Taste of Art

Rantai Art Event

2008-11-13T21:33:00.000-08:00

Well, it's an event that me and my classmates probably will participate. Everyone else interested? :)

calling all entry for RANtAi ART EVENT 2008

RANtAi ART EVENT menjemput kepada mereka yang berminat untuk terlibat dalam acara seni yang akan berlangsung pada hujung tahun ini. iaitu pada 12, 13, dan 14 december 2008. Fine art kepada Seni reka, Fotography kepada Kraf, Seni Visual kepada Seni Persembahan adalah produk dari kreativiti manusia. Tiba masanya untuk mempamerkan seni, menjual seni dan apa jua yang berkaitan dengan seni pada akhir 2008 nanti di ( M.I.A ) No.153, Malaysian Institute of Arts's Red Bungalow Jalan Ampang Behind KLCC's Pelita Nasi Kandar . RANtAi ART EVENT adalah acara seni yang akan dijalankan oleh kamu, untuk kamu.

Kenapa RANtAi ?
Ia adalah symbol pertalian dalam salah satu kehidupan kita, dalam apa jua yang kita lakukan. Seni memainkan peranan yang penting sama ada kita sedar ataupun tidak. Ia adalah sambungan yang tidak akan berhenti begitu saja. Oleh itu, RANtAi mahu memberikan peluang kepada penggiat seni di luar sana sama ada mereka sedar atau tidak bahawa kita adalah di bawah satu talian yang sama.

ENTRY YANG DIBUKA UNTUK RANtAi ART EVENT 2008

- ART EXHIBITION "REVELATION"
- ART INSTALlATION
- ART BOOTH
- ACOUSTIC PERFORMANCE AND LIVE BAND PERFORMANCE
- SHORT FILM SCREENING

KEPADA MEREKA YANG BERMINAT SILA SUBMIT SEBELUM 30 NOVEMBER 2008

HOW TO JOIN THIS EVENT.. its simple like korek idong

- ART EXHIBITION

tajuk exhibition kali ini ialah "REVELATION"
- send ur profile
- contact number
- size artwork yang nak di submit adalah bebas
- jumlah piece yang nak hantar pun adalah bebas kerana kami akan select setiap artwork yang anda hantar
- semasa penghantaran artwork di lakukan kami akan cuba bertanya anda ttg artwork anda
- tarikh terakhir untuk submit artwork ialah 30 / 11 / 08

UNTUK ENTRY INI ANDA HARUS MENGHANTAR EMAIL KEPADA : rantai.gallery@gmail.com

- ART INSTALLATION

- hantar profile anda
- contact number
- sketch installation yang ingin di lakukan
- masa sesi hantar sketch tue anda di minta menerangkan ttg installation anda..
- segala keputusan dan pilihan dari pihak kami adalah selepas tarikh 30 / 11 / 08

UNTUK ENTRY INI ANDA HARUS MENGHANTAR EMAIL KEPADA : rantai.gallery@gmail.com

- ART BOOTH

- send profile booth anda / diri anda
- contact number
- foto barangan yang hendak di jual
- penerangan ttg barangan yang hendak di jual
- tarikh last submit nama adalah 30 / 11 / 08

# anda boleh menelipon KURY untuk bertanya tentang booth 012-5456656

Work Updates

2008-11-11T06:28:00.000-08:00

Whoa! Been a long time since I update this blog! Btw, this term we got lots of interesting subjects. So here's some of my work for this term.

1. Motion Graphic

A typography motion graphic, we must express the audio using typography. Audio originally from here.

2. Advanced Digital Media
For now I'll just update for these 2, will update again later! :D

Not A Personal Blog

2008-11-04T07:58:00.000-08:00

Btw, seems like many people mistaken this blog as my personal blog. Well, it is not. I use this blog for anything related to my design work. For my personal blog, it's here: Private Territory

Mobil Website Interface - Semi Final

2008-07-09T14:38:00.001-07:00

Please give me comments about these layouts! :)

Mobil Website Interface

2008-06-18T12:33:00.001-07:00

Another interface for Mobil, to build the trust image for Mobil, I try to make the website interface resembled a research folder. Mobil user in Malaysia mostly are mature audience where they choose Mobil because they trust that Mobil have the best quality oils. I use research folder to make audience understand the Mobil keep doing research to give the best to their customer.
Please give me comments to make it better! ;)

Portrait/Lighting Photography

2008-06-15T08:34:00.000-07:00

First time using the studio for photography. Even though got some problem with the lighting, the photoshoot run quite smoothly. Thanks to Thomas for being my model!

