Academic Skills ( Individual )

date : 27/3/2104

lecturer : Miss Nadyra

Instruction :

Pick 1 A3 sized paper which has a halfway situation, complete it in your own imagination.

It could be something that is possible or impossible and no searching in GOOGLE.

My situation was :

What would you wish to see through your office window?

This is what i can see now :

I wish i could see a big and busy city with constructions of  a futuristic lifestyle, flying cars on my
I-Phone designed window. Which would be like this :

Reflection :
As a designer, we should not hope on search engines like GOOGLE, so that we can explore and research more on our profession to improve our ethics.

Writing For Designer ( Group )

Task 6 (b)
date : 27/3/2014

Task by : Miss Tiffany Chew

Instruction :
Form a group of 2, pick 5 advertisement and interpret about it in designer term.

Group member :

• Satish ( me )
• Reynard

advertisement from paper

-black background to highlight gold color
-typography in gold (monotype corsiva)
-title is La Creameria

advertisement from paper

-title 'GAME ON' Adidas
-subject of this advertisement is soccer shoes
-soft color background to dark color
-logo of ADIDAS at the footer

advertisement from paper

-title of this advertisement is ACER
-header : ACER
-subject of advertisement is Lap top

advertisement from paper

-subject of advertisement: Samsung Galaxy Note 3
-background of this advertisementis a soft color as sky blue
-header : logo of SAMSUNG

advertisement from paper

-title of this advertisement is 4G FOR ALL
- typography in orange and unidentified font
-typography of this advertisement has outline
-has a logo of U Mobile at the footer







Reflection :
Design term words are not just to describe content of the advertisement, it helps on researching the content of the content that is used to advertise.

Writing For Designer (Individual)

Task 6
date : 12/3/2014

Task by : Miss Tiffany Chew

Instruction:
Choose 5 print ads from magazines or newspaper, write an analysis on “what, who, how, and when” are the ads about, pull out the content that you get clearly from the advertisement, and write them in short sentences in points.

• describe about the advertisement
• 2main attraction of the advertisement

news paper advertisement 
  

-made for kids
-attractive color
-apps which suits younger age 

news paper advertisement 

-electronic products of LG
-washer machine
-old style and new style

magazine advertisement 

-make up products (toner ) of REVLON
-for ladies

news paper advertisement 



-sale at a shopping center
-for all stage of ages

news paper advertisement 


-watch for men
-brand (SEIKO )












Reflection :
Learnt how to describe about something we see or read. This helps a designer to interpret on something better on what they see. Other than that, it shows how the collaboration of picture,typography and color helps on advertisement.

Academic Skills

Blog Presentation
date : 19/3/14 , 21/3/14

Blog presentation of tasks by Miss Nadyra.


Presentation is what all the designers have to go through. Presenting something to the audience encourages someone to be more confident and it fixes the way how a designer need in presenting skills. information reaches to the listener better when the presentation is perfect. 

Critics on classmates :

Tomi          : - confident in presenting, afraid of grammar mistakes, voice tone goes up and down.

Rey            : - confident in presenting, speaks too fast at some places.

Emily         : - presented confidently even when she is not so good in English.

Samira      : - best presentation in the class. perfect tone, a professional, explained more points 

Aisyah       : - did her best she could, she has improved up to 50%

Lyndy        : - has presenting skills

Xu Hui      : - presented well but need to cope-up more 

Hui Xin      : - good pronunciation, less presentation skills


critics for me :

less confident in certain places, mumbling at few part, need to stand straight.

I have to truly confident and not mumbling in order to give a perfect presentation.


reflection :
I knew my weakness in presenting. Presenting something is not just to share information, it is also for sharing different working ethics.

Academic Skills (Problem Solving)

date :12/3/14
Instruction :
Pick a paper which has situation that indicates a problem or a question,solve and show it by drawing on a A3 paper.

Lyndy :
problem : 
You don't have a 3D software, how would you make a 3D art?
She used modeling clay to make a 3D duck.

Aisyah :
problem : 
How would you cross the lake without using nothing ?
She stretched her legs from one end of the lake to another side.

Rey :
problem : 
1) What would you do when you saw a good friend is shoplifting?
He will advise and say to his friend that he will tell to his parents if he does it again.

2) What will you do if the cashier gave RM 2.50 extra?
He will give it back to the cashier or he will slap the cashier for being weak in maths.

Satish (me)
problem : 
1)Which part of  our body do you think that is unique and creative?
The Head.because our brain is in it and i  think that human as a unique design too.

2) How will you design an artwork if you are blind?
Use hand palm to print images on paper.

Samira 
problem : 
1) How will u snap pictures when your camera is not functional?
She used web cam of her laptop and scanner to take picture.

