Clairdesign

Hey Designers! Check this out!

2010-06-20T01:45:00.000+08:00

Looking for some thoughts and inspiration around? Maybe us as designers, looking for inspirations or ideas are for college or clients project. But living as a junior designer, sometimes we forget about ourselves, and most likely are become a machine, bounded in your own box. I've experienced this before, and i repeated it occasionally.

You'll feel uncomfortable and unhealthy. You wasted time and money on your so-so daily - monotonic life. Why don't we reflect ourselves and ask "Why did I become a designer?, will it be worth? to earn money as well as enjoy life?" One thing that i just realize is that we also need to understand ourselves for why the hell we are in this industry. I had bookmarked Drawar.com , it has a lot of great articles about designers, and its useful to take your time to visit their website, read the articles, critiques, and question sections.

Mostly are about web design. They linked a lot of great sites, presented from designer POV. After you spend some time reading their articles, you will think how important is web design in present and future. It's worth to spend sometime to read some text-only articles for 10-20 minutes rather than procrastinating on Facebook or babbling non-sense on Twitter. Right?

Baba & Nyonya : Famille Rose

2010-06-14T23:39:00.001+08:00

Famille Rose is another name for their Nyonyaware or "Shanghai".

They called it as "Shanghai" is because the porcelains are once sold by the Chinese from Shanghai, or exported from Shanghai. In the olden days, these beautiful porcelains are brought by the Mainland Chinese from China, and some are made locally since after they settled and become a Baba. Through time, they adpat their lifestyle into the design & colors of the porcelain. The way of living of the Baba towards "refinement" drives them to create a beatiful porcelain, with a lot of complexity. The more complex the design, the more expensive they are. The Baba families, usually keep these Famille Rose inside their cabinet, to show to the guest, among with the silverwares.

I intended to do a research about this because, the nyonyaware designs are distinctive than any other porcelain design. The major influence of chinese porcelain for the shape and decorations, inspired from the victorian floral decors, and an authentic choice of colors from the Strait Chinese point of view.

The nyonyawares are distinct in terms of color usage, and the symbolisation of the illustration.
It is usually owned by middle to higher class of Baba family. These porcelains are considered rare and noble, therefore they are bought by local and foreign antique collectors.

Each of these porcelains have their own usage, such as the paso Shanghai (vase) which is used for deities altars,
nyolo (incense pot), tekoan (teapots) and so on...

The different colors resembles for different occasions, for example :
White and Blue : for funeral, worshipping ancestors during Ceng Beng & Ghost Festival.
The brightly colored "Shanghai" are meant to celebrate festive occasions such as birthdays and weddings.

Here are some difference of "Shanghai" and "China" porcelains:

With a brief conclusion, i think that the Famille Rose should be introduced more to public, although some people won't really interested to see forward it, but it is one of the distinctive possessions that the Baba ancestors inherit to their descendants.

Motion Graphic Design : Styleframesss!!

2010-05-22T23:22:00.004+08:00

Styleframes for Motion Graphic Design, on Type in Motion

Web Design 2 - Online Website

2010-03-11T11:22:00.000+08:00

Click here to see the online site of my redesigned Fullhouse website.

This project is only for college purpose :)

Web Design 2 - Prototype User Testing

2010-02-08T02:30:00.003+08:00

Splash Page

Main Page

Cafe

Petit Four

About Us

Events

Store & Shop

Contact Us

Here is the user testing form:

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*All of the pictures and designs above are for educational purposes only, not for commercial purpose.

Web Design 2 - Redesign Commercial Website

2010-01-17T21:53:00.003+08:00

Project Proposal

Project Definition:

This project is to redesign the website of Fullhouse Lifestyle Store and Cafe
to be more attractive in terms of the design and content.

Executive Summary:

As a new Malaysian based concept restaurant, Fullhouse Lifestyle Store and Cafe is favourited by its customer for a great place to hang out, dining and events. The uniqueness of its style reflected on the interior design, the food and the store. Therefore, the website should be able to provide both interesting and supportive content that can attract its target audience to interact, which are mainly teenagers and young adults.

Current Site's Analysis Goal:

Show their unique concept via text and photos
Provides abundant information about the events
Showcasing interactivity medias that are attractive to the users (Photos, Comic, Characters)
Provides a clear location information for the users to visit

Client's Analysis:

Background:

Fullhouse Lifestyle Store and Cafe was established in 2008. It serves a unique concept restaurant, delivering fusion cuisine, eye-pleasing interior design, and their own retail store. Fullhouse was originally founded by Mr.Adam Swee. He started from a retail item seller until he managed to build a conceptual restaurant and store with his own branding.

By 2010, Fullhouse have 3 outlets in Malaysia cities. Fullhouse is a new place for the modern Malaysian to hang out. Through a family with 4 characters, Fullhouse have their own story to support their concept of "Home". Fullhouse serves alot of cuisine from hors d'oeuvres, soups, main course, beverages, and dessert, ranged in many kind of style, such as French, Italy, Japanese, Malaysian, Korean, or even a fusion of it. A fusion style of semi-victorian era house with clean minimalistic elements decorated each of their outlet.

Besides serving food, Fullhouse sells their own retail garment products, Fullhouse Fashion. Based on the on-going Asian fashion trend, Fullhouse Fashion successfully captured to both women and men attention. Fullhouse also offers a variety of unique souvenirs, which are imported from Korea, Japan and China. Fullhouse also provides an event management service to organize parties and meetings.

Unique Selling Point:

Their most unique selling point is the packaging of their concept of "Home" The concept was packaged in a different way from any other concept restaurants, which successfully captured the target audience's interest.

Mission and Vision:

Mission:

To serve a satisfying Customer Service experience
Being a memorable hanging out place for modern Malaysian
Provides a novel experience of the interior design to the customer

Vision:

Spread the network to its neighbouring countries without franchising

Position and Cultural Value:

Positioned on the new market of concept restaurants, Fullhouse succeed to grab their target audience's interest. The flexibility of taking pictures in the restaurant helps Fullhouse to be spread by the internet easily, this made Fullhouse is both eye and ear-catching to those who never heard of it. Therefore, Fullhouse created a cultural trend for youths and young adults to hangout in Fullhouse for dining or other events.

Short and Long Term Site Goals:

Short:

Serves abundant and interesting information for users to keep visiting the website.

Long:

Building a relationship to the customer through interactive medias and events going on.

Target Audience:

Mainly Young adults aged from 20-25 years old, Most are couples.
Potential audience: Teenagers from 14-19 years old.
(Most will attracts Chinese female, middle to high income rate.)

Competitors:

Gasoline

Gasoline is a conceptual restaurant that relies on the interior design and cuisine. It has a
total of 6 outlets around Malaysia, and each of them have different concept look of the interior.
Gasoline mainly targets teenagers to the audience. Unlike Fullhouse, Gasoline are available to be franchised, which enables to have more expanded network. Gasoline heavily relies on the their conceptual character designs. About the food and beverages they have a plenty of Chinese, Western, Hong Kong and Japanese cuisine to chose from.
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T-Bowl

T-Bowl was established on 18th Dec 2008, and it has a "bathroom" concept restaurant. They serves varieties of food range from Japan, Korean, Western, Hong Kong until oriental style. Similar to the Fullhouse and Gasoline, they have their own characters to build up the concept, they call it the T-Bros.
Currently they are located at QueensBay Mall, Penang. They had a vision to franchise their business to Kuala Lumpur and other states in Malaysia in the near future.
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YO! Sushi

YO! Sushi was founded in 1997 by Simon Woodroffe. At that time, YO! Sushi introduced a modern concept of eating sushi, by using a sushi bar with convenyor belt that rotates the sushi around the bar. YO! Sushi targets a young adults ranged from 21-26 years old office workers, so they branded themselves to have a creative, modern and youth looking identity.
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Client's Site Analysis:

Analysis:

Fullhouse Cafe is a Lifestyle Store and Cafe.
It serves Western food and sells a lot of fancy and unique stuff.
The Interior of the cafe is something like a vintage + victorian era + minimalistic syle.
In contrast with that, the store sells a range of modern Zakka clothes, fancy accessories, ceramics, stationeries, etc..
Its a lot of fusion that's why it made this unique.
Corporate color of the website is white, with some light RGB colors.

(+)

Consitency in color, style and layout

(-)

A lot of images
Some informative images that thought to have a link through it are not linked.
Main logo is not directing to home page
No page indication
Lack of information
Not really attractive to navigate (needs more animation / interactivity)

Competitors' Site Analysis:

Gasoline(Flash website)

Analysis:
(+)

Nice character designs as the buttons
Feeling funky.
Neat layout and typo
Interesting transition of pages

(-)

Page indication is quite hard to recognize

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T-Bowl

Analysis:
(+)

Consistent
Cute Layout

(-)

A lot of bright colored item/images.
Letter spacings of the body text are too wide
Page indication is not clear enough

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YO! Sushi

Analysis:
(+)

Consistent
Lively with animations
Interesting usage of the characters
Clean and neat website, good finishing.
The layout looks like a blog, easy too read

(-)

The main content table color seems blends with the background.
Page indication is not clear enough
Information is all around everywhere.

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Rainforest Cafe

Analysis:
(+)

Consistent
Lively with animations
Using a darker color background for the content area,
in contrast with the body text
Attractive to its target audience

(-)

The main content table color seems blends with the background.
Too simple background

Gantt Chart, Site Map and Mood Board:

*All of the items,images and designs above are for education purposes only.

Web Design 2 - Inspirative Commercial Websites

2010-01-11T13:06:00.004+08:00

Some Inspirative websites:

1.Big Cartel (Art and craft online shop provider service):

Analysis:

(+)

Simple yet beautiful
Neat typography treatment and layout hiearchy
Consitent
Information is direct, and friendly to the user's eye.

(-)

Adding a favicon would be better

2.Gucci (Leather bags, fashion and accesories):

Analysis:

(+)

Simple and artistic.
The branding is relevant to its product
Consitent on layout and navigation
Interesting menu navigatin

3.Wacom (Pen tablet provider):

Analysis:

(+)

Simple, which direct the user to the content.
Neat typography treatment and layout hiearchy
Random background color according to its logo color.

(-)

Adding the graphical logo besides the text logo on the top left side will be much better.

4.Pocari Sweat (Isotonic drink):

Analysis:

(+)

Interesting navigation
Interesting content, supported with the good typo handling.
Simple, attractive and have a great branding
Simple rollover effects, but it is effective

5.Quiksilver (Clothin,Gear for sports):

Analysis:

(+)

Good use of color
Neat finishing of images for a grungy site.

(-)

Layout can be neater even if it is grungy website.

Tutorials:

HTML / CSS / Javasript		Design tutorials
	How to make an animated scrolling text		Psychedelic Tutorial
	Java Script navigational scripts		Ornate typographic illustration
	Pop-open list Links		Vector folk building
	Coding a clean web 2.0 Style		Vivid themed hand-drawn illustration

DSM2 Prototype

2009-12-27T15:26:00.004+08:00

Ugh... it's kinda too late to post this...
I was just too free until don't know what to do on this sem break.. So i upload this..

Takes time to load, large image.

User Testing - Web Design 1

2009-11-30T21:48:00.009+08:00

Splash Page (The initial page before you are going to enter)

Home Page

Contact Page

DIY - Materials Page

DIY - Choosing Steps

DIY - Step 1

Garden (It's where you upload your designs and downloads wallpapers

About page & more page coming soon! :)

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Daniel R Leyva

2009-10-31T20:54:00.004+08:00

Check Daniel R Leyva's website, its a great website without using flash, try view in fullscreen.
Takes some time to load though..

will post something soon...

