Sunday, November 27, 2011
Friday, November 25, 2011
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Never Thought I Could Do That
A photography project looking at areas that we have never done. I chose oysters as my topic because although I dislike raw food but people always mentioned how good oysters are, so I set myself a challenge to 'try' and taste oyster. And through photographs I conveyed the idea of the repulsion that I always get when thinking about raw food especially having already tried oysters, it made me feel nauseous even thinking about it.
I showed this through a series of photographs, using a glass as a symbolism of my stomach, I created an atmosphere from a 'clean' stomach to a 'filthy' and 'stained' stomach. Scoliosis
A one week self-initiated project about scoliosis. For those who do not know what scoliosis is: it is an abnormal lateral curvature of the spine.
A series of photographs taken to make people understand how it feels like to have scoliosis - a condition I was diagnosed with 5 years ago. In order to illustrate the discomfort I experience, I had individuals imitate a crooked standing position consistent with the shape of my spine, and then try to hold that particular pose for an extended period of time. This illustrates the amount of discomfort scoliosis inflicted individuals have to put up with everyday, due to their internal spines being crooked.
The display is purposely done in an angle and descending in order to make the audience experience the discomfort.
During the experiment and testing stage, videos are taken in order to capture the individuals facial expressions and movement. (which I will be putting up soon when I finish editing them)
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Mini Blackouts
Blinking is just as important as breathing. It is considered that every time we blink, a 'mini blackouts' is formed. Although this mini blackouts does not interupt our views of the world but if it adds up, we loss quite a lot of information in a day, month and year.
Experimentation 1:
3 blinking calendars were made based on a flipbook format. 30 or 31 (days in a month) alternating black and white papers were compiled to produce a calendar. The total minutes lost in that calendar month were revealed as the calendar is flipped from back to front.
Experimentation 2:
Using one part of a famous speech - Martin Luther King, "I Have A Dream", the loss of information through blinking were illustrated by crossing out words when reading the speech.
An audio was produced from Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" speech. Every two seconds of the speech, 0.3 seconds of the audio is erased (the blink) - to demonstrate the idea of an information loss.
The visual impact of blinking is translated into hearing to stress the image imperfection.
In addition, a video is produced to highlight the visual and auditory concept.
Monday, October 17, 2011
Layouts
I've been practising some layouting spreads in InDesign. Playing around with the grids and texts. To be able to present the correct fonts for different type of spreads is quite difficult. Instead of making 2 double spreads that has a theme going on, I got carried away and made different theme for each spreads.
The first spread, is an advertisement spread for an individual company 'wongfuproduction' that is based in USA - promoting their event. The second spread, has an actual information of The Yas Hotel in Dubai, a spread aimed for the type of magazine such as travel guide. The third spread is based on a spread that can be found inside a collection of photographer's book.
The fourth spread is designed for Shinichi Maruyama (Artist) book cover where the images were taken from his own photographs.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
London Design Festival
A couple weeks ago, I went into London to have a look at some of the Design Festival. Mind Over Matter by Alan Fletcher was interesting. I got a little bit depressed seeing a wall of sketchbook pages and his visual research. But gave me that tiny bit of motivation on how much research I have to do now.
Noma Bar 'Cut It Out' was quite fun to look at. Noma Bar played around more with a recurring theme - negative space. And the use of bold colours in each cut outs gave the whole piece humour and attraction. In the middle of the exhibiting area, a massive die-cutting machine shaped of a dog where one can produce their own cut-outs. Very interactive.
Outside the V&A, a huge installation by Amanda Levete Architects 'Timber Wave' was phenomenal. The 3-D latticespiral work built from oil-treated American red oak surely is an exciting and dramatic installation which brings the London Design Festival out on the street.
The textile field in the V&A was quite amazing for me - more like the time we spent there lying on it was quite relaxing after a long day of walking throughout London.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Everyday Object: Secondhand Books
Each pairs were given one everyday object to work with; Secondhand Books. From it, we had to re-contextualise the object and turn it into something new.
Secondhand books are considered as unwanted yet reusable objects which fits with the concept of recycling. Since books are made of papers and papers are from woods, unwanted secondhand books should therefore return to their original roots - Trees. To grow back a book in a tree illustrates the re-contextualisation of an Everyday object.
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Turn Off The Light, For A Starry Night
A week collaborative work with my friends, Sophie, Olivia and Marisa. We had to come up with a manifesto for a cause. After doing some research, we realised that light pollution in the UK is one of the severe problems which we have to be aware of. A thorough research was performed to see which city in the UK is worst impacted - London.
The light pollution has created red coloured sky thus less stars are seen at night.
Our manifesto is to encourage people to turn off the lights and bring back all the stars.
The statement of "Turn off the lights, for a starry night" was written in constellation style above our studio ceiling.
We used glow in the dark spray paint to write out our manifesto and covered the entire ceiling with small glow in the dark dots to imitate stars - thus when you look up the ceiling in the dark, it feels like you are looking at a sky full of stars; the excitement of seeing that many stars would make one understand our aim.
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Monday, May 16, 2011
01.12.2011
An annual First Year project - World Aids Day. Within a week, 9 of us came up with a message that could make people aware and donate during the day (wandering in London for a day).
'Buy ribbons save lives' - every ribbons save one lives is our main message.
Our entertainment was demonstrated through our hand-made giant ribbons and interactions with people were created when ribbons were taken off the boards. They were then tied together to create a chain to show the number of people who has donated. This created enormous attention during the day and a total of £670 was raised from our group.
A blog is also created after the day so that people who had donated could track where their money has gone to and view our whole project.
Friday, April 15, 2011
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