2) You have only RM 1, how will you travel from Kuala Lumpur to Nilai ? 
She will walk or  hitch hike from Kuala Lumpur to Nilai .

Xu Hui
problem : 
How will you design without installation of a digital software ?
She draw using her hands.

Hui Xing
problem : 
How would you draw something if u don't have hands ?
She use her mouth to draw a pet of Crayon Shin Chan. 

Reflection :
I have learnt how to solve problem without relying on Google. This task helped me to think out of the box and I found that as a designer, we should solve problem as easy as we could.

Academic Skills (Story Making)

date : 4/3/14
Instruction : 
Each of us have to write a word without looking at the words wrote by others and use all the words to make a story. 

1st Round  : Comedy
2nd Round : Horror
3rd Round : Sad

participants :

Satish (me)
Samira
Aisyah
Rey
Emily
Tomi
Hui Xing
Lyndy

Round 1 : Comedy (5 min)
Words  : perfection, enjoyment, tunnel, foggy, cat, weird, mirror and beach.
Participant out of Round 1 : story which was not funny
=Lyndy , Rey , Satish (me)

Round 2 : Horror (3+1 min)
Words  : underwear, bleeding eye zombie, crows, hanging eyeballs, clown, vampire, grave, lady and E.T.
Participant out of Round 2 : story which was not Scary
=Tomi , Emily

Round 3 : Sad (3 min)
Words  : money, sleep, cheated, tore, grandmother, break up, hungry, rainbow and failure
Participant out of Round 3 : story which was not Sad
=Samira , Hui Xing

Best story teller (Champion)  : Aisyah

Reflection :
The story telling is a good way to generate ideas as fast as we can. I learnt to be more creative in imagining things that possible and impossible. Designer's point of view should be wide and unlimited.

(trial of drawing a picture part by part in group)

Academic Skills

1) Object/ Action Guessing (GAME)
date : 28/2/2014 

Instruction :
Each of us have to pick one paper from the box then try to explain about it without saying the name of it so that others can guess what is it.

Reflection :
We all learnt to think wide during guessing things/action.This help us to generate more ideas on designing and its a good way to be more creative.

2)Role Playing (GAME)
date : 28/2/2014 

Instruction :
A person have to pick a paper from the box which another person's name is written on it. Then according to the name in the paper,they have to play a role like them.

Roles : 

 1. Satish (me) : as Mr. Sukor
 2. Rey             : as Ms . Nadyra
 3. Lyndy         : as Xu Hui
 4. Aisyah        : as Satish (me)
 5. Samira        : as Tiffany
 6. Emily          : as Herself
 7. Hatmi         : as Hui Xing
 8. Hui Xing     : as Aisyah
 9. Xu Hui        : as Hatmi

This game was very fun and we all enjoyed playing roles as somebody else.
As a conclusion of this game, we all learnt that everyone has their own characteristic and as a designer its important to know different characteristics of people.

Vocabulary for Designer (Writing for Designer)

Vocabulary for Designer

1. Perspective

-is the art of doing/making some objects or people in a picture look further away than others or the background.

2. Composition

-a technique or skill that involved in creating a work of art.

-a composition of an artist is the work that they have produce.

3. Storyboard

-is a set of pictures which shows what will happen in something such as a film or advertisement that being planned.

4. Dimension

-is a measurement such as length, width, or height.

Example: dimension of an object is referring to its size and proportion.

5. Resolution

-quality of an image or about how clear is the image.

6. Caption

-word that is printed underneath of a picture or a cartoon which explain what is it about.

7. Header

-text or number that automatically displayed at the top of each page of a printed document.

8. Tone

­-a tone is a lighter, darker, or brighter shades of the same colour.

9. Cut-out

-a cardboard cut-out is a shape that has been cut from thick card.

10. Brainstorm

-in a group of people brainstorm, they have a meeting in which they all put forward as many ideas.

11. Margin

-empty space at the side of a page which is written or printed.

12. Background

-referring to the things in a picture or scene that are less noticeable or important than the main things or people in it.

13. Picture

-a picture is a clear idea or memory of something your mind as if you are actually looking at it.

14. Concept

-an idea or abstract principle of something.

15. Idea

-an opinion or belief about what something is like or should be like.

-if you know an idea of something you know about it to some extent.

16. Pixel

-it is the smallest area on a computer screen which can be given a separate colour by the computer.

17. Trim

-make something smaller in size, look tidier and neater or in order to shorten it.

18. Finishing

-last touch or work in completing an artistry, final touch of accomplishing an art work.

19. Mount

-increase in quality

-fix something firmly in a place.

20. Width

-quality of something being wide.

-distance of something from one side or edge to another side.

(to be add-in more from time to time)