Web Design 1 - Prototype

2009-10-12T00:17:00.009+08:00

Im bored till dead doing this prototype... haha

Splash Page

Homepage

Steps - Materials

Steps - Choosing steps
(a pop out will appear when you click the image)

Garden - Uploader & Downloads

Cs&Cs PLS! :)

Web Design 1 - Mood Board & Sitemap *updated

2009-09-15T23:59:00.016+08:00

So here is my mood board for Web Design 1:

*sorry for the mistypes :S

Sitemap:

Fly me to the moon

2009-09-15T17:59:00.005+08:00

Change logs:
06/10/2009
*Added the clock(the sky will change depends on what is your system time)
*Added music player
*Added changing speed buttons
*Added random stars at background (applies only at night)
*Added outlines for the main objects
*Added mouse bounds
*Added frame
*Added sun in the noon
*Fixed the "sudden spawn" elements
*Limiting the cap speed
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Finally it's done!

Epic Fail

2009-09-10T01:03:00.003+08:00

http://www.belladesoto.us/ = Epic Failure Website

This is the stupid+est website i ever seen, worst of all worsts.. i don't know why they waste their money on the domain on such that "design", anyway this is pretty fun... ROFL

here's a link where i get it [link]

Web Design 1 - Researches & Ideas

2009-09-09T19:29:00.011+08:00

How To's Ideas:

How to create your own miniature aquarium:

1.Who am I? - Author
2.What is it? - Small Aquarium
3.What For? - Decorations
4.1st task - Plannings and gathering the materials
5.2nd task - Step by step making ofs
6.3rd task - Snap it and share on the web
7.Outcome - Liven up your room!
8.Share it - Upload your snap and compare with the others
9.Contacts - Information

How to create your own earth savior:

1.Who am I? - Designer
2.What is it? - Vinyl toys with a plant on it
3.What For? - Fight global warming XP
4.1st task - Buy materials & Making ofs
5.2nd task - Seed it
6.3rd task - Share it
7.Outcome - Go green :)
8.Showcase - Gallery / Download Wallpaper
9.Contacts - Information

How to create your playing cards:
1.Who am I? - Designer
2.What is it? - Playing cards
3.What For? - Collections
4.1st task - Sketching
5.2nd task - Designing
6.3rd task - Printing & Packaging
7.Outcome - Play it together with friends
8.Showcase - Gallery of illustrations / W.I.P / Products
9.Contacts - Information

Interesting Websites:

foodincmovie.com

sushiandrobots.com

mikematas.com

lineage2.co.id/index.php

orangelabel.com

hypefortype.com

gavincastleton.com

Photoshop tutorials:

Fix lighting in a montaged image

Cool neon effects

Create imaginative painted montage scene

Creating a steam punk illustration in PSD

Composing an HDR image through photos you have captured

Tutorial websites:

How to customise your own vinyl toy

How to make speakers out of a vinyl toy

How to make an aquarium out of a light bulb

How to spice up nature

Semester break!!

2009-08-12T02:46:00.034+08:00

Finally, an update after a long assignments routine.

So here are some of the final projects I can show:

Typography Fundamental - Favourite typo poster

I'm regret that i chose Trebuchet as the font i like, prefered Georgia, Museo or Century gothic...
Well, anyway sem's over and who cares? haha

Digital Media - Flash animation & Interfaces

Erm... i won't upload the SWFs files, coz im afraid it will takes time to load.
Approx. file size is 18MB, on another case is, im too lazy to change the URLs and link the interface pages again.. hehe..
Well, i just screenshot all the interface pages into JPEG.
Was kinda regret i chose this concept, it's hard to give any message.
Anyway, i learnt a lot of Action script 3 and it's making me a machine.. lol

CGPP - Boardgame design

*Ugh* im stressed up by this project.
It is printed using offset printer, and cost about RM 90 for the proofs and prints. So the whole class give their files to a middleman who will print this to the supplier. Unfortunately, i got a problem, an utterly stressful problem. It will bored up this post if i tell it the whole story. Fortunately, it was solved *sigh*

Design Method 1 - Project 3 Man and Machine

(takes time to load, size is 3,4 MB. Go take some chips and tea first =D)

Flash interactive design interpreting what is a machine with some metaphors usage.
planned to do more than this, but deadline's bound it.

