STOP Poster Abuse !

After today presentation, I got some feedback regarding the colour of my text. Some had problem trying to read the catch line as it was hard to tell from the background. Another point was the choice for my colour red on certain text. Since it was used for my catch line (the most important point) I should not reuse the colour on other non-important details as it might mislead the audience attention while reading the poster.Below are some points I have amended :

1. The shadow figure is lighten
2. A shadow effect is applied to the catch line
3. The main box is filled with a semi-transparent fill 
4. “Illegal download” changed to black font
5. The red hand is slightly refined 

The improved design :
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Poster Design
Room for improvement ?
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Post It !

After some consideration, I decided to change my first theme from “STOP Piracy” to “STOP Computer Abuse”. This will allow me to express more means of computer misused with my design. Moreover, I feel that it is not necessary to relate piracy with a pirate. In fact the one who usually abuse the computer is the user himself. Thus, I decided to remove the image of the pirate and replaced it with a shadow. The intention is to use the shadow to represent two figures in this case one can interpret it as the hacker who is tempting the computer or the officer who is trying to track down the hacker. In addition, the image of a red hand clicking the mouse is to symbolize the act of catching you red handed. Similarly, I believe the colour red will help to draw the readers’ attention from far.

As for the second idea, I think that it is easier to deliver the message with Flush 2 than Flush 1 as 2 is less complicated and clearer compared to 1. The idea here is to highlight the similarity with the use of colorings. Simply by placing both the toilet bowl and jackpot side by side made the comparison more obvious. This will also help to balance out the space in the poster.

Below are my rough poster designs:
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Poster A-1 | A-2

 
Poster B-1 | B-2

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Poster Design A-1 Poster Design A-2 Poster Design B-1 Poster Design B-2

sTOP !

So much for the one week break, back to another assignment …
This week task: Design a poster that has a message: STOP, Prevent or Save …

Before I start to work on the design, I must first identify the role and the purpose of my poster. In lecture, we learnt that the difference between the poster and other advertising media is that the poster speaks to the audience “on the move.”  Unlike newspaper ads, magazine ads, and brochures are designed for the reader who has time to read these ads. Therefore, a poster must be able to capture the attention and get the message across in a matter of seconds.

As for the purpose, I wish to promote a sense of awareness on some social issues.

Gathering of Ideas:
Being a SOC student, my first thought was the problem of piracy faced in the info-com industry. Another idea was generated by the recent anti-gambling campaign aired on TV. Thus I had two ideas: STOP piracy and STOP gambling

Here are some sketches of my ideas
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Poster Sketch 01 | 02

 
 Poster Sketch 03 | 04

Poster Sketch 05

  
Flush Sketch 01 | 02

Think of the Past …

Lines and Dots

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Can you tell the story ?

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Changes for the Better – Dangerous Colours

I’ve looked into the feedback and made some amendment to my assignment 1 designs.

Here a comparison between the two prototypes

   
Prototype 1-1.2                                   Prototype 1-1.1
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• The colours for ’V’ and ‘A’ had been revised (more prominent to see)
• Ear mugs are reshaped to be more proportion
• Radial gradient are added to project a speaker effect on the ear drum
• Overall the design portrait a stronger love for music

 
Prototype 1-2.3                                   Prototype 1-2.2
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Prototype 1-2.1
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• Shadow are applied over all the letters
• Darker colours are used to impose a more dislike feel for the monsters.

Regardless if I agreed or disagree with your comments I still find that they are valuable for me to evaluate myself as I try to do better in the new assignment. Thank you for all your comments and feedback. Hope to hear from you soon ^_^

Flobbur In A Flash & PDF [Updated]

I have compiled the pictures to a Flash Story

Assignment 3
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Assignment 3 PDF Version [New]

Fortunately, for this assignment, I had a friend to guide me as he share his photography tips with me during our shoot at Vivo City. It was quite embarrassing at first.. but after a few shoots, we can’t b bothered at all.

