Information is beautiful. This sentence is inspiring, and I took it from a website. This website has a lot of images of info graphics, they are all designed beautifully. I had a task about info graphics and this website helped me a lot in giving me different ideas of how information could be. Information is no longer just a pie chart or a bar chart. They became artistic, pictogram is no longer just a picture representing something it has now became a piece of art!
The Toilet Paper Girl
Sunday 15 May 2011
Info Graphics
Information is beautiful. This sentence is inspiring, and I took it from a website. This website has a lot of images of info graphics, they are all designed beautifully. I had a task about info graphics and this website helped me a lot in giving me different ideas of how information could be. Information is no longer just a pie chart or a bar chart. They became artistic, pictogram is no longer just a picture representing something it has now became a piece of art!
Monday 4 April 2011
Glorophyl adhesives
Yay! We are finally done with this video. I had a lot of fun making this video even though I have spent restless days making this, a week without animes nor dramas it wasn't as bad as i thought! I'm glad to have this successfully out. Before I get started I have done an experiment with stop motion videos just to get use to it.
I have uploaded them on Youtube will see how much views and likes I'll get! I'm not expecting to much from this since its the first time i actually made a stop motion videos. For more information click here.
pony on the run!
This is the actual video please "like" it thank you! =]
Sunday 3 April 2011
Think OUTside the box!
DISRUPTION! I've just learnt a new word in Uni today. The word disruption for me has always been used as merely just for something like interruption. So I googled and double checked, yes its the same word that I have been using. The disruption that my lecturer was trying to tell me is the THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX! Its thinking differently than others. As designer thinkers it is so important to be disruptive so you could stand out and so people will notice you. For instance, to sell a product like just an ordinary mineral water. You've got to be different than others so consumers would notice it and choose this instead of others.
Disrupt the normal routine and stop the boring old life we all are having, come up with something new. Disrupt the world with something amazing! This commercial is disruptive, the colourful balls that bounce all around the town. It is an interesting way of showing the good colours about the television, not only that, using colours as a unique selling point is also rare. The actual television does not even have to show up in the commercial since Sony is well known enough.
Disrupt the normal routine and stop the boring old life we all are having, come up with something new. Disrupt the world with something amazing! This commercial is disruptive, the colourful balls that bounce all around the town. It is an interesting way of showing the good colours about the television, not only that, using colours as a unique selling point is also rare. The actual television does not even have to show up in the commercial since Sony is well known enough.
Wednesday 30 March 2011
Making of Glorophyll Glue Commercial
Cute little cry over her fallen petal from her flower and the cute little boy was worried and wondered what happened |
Okay, so basically here its just about the girl giving the boy the flower expects him to fix it ... |
and yes he did! So the girl's happy again |
and oops! they gt stuck when the boy gives the flower back and they are stuck forever. |
Look the characters we designed together. Its so fun doing the character design, we laughed at each other's drawings, big head, weird body shapes, weird accessories (that was just me, i gave the boy a huge cap and ugly flower pins for the girls and no! I'm not going to show them its embarrassing!). These are the final designs.
I'm going to digitise all the drawings using photoshop and my bamboo pen. Can't wait to get the whole video done! Got to start learning how to use iMovie!
Sunday 27 March 2011
Audrey Kawasaki - My Design HERO!
Japan art styles are my favourite just like manga comics, the curvy lines of a human body shape, the hair strokes that waves lightly in the air as if it is real. Art nouveau which was influenced by Japanese woodblock prints, where they have a strong outline and flat or gradient colour filled in. Now Audrey Kawasaki which is one of my favourite artist has combined these two art styles together and formed her very own style.
The themes in Audrey Kawasaki’s work are contradictions within themselves. Her work is both innocent and erotic. Each subject is attractive yet disturbing. She paints on wood panels and it brings an unexpected warmth to the enigmatic subject. The figures she paints are seductive and contain an air of melancholy. They exist in their own sensually eosteric realm, yet at the same time present a sense of accessibility that draws the observer to them. These mysterious young women captivate with the direct stare of their bedroom eyes.
Audrey mostly paints on wood panel with oil and graphite, at times mixed media. The colour she uses are always muted which gives out the sensation of erotic and melancholy. She had several exhibitions and shows and the most recent show is named “Tangled”. These are part of the paintings shown in the show.
