with it.


















After a certain period, I have put my eyes on the black bird, fly camera and I got 1 which is in yellow color using the money I get from secondary school due to the good SPM result. Although using this camera requires some skills and not so easy, but I'm enjoy using it. Photos time.






These are just a part of photos that I took before. If you all wish to have look at the others, you can visit these links below which will lead you to my facebook account. I already arrange them by the kind of slide I used for shooting.
Black slim devil 1st try using normal film
1st EBX
Velvia
2nd EBX
Provia
BBF 1st try using normal film

My dear fellow classmates, you come to me if you wish to know more about lomography. I would love to share everything I know. Don't let the manual camera being whipped out. :)




Well, I usually purchase the camera from this site, Galagalastore.