Here are some tips to garb those shorts (from my friend and this cool recommended link)

• Try position the subject off the centre to add an interesting effects to the photo (See picture 04)
• Include a foreground object in your picture. This way you give the viewer a better feel for the distance of the object and put the distance into better perspective. (See picture 09 and 10)
• A tripod is most recommended for a clear short but if you don’t have it useful by just try to use something to prop your elbows on to help steady the camera.

Point to note:
When you try to capture shots for non-moving object, the object orientation and perspective can help to deliver an expressive effect to the picture. (See picture 05 and 07).

The Yummy Adventure of Flobbur ! – Part 1

In this assignment, I was tasked to tell a story with just ten pictures. There are two challenge I faced; planning a storyline with a twist in the end; finding the right spot to snap those pictures.

Nothing special was in my mind until I came across this action figure store that had some cool toys on sale. And there is where I found my lead character for my story

And the story goes …

One fine sunny day… a black spot appeared in the sky from nowhere…

As the spot draw closer, the sky darkens and finally it landed … 

Something was waiting patiently in his mother-ship …

When the sky was clear, out came the universe “most blur” ball – Flobbur

As usual, Flobbur had forgotten his mission to this planet …

What will Flobbur do then ?
Stay tune to Part 2 on The Yummy Avdentue of Flobbur …

The Yummy Adventure of Flobbur ! – Part 2

And the story continues from Part 1 …

Flobbur decides to explore the planet in hope to find something that can help him recall his mission… surprising he found something which appears most fulfilling to him yet he does not understand how to use it …

Moving on, he felt emotion from a poster which reminded him how lonely he was for the past few years …

Then he saw a beautiful star “calling” for help. The smile on her face so attractive that Flobbur immediately fell in love with Ms Starnie…

Flobbur freed Ms Starnie and invited her to join him for a romantic sunset

As the sun set … Flobbur recalled something very important …

Flobbur remembered that he not eat “anything” for years … So he ate Ms Starnie… Then he said: “Oops I ate it again!”

Also See >> Full Story (In Flash)

Abstraction Begins

Apologies for the delay, I was out of town for the past few days … anyway back to assignment two … The abstraction process begins by simplifying the details from the original picture of my ladybird. However, there should be an extent to how far it should be done. After doing my research online … I found that Ladybird can be very variable in appearance, with different dot formation on their husk. Here are some of the colour variations

 

 

This gives me an idea to reshuffle the dots to project an evolvement from a ladybug to a generic representation of a bug.

Abstraction Process
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When it comes to the generic representation … the key is to think “generally”. If you want something to be understood by all then we have to see through the public eye …

 

 

At the end of this assignment, I learnt that simplicity was the main idea to develop an abstract representation. One can represent a lot by simply working with basic shapes and lines. Although colours can play a part in the representation but when things comes out in black and white, only the shape and lines can tell us what it truly means. (Similar to cave man drawings and ancient Chinese writing) An alternative is to control the tone in the shape which can help to different-shape the picture’s outline. (See Abstract representation)

 

Abstract Class

In assignment two, we were tasked to produce an abstraction process of an image and it final abstract representation.

Before I start, I was asking how I should define the term “Abstract Check up the dictionary and I found this >> having an intellectual and affective artistic content that depends solely on intrinsic form rather than on narrative content or pictorial representation. Sound rather complicated to me … after my class assignment I thought it was something like >> A concept or idea not associated with any specific instance. And finally after the presentation, I finally understood what it really means >> an abstract image is an image which lost its specific identity while it still communicates a generic representation of itself. 

Seriously, the idea was quite a challenge for me as I had a hard time to decide what object to start with. Most distinct object known to me already had some form of a common representation. I decided to look at more detailed object which I thought that the more details I can removed, the more abstract it will look. However, I was wrong as this does not fit the definition for “Abstract”. After pounding for sometime, I had the idea to take reference from a clipart collection I installed in my com. It was fantastic as I was able to find many representations (clipart) on every “item” I had searched in the gallery. And it was then I had finally selected my object for this assignment.