7x2

posted on 14.2.11, at 16:46.

Hello good people, the elusive blogger returns! She brings good news that she has a new hobby, which millions around the world have also started on. It is the (cliched and perhaps overdone) snapping of digital photos and editing them to look like vintage, holga-esque square film photography. But I like. Kudos to the existence of the iPhone, Hipstamatic and Instagram!

Here are my photos:
Instagram collection
Posterous photoblog

Thinking of compiling them into a single Tumblr page or something, but ah will get to that when there is more time, now that projects are rolling in. Alright then, till next time!

Oh and Happy Valentine's Day!

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WIP: Paper Camera

posted on 26.9.10, at 05:05.

Creating our own paper models of existing products for Conceptual Design module. Hell I never knew that recreating a deceivingly simple-looking old camera would be so hard. When you start thinking that eating and sleeping are a waste of precious time, you know that you're going mad.
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WIP: Journey

posted on 24.9.10, at 14:52.

Work in progress for illustration class, on the concept of "Journey". Decided to try out vector illustration, with bold geometry and eye-catching colours. Tedious but will be done in a couple of weeks. Thank goodness for Intuos4. Looking forward to how it turns out!
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posted on 6.7.10, at 17:23.
Hmm, I wonder whose birthday is coming up really soon..
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Recess week

posted on 5.3.10, at 02:00.

Finally I'm blogging again! I've yet to put up a new comments host after the sad loss of Haloscan. Queen of procrastination.

As you can tell, it's recess week and I ain't got no recess at all. Been working on the crazy 16-page magazine spread for Typography class, and I've managed to get my table horrendously messy. But actually, I kinda like this mess. Makes me feel pretty inspired and artistic.

Recess week is making me so sick of school work, which have incidentally increased by ten-fold, that I'd rather have normal school days and usual lessons. The lack of motivation and inspiration have made me depressed and moody. I actually already miss my friends. And look how time flies when it's recess week (not that we're having any fun at all); it's already Friday and I'm barely at 20% of my total school work. HURGHHHHH!!!

Also, it doesn't help that within February and this month, the weather in Singapore has become so unbearably hot. Elsewhere, halfway around the globe, Cyclone Xynthia is attacking Europe. The recent proliferation of earthquakes in Chile, Japan and Taiwan is just disturbing and depressing. Even icebergs from Antarctica are participating in spelling disaster for our weather system. HURGHHHHH!!!

Sