Semester 1: Principles of Design - Greeting Cards (Final Assignment)

I regret for not posting the final post for Principles of Design or else my grade wouldn't be so bad but oh well it already past.

But! I'm still going to post it just because to make my blog more lively. Moreover, easier for my juniors to basically read through my blog posts.

Anyhow, on the last weeks of semester 1, we were given our final assignment and were asked to do 5 set of greeting cards. Miss Lisa asked us to sketch minimum 6 themes to show it to her so we can narrow it down to just 1 theme. For mine I chose the theme vintage clothing.

Here are my other idea sketches;

*to be uploaded by this week*

After choosing a theme, we were then asked to create 5 different celebration and use the theme as our design.

I chose;

1. Happy Halloween
2. Valentine's Day
3. Graduation Day
4. Baby Shower
5. Mother's Day

Here are my final work;

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[23/7/2013] Contextual Studies: Understanding the Word "Noir".

Mr. Charles gave us a task to describe the word noir.

Frankly speaking, I'm still quite confused with the word noir. Nevertheless, I'll try my best to describe the word.

Definition:

According to thefreedictionary.com

Noir;

• a genre of crime literature featuring tough, cynical characters and bleak settings.
• or just film noir.

In French, it literally means black.

It is mostly used in cinematic term to describe stylish crime dramas, emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations. Basically it is short for black in relation to those gore but not really gore situation. They said film noir's aesthetics were very deeply influence by German Expressionism during the 1940's-1950's era. Since noir means black, their film are all associated with a low-key black-and-white visual style. It was emerged in the United States during the Great Depression. In 1940's-1950's era, film noir are described as "melodrama".

Some examples of film noir;

• Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)
• Notorious (1946)
• The Wrong Man (1956)
• Bewitched (1945)
• On Dangerous Ground (1952)

Some pictures on noir;

References:

1. Neale, Steve., 2000. Genre and Hollywood. London and New York: Routledge. 
2. Vernet, Marc., 1993. "Film Noir on the Edge of Doom", in Copjec, Shades of Noir, pp. 1–31. 
3. Naremore, James., 2008. More Than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts. 2nd ed. 
4. Bould, Mark., 2005. Film Noir: From Berlin to Sin City. London and New York: Wallflower.
5. The Free Dictionary by Farlex. (2013). Noir. [online] Available at: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/noir [Accessed: 29 July 2013].
6. Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia. Film Noir. [online] (Updated 21 July 2013) Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_noir [Acessed: 29 July 2013]
7. Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia. List of Film Noir Titles. [online] (Updated 28 July 2013) Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_film_noir_titles [Acessed: 29 July 2013]
8. Adam Chitwood, 2012. Hotel Noir. [electronic print] Available at: http://collider.com/hotel-noir-image/ [Accessed 29 July 2013]
9. Altmix Photography, 2009. Jennifer & Morgan are Engaged!. [electronic print] Available at: http://www.altmixphotography.com/tag/film-noir-photography/ [Accessed 29 July 2013]

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[23/7/2013] Contextual Studies: About Me.

now playing: SHINee - Love Like Oxygen.

Hi /bows.
I don't have to introduce myself anymore since most of my classmates and lecturers knows me. I'm just here to say about myself in a "creative" way.

I may seem quiet to most of you guys but once you get to know me I'm as loud as a crow. Of course I have my own limitations, I can be REALLY loud and REALLY quiet. Maybe that is just my charms ;) I still don't know why I chose this design course. Frankly speaking, this wasn't my first choice, my first choice was Biotechnology but since I wasn't a Science student in high school, I somehow gave up. After that, I took interest in writing, so I was thinking Journalism. I started practising my writings by doing journals everyday. One day, while I was building an interior space for our computer lab in school using 3D Max software. I was the very first few to finish early that time, so then all my friends were like "hey you should do interior design. It should be good for you". Ever since they said that to me, I kept looking at my work and started to research about interior designing and I got very interested in it. Hence, me choosing Foundation in Design. Moreover, I think I have fetish for vintage stuff. I sometimes go overboard with it, like I'll tend to buy vintage stuffs when I could. The other day, I bought a polaroid camera but the modern version one of course (it's cheaper hehe), I was so into it, I kept touching it. I couldn't take a lot of pictures since I have to save the films as films are really expensive. Sadly, it got stolen buy 2 bastards (excuse my language) on a motorcycle. I got snatched on the last day of semester 1 (I was one of the unlucky ones) and injured myself. I'm still traumatized by that incident. Anyhow, I have this dream of buying an old type writer and put it in my own house when I have the money to buy it :D What keeps me going is music. I'm one of those girls who listen to, well you guessed it, Korean pop! BUT! Of course, I listen to American music but I am more to Korean music. Listening to these kind of music gives me confidence. I specially love listening to Korean Indie bands. It gives me these calm feels as if you're living somewhere far where there's no one to ruin the moment for you. Korean Hip-Hop music gives me the dancing vibe. It keeps me happy and makes me keep moving forward. CATS! I LOVE CATS! WHO DOESN'T RIGHT?! Oh boy do I love CATS! Just give me any type of cat, male, female, kitten, you name it and I'll be playing with them like nobody's business. I, myself, have 5 cats. All of them are there to keep me happy especially my own personal cat who is always ALWAYS in my room, sleeping....... but she is the one that always there to accompany me when I'm lonely most of the time.

Well I'm guessing that's it then? I don't know how this is "Creative", really. But I tried my best. Well I'll promise to work hard in what I do.

Thank you.

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[29/4/2013] Colour Theory Exhibition.

Sorry for the late updates.

On the 29th April 2013, we had our own Colour Theory Exhibition in the Design Studio.

Each group showcased their own colour theory project.
It was a successful one because lots of students and lecturers from different courses were there to see our works. We were all so proud of ourselves even our very own Miss Lisa.

Here are some pictures from the exhibition:

The first group (Ailsa, Jamie, Zaina, Lisa and Afiqah) did their colour theory using balloons and covered the whole doorway with balloons so we have to go through the balloon tunnel.  

The other part of the balloons. It became smaller so we have to crawl when we get to the green ones.

The 2nd group (Sarah, Maegan, Fariz and Nicholas) did cupcakes with colouring icing as their colour theory project. This was before the exhibition starts.

There's like a gallery in there where they hang up few frames on the wall.

The third group (Angie, Jean, Farah, Eka, Ching Hsin and me) did town houses. We have 6 different types of buildings from Malaysia to Thailand to Moroccan to Russia to British to Japan.

How the balloon tunnel looks like from outside of our class. 

4th group (Hui Yu, May, Jun, Jocelyn and Raymond) did rainbow wishing tree. Those leaves are origamis made by them. 

They even provide papers and pens to let us write our "wishes" and hang it on the tree.

Mr. Charles even wrote his own wishes.

5th group (Hidayah, Jihan, Annabel, Atiqah and Mathuri) did ------- (I'm sorry I forgot what's it called) but I know when it spins you can see the effect trough the holes. It's really amazing.

Everyone being amazed by it.

Those cute cartoons were drawn by Annabel herself. It's really cute when you see the effects when it spins.

The highlight of the exhibition was Miss Lisa crawling through the tunnel.

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