Websites With Good Typography

2008-06-03T08:02:00.000-07:00

1. Switch On

The thing that I like about this website is their clever use of icon in their typography. Even though the letter changed into another object, we still be able to know what the word they want to say here. Simple yet clean and clear, the typography make it easier for user to read. To emphasize/differentiate few parts they either use another color or make the fonts become bold.

2. TAVI

The typography of this simple website catch my attention because of their use of color and different weight in their typography. The different color giving "levels" to each words, make it easy for user to "categorize" the word. The color use also not boring, with pink as the highlight of the usual boring black gray.

3. Simplify Your Work - Microsoft Office

I think in this website the fonts really reflect the theme of simplicity, using handwritten style fonts. The color use of typography also nice, showing clearly the levels. The fonts that they choose even though it's a handwritten style still easy to read.

4. Lectures on Architecture
Nice simple use of typography, especially on the top of the page. Nice, interesting color combination and nice choice in fonts.

5. International Street and Open Air Theatres Festival

This interesting website that only have words inside really play well with typography. Even though all the content are words without images, user still feel curious to browse around the website. The play with typography also very nice, they differentiate the colors, fonts, and size to different "levels" to make us easy to see and differentiate each word's function.

Executive Summary - Mobil

2008-06-03T07:48:00.000-07:00

Considering Mobil's purpose to give information not only for customer but also to distributor and business in their website, I'll make the shortcut more visible for each audience (motorists, distributors, businesses). For now the shortcut is very not noticeable, to make it more noticeable I'll use icons and buttons to represent the categories.

There's some misleading information in the current website that make user become confuse, I'll remove those unimportant and confusing part to make user's experience in the website become better and easier.

For the appearance, there will be more interactive flash navigation to make the website become fresher and it'll add curiosity of the audience. The website also will given more solid border/container, current website looks disintegrate and individual-ish.

Competitor Analysis

2008-05-28T08:21:00.000-07:00

Well, so for Web Design 2 project I will redesign the website for Mobil. First I will find out about their competitor and analyze their advantage and disadvantage. The three competitors are Petronas, Shell, and Caltex.

1. Petronas

Petronas is a local oil company in Malaysia. The target audience are families and they shows support to families by being a sponsor for family education. They also stabilize their image as a leading local oil company that care about local audience.

The advantage of Petronas is their status as a local oil company that owned by government. Automatically they get more advantages than other oil company in Malaysia. Beside that they also will be trusted more by locals.

The disadvantage is their product range, Mobil have more product range than Petronas.

For the website, Petronas website using simple 2 framed website. Even though the navigation is quite clear, but the title for each navigation link is quite confusing, for example the "People" page. I think the title can make user confuse, what is the "people" here means? The content for that page actually about career opportunity in Petronas. Their sitemap instead of guiding people in viewing their website, they make user even more confuse by using thumbnails without any description on it. The link list also very brief and don't give user any information about the actual site map. The design is still acceptable, but needs more work on user-friendliness.

2. Shell

Shell is the United States-based affiliate of Royal Dutch Shell, a multinational oil company of Anglo Dutch origins, which is amongst the largest oil companies in the world.

Their target audience are younger people like teenager to working adult. We can see how they try to attract more younger costumer by having an online game about Shell oil in their website.

The advantage of Shell company is they have more petrol station than Mobil in Malaysia, their petrol station are easier to find or accessed. They also have campaign about environmental friendly oil that attract many people especially environmentalist.

The disadvantage is Shell has less product range compared to Mobil. While mobil has many types of lubricant, shell only has few types of it.

Shell website using simple 2 part where the left is for navigation and right for content. Their website also quite consistent, with same header, footer, and navigation for each page. Overall the design is simple and nice enough, but the website still feels boring even though there's online game as highlight.

3. Caltex
Caltex is a petroleum brand name of Chevron Corporation, used in more than 60 countries in the Asia Pacific region, the Middle East, and southern Africa.

The target audience for Caltex are more to adult and working adult. They potray more formal and professional but still friendly service in their website.

The advantage are the bonus that costumer receive when they buy fuel from Caltex. It will make costumer keep going to Caltex for fuels.

The disadvantage is that Caltex less renowed that Mobil.

Corporate Website Analysis - Miss Selfridge

2008-05-20T09:53:00.000-07:00

Miss Selfridge
http://www.missselfridge.com/

Main Page

Product Sale Page

Product info page

Miss Selfridge is a UK clothing/fashion brand that usually has feminine design. In this website user not only can see products information but also can purchase those products from this website. Because this website purpose mainly for online shopping, the information given in this website also more related for user to purchase the products like delivery charge, log in to account, payment method, etc.

The structure of this page is simple and easy to navigate, mainly consist of header and footer that always the same in every page and content page where the left side always be the navigation and the right side as the content area. The thing that I notice in the navigation area is how the links will expand if we click on certain area that has more sub pages.

Before

After

There also option to find/buy products by size so the customer don't need to waste their time if actually for certain products there's no suitable size. All categories also clearly indicate the content of the page, so it's easy to find specific product that customer want. Beside that there also search engine of customer need to find certain kind of products that they want.
The product page basically consist of thumbnails of the products where if customer interested they can view more picture and information of the products.

Grid System

Corporate Website Analysis - Philips

2008-05-20T08:57:00.000-07:00

PHILIPS
http://www.philips.com.my/

PHILIPS' Main Page

Television Page

Sub Page of Television - Flat TV/LCD Page

PHILIPS is a company that sells electronic stuff like television, audio products, lighting and many other electric products. In this website they give lots of information to customer about their products. Even though they have wide range of products, it's still easy for user to search for the products that they want because they already categorized all information into their own categories. There also search engine to make it even easier. Not only that, there also the company information about their history, company profile, design, research, etc for other user that want find other information beside the products.

For the structure this website have the same main structure for all website, there always the same header and footer, only a bit difference in content area that mainly divided into two parts. In main page the content area divided into two parts, in right side we can see list of products categories while in left side there's image links that featuring their featured products.

In the product area (eq. television) in the content area the right side consist of more sub-pages links for television categories, while in the left side there's a bit information about their feature products that if we click will bring us to more specific page and the most recent products that PHILIPS produced.

In more specific page like in flat TV page, user can easily find the TV they want by using the left side navigation to put specific criteria of products that they want. I think it's so effective so user don't need to see all products information one by one but just directly put specifically the product criteria that they want.

Overall the website quite clean and easy to navigate, there's some image links for featured products so user will more interested in clicking those image links.

Grid System

Corporate Website Analysis - UNICEF

2008-05-20T08:22:00.000-07:00

UNICEF
http://www.unicef.org/

Main Page of UNICEF.org

What We Do section

Sub page from What We Do

UNICEF website got so many information, to manage those informations they categorized information depends on the topic and then later elaborate more in more specific area. Mainly the website structure is consist of header, content that divided into 4, and footer. In all pages they never change the header and footer, only the content are that change.

This website also maintain the corporate color, blue and white with yellow as highlight. With such a big information in website, it will be hard for user to find the information that they want, so in this website they solve the problem by providing search engine. Also because UNICEF is a very famous non-profit international organization, they also provide many different languages for this website.

Website's Grid System

Scanogram

2008-05-19T09:22:00.000-07:00

Finally I finish this assignment, a bit disappointed because I can't execute my main idea. Actually I want to scans many different bottles with different colored liquid inside, but don't know why the colors turn out bad T.T So I did my back up plan instead, black against black.

dance with me

light of prophecy

Healing Therapy Website

2008-05-14T10:59:00.001-07:00

Finished this website yesterday, but only make the screenshot today :p
The layout basically not much different from the first layout that I do at class, just a bit adjustment on size, color mood and images. Finished this approximately 2hours and 50ish minutes T.T
I'll try my best to do as fast as I can, but that's the fastest that I can do :(

Index Page

Lavender Therapy Products Page

Green Tea Therapy Products Page

Wow, this experience of quick designing really made me panic in doing my work. But I know that it's important to work fast, sometimes out deadline can be very near.
The thing that I did to shorten my working time:
- Not putting many CSS codes
- Using simple style of design
- Same layout for every pages
- Move my hand and brain as quick as I can
- Not putting many effects on design
I don't know if my way of shortening my working time is good or not, but those are the things that I did to help me anyway @_@

Workbook

2008-04-07T01:47:00.000-07:00

Those are stuff you must put in your workbook:

Mission Statement (your 'mission' for this project)
Executive Summary (About you website)
Rational & Concept (explain)
Flowchart
Ganttchart (if any)
Moodboard
Screenshot
Research
Grid System
Sketches
Outline
Bibliography

The Recyclist Final

2008-04-02T08:27:00.001-07:00

Finally my website for 2nd project finished! So here's some screenshot of it :)

WebDesign I Progress for Project 2

2008-03-18T14:26:00.000-07:00

I need sleep now @.@

WebDesign I Progress

2008-03-17T03:51:00.000-07:00

I reformatted my pendrive because there's a virus that my stupid anti-virus can't detect =.= I think I've already back up all the files inside. WRONG. I lost my web design folder T.T I thought I've got the copy already in my hard disk. But I stupidly do my assignment directly from pendrive last week T.T But I still need to redo anyway :( So here's my main page~
Comment please :)
Btw, some randomness I want to share here XD Been browsing in some fashion blogs and I encounter some interesting stuff.
Guess what?
Mary-Jane shoes cross breed with tea cup!

Miu Miu Tea Cup Mary Jane

Expressionist painting cross breed with tulle dress

Dolce and Gabbana Hand Painted green tulle dress

Watercolor painting dress

Rodarte, Zac Posen, Josh Goot, Jeremy Laing watercolor dress

Navigation Research

2008-03-04T08:26:00.000-08:00

1. Mozilla
I think I like this website. The navigation is very clear, the design also very clean. Really easy for me to find what I want. The first page show us big icons and links to the newest browser and add ons, straight to the point to promote their products. I think that also because usually what user want when they go to software website is to download the software or plug ins, so they directly put the link there to make user can easily download their stuff. They also do not just give the links to download, but also provide small link about the product details, in case user want to know more about the product. The top navigation also straight to the point, easy to see.

When I go to the products page, there's two icons of the product in the middle of the page as the navigation to more specific page for each product. Below the title there's breadcrumbs navigation that shows the "depth" of the page.
For page with more content, there's sub navigation where all content being listed. The depth of the content showed by indent.

For even more content like page for developer, it lead us to somewhat micro site with more focus in its topics. There's navigation using tabs for the main topics, sub navigation at left hand side for sub topics, and normal text links for more specific topics.
Overall the site have very good and clear navigation. Each page maintains the consistency like the top navigation and breadcrumbs navigation. For page with many content they separate it and make it have its own specific page.

WebDesign Project 2 progress

2008-03-03T07:32:00.000-08:00

Well, I try to research again for my Project 2, here's some interesting website about recycling
http://www.recycle.co.uk/
http://www.recycle-more.co.uk/
http://www.recyclenow.com/
http://www.recycleforlondon.com/

Mostly the website using table and got corporate looks. Main color as usual is green, except for http://www.recycle.co.uk/ where the color mostly orange with a bit green there. But I still prefer green though, the color orange makes me think more about global warming than recycle. Looking at those websites makes me think that here we don't really practice recycling stuff, while in overseas, especially in Europe and Japan, recycling stuff is quite popular (in Japan it more to must though).

Also some website about paper recycling:
http://www.paperretriever.com/
http://www.cmu.edu/greenpractices/recycling/paper.html
http://www.recycling-guide.org.uk/paper.html
http://www.tappi.org/paperu/welcome.htm

From there I got some interesting facts:

It is possible to achieve significant reductions in the cost of buying office paper by reducing paper use and reusing paper where possible.
Eliminating office from waste may reduce waste bills by as much as 50%.
Making new paper from old paper uses 30% to 55% less energy than making paper from trees and reduces related air pollution by 95%.
Each day American businesses generate enough paper to circle the globe at least 40 times!
77% of paper waste generated in offices is recyclable.
Typical business offices generate about 1.5 pounds of waste paper per employee each day.
Nearly half of typical office paper waste is high grade office paper.
Recycling one ton of paper typically saves about 6.7 cubic yards of landfill space. A cubic yard of stacked office paper weighs about 380 pounds. Cost savings may be estimated by multiplying the tons recycled by 6.7 times the cost per cubic yard for waste disposal (if by volume) of by cost per ton (if by weight).
Commercial and residential paper waste accounts for more than 40% of waste going to the landfill. Eliminating this paper from our waste would nearly double the lives of current landfills.
Newspaper is recycled into newspaper, game boards, egg cartons, gift boxes, animal bedding, insulation, and packaging material.
Office paper is recycled into office paper, tissue paper, paper towels, and toilet paper.
Corrugated cardboard is recycled into new cardboard and cereal boxes.