“All the girls I paint, is one girl. She is on my mind always, and nothing will make me stray away from that.” Audrey stated at her tumblr. She is persistent at what she is doing, the girls in her mind is still a mystery yet to be found. Recently, Audrey had been working with few artists -- Andrew Hem, Joao Ruas, and she deeply admire their talents.
GeGeGe no Kitaro |
Illustrated Book of Japanese Monsters, 1972 |
by Richard Longhi |
She has always had a fascination with yokai (monster in Japanese), Japanese folklore creatures, demons,spirits, monsters etc. She thinks some are mischiveous, some sre evil and some are good natured.
Every girl has their girly side, and when Audrey Kawasaki got in contact with felts and plushy, she developed a new hobby. She started making felt plushy, the ones she just started making were very simple and cute.
Then, she started to apply her painting skills onto the doll making, she painted the head and the hand and sew other parts together. Something interesting about this doll is that thy have no actually bodies, its as if mushrooms has human faces. This is also why I love her, i can see no limits in her creativity and her imagination.
This is what her working area looks like, simple and ordered. Everything is packed together in one place, she has everything around her while she works. Follow her now on twitter! =]
Bibliography:
http://www.audrey-kawasaki.com/info.php?p=bio
http://andkawa.tumblr.com/
http://baibai-matane.live.journal.com/84401.html
http://baibai-matane.livejournal.com/81158.html
http://i-seldom-do.journal.com/160812.html
http://i-seldom-do.journal.com/158846.html£cutid1
The Book of Nymph
A book cover design inspired by Audrey Kawasaki. The girl in Audrey Kawasaki's paintings is really suitable to be in a book cover about nymphs. I have studied her paintings and painted this digitally. I imitated the expressions and of one of her painting "As I fall" and the body shape of another painting "asai 1". I gave the background a very oceanic and mermaid-like feel as nymphs are popular to be on water and looks like mermaids in the ocean. I enjoyed painting the nymph although it is absolutely impossible to be compared with Audrey's original work but I have tried my best and have learnt a lot through the painting. This book is targeted at those both genders and for those whom are curious and interested in this kind of genre. The whole picture is mysterious to draw audiences attention to get curious about the contents inside.
Sunday 20 March 2011
Semiotics
Semiotics is the study of signs and its is proposed by Charles Sanders Pierce. Pierce's idea distinguish between three type of signs which are, "Icon" , "Index" , "Symbol".
Icon is something that looks like what it is representing. For example, what can you see in this sign? Yes, it is a fire exit sign that's because it is well known already. But, just looking at this sign, it could be some one running away from something, it could be a race, an exit of something, an outdoor running field or something.
When something else is added to the picture, the whole meaning changes and its completely different. The sign at the left changes the meaning of the picture, giving more information to this sign. The fire that represents fire is telling you that the person is running away from the fire.
But since the "fire" icon could represent something else maybe sound noise or some other stuff you could think of. So, the letter "Fire Exit" made the whole picture make sense and is telling what it is meant to tell.
Icon is something that looks like what it is representing. For example, what can you see in this sign? Yes, it is a fire exit sign that's because it is well known already. But, just looking at this sign, it could be some one running away from something, it could be a race, an exit of something, an outdoor running field or something.
When something else is added to the picture, the whole meaning changes and its completely different. The sign at the left changes the meaning of the picture, giving more information to this sign. The fire that represents fire is telling you that the person is running away from the fire.
But since the "fire" icon could represent something else maybe sound noise or some other stuff you could think of. So, the letter "Fire Exit" made the whole picture make sense and is telling what it is meant to tell.
Index is referred to their objects of any similarity relation. There is a cause link between the sign and object. In this category smoke is an index of fire, as smoke is caused by fire. In the picture below you can see smoke and you will automatically linked it to "fire".
Symbol is an arbitrary sign in which the signifier has neither a direct (iconic) nor an indexical relationship to the signified, but rather represent it through convention. They usually have no logical connection.
Signs are dependent on contexts, ideas can be directly brought into mind without being directly experience. Meanings can be expressed in various ways through a variety of sign system music, gestures, pictures etc.
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