Story Book

Introducing....

Monsterland - The First Encounter

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Design of the good and the bad

We were asked to critic 2 posters, one with good design and another with a bad design. We have chosen 2 movie posters, namely "A Mighty Heart" and "Batman Begins" for the bad and good design respectively.

A Mighty Heart, maybe you have watch this movie before, but I had never watched it. The obvious reasons why is bad is explained below, other reasons are due to aesthetical reasons like it does not appeals to the general public.

Batman on the otherhand is commented for its good points.


Continuity, our favourite Batman is looking down. Eyes will follow the direction he is looking and end up with the name of the movie. Good colour contrast and a general colour scheme which is generally dark presents to the viewer a "serious" mood telling them this is no comedy. The brighter background brings out the main character in the foreground, and as this is a popular character, most people can relate to it immediately.

Loving Cards

For the cards, I made 2 different kind of cards. One is based on a cool colour scheme while the other on hot colours.

After receiving comments from my peers in class, I decided to change the 1st card and did some changes to it.

Below is the 2nd draft I designed.
Added: 19th April

I further edited my card, giving it a more loving look as I added another dove inside my card, as most of my classmates feel that 2 doves are more loving. I also drew another heart. The obvious colour contrast is the red coloured heart which tells people immediately that this is a card for your love ones.

Friday Lecture Group Work

My word was..... Astonishing. Jaw-dropping indeed.

This was what I can come up with.

A poster to demostrate design concepts

We are supposed to design a poster, using design techniques such as frame and visual interaction, use of negative spaces, rule of third, visual balance, contrast, unity and many more. Besides that, the poster should revolve around the theme Save, Prevent, Kill. I intended to use the theme 'Save' for my poster.

Save Lives

How to save lives? Donation of blood seems the easiest way. I would regularly go for blood donations, once every 3 months that is. In my opinion, it should be performed by everyone that fits the criteria, but there is always a lack of blood in Singapore all the time. Ok, back to the design of my poster.

I wanted to use a light background for this concept, white seems the best, as it is more related to medical, it is best protrayed using white which represents pure, and red for the blood. The glass used in the picture is used as a container to hold the blood. The flowing of the blood represents the never-ending flow that will be poured into the container.

Added: 19th April

Somehow, I did another poster, which is more intuitive to most people, as the previous is more cultural bias. It has the same text and with the same "Save Life" slogan, I took a photo from the squeeze ball I got from donating blood last February in NUS, which is really a blood bag-shaped.

It shows that the pulse was really erratic and when it goes in and out of the blood bag, it becomes stable and normal. I hope it is more intuitive and easier to understand than the previous as it requires some explanations to most people who do not know about it.

U C what I C

The story follows me finding my lost coin (yah is a 10 cents coin). Was chasing, jumping down stairs, peeking, being framed of being a molester....

Finally! My coin is recovered!!!

Some comments were that I should not have included the first picture (was trying to create a misconception that I am some pervert). Shouldn't have grabbed the girl's hand, and last picture should be me picking up the coin.

But thanks for all the comments anyway!

Representation Techniques

My signs are about Cooking! Among the Realistic to Abstract, I decided to take number 4 as the sign.

I feel #4 is suitable as a sign as it consists of 2 things every chef should have. 1, the chef hat, of course to keep the hair in it, so that you won't get to taste the chef's hair! 2, the ladle, of course it is used for cooking.

(Forum for the E-Learning Week is still not out yet...)

Added: 19th April

I redraw the cooking signs and blow it up to an A3 size, good for printing so the resolution is high enough so it will be clear.