From there I started making some analysis about what I want to do for my design:

Promote recycle paper
Make user understand how important recycling is
Make it fun, not too corporate. Some website that I visited got Interesting content, but the visual wise it's not so nice. But some corporate looking website like Recycle Guide still can make it interesting.
Show how to recycle paper
Show what can we do to the recycle paper
Target audience are teenager and young adults
Create mascot/logo, to make the website easier to remember

Some analysis for the logo:

Promote recycling
Green color
The shape of recycle triangle
Friendly looking logo

So here's the logo:
For the website I still want to use the concept that explain to audience that every paper that they use is the same as a piece of wood, that's why they must recycle paper, to reduce the amount of wood/tree that been cut just for a piece of paper.
OK, so far that's it my research for this project, will update later after I finished designing my interface! :)

T-Shirt design for Typography

2008-03-02T08:27:00.001-08:00

My design for typo~ Please comment guys ;) I realy confuse in choosing color for the stamp. End up with the blue one. Actually I want the red one, but when I put there it's just... too much. So I stick with blue. The one with yellow and pink also like, but too funky and looks a bit gay on guy LOL.

And here's something a bit random... But Interesting! from movie V for Vendetta that I watch last night (I know the movie kinda old, but I just watched it las night anyway :p)

Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is it vestige of the vox populi, now vacant,vanished, as the once vital voice of the verisimilitude now venerates what they once vilified. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin van-guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose vis-à-vis an introduction, and so it is my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.

LOL... count how many V that he said! :p

Moodboard

2008-02-25T11:26:00.000-08:00

Website Review

2008-02-16T06:56:00.000-08:00

Martha Steward

Very organized website with noticeable page description that help us to identify our position. Each page have the same style, only different color themes for each categories. Sub categories have the same color theme with parent categories that tell us we're still in the same categories, but if we click to a sub category, I found it hard to go to another sub category; we must go back to parent page first. At the bottom of the page there's many links that help us choose our destination.
Even though the navigation is quite okay, I quite confuse in reading the content because it good too many more section inside the page, when actually the user want to find some tutorials instead of galleries or many other section.
Delight
Simple navigation, but makes me confuse where I am in because the page do not really have any title to let us know where I am except for little triangle under the button. Mostly what I can see here are just items with their price, there's alo discussion link where user can discuss/review the items. When I click the discussion button, suddenly I'm in blog section where user comment on the blog entry. The good thing in this website that I like is they got search button that help user to find the stuf that they want to buy. Also the right navigation divided items into some categories that help user find the item they want. When I click the item it will me to a page that will describe the item, bigger photos, and some review. I think that's a helpful information for user to know more about the item that they want.
At the bottom there's some button that let us know which kind of payment that accepted there.
Netdiver
I like the simple and clean design, especially the navigation. Links to other cool website divided into their own section, like illustration website, photography, etc. The hierarchy also quite good, started from the banner, then the links below banner, and then the black buttons below the text link. The think that I don't really like is the title of the page. Sometimes I don't know where I am. The title text is small, and do not really describe the page. Good thing they have sitemap, or I'll lost. The page also TOO long, makes me tired scrolling my mouse :(

Deviantart
Good navigation with clean design, find it easy to go to certain page. The browse page also nice where we can find specific section for each artwork. And search button! I love big website with search button because it really help a user like me that easily get lost 8D The annoying thing is that sometimes there's full page ad if we're not a subscriber, but we can easily continue to next page though. New user also can easily become member, just by typing their desired username and voila! Become a new member 8D while existing user can easily log in from the any pages. Artwork thumbnailed neatly in tables, the color theme with only one hue do not make the website too crowded even though there's so many thumbnails there.

The Walk in flash!

2008-02-02T05:56:00.000-08:00

Finally, last Friday I finished my digital media 2 assignment for The Walk. Big thanks to Wahyu for helping me a lot in scripting and "modeling" ;p
View the flash here:
The Walk

Btw, I really want to say THANK YOU to Jo for extending our deadline for Web Design I. When I heard that she extent the deadline, I feels like something heavy on my shoulder lifted. Thank you so much Jo! ^________^ Also thanks to Sook Chiung for trying to cheer us up by showing the very interesting and funny animation. It really make my day :) It's like... finally there's a refreshment for the whole weeks! I feel my mood become lighter after I watch the animation. Also thanks for helping me in doing my design+the reassuring advice you give to me :)

And oh yeah, temporary design for my Project 1 in WebDesign I
OK, enough blogging for now. Must continue doing my typography assignment!

Mentally and Physically Tired

2008-02-01T08:27:00.000-08:00

I'm mentally and physically tired right now. And no, I'm not blaming any particular subject. But I will blame the overall crazy schedule. We really don't get enough sleep and rest for the last two weeks. I feel stressed, and I also can feel the tension in our class. We all are tired like dead.
Even in Friday we don't get any rest!

We need to rush for all assignment that for last two weeks we sleep at 4am++ then getting up early for morning class, go back home at 5-6pm++, sleep until 7-9pm, do assignment again until 4-5am, and the circle continue again and again. Even though we work like crazy we also still can't finish our assignment. If we are keep procrastinating our work and then can't finish it on time, I can understand, that our own fault. But now, we work everyday on our assignment, got the tension to create great idea, but we don't have enough time to even think, develop, and execute it.

I really am in my highest breaking point now. Last night we do Digital Media 2 until 6am, and then sleep for 6 hours. I think I get enough sleep already, but no, even with 6 hours sleep my head still banging like mad. I can't think clearly when I attend the class. Even worse when the class end up so late, about 7pm++, have dinner, walk home, it's already 9pm. I sleep for almost 3 hours but I can't sleep peacefully, even in my dreams I keep thinking about my assignment. Now I wake up, in denial to do my assignment. I just feel like skipping it and go to sleep. Yes, I got choice where I can sleep now, but too bad if I sleep I will have no time to finish my assignment later.

*sigh* I really am tired, and for now maybe I still can hold on, but I don't know if it's already in mid term. I guess we REALLY need exploration week to relax our mind later. It's good that for now we got Chinese New Year holiday to give us a break, but after the holiday surely we will facing even worse condition, and in this time is where we need exploration week. I don't know why TOA don't give us exploration week anymore, since without exploration week, it really is killing us.

The end note is... GIVE ME A BREAK!!! =___________=

Background of "The Walk"

2008-01-29T11:16:00.000-08:00

The background will looked like this, my character would be myself xD At first the character will walk, but the she will given options to drive card instead X3
Please tell me what do you think about the visual; comment, critique, and suggestions are welcome!

Typography for Digital Media

2008-01-28T06:11:00.001-08:00

Please let me know what you think about it :)
Not complete yet actually, still need some missing words :(

Random Post

2008-01-26T02:58:00.000-08:00

Just now I take a nap.
I dreamed I was in a Mamak place and try to order a drink.
The weird part is...
I'm trying to choose which drink I want and which drink I don't want using action script!
=.=

...

=.=

This semester really feels like crazy to me. At first I think it's because of the really busy schedule that we get. But when I think about it again, what really troubles me is that I don't have a strong will to do my assignment. I really don't know why. Even in 1st year 2nd term where I think the schedule is the craziest, I always have motivation when it comes to assignment. I feel bad, uninspired, and unmotivated this semester. Luckily this semester I spent many times doing assignment together with Chen and Selvia. It helps to motivate my working spirits, a bit. I don't know why I really can't get myself into the mood to work this semester. I hope my mood will back after Chinese New Year holiday though.

And about CNY, as if want to make my day worse and worse, I can't get ticket to go back to my hometown *sigh* I miss my family. But when I think about it again, maybe it'll be a good opportunity for me to do some introspections about my current condition when I'm alone his holiday.

Well, apart from my bad mood, I must agree that programming is interesting. Reminds me back in my high school days when I madly in love with html and start learning turbo pascal and c++(well, befriending a computer genius can do this to you). I still remember clearly about html, which is good because it'll help me in webdesign subject; but losing half of my turbo pascal and c++ knowledge =.= My turbo pascal knowledge is not as bad as c++ though, since I'ved learned it for 2 years, but that's the bad point, since as I remember action script 3.0 resembles c++ more that turbo pascal. Everytime I go to Digital Media 2 class I always hoped I bring my notes from my high school days so it helps me understand AS3 more. But the chance for me to go back to Indonesia is only on next term =.=

Btw, random doodle, dunno why this term I really like to draw this bunny again

So the epic continue...

2008-01-24T11:49:00.000-08:00

Well, seems like we're not over it yet. Now with Dee as the egg's mom, chicken!

What will happened if MM students gather in MSN...

2008-01-24T10:28:00.000-08:00

So this morning (2.40 am counted as morning right?) me, Selvia, Chen and Wahyu have conversation in MSN. At first we set up the conversation for discussion in Digital Media 2. After we got stress and lost our mood in doing assignment, something interesting started to happened...
So here goes the story =D

WebDesign I

2008-01-17T21:04:00.000-08:00

So past Wednesday we have brainstorming session, and from there I got some new ideas. I think we must do this again every week, it really helps ;) Even though I feel sooooo tired after the brainstorming session. We agreed to do some brainstorming session again next Monday to discuss about our moodboard. Speaking of moodboard, last night Chen come to our place to do it. Supposed to do since 10.00 but I overslept until 11 something :p Some more after that we eat and have a long chat, in the end we started to work at 1.00 LOL

We started to find references for our art direction, browsing many many illustration artist's website. I wish I have skill as good as those Illustrators, their work are very very interesting. I also do some research for the barn and cattle. For cattle no such luck though, still need more research. Dunno why when I search in DevianArt.com using the keyword "barn", the outcome are mostly nude photography in barn @_@

Well, here some illustration website that I like:
Steve Simpson
Chris Turnham
Miskellaneous
Judith Drews
David Michael
Two Fish Illustration
Take a look at their works! They're all so talented :) Maybe you guys can get more inspiration from there :)
Ahh need to go for Digital Media Class now~ See you later guys :)

Web Analysis

2008-01-14T03:04:00.000-08:00

1. DrawingArt // Listen, The Silence - Web Design and Development Studio
Okay, the first website that I want to review is DrawingArt, a website design studio. I like this website because it's so neat, easy to navigate and elegant. Since the first time I open it, I can see clearly the grid system in it. The navigation button also quite obvious, make us easy to navigate the site, very user friendly. I also liked the art direction that brings out elegance.
The grid system can be divided like I show below:

2. Wintuk

This website is a site for a drama performance. I really love the art direction, it's so interesting how the graphics looked like they've been drawn by crayons. The color theme also very nice, giving us cold feeling, like we really in winter season. The navigation also quite clear, have some interesting interactive like e-card, games, etc. Here's the grid system: 3. Checkland Kindleysides

The last one is the simplest among others, but it's interesting. It also got everything that I like in website: neat, clean, easy to navigate, elegant design. This website is a website of design company. I like how everytime we change the page, the cut out paper also will be different. And the animation also nice, like the screenshot I give above. The grid system also very clear, make is looks tidy but not boring.

Story for Project 1

2008-01-13T20:41:00.000-08:00

1. My first story is about cattles in a small village that get bored bcause they do the same job everyday. Chicken lay eggs, Cow produce milk or mow the lawn, etc. So one day, the cow have an idea about how to ease they boredom. They plan to held a sumo match at night, when their owner go to sleep. My site will have few section, like: home, story/about/explanation, dress
up/equipment/accesories, training diary, match, mini games. Mini games will contain another game, like guarding the match, make sure farmers/breeders do not know that their cattles having sumo match, etc.

2. The second story is quite similar with the first one, but here 12 chinese zodiac are the characters. Because I think if I do the first one, if the cattles do sumo match at night then in the morning they'll be tired... So I choose the 12 chinse zodiac as the subtitue..

3. The third story is about a boy that dreamed to become a sumo wrestler, so the website will contain his journey to reach his dreams. From where he got his motivation, his experience as a junior rikishi, his training, food consumption, first match, etc.

Well, I e-mailed these stories to Joe and Sook Chiung, and they choose the first story. What do you guys think? Give me some comment please! :)

First Post...

2008-01-09T05:41:00.000-08:00

First Post! Actually I've already have plan in mind to make a blog where I post my work here before, but lazy me never get it done. So I'm glad Joanne ask us to make a blog for the same purpose, make me finally move my lazy bum.
No any work to post yet, will post as soon as I can~
Please give me some feedback, will glad to get some :)

And I'm sorry if I'm confusing you guys with my writings, my English is not perfect, so just ask if anything I write confuse you ;)