5 Great Years

Thank You for everything.
It’s been a great 5 years!!
I am grateful for everything.
=)

Think about it.
This is a sickening world.
We take each other for granted.
Is this how it supposed to be?

I always have the quest about the dreams we dreamt when we sleep.
I was talking to a friend about what I dreamt of the other day when I was asleep. It is amazing how such visual can appear in dreams. Things that you never knew of, but it is possible in your dream. haha.. There is absolutely no limitations in our dreams, we can climb the highest mountain and swim the deepest ocean.

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Remember those days when you have big dreams,
not those when you’re asleep. Dreams in secret that nobody know of. You are all hyped up and run towards it at all cost.
What if halfway through, you discovered it MIGHT not be your TRUE dream. Pretty scary ain’t it.
…and What if you’ve forgotten how to dream.

Starbucks Love Project

 

Head on to http://www.starbucksloveproject.com

and create a love drawing, submit it and starbucks will contribute
5 cents for the first 1 million drawings to help fight AIDS in Africa

just a simple drawing and you can make a difference!
Here’s mine! =)

 

Outdoor 1: FRIM

ISO100

Click on the picture above to view, I did not publish it for public. Only those who read this post will get too see.. tee hee

Feel free to comment! =)

Journey behind the scenes

I want to share the journey behind the scenes of what we did throughout the semester. Very often people have a misconception that we are very free and have got nothing else to do, all we do is draw. Well, you thought…………………………………wrong!!

Below are pics of what I’ve been through throughout the whole semester, in Kar Heng’s perspective.=)

All pics below (in my opinion) is very much more valuable than my final work. It represents me. I gave all of me in to all of it. I’m gonna show not only the final product of my works but also things “behind the scenes”. What you’ll see are my sketches..the many designs and experiments and process in each assignment.

It’s gonna be a SUPERRR LONG POST. and I refuse to separate it in to diff posts..

*PICS MIGHT TAKE A WHILE TO LOAD

update: i don't know what's wrong with blogger, my pics seem to be blur. spent days doing this, so i thought I'll just post it up anyway.

This is a print making for my Typography class.

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This assignment require us to design a nursery rhyme book. Using only the components of typeface (alphabet, numerals and punctuation marks)

Here’s the one that I chosen.

When the circus comes to town,
I love to see the clown,
Racing round the great big top,
His trousers falling down.
He's such a funny person,
He makes me laugh and shout.
I always feel so happy
When the funny clown's about.

When I saw the brief, I have absolutely no idea how am I gonna do it. Stress. Here’s a sneak peak of the process..

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After many sleepless nights, thinking and thinking, researching, and experimenting..finally..
inspiration behind this assignment:

watch it here

Every Thursdays used to be our movie day in the beginning of our semester because we don't have any classes on Thursdays afternoon..

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Remember when we were young, studying in kindergarten. Learning A for Apple, B for Ball, C for Cat etc..?

Ever since then, our mind begin to see words as an object. But it is only in typography class where we actualy take time to learn the uniqueness of each font. The curves, serif etc..
All of us heard of this word – “si-lu-wet” BUT how many of us can actualy spell it out? HAHAHA! We are familiar with the word, and when we see it.. we know exactly how to pronounce it because we see it as an object. Not taking time to notice its spelling. btw,
“si-lu-wet” spelled silhouette =)

Here’s another assignment using lino cut. Basically we have to choose a font type and carve it out, then print with ink.

Tiring, but we learnt lotsss from this! Great fun! All our fingers were sore carving this.

We spent the entire semester doing this because most of our works being rejected!

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Imagine you have to go through the entire process above twice! hahaha.. tiring but fun working with good people, although not all. kekeke ^^ muahahah

we stayed back after class (when everyone else in the campus went home) and start working on stuffs…
Then the next morning, we go home when everyone is walking in to the campus. What is sleep?

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Here’s another assignment called Box of Principles.
We are to choose 6 diff principles of design and render them in a typographic composition, using only the components of typeface. then assemble it in to six sides of the box.

When you have to start something from ZERO to 100% You know that it’s gonna be tough. I started sketching, doing research, observe.. slow down..not doing anything, think… experimenting….

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(I forgot to take pics of my sketches and handed in all of them. but still here’s some pics)

above are 6 pieces of principles that i designed. Now I forgotten which principle i chose haha…

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The girls are checking out the boy’s phone and laugh non stop..hhmm

Remember the earthquake recently?

Evacuate!

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This is for my digital imaging class..

Turn the black and white pic below in to colour..

here’s mine..

before:

after:

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The amount of assignments are crazy! All the assignments are back to back.. no rest!

I remember we were given a new brief even before the current assignment at hand due.

Here’s a very interesting assignment..

A stimulation of how design agency works..

CLIENT’S BRIEF
INTRODUCTION
Create Animal Illustrations for a deck of Trump Cards

“CAIN is planning to re-launch their club after a heavily renovating their premises.
The club has upgraded itself inside out – more urban jungle than African sanctuary - CAIN is now the sexier, edgier CAIN LUXE. We’re hoping to give away these Trump Cards at our grand re-opening reception as a door gift. We want the cards to scream cutting edge but still have a touch of the safari theme to remind our
patrons that we proud of our roots.”

WEBSITE (www.cainnyc.com)

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It’s really fun working on this asignment. The above 2 cards are my final work.

We don’t sit and draw only.. and have nothing else to do. what's with the stereotype? Every assignments require us to think, research, imagine, experiment etc.. it’s not exactly the easiest things in life. Many a times, I find myself mentally and physically exhausted doing all these. It takes so much of you, that your brain juice literally dried up. Then, the next thing you know… you will be given a new brief.

we hardly have time for anything else..

IKEA exhibition launch:

Really opened my eyes that graphic designers don’t have to work in a design firm/house facing pc all the time. I don’t mind working there! Sadly, I’m not a graphic design student..

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Remember the lino cut that I carved? Here’s the combination of various methods. Lino + mono + cardboard.

We stayed back again to do this.. thank God for good people because it is almost impossible to do it alone with 100% CLEAN.
Our works will be rejected even if there’s a tiny dirt spot.

My lecturer is a perfectionist! But it is good! we learnt, but in a very hard way… talking about attention to detail.

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My sleeping time got all mixed up. Sleeping only when the sun rise.. for few hours, then off to class! I couldn’t remember the last time I properly slept at night..hmm
what a life huh…

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Below is one of my final assignments. It is an infographic assignment on any topic. The topic I chosen is about the rising of sea level. This is because I realise us as Malaysians students are not well exposed to the social/global issues. My desire is to communicate it through my design work. So after much research, it is very sad to say there’s not much focus on the solution to slow down the rate of rising sea level due to CO2 emissions. After some tutorial sessions,I switch my focus to the emission of carbon dioxide by countries.

i've never printed anything on such a huge printer! haha

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a small little humble journal of my sketches, etc..

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By the time I received the brief for this assignment, I almost cannot take it already. I have absolutely no idea how am I suppose to finish this. My mind was completely blank!!! I was so stressed and couldn’t sleep just thinking of this!!
We are required to design a poster and leaflet to promote a specific typeface of my choice. After much thinking, the typeface that I chose is a small caps font:

Copperplate Gothic Bold

I always find font like this to be very interesting.

For this assignment, I spent almost 12 hours in front of the computer experimenting with ideas, researching etc

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Another final assignment for Digital Imaging. A photo manipulation assignment.
I remember started thinking about the topic for this assignment at about 7pm. I can basically do anything, because it is a free topic! Because I can do anything, I had a hard time deciding what to do.

I found some cool images on the net and did this…

(the first pic don’t belong to me, i got it somewhere via google)
forest turned in to a night club

several hours later when I’m done.. I realise it is too ugly and too simple for a final assignment. I was so stressed up(again) in the wee hours..

After seeing much reference, I suddenly remember a video tutorial for after effects that I watched few days back. And from there I start to develop on the idea after 9 hours ..at 5am

here you go.. my final work

(the first pic don’t belong to me, i got it somewhere via deviantart)

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I did something about CO2 emissions and global warming earlier on.. so i thought i might as well link both of them..
So here’s my rationale:

“New York City, being the most popular and influential city in the world sure have gained a reasonable amount of attention in the eyes of many. The picture shows a very popular iconic landmark in the world, turned into a chaotic city. Carbon dioxide emission in the world causes the heat to be trapped in the atmosphere thus resulting in a huge climate change. This is the reason for the rising sea levels, which cause floods in the city. Cars are being flooded with water within seconds, things are flying around and the city is beginning to self-destruct. With the sea level on the rise and frequent occurrence of floods, it is time to bid farewell to New York City, or worse, the world.
Is this the end of humanity?”

I seldom post bout my work, and I thought this might be a great time to do that because I haven’t been properly blogging due to all the assignments. Also this is one of the semester that i really learnt ALOTTTTTT !! and i can already see the true colours of some people kekekek

Every assignments require lotttssss of thinking and thinking and thinking and more thinking, more ideas, visualizing, researching etc.. and it is impossible to do it a day or 2 before.. it’s a huggeee and long process

pheww! I'm finally done posting this, been wanting to post this since the beginning of semester! looking back at my post I felt so tired already.. I really have no idea how i managed to pull through the entire semester…

It’s a very tough semester, but also a very fruitful semester!

pain..

stress...

sweat...

nervous...

pressure...

challenge...

anxiety...

insomnia...

It's all worth it.

No matter how the result will turn out to be, I've done the best I know how..

Looking forward to the next semester in 4 days!! =)

Many thanks to those who helped me in one way or another!

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meanwhile, let's Emerge!

BEWARE! A very longgggggggggggg post is on its way. Are you ready?

stay tuned.

What else can you do when you are
disappointed?

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Disappointed.

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