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[Oct. 17th, 2009|02:15 pm] |
This livejournal is pretty much dead. Meh. |
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| Chupa Chups |
[Jun. 12th, 2008|02:15 am] |
I was looking for lollipop illustrations when I came across with this chupa chups website!
Click here!
Though a tad heavy on the flash animation, it's definitely one of the coolest that I've seen! And there's so many pop culture references, I spotted Starwars, Spicegirls, "Lolling" Stones, Harry Potter & even Bill Clinton! And there's so many more!
Anyway, now the catchy song is still stuck in my head! *Chupa chupa chupa chupa chupa chupa chupa chups!*
Oh by the way, did I mention the Threadless Sales is freaking addictive?
I couldn't stop myself from getting more tees! :P |
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| Blogger Namecard |
[May. 15th, 2008|07:24 am] |
I wasn't intending to make name cards as I'm enlisting soon and they would become useless. But I've been going to events and such, and I hate the feeling of being shoved aside just because I do not have a name card and they think I'm just a small boy!
Did this 2-in-1 name card.
Front + Back
I didn't want to associate my blogging life with the design one, but having a name card for being a blogger is just toooooo weird. Well, if I'm Xiaxue, then that's entirely a different story.
Anyway, actually the concept of the name card is to have two versions, Safari & Internet Explorer. So when I meet people I can go like, "Do you use Windows or Mac?" ...Conversation starter mah!
But I'm just too lazy to do up the Windows one. And it's NOT just a screenshot okay! I did the details myself!
(Okay, I cheated with the scroll bar... but the rest I redrew them myself! ROARS)
But I guess I really have to do up the Internet Explorer version. Not alot of people uses Mac, and among those, half uses Firefox. Damn! I should have made a Firefox one, then it's universal!
Ok, maybe I'll just use a screenshot for the IE one. Heh. |
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| Publicis & Hal Riney |
[Apr. 4th, 2008|01:27 pm] |
Check this out: http://www.hrp.com
Equipped with webcam functionality, you can navigate the webpage with the wave of your hand!
Anyway, do check out their awesome advertising works too. :) |
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| SAVE POLAROID! |
[Apr. 1st, 2008|09:23 pm] |
In February 2008 Polaroid (under the control of Thomas J Petters of Petters Group Worldwide) announced that the company has decided to gradually cease production and withdraw from instant film products completely in early 2009.
NOOOOOO!!!!!!!
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| TP's diploma show. |
[Mar. 13th, 2008|04:20 am] |
Hmmm... Surprisingly, I wasn't very awed by the works. No, not that I thought that they weren't good enough, but I was expecting more of designs being aesthetically stunning. So with that expectation, I actually zoom passed some booths that are in fact, of the better students.
After walking through the visual comm area, I gathered that good photography plus good concept goes a long way. Everybody loves brilliant concepts, and good photos makes everything looks "pro".
The importance of THE concept for design works has always been driven into me ever since I stepped into Lasalle. But I disagree, to a certain extend. I always, always think that if your design can make someone stop dead in his/her tracks, you'd already got half the battle won. So, isn't aesthetic value more important? The concept comes later, when the person starts examining and flipping through your work. So if ya can't get the person to look at it, what's the point of having a superb concept with no audience?
I guess I'm a superficial person? Ha! Aiyah, I don't know lah. I suck at concepts anyway. But now, after looking at so many factual instance that says GOOD CONCEPT = GOOD DESIGN, I guess I will put more focus on the concept for my 60pp assignment.
Anyway, there is no dip show in Lasalle. The pro being, if our work happened to be lousy, we don't have to parade in front of the industry people.
Con? There's one less motivation to work harder. |
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| The Wim Crouwel Type Project |
[Dec. 26th, 2007|03:51 pm] |
School's gonna resume pretty soon and I'm back here!
Will be working on this guy's related works:
Is it me or he looks abit like Ian McKellen aka Magneto from X-Men? |
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| Popfolio |
[Nov. 14th, 2007|06:08 pm] |
I intended to make my portfolio (due next week) a pop-up book. I've even thought of a catchy title, "Pop-folio"...
So I kinda researched a little and I've decided that it's too impracticable, given the short time frame and my puny knowledge about pop-up books.
Anyway, here's a couple of fantastic pop-up books:
That spread with Alice and the poker cards is freaking amazing! |
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| 10 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW (if you're in Lasalle) |
[Oct. 26th, 2007|07:22 am] |
(saw this from the learning portal and I thought it was quite intriguing)
1. You are expected to be on time for any timetabled event or ‘contact’ time with your class and lecturer. If you miss the introduction to a project or any other information, you will be expected to find out what you have missed and not to miss these key points of information again. If you persist in missing the beginning of classes, your formative feedback will reflect your unsatisfactory attendance.
2. If you are more than 20 minutes late for a class, lecture or demonstration, you will be marked as LATE and expected to wait outside the room until the lecturer invites you in to join your class. The lecturer is responsible for ensuring that the class is not unnecessarily disrupted for those students who value the maximum contact time with their lecturers.
3. If you persist in missing classes you will be given a written formal warning and be asked to attend a meeting with the Dean of Faculty and your Programme Leader. This will be reflected in you overall assessment at the end of your level of study and may prevent you from progressing to the next level or graduating.
4. You are expected to take a note of important deadlines like hand-in dates or reviews. As a responsible learner and student in higher education, you are expected to set a role model for each other as well as students in other levels, who look up to you as their seniors in design education.
5. You are expected to take full advantage of the opportunity of ‘peer-learning’; that is learning through discussing and exchanging ideas with your classmates. You can learn as much from each other as you do from formal contact time with your lecturer.
6. You are expected to participate in group discussions, seminars, reviews and critiques of work. This is an important part of formative feedback and even if your work is not being discussed, you will learn from listening to the feedback given to others in your group. This also refers to tasks or assignments that you have done as a group, as the lecturer will give group feedback, which does not mean you dismiss it because it wasn’t about your work particularly – all feedback is valuable in learning!
7. You are expected to undertake ‘independent learning’; that is work outside set work, which relates to either your studio practice or contemporary and contextual studies.
8. You are expected to work on campus, in the studio, library or informal spaces. The campus has been designed for you to use to the maximum and take full advantage of the resources that it offers ‘on campus’ as well as its city centre location. You have a rich resource in the immediate location of museums, the National Library and social life of the city.
9. You are expected to research your ideas and nurture your imagination. As a creative person you are at art school because you have an individual talent for visualising things that don’t yet exist or communicating your ideas through images and objects.
10. You are expected to make the most of your precious time. You have the individual responsibility to be the best you can be. Three or four years is not long to get the most from your education that will serve you for a very long time. Everyone has different talents and qualities to offer the world and you are unique in what you do!
SO, either the lecturers are very free to formulate this list, or it just goes to show that Lasalle students are a bunch of lazy and irresponsible asses. (that includes yours truly) |
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| It's Not Just a Game |
[Oct. 23rd, 2007|07:01 pm] |
My virgin attempt at stop motion. Finished it in like 4 hours with no storyboarding or whatsoever. And I stupidly used flash to create the animation. So, ANOTHER 2-3 hours of painstaking effort to align 220+ shots into the frames.
Nevertheless, still something decent for my visual support of my essay. I'll try not to do things so last minute again! |
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[Sep. 27th, 2007|05:11 am] |
Believe it or not, this was shot with my Sony semi pro camera (H1, yes the very old model, and the latest one in stores now is H9! with night vision video function! DAMN!):
( zooooom in )
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| Animals animals |
[Sep. 26th, 2007|04:16 am] |
I was doing my scams for advertising on Night Safari, when I decided to look at the photos I've taken last year at the zoo.
Then I realised I've got some really good shots, and I just can't resist to post them up again!
Digressing, but "good" to me, doesn't necessarily mean "good" to a professional photographer or even a photography student? Photography to me is like a side line and I always marvel at how my semi-pro camera can take such "good" shots. Ah-ha!
( More more more! ) |
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