Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Friday, September 25, 2009

NM2208 - Assignment 4


Here is the poster:



(upload 1st, explain later =).. )
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Lecture 6- Class 6 Visual Principles (Part 1)

Classroom Activity

NM2208 - Assignment 3

Comming soon!

Friday, September 11, 2009

Assignment 2- Abstraction



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This assignment we only have 1 week to finish. At first, I did not know that and I was so lazy to check the schedule. So I thought I had 2 or more weeks to go. :P
Consequently, on the Tuesday's night before my tutorial ( Wed, 10-12) I had to rush to do it. Luckily, I have already chosen what to draw, so it did not take me much time like the first one, only 4 hours. However I had to go to YIH to print the design on Wed's morning before the tutorial. The bus was so crowded, there was also traffic jam so I came to class late. Mr Alfred Low, I am terribly sorry for that. I promise this wont happen again. Believe me :D... By the way I think he was so cool to bring the snack to class and share with us ( or someone else did bring, I'm not so sure about it  :"> )

This time I choose the Fountain of Wealth as my design. In my country there is no such big fountain like this one. I like it design too, as I read in Wikipedia, "In the design plan of Suntec City, where the five tower blocks represent the fingers and thumb of a left hand emerging from the ground, the fountain forms the palm of the hand". So interesting! :">

Actually I do not know many places in Singapore, though I've stayed here for more than 1 year. I just stayed home for all the semester mugging, on holiday I return to Viet Nam so I did not have much time to discover the Uniquely Singapore. I knew some places such as China Town, Vivo city, Suntec city, Golden Mile complex, East coast park, Raffles Place ect but I did not know Singapore had such a beautiful bridge like the Henderson bridge and beautiful supreme court :) My friend told me the Singapore government gave me scholarship to study here but I did not know anything about this country, which made me so ashamed of myself. In the future I'll try my best to visit all the places of interest in Singapore :D.

This is only the initial design of the Fountain of  Wealth. I think before I submit the portfolio, I'll check all the assignment again, make some change to make them better :)

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Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Me, Myself and I - Design 2 and 3


Me, Myself and I - Design 2


The second design for Assignment 1. I got the inspiration for this design from my own house in Viet Nam, with the yellow wall and blue windows and a big garden.

Me, Myself and I - Design 3




Saturday, August 29, 2009

NM2208 - Assignment 1





Me, Myself and I 

  • This is my first design for the Assignment 1 "Me, myself and I". Although I like a lot of things but I only concentrate on things that start with "H" because my English name is Helen.

  • The first  thing came into my mind was Helen loves Holland. I draw a wind mill for the "H" and the cow, the tulip, the Dutch lady and the castle for the other letters. But it looks ugly Y__Y, because trying to combine so many things into the same picture makes it look like a mess. Whatever, as Julian said, the first thing is usually not the best.

  • Then it came to "Helen loves Halloween". I used to read a lot of ghost stories and detective stories, as well as watching horror movies when I was in Viet Nam. However now I've stopped this habit as living alone in a room on campus makes me feel so scary if I keep reading things like that. But I really like Halloween's decorative stuffs like the pumpkin, the bat, the witch and the spider web. Maybe I'm a bit weird :D.

  • I got the idea of hanging the letters on a spider web after Tuong Anh told me she would hang her name on the Christmas Pine tree, as she love Christmas. I love Christmas, too. But I thought everyone loves Xmas, so some people may use it as their design. Can't use a so popular thing like this :)

  • I started to know how to use Illustrator 2 weeks ago, after attending the Workshop. So the first times using it were really terrible for me. I spent the whole Friday evening and all Saturday drawing this Helen loves Halloween. It takes me more than 15 hours to finish and more than that ( other assignments and readings keep pushing me to the wall and I had nightmares during nights, in which somebody kept chasing to kill me T__T ). I draw everything from the background to the letters.Ohhh it's good that I finish it now, but I have one more design for this assignment to be due next week.

  • But anyway I love to do designing thing so the harder I work, the happier I feel. Once I begin, I can not stop until I finish.

  • I want to put the letters in their "natural environment", a dark room in a Halloween night with the candle, the spider web, an old broom, broken chair and table etc. Oh, and because I like things that glitters like gold, diamond or silver so I got the idea of making letters look like the golden ornaments used to decorate. A wind came and made these letter ornaments shaking slightly..

  • What is the idea behind this design?

  • Hmm... I think it will tell something about the Beauty Beyond, beautiful things in such a poor, old and dirty place. You know beauty can be everywhere, independent to the things surround it. Like a beautiful lotus growing in the mud. The ugly environment only makes it prettier. By the way, my name in Vietnamese and Chinese means "lotus" :"

  • One thing I am so worried now is whether the printer can print my picture with the original colors. I hope it wont change my color. If not, things will be bad because the letters will no longer look like "golden" ornament. :(




After treating with Photoshop





Testing =)

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try