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New updates to Mischievous Morris~!

jhchen2208 — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:44:06 +0000

Morris with colours ~!

jhchen2208 — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:27:23 +0000

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Finale ~! (Storybook, title: Morris, the mischievous monkey)

jhchen2208 — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:19:22 +0000

Here are some sketches I have done up for my final assignment: Storybook. The title for the book is Morris, the mischievous monkey.

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More improvements made to my assignments!

jhchen2208 — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 06:59:48 +0000

More improvements made to my assignments!

Assignment 1
Design 1

Design 2

Some improvements made to my assignments!

jhchen2208 — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:26:24 +0000

Projects, assginments, research papers and term tests have just come to an end. I finally have some time to improve on my designs for my assignments.

Here are some improvements that I have made for my assignments:

Assignment 1

Assignment 2

Assignment 2 – Finalised symbol

Assignment 4

Visual Principles – Gestalt principles

jhchen2208 — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:43:14 +0000

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Lesson Learnt

This exercise gave me an opportunity to apply all the design techniques and principles that I have learnt to critic a good design and a bad design. I have also learnt that it is very important to keep in mind all the design techniques and principles so as not to violate any of them during the designing process. By neglecting any of them, it might have undesirable effect on the viewers’ perception as observed from my the mistake I made in my previous assignment. Just to relate it to what I have learnt in my marketing module, companies could have wasted thousands of dollars on an inefficient advertisement if the designer did not apply the design techniques and principles. Hence, it is very important not to violate them in any design processes.

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Visual Principles: Colour (Love Greeting Cards) – Version 3

jhchen2208 — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 06:27:37 +0000

Front (please note that the heart shape is a diecut)

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Lesson Learnt

This lesson strengthens my knowledge on the meaning behind colours. Previously, I have chosen yellow as the background for my greeting cards because it has a good contrasting effect with the colour of the figure. Many of you would have made the same mistake that I did with the same concept on contrasting and neglect the meaning associated. The tone of yellow that I have used in my greeting card denotes “sickness”, which has a very negative impact on the viewers’ perception.

After much consideration on the colour schemes and the meaning associated with them, I decided to remove the “sickness” by changing the colour scheme to tones of red to depict the passionate of love. This lesson is indeed an important lesson for me.

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Visual Principles: Colour (Love Greeting Cards) – Version 2

jhchen2208 — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:38:58 +0000

Hi guys, I have selected the second design out of the 2 designs and made some amendments to it. Please comment on them. Thanks.

Visual Principles: Colour (Love Greeting Cards)

jhchen2208 — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:48:51 +0000

Here are the 2 roughs that I have done up. Feel free to comment on them. Thanks.

Design 1
Front view

Back view

Internal

Design 2

Comments received during tutorial:

- Most of my classmates voted design 2 as it is simple and neat. Also, the feel is more appropriate and nice.

Poster Design (Theme: STOP Global Warming)

jhchen2208 — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:08:43 +0000

Due to all the pollutions and carbon dioxide emission, the earth is getting warmer and warmer. I guess you guys must have feel it from the drastic change of weather through the day. Prediction of whether will it rain or shine isn’t that simple anymore. Although many countries have adopted measures to prevent further harm to the earth, many of us are still not aware of the outcome of global warming.

Hence, I would like to take this opportunity to raise awareness to people around so as to practise the 3 R (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle). Remember, this is your earth and it’s your life, do your part to help combat global warming now.

I will be making some amendments to this poster as I feel personally the fan is not very obvious. Maybe electrical hand-fan? Or any other suggestions?

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Lesson Learnt

Through this exercise, I have learnt the important concept of element positioning so as to control viewers’ attention and eye movement. By aligning the elements or grouping related elements together will surely make a huge difference on how the viewers process the information. This includes positioning graphical images and text together.

Representation of colours is another take-away from this exercise. Different colours, due to cognitive processing, culture and personal experience have different meanings. Hence, it is very important to know the meaning behind so as to bring information across to the viewers appropriately.

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