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Most time i spent on the softwares i used this sem:
Adobe Illustrator CS4 = 40% => CGPP owns :S
Adobe Flash CS4 = 30%
Adobe Photoshop CS4 = 15%
Adobe Soundbooth CS4= 7%
Adobe Acrobat = 5%
Microsoft Word = 3%

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Currently playing Dragonica to fill up my holiday.
Nice game with adorable style, and neat interface. (definité a dope!)
Kinda doing *research* on the story and elements for future uses ^_^

*im playing at Elga server hehe

And for this holiday, i need to margin up my files and do something else other than slacking infront of my crappy laptop.

Check this out!

2009-07-15T19:00:00.002+08:00

Andy Fould's great websites:
Portfolio
Screentoys

Design Method 1 - Website Interface Design

2009-07-12T04:06:00.010+08:00

Well, from the logo Kosmik Punk, i decided to use a vinyl toy for the branding.
Here is some definition about my product : Designer toys
I combined photo montage and vector style.

So here is my 1st interface design:

Mainpage

Gallery Page

D.I.Y page

Another set using "Cosmic Punk"
The product is telescope, so i use the outer space as the theme to relate with it.
This is the 2nd interface:

Mainpage

Mainpage rollover

Zooming to the product page

Product Page

Facts page

Disclaimer note: All of the interface above are for college assignment purpose.
Not for any commercial work. If you want to ask any question, you can put a comment below or email me at : clairde_klaibournne@yahoo.com / clairde.k@gmail.com

Typography fundamental : CTT Final

2009-07-05T18:11:00.005+08:00

After critique last wednesday, SK chose the poster and website layout she like and told me to finalize it using consistent color and fixing minor alignment, spelling and grammar mistakes. So here is the final typo poster :

Website Interface:

(Enterpage)

(Mainpage)

(News Page)

(Photos Page)

Design Method 1 - Matrix development

2009-07-02T04:09:00.013+08:00

Design method 1 project 2 - Matrix development
Logo Design based on my mindmap which was chosen 3 phrases from it:

"Cosmic Punk / Kosmik Punk"
"Cosmic Pillow"
"Fluid Soul"
Basically we need to design the chosen phrase with the relevant mood and meaning that is related to word.

On further development and critiques, the chosen phrases is "Cosmic Punk and Fluid Soul"

So, this is my designs:

Typography fundamental : CTT (progress)

2009-06-28T04:23:00.020+08:00

Typograhy fundamental's lecturer is Siew Khian
She assigned us to make a CTT (Communication Through Type)

Basically CTT is like deriving the mood and meaning of a specific word.
Either to do new music band album or new movie release poster using pure typography
We can choose either to do existing or create new music band/movie as the *client*
and i picked existing music band for it.
Hence i chose Angels and Airwaves (AVA)

The artwork created here is for assignment purpose only, Its FAKE!!!

After few weekly critique and brainstormings, i picked my word for the title for AVA's fake new album which is "Doppelganger"

Doppelganger means a "A ghostly double or counterpart of a living person."

Therefore i applied my typeface design using symetrical arrangement to show the duality of Doppelganger. Plus, with gradient to show a fading characteristic of a ghost.

CTT1 = Title design
CTT2 = Poster design (using CTT1)
CTT3 = Website interface (using CTT1 as well)

Here are my posters (CTT2):
(SK prefer a simple designs and she restricted us to use graphics...
(Must be pure typo)
*And more, she preferred us to use 1 font only...
These restrictions is killing me :S

Typeface design and body text using Adobe Caslon Pro font.

Poster 1:

Poster 2:

Poster 3:

Poster 4:

Poster 5:

Poster 6:

Poster 7:

Poster 8:

Poster 9:

Webpages:
Grid1:

Grid2:

Design Method 1 : Project 1 : Visual Exploration

2009-06-03T02:40:00.008+08:00

Illustration :

2nd Media: School Lockers

Graphic Style:

2nd Media: Time Magazine

Digital Effects:

Theme : Competition

2nd Media: CD Cover + CD Disc

Please critique! Me want some feedbacks :D

Are you witty?

