Assignment 6: Gestalt principles

The powerpoint slides that we have done for assignment 6 cannot be posted in here...so, we will convert the slides to pdf format before uploading...so do have patience while I try to figure it out...if anyone knows how to do it, please do reply...thanks

Assignment 6: Gestalt Principles

I am touching on posters with good gestalt principles in its designs and the following are some posters that I think are rather good.

Assignment 6: Gestalt Prinicples

For assignment 6, it is a group of 2 assignment which includes a presentation.

What we were supposed to do:

• Select one good and one bad (in your opinion) design
• Analyse the design using gestalt laws as a basis.
• Analysis should explain how the information is organised in the design.
• Present them during tutorials.

Classroom Activity 4: Gestalt principles

Haha, sorry for the error, it should be classroom activity 4...will definitely change it.

The 3 principles of gestalt that I chose were similarity, closure and continuity.

Classroom Activity 4: Gestalt Principles

For Classroom Activity 4, we were supposed to touch on gestalt principles.

We were given 20 minutes to create 3 images to demostrate any 3 gestalt principles.

Procedure:

• Create 3 simple shapes (eg. circle, square and triangle)
• Using these 3 shapes, try to demostrate any 3 principles of gestalt.
• You may repeat, scale and change colour of the shapes.

P.S. Don't worry if you don't understand what I am writing about as there will be slides that I will put up to help aid your undestanding =)

Assignment 5: Greeting Card

This is my 1st attempt on the inside of the newly designed card.

However, after consultation with Ms Siti, I decided to change the colour scheme of the picture to suit the colour scheme of the front of the card.

I am still deciding to see whether I should change the layout of the wordings here.

Assignment 5: Greeting Card

I chose this colour scheme as I felt it depicts christmas and the birth of Jesus very well.

The layout is chosen this way as I want the Star of Bethlehem to stand out and to show its 3D feel. The audience targetted would be christians buying for their loved ones and friends and even those who simply like this design as I feel that Christmas is not a holiday full of Santa Claus, chocolate and fun, but a joyous occasion to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ 2000 years ago in the small village of Bethlehem. Hope you like it too =)

Assignment 5: Greeting Card

This is my actual colour scheme...

Personally, I really like it alot and I've asked around and people say that they like it!

Haha, the colour contrast is there and the design is simple but attractive. Hope you like it too!

Assignment 5: Greeting Card

The following is my "new" design for the greeting card assignment. This time, I adopted a simpler design that stands out and is more eye-catchy.

Hope you like it =)

Assignment 5: Greeting Card

This is the inside for the 1st attempt on the greeting card assignment.

Assignment 5: Greeting Card

The following is my first attempt on the colour scheme.

I realised I did wrongly for the colour scheme as I interpreted the lecturer's words wrongly...haha, guess I was too tired for the lecture...I thought we could choose to do a colour scheme of one of the designs/elements in the card so I chose to do on the star...it was during tutorial that I found out that I was wrong...so I changed my design, but not really completely...

Assignment 5: Greeting Card

The complete version of the 1st attempt on this assignment.

Opinions were that it was too complicated for a greeting card. There were too many designs on the card. Suggestions were to maybe focus on the Star of Bethlehem. Thus, I decided to make changes to the card.

Assignment 5: Greeting Card

The below is my 1st coloured version of the assignment.

Assignment 5: Greeting Card

This is my first attempt on this assignment. I wanted to portray about Christmas night, the night when the star of Bethlehem was shining brightly and in the manger, baby Jesus was born.

This above is the uncoloured version of my first attempt on the assignment.

Assignment 5: Greeting Card

• For Assignment 5, we were supposed to design a greeting card related to the theme of Christmas or New Year Near @ Hand.
• We were supposed to pick a favourite quote that is related to the theme.
• The card must convey the theme primarily through colours (about 85%) with minimal visual element on the card.
• We are also supposed to do a colour scheme of the card to choose and see which colour scheme is the best.

Assignment 4: Poster

The below is a modification to my chosen poster after consulting my tutor, Ms Siti.

She commented that the poster had an incomplete look as the wordings were all over the place. Therefore, she gave a suggestion to try to box the title of the poster up to give a more "complete" look. Thus, after trying out her suggestion, the poster did looked more "complete". So, this will be my final piece for this assignment! YEAH!!!

Assignment 4: Poster

This is my chosen piece for Assignment 4.

I decided to add a skull that signifies poison on the syringe as shown above. Opinions are that this poster's colour scheme is more attractive and eye-catching. Hope you like it!

Assignment 4: Poster

This is my new attempt of a new colour scheme for this assignment.

I chose this colour scheme as Ms Siti, my tutor gave me some advice to tryout brighter colours for the background. I decided to try a bright colour scheme for my background and the effect was rather good. However, after getting opinions from the people around me, I decided to choose my previous background colour scheme as it was more eye-catching...but I did some additions and modifications to it...I added a skull to signify poison on the syringe...

Assignment 4: Poster

This is my 3rd attempt for this assignment after taking the opinions of everybody around and changing the colour scheme of the background.

This is definitely better than the previous colour scheme of the assignment. The wordings can be clearly seen from afar and the background makes the poster more attractive and eye-catching. However, I believe there are still room for improvement and I decided to try out another colour scheme...so do look forward to it!!!

Assignment 4: Poster

This is my 2nd attempt on the assignment and the one I presented in class.

The colour in thecomputer looks fine but when it is printed out, the background colour darkens and it makes the whole poster rather dull and not attractive. It was unable to capture attention and not catchy enough.

Some recommendations given were to change the background colour and also to change the colour of the words to make it more catchy and appealing.

Assignment 4: Poster

This is my first attempt using colour on Adobe Illustrator.

Opinion given by people were that the cross was rather difficult to identify since it is behind the milk bottle and the syringe, it is difficult to differentiate the colours of the milk in the milk bottle and and the background are about the same.

Thus, I decided to make some changes to it.

Assignment 4: Poster

This is the outline/sketch of the poster.

This assignment was done during the height of the tainted milk scandal of China milk products.

The reason for choosing to do something about the melamine poisoning was due to timeliness as I feel that people need to be aware of what is happening around them and this poster is an excellent form of bringing information about current news to people. This is especially important for parents who have infants and for milk lovers.

Therefore, I decided to convey the idea of tainted milk through a simple poster of the milk in the milk bottle being injected with melamine and after drinking the milk, the baby is poisoned.

Assignment 3: Storytelling (U C what I C)

This is my revised version of Assignment 3...with special thanks to my friends, Ong Hong Sheng, Tan Choon Kiat, Eileen Chua and Tham Jieying for helping out =)

A Fight

Haha...Special thanks to the two guys, Eileen and Jieying (Background photographers for Frame 8) for helping out. They are my JC classmates and friends. Location of the shot was at IMM. I guess this 8 frames tells the story better than the previous one, so I chose it.

PS, Ms Siti saw this and she commented that the guys' acting look fake...haha...well, we can't blame them cos they are not professionals.

Thanks guys!

Assignment 3: Storytelling (U C what I C)

Story 2 frames...

Memories
Special Thanks to my Mum for sacrificing to look haggard to help me in my project...haha

The above is my 1st attempt for storytelling assignment. However, I think it was too abstract as we had a session of understanding the stories and the person interpreting my story was unable to get it...so I was considering of redoing the storyline.

Assignment 3: Storytelling (U C what I C)

Moving on is the 3rd assignment for this module. Same thing, we did classroom activity for this assignment and I wil definitely upload it soon.

Now let's take a look at my assignment guidelines.

Write/ Select a short story and try to communicate the story using only visuals (only 8 frames) with a surprise element.

I went through the thought process of structuring my storylines.

Story 1: A birthday Surprise
Frame 1: A & B were arguing
Frame 2: A leaves B and walks angrily away.
Frame 3: B is upset. B takes bag and leaves.
Frame 4: B boards a bus to go home.
Frame 5: B reaches home and opens the door.
Frame 6: B got a shock.
Frame 7: House is full of people. (Surprise Element)
Frame 8: A & B hug each other in front of a birthday cake. (Surprise Element)

Feasibility: Low
Reason: Need alot of people (Difficult to get), High budget

Story 2: Memories
Frame 1: Clock is at 2pm.
Frame 2: A is checking temperature of person in front.
Frame 3: Medicine and a cup of water.
Frame 4: Clock is at 9pm.
Frame 5: A stalk of flower withers (Signifies a person dying).
Frame 6: A is crying on a white cloth covering person.
Frame 7: Stalk of flower is placed on the white cloth.
Frame 8: Cloth unveils a Minnie Mouse to be the "person". (Surprise Element)

Feasibility: High
Reason: Easier to do than Story 1.

Thus, after choosing my storyline as Story 2, I proceeded on with my mother as my model...She sacrifice by making herself haggard looking...haha...Thanks, Mummy!!

Assignment 2: Abstraction

An improved version of the Assignment 2 after consultation with Ms Siti, my tutor for this module. For this assignment, we were only supposed to use 1 colour aside from black and white and since coffee is dark brown, I decided to use the gradients of brown to bring out the effects. Ms Siti pointed out that some of the coffee cup seems bigger than the others and so encouraged me to change them into the same size and also to make a box for the title to make it more "complete". Whao! After doing it, I simply loved it! Thanks, Ms Siti.

Well, a note from the bottom of my heart: Looking at the works of others, esp in my tutorial group, I felt rather inferior as their works were much much better than mine...but somehow, I know that I have tried my best in every assignment...hopefully I can do well for this module...haha...well, I tried my Best already.

Assignment 2: Abstraction

This is my first piece of "art" printed on A3 size. This assignment really taught me alot of things with Adobe and computer...haha...I was wondering how to print this assignment and sought the help of my friend, Tan WeiLiang, who taught me this and alot of other stuffs on Adobe. Special thanks to you, Weiliang.

I didn't know that actually we could do so much things on Adobe! It was really fascinating...haha...do I sound abit like the frog in the well? Well, I do, but really it is never too late to learn something new...though it seems as if it wasn't that new for others. Now, somehow, I really think that I did make the right choice to choose this module, though it is a really heavy module, but I benefitted alot, really alot from it. Thanks!

Assignment 2: Abstraction

The 5 levels of abstraction of a coffee cup done using Adobe Illustrator.

It was during this assignment that I really know how to use the gradient tool in Adobe Illustrator. It was also through this assignment that I figure out the layers thing in adobe Illustrator as even when I went for the workshop, I was still confused and most of the time couldn't really catch up with the Instructor. It was a painful, tired but really satisfactory experience with Adobe Illustrator...you could say that I love and hate Adobe Illustrator. But well, the outcome was rather good, I would say.

Assignment 2: Abstraction

The following are my sketches of abstraction of a coffee cup.

One problem faced when I was doing the abstraction was that coffee cup was itself quite a simple picture and thus abstraction for it was minimal and rather difficult as we need to produce 5 levels of abstractions. Thus i decided to change the "3D" parts to 2D...haha...another problem was that I seems to be only capable of drawing cartoons...haha