Assignment 2: Abstraction (with Modifications)

The most obvious changes that I have made to assignment 2 is the use of strokes. My previous attempt uses only 1 type of stroke with size 1 resulting it to look thin and very 'pencil like' effect. So with more strokes it looks more like a symbol.

Ideas for Active Ageing Poster

For the poster, I anticipated that many people will use photos of senior citizens as part of the poster. But I decided in the end to have a more 'cartoonish effect' on the poster. I believe that the 'cartoonish effect' will be more striking as a poster. Below is a old man 'cartoon' with a nice expression. I am still researching more on the Internet to see what kind of 'cartoons' I can use in my poster.

Assignment 5 Postcard: Final Design

 Due to time constraints, I didnt manage to change the design much of my postcard. Instead I just experiment with more colors inlign with the aim of the assignment. To show contrast between East and West, I decided to use complementary striking colors for the modern West side and more subdue and less striking colors to show a more modest East.

Assignment 6: Finalized Story

The final story, my group decided to use my friend's Nisha story. However we also included some elements from other team members' stories. A bit of my story is also included. We felt that by doing so, we can expound from Nisha's story and make it more interesting. To make children more excited to read the story, we tried to ryhme the whole story (with lots of difficulty but we did manage to) and also include like a 'guess who did this' plot in the storybook.

Assignment 6: Storybook

 

Above are the characters that I came up with for the individual stories. The story is titled: When my Grandpa came. The story is as follows

-Grandpa bear suddenly moves into the house and suddenly Baby Bear lives started to change

-because Grandpa bear is now the oldest in the family, everybody has to "give way" and 'respect' him and this displeases Baby Bear.

-in the end, Baby bear finds out that Grandpa bear really loves her but does not really know how to show that he cares for her.

This story hopefully shows that no matter what happen your family always love you.

Assignment 5: Music Festival PostCard

For this assignment, I was still indecisive over what kind of background to use for the postcard. I came up with the idea of east meets west music festival so I would like to show a stark contrast or two different worlds. So the guy plugged in to the guitar wearing headphones represents the 'West' while the girl playing the Guzheng represents the East. The problem with this idea is that the two pictures somehow cannot fill up the postcard. So there are quite a number of blanks in between and look quite plain. So I experimented with borders and other abstract design in the postcard. For the colors part, I experimented with different shades of colors. Most are blends with 2/3 different shades of color: example - purple and brown. Because of this the postcard will not look so striking and have a more soft/warm feeling to it.

A4: Active Ageing Poster modification

So here is some minor changes that I have made to this assignment. As mentioned early I put in some brief description about the aim of the poster. Also the previous title may not be clear to many people. So the title Fit Children into your Schedule clearly tells exactly what the poster is about. It sums up everything that it is supposed to tell.