2009-05-24T03:02:00.010+08:00

Solve this case :

One day, The King of Egypt wanted to celebrate his birthday.
He invited a famous wandering bard to entertain him, named Farvian.
Bards are known for their skills on understanding words and produce beautiful poems while playing music.

So, the King challenge him to enter a chamber, which has a secret on it.
He will prize Farvian for a wife and treasures.
Farvian dared himself and accept King's challange.
So he went to the chamber, and walk upon the mazes.
At the end of the labyrinth, he found a golden door, and a sign attached 1 meter away from the door.

The sign looks like this:

He dont understand about this sign so he ignored it, and walk forward to the door. When he opened the door, there is a room full of golden treasure and pleasure, but he was fainted, hard to breath, and died.

The King was upset, and he is searching for a witful person...
Why he was dead?

HINTS: Observe the texts on the sign. Adobe Photoshop will help :P

Kustom Flava

2009-05-07T23:05:00.005+08:00

*click to enlarge

Just vectoring in a free time
Pretty simple at the gas mask :(
Arghh.. need to study more figure studies!!

Nu no.

2009-05-07T15:42:00.003+08:00

Today finally went back to malaysia,
and here is my new mobile number: 017 2525 906
now... get back to cleaning room =_="

Don't believe to my hp.no if it sent messages!!

2009-03-31T23:52:00.006+08:00

Last 26 march, my HP LOST!!! =(
Lost when i arrived at the LCCT airport, my HP was slipped out off my pocket, which i don't realized it after i get out of the taxi.
I was panicked, then i phone using public phone. I phoned my HP, my parent's HP(but it is unreachable), trying to call my brother's hp (But i forgot his no. =.=")
Sadly, as far as i remembered, my phone is in silent. Then i proceed to the ticket check in, and airport stuffs...

After a flight of anxiety, then i told my father to phone the taxi driver. The taxi driver is a good guy, my family always call him when we need to be fetched to airport. The thing is, the taxi driver have a passenger after me. He mentioned that the passenger is from Myanmar. And now it's getting tough, It is hard for a taxi driver to go ask a foreigner in a reason to check for a handphone lost. So, in this case no chance to get back my HP. It is my mistake, as im a bit clumsy at that time.

From now on, (60)17 3450 960 is HISTORY! Don't receive call from him, or take any message from him, coz the Unknown guy is playing and tricking using my HP no.!
in a meantime, if you want to contact my HP no. in Indonesia, u can contact by this number: (+62)818 09 565 666

PS: Be careful of ur belongings for everybody before leaving taxi, bus or any other public transport..

anyway, to relieve my stress about it, i went to this simply-simple-cool-addicting game :
Dust Game

Half-dreamt Shelter

2009-03-25T02:27:00.008+08:00

Perspective Study final project submission.
I know its kinda too late to post, but i posted it coz i dont have anything to do now.. lol

Bored and tired of games... internet line sucks, so well, i upload this.. The deadline is last week, but as i saw many of my classmates uploads their perspective drawings, so it does trigger me to post also :P

Sadly, i rushed this piece and lots of mistakes there, such lightings and shadows. If i can travel back time 3 weeks from now, i will change the lightings to infront of the house. Quite regret to do the bungalow drawing in evening time, as it is too dark...

Too rushed within 2 days, that i lost some of the details.. the trees were not meant to be scribbles like that... no furniture inside the bungalow (still new bungalow XP)
shadow and reflected lights problems..lack of lights in the reflection, and so on... and so on..

Malacca Trip!!

2009-03-16T23:52:00.012+08:00

14th March, 2009
I woke up at 7.00 AM in a hurry, as we should gather at 7.30 in the bus stop across Sunway Pyramid. I was accompanied by slight rain, which chills me that morning. Arrived at the bus stop and waited my friends there. After quite a long wait, we take the bus at 8.30 to Puduraya station. Arrived there, we gathered around, and waited again for the Bus to come. At 9.30 We cao from there. I slept abt 75 min in the bus.

-Attendants:
-Me
-Duy
-Nicholas
-Steve
-Jena
-Guo Dong
-Justin
-Gene
-Cheh Yi
-Dorothy

After we arrived at Malacca, the scorching sun blanketed us. Such a hot and tiresome day, that we walked from the bus station to the Jonker Street (O_O") apprximately 4-5KM!

Dehydrated and crippled, we decided to find some drinks and rest for a while.

Buying Mata Kuching ^^ for 1RM

Lets go on!

Rest for a while :)

All of us starves for lunch, and we stopped on a small depot. I don't know what is the food we ate last time called, what I know that it is a stew of meat, tofu, intestine, liver, and so on. Do taste a bit like bak kut teh..(=_=")

Waiting for the dish to come

Then, we continue to walk around the jonker street..

Photo infront of a chinese paper cutting craft shop

Photo infront of a craft shop

Then, we continue walked to go near the canal

All of us walked under the dry sun

Inspite of the heat, we still have spirit! :D

Steve with his V-cam

Jena with her new camera ^.^ lol

What happen to duy? lol

We spot a mudskipper, and steve dared to record the mudskippy, one prod he'll ended up in a wet clothes :P

At the .... (dunno the name) ship, hehe, Its windy up here!
We (accidentally illegally) enter to the ship, saves 3 RM for it XP

Finally, we eat at Baba's House.. a Nyonya Cuisine.. (Sry for the shaky pic)
Moderate taste for my taste bud :) We ends our feast at 5.30PM

I dont shoot myself with my cam, didnt feel as narcistic as old days XP

The Bus to go back KL is in 6.00 PM! We were scared that we could be late..
We walk rushed to the bus station. Neither a taxi nor a bus we spot, so we rush to walk back! This means we walk back to the bus station for another 5KM?!
We managed to find 1 taxi, But as the ran near to the taxi, a bus approached, Without any pause, we get inside. Haha! Such a fortune... lol!
At the bus station, we are prepared to go back, so we enter the bus. All of us arrived back at KL at 9PM. I arrived at my house at 10.20PM, and then opened facebook, dArt, and others.. Then at 1AM play dota with Justin! lol..haha..

Culturati Polity

2009-03-06T01:18:00.008+08:00

*click for larger view

Yea, this is my Silkscreen Design for Visual Communication...
West meets east...
Both figure above is Joker Jester and Wayang Kulit (Arjuna)
Arjuna uses Art nouveau pattern, while Jester uses Batik pattern
Both are puppets, used to criticize / talk about politics while they are performed.

Fusion between the composition of the puppets playing the each other culture (Arjuna plays marionette & Jester play wayang kulit)
Fusion between the pattern, Batik & Art Nouveau

I entitled it as Culturati Polity
Culturati : People who loves art & culture
Polity : Politics
So, the concept of my silkscreen is "People merged into others' culture, by art and politics"

I decided it to do in A3 size, although actually wanted it in A2 or A1 (still inexperienced X( ) Going to be printed in a poster format, although i wanted it in puzzle pieces... coz the price of the empty blank puzzle pieces is damn expensive...@_@. 1 color theme, as it will be easier for a poster production (and saves time :>)

SOOO DAMNNN annoyed doing this piece, got a lot of details, which makes hard to be removed after been photo-emulsified. These thin lines kills me.. Redo ing all times T_T. Test prints didn't give any good result, as the screen pores is too big for paper i think? Tried on cloth, but neither gave me a relief... lol

Inspirative Links

2009-03-01T02:21:00.006+08:00

- Unique and crazee news, gadgets and stuffs (Must see!)

- Photoshop manipulation (Must see!)

- Cool designs & Portfolios

- Cool stuffs & gadgets

- Designs archive

- DIY instructions

- Ads,ads,ads

- Urban designs

- Art & Culture designs

Above are links that inspire me a lot, or well, i could say, those webs kill my eyes infront of PC for quite a long time.

Interactive Interface Design - The Flying Dutchman (Animated Loading Page)

2009-02-23T00:42:00.013+08:00

Animated Loading Page..
Sry if it is too fast XD

Interactive Interface Design - The Flying Dutchman

2009-02-19T05:52:00.022+08:00

This is my interactive interface design project from a legend called "The Flying Dutchman".

Loading page - 20 %

Loading page - 60 %

Loading page - 95 %

Main page, appear a guide to help you navigate (The Captain)

Sidescrolled-image (if you drag the navigation wheel, the background will be side scrolled.

If you roll over to the menu, the image will directly go to the object that you point.

" The Bargin Barge "
Is the name for the game in my Interface Design, This part is after the game finished, An option to choose to replay or continue. The movement of the game is controlled by dragging the steer only.
So, the breadcrumbs are located at the right side, so that user can go back directly to previous stories. Sadly i can't put it on the right side or top side... as it don't have enough space to put.

" The Awakening of The Cursed "
This part is where the Captain met the ghost, after he swore to the storm.
User are opt to chose the story line, to fire the ghost or beg for mercy.

" Aftermath "
Ending part, at the end, you are noted a moral lesson from the story. There is also a link below the story, so that you can go back directly to the main page, it is more "friendly" rather than to go to the menu bar at the left side.

Stop motion - Carousel

2009-02-09T20:16:00.006+08:00

Visual communication group work project, on making a stopmotion video. Our video is based on Yuan's story about carousel.

Our group members:
-Me
-Steve
-Yuan
-Nemo
-Gene

Please Comment here for our video. Thanks :D

Color pallettes :-D

2009-02-03T19:02:00.013+08:00

Thumbs :

Final Icons and Wallpaper Outcome

2009-02-01T21:07:00.010+08:00

So, this is my final outcome after some refinements.

VECTOR ICONS:

After few refinements, i felt that the vector icons is lacking of something, so i decided to put back the wayang hand, because the it gives more "presenting" feeling. And also, the hand of wayang is the important part of the wayang kulit performance.

WALLPAPERS:

Changed the second wallpaper, more larger, and more focused, changed the glow color, and refine a bit on the outlines and

Survey :

Thx :D

Wallpaper Design

2009-02-01T02:31:00.006+08:00

This is my wallpaper design for the Mobile Interface.
On the left hand side, represent that a wayang puppeteer, must feel the same soul with the wayang that he play.

The right hand side, it invites people to see Indonesia, by using the shadow play of the wayang.

Please fill the survey below and comment about it, thx!

GUI Test - Iphone

2009-01-30T01:28:00.007+08:00

This is the Graphical User Interface Test of my vector icons with the wallpaper. The wallpaper doesn't look very nice though, coz I-Phone screen size is 480×320 px,while the wallpaper requirement size is 180 xW 180.

What do you think? is it recognizeable?

Vector Icons - Wayang Kulit (Part 2)

2009-01-29T17:29:00.007+08:00

New vector icons, refined and simplified version of the 1st set. Pls comment whether it is better or not?

Raster Icons - Wayang Kulit

2009-01-28T23:00:00.007+08:00

This is my Raster Icons set of Wayang Kulit theme. All of the colors are using web colors.
Tried to use brown as the background color, but the object is not visible. So i use teal color as the background as to make the object and the wayang kulit more stand out.

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Vector Icons - Wayang Kulit (Part 1)

2009-01-26T16:07:00.015+08:00

This is my Wayang Kulit - themed Vector Icons, I need some critiques and comments about it, If you have any suggestion, please share your opinion via the questionnaires below. Your participation is appreciated.

The 1st icons set doesn't look very compact for mobile phones, so i decided to reduce the highlights and make the wayang more smaller compared to the represented objects.
Changed the colors to make it more focused. It just change "a bit more visible" when the fit into mobile phone icons

Please comment whether it is better than the previous one or not.

myDesktop

2009-01-13T02:01:00.006+08:00

So here is what my workplace looks like, it is edited though :P
Just bored and decided to play around with my tablet,
done roughly about 1.5 hrs... and it does look rough...
Hope this will make my webpage more "live" :D

10 Things That Represents About Me

2009-01-07T18:00:00.001+08:00

That describe me, You can know more about me from my msn :
clairde_klaibournne@yahoo.com