January 2010
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Assignment 1: Me, Myself and I
Stage 3 - Prototyping and Full Scale Roughs
Time to exercise my brain again! I finally came up with two different concepts from the previous sneaker sketch and set the the colour scheme of the sneakers (almost CMYK). Let’s call the two roughs, rough A (top) and rough B (bottom).
In rough A, the initial idea was to come up with the side view of the sneakers so that the letters are well...
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Assignment 1: Me, Myself and I
Stage 2 - Concept Evaulation and Preliminary Sketches
Basically, after generating the thumbnail sketches, we are to select four of the ideas and come up with the preliminary sketches. I omitted the other two ideas because the letters in the design were not recognizable and the concept not strong enough.
These are the four ideas I chose.
(1) Photography
The idea for this is straightforward....
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Assignment 1: Me, Myself and I
Lecture 2 Exercise: Stage 1 - Brainstorming
This week we learned about the various phases in the design process - conceptual (analytical and creative) and production (executive, presentation and reflection). I never looked at it this way before! I came to the realization that in most of my previous designs before this module, I had actually gone through most of these steps!
We started off the...
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Illustrator For Beginners 1
I finally started to learn to use Illustrator. I heard that it would be a steep learning curve to climb before one catches the hang of this software, so naturally I was a bit nervous in picking it up.
Yesterday I attended the Illustrator workshop for beginners, and boy, was it challenging! We learnt to use paths to draw images (an apple), and I was quite satisfied with the results after a few...
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Lecture Exercise A
Task: Sketch (design) a machine/device that enhances our creativity 100 times.
The image below shows my design:
Basically my initial idea was a helmet that allows one to look at one’s thoughts, both conscious and subconscious. This helmet would use virtual reality technologies to project the imagery before one’s eyes, such as the so called holograms would.
Later on I reflected...
