GOALS

Turning to year when I am 20, I am feel very exciting, I have many goals to achieve, there are some possible, some seems to be quite ambitious. In this blog , I am not going to write too much like others, I just posted pictures to make you thinking. I created these pictures by using photoshop

http://www.worth1000.com/entries/150500/150598mRuq_w.jpg

BLACK-RED-WHITE

Black, red, white. These 3 color are totally contrast. Black for darkness, white for lightness and red for dazzling. Because of differences in light representation, these 3 color create high contrast when being combined together. A picture with red or white element in black background will create a implicit power, strong beauty, harmonious combination between classical and modern styles, simple but impressive. These styles of colors are often used in many kind of arts especially deviant art.

Reference:

http://photo.blogviet.net

www.deviantart.com

JAPANESE CARTOON ( ANIME)- UNIQUE CARTOON STYLE

In Vietnam and other countries on the worlds, many people, especially children and teenagers love Japanese cartoon is called anime very much, there are many famous anime such as Dragon ball, Sailor moon, Kenzin etc. differently from other cartoon styles such as American cartoon, anime have their own unique and particular characteristics and the other cartoon style can not help. In my opinion, I think anime is a big invention because of 2 main reason:

The first think that make me like anime because the character in anime is very cute, really cute, cute impressively. Main features of anime characters are that big and glorious eyes, beautiful and smooth hair with many color, small mouth when talking and very big mouth when laughing. Sometime, these character becoming very ridiculous and funny when they are angry or scared. On the other hand, characters which are heroes or warriors also have their own features such as beautiful and cliff clothes, powerful muscle or power full energy when they are fighting. In addition, scene in the anime are beautiful and looks real as well.

Anime can create very beautiful girls
Cute characters even if they are monsters

Powerful heroes

The second and the most persuasive one is in anime, author use many simple icons or symbol that show the feeling or emotion of character very well, some time very funny. For instance, using “white cross”, “grid line”, “blood” or big head swell to represent people when they are being hurt or using smoke, long small eyes, big mouth with many sharp teeth or head sinew to represent angry characters or tear drop like waterfall for characters who are crying. These icon are simple are very simple, but without them, characters in anime seem to look like status with no emotion.

Using icon that makes the characters become "soul"

Source

http://mangayu.free.fr/galeries/DrSlump02.jpg

http://www.newbearhistory.com/enlaces/unaanodespues/imagenes/Dragon%20Ball.jpg

http://www.lunaregina.com/wallpapers/2005/wall75.jpg

CASUAL MISTAKE

This is the picture of Vietnamese traditional drum performance that I took in Terry Fox marathon day. Because people moved so fast, the picture was blur. It s one of common mistake when taking camera. However, when look at the picture carefully again, i realize that it looks good because blur element contribute to make the picture more real, the angle of blurry line is the same with the angle of the people ‘s arms when they were rasing. It creates a closed combination between people activity and the picture itself.

INTERFACE DESIGN

In the era of Multimedia systems, there are many multimedia devices are being produced and improved for reserve to many purpose of human in their life. The work interacting between people and other devices they are using such as computer, mobile phone, appliance machines etc is called Interface. The difference between traditional design and interface design is while traditional design concentrates on how to make the objects become attractive, interface design try to make the user ‘s interaction as simple as possible. For instance, in traditional design , for making some thing attractive by bolding and becoming eye catching , in contrast, interface design often use subtle and invisible.

The main element in user interface is not merely just information and information, it s a novel way of interaction that have not precedents in paper document design. For example in machine graphic interface ( such as for computer or mobile phone), the interface system include the interaction metaphors, images(Icon, symbol), and concepts that carries function and meaning on the computer or mobile phone screen. In addition, it also includes specific visual characteristics of interface component and functional sequence of interaction over time and hypertext linked relations.

Mac OS interface is used with the power of graphic
Window is one of the easy and common computer interface

Interface in mobile is becoming more advantage with graphics

http://webstyleguide.com/interface/index.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_interface_design

http://guenstige-hardware.de/ebay/florian/ipaq/hx2750.gif

RENAISSANCE

Happy New Year

Firstly, let me tell you the meaning of the word “Renaissance”. Generally, it means “rebirth”, it was first used to define the historical age in Italy and in Europe generally. It followed the Middle Age and preceded “reformation” in the period between 14^th and 16^th century. Renaissance is also generally used to describe other historical and cultural moments. The word “Renaissnace” was defined by French historian Jules Michelet and expanded upon by Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt (both in the 1860s) to refer to both a rediscovery of ancient classical texts and learning, and to the widespread revitalization of European culture resulting from the application of this classical knowledge in the arts and sciences.

Secondly, I want to tell something about Leonardo Da Vinci, he is one of the impressive example of the combination of Art and Science in the period of Renaissance.

MonaLisa

During the last quarter of the twentieth century the term Renaisance is used by many historian such as Charles H. Haskins (1870–1937), Carolingian Renaissance These concepts are now widely accepted by the scholarly community at large; for that reason, the present trend among historians is to discuss each so-called renaissance in more particular terms, such as the Italian Renaissance, the English Renaissance, the German Renaissance, etc. Other periods of cultural rebirth have also been termed "renaissances", such as the Bengal Renaissance, the Harlem Renaissance or the San Francisco Renaissance. These are not considered in this article, which will concentrate on the European Renaissance linking the Middle Ages to the Modern Age.

Shakespeare

Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance

MY CREATION PROCESS

“Creation” is the concept that all designers have to had, however, creating something new and impressive is not an easy work. Depending on different people, they have different ways to create new ideas such as going somewhere, drinking coffee or wine, catching from life casually, combining different elements etc. there are some effective ways, there are some bad as well. I also have my own creation process.

1-Firstly, I think about many possible products that I can created in my mind. These brainstorm products depending on many elements such as : necessary information, products that I have seen in my life, my own news ways( including creating something news and sometimes applied my favorite design types such as maximalism, minimalism.). However, just only one or 2 ideas were chosen because facets such as my ability, not accepted by many people, can not carry out as I thought.

2-Secondly, after having possible ideas in my mind, I begin my work. In this steps, I also have many problems, however, different from problems in the brainstorm steps, problems in 2^nd steps can be fixed. I have many ways to fix problems that I encounter in the process. Sometime, I still keep the idea which have problem, but I represent it in other ways which are related to old ways or replacing new elements. Try to change or arrange my own elements in different ways in order to comment and choose the best one. In this step, I often choose time when I feel most relaxed and I often drink coffee or something when working.

3-Catching ideas from life, these ideas come to me casually in an uncertain time, the ideas maybe come from what I see in life, my speaking statements from other people or even from mistakes.

In conclusion, It s difficult to say exactly how can I create something, For me, It s a difficult and long way that have many obstacles.

MAXIMALISM – MINIMALISM DESIGN

Maximalism and Minimalism are both design types but they are opposite. Each of these types has many interesting points and disadvantages as well.

Maximalism : related to the concept “Max”, we can image another concepts such as complication, specific, colorful. More specific, Maximalism is the way of using literature, art, graphic design, music to apply to post-minimalist movement or works. This type has become more popular since the year 2004. This design type is applied widely in decoration for magazine, TV show( especially shows are related to hip-hop culture), posters and other. multimedia systems. Maximalism is a kind of plastic art which forcus on or emphasizes work-intensive practice. Works from this art is often bright, sensual and visual rich. People who works with Maximalism often come from Asian countries such as China. In my opinion, There are also good things and bad things of Maximalism. The good thing is that it s colorful and complicated. These features help Maximalism seem be very youthful and exciting. The idea seems to be explode for the viewers. On the other hands, there are also some restrictive points such as informal, complicated etc

In contrast, there is Minimalism. Similar to Maximalism, minimalism is also the way of visual art by using graphics, music, however, Minimalism just concentrate on basic and important characteristics of the topic and make them become impressive. There are not too much elements( colors, pictures etc) are show in minimalist products. Minimalist designs often have implicit ideas in order to make the viewers to think much. Minimalism refers to something that is spare, stripped to its essentials, or proving only the outlone of the structure, independent of the particular art movement. Good things about Minimalism is it looks modern, formal, and elegant ( contrast to Maximalism ). However, there are also some small disadvantages difficulties in understanding, boring etc.

These types of design not only used for art , they are also used for designing other things in our life such as house, furniture, devices .etc

DANCE COMPETITION FLYERS
These are flyers that I designed for RMIT dancing club for their dance competition in week 11. there are 2 flyers, one is portable flyer and another is table flyers. These competition is about America Latin dances such as samba, salsa, jive, cha cha. The main features of these styles are exciting, quite sexy and these features have to be represented on the flyers.
In the portable flyer. Because it is just printed as gray scale color so I don’t need to care much about colors. The main things I have to do is showing features of Latin dance, provide enough information especially the information” voting for your couples”.
The 2nd flyer( table flyer) is more important because I have to care much about color. Behind the picture of a dancing couple. I create burning fire image as background in order to emphasize 2 main characteristics of Latin dance: sexy and exciting. In addition, main colors of the flyers is mainly “hot” color such as red, yellow, orange.

MY BOOK COVER PAGE
This is my book cover page for the book “Design for the real world-human ecology and social change” of author Victor Papanek. In the book, the author examines the attempts by designers to struggle against the tawdry, frivolous, unsafe useless products and provide the blueprint for the responsible design for this world which is deficient in resource and energy. The main image of the book is the picture of the natural scene is covered by 2 page of money and these pages are opening by pulling down the zipper. It means that designers have to reflect the real life and using their creativity to make their design looks good, not create something which is fake, frivolous for money. This idea was from the title” design for the real world” The main type of this book cover is classical, the colors I used are just dark color, not high contrast colors such as browns, dark red, dark green and black. I did not used any decoration in my book cover page.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF MAPS

Map is the way people arrange their information from the real life efficiently. All information is represented in map with particular groups, relationships etc. The purpose of the maps is helping user have a logic and easy looking about information they need. During development period, many new kinds and forms of maps are created with additive new technology.

The earliest form of map is just pictures were carved or painted on the wall of caves. In this picture, human life were presented

Then, maps were drawn on wooden board or animal skins, however maps still looked like “big pictures”, there are many of drawing objects are drawn on map such as trees, jungle, mountain, river, stream etc. In this time, people didn’t have good and modern transportation, so maps could just represent for a particular size of a small areas, not huge.

In the period of the development of transportation, there are many modern transportation such as plane. Creating a map is easier. In addition, people use particular symbols with different colors to represents particular things on the map instead of using small images. The size of the map became smaller but more information are represents. More over, maps were not only used for orientation, also used for representing information in different fields of life such as history, economy, politic etc.

Finally, in the modern world with the fast development of communication and media systems such as internet, satellite. Modern Maps version is created. For instance, people in anywhere in the world, they can use Google Earth to find and view wherever in the world easily and quickly or in developed countries, people can use GPS( Global Positioning System) for navigation.