Theme: Design analysis

This assignment was a group assignment which we had to analyse a good design and a bad one.
So here's my group did:

Good Design

Bad Design

Re: Assignment 5... Greeting card: Theme - LOVE...

Well, I went and did another greeting card and this is the result:
I wanted to create a feel of a cold heart being warmed by the surroundings and by the splatters of red. So i selected the base colours of blue (cold) and red (warmth), hopefully I am able to convey the message across to whoever is looking at this.

Assignment 5... Greeting card: Theme - LOVE...

We are required to use colours to express love, tenderness etc in a greeting card for this assignment, and this is what i did:


This was one of the most constructive presentation I have had in this module. Had a lot of feedback from the class regarding my work, which now i see as one of my worst. Comments included that the heart was not very clear, that the heart looked like a crowbar, and that i should add texture to the heart,a nd that i was thinking too much into the assignment. Adding to that, the paint splatter was an online stock photo, which utterly made my work redundant since we can't use web stuff for this assignment and practicurly the whole module. So i guess i have to go create another piece for this assignment. But i'll still be sticking to my copy: " We enjoy warmth because we have been cold."

Assignment 4... Save, prevent, kill…: Poster design

For this assignment we are required to come up with a poster that fit into the theme (Saving, Preventing, Killing etc etc..). My first idea was to "Save our Soles", cos i felt that NUS students have to walk too much to get to plces in campus. But i realised the title was rather cheesy/lame/corny (whatever you call it). So i decided to change my topic.

So this is my final design for my poster - "Save Ink". The point of it all being only (Small) text is to capture attention, and to make people read it (other than saving ink). I made most of the text faded to make it seem that the printer has ran out of ink (or something to that effect), but left the essential points untouched to highlight these points.

I decided to settle on this because i realised that whenever i go to AS7 (and other printing places), most of the time there is a queue for printing notes and such. It made me realise that we are actually using alot of ink each day.

So why should we save ink? read the poster.

Assignment 3... U C what I C (Graphic Storytelling)

So the assignment required us to take a maximum of 10 pictures without text and make it into a story, with a twist at the end.
Inspiration for this was when i saw a bottle of expired milk in my fridge.
So the story goes.
Guy feels hungry -> Open Fridge -> Sees Bottle of milk -> Take Milk ->
Pour Milk -> Drink Milk -> Sees that it's expired -> Visit Toilet

Comments were that the pictures were too dark. So i'll be trying to get a better camera to re-take all these photos, and make the last photo clearer ( in meaning).

Assignment 2... Making images talk...

Here's the product of my second assignment, consisting of 5 levels of abstraction of a Mountain.
I gradually removed details from the digital sketch that i made. The final product was an abstract representation of the maountain, which without explanantion would lose its meaning.
I chose the 3rd sketch as my last point where the abstraction process loses meaning, but the class suggested that the 2nd last one should be the chosen one, and so it is decided, since they could tell that it's a mountain.Chosen level of Abstraction

Assignment 1... Final Prototypes

These are the final digitised prototypes i did for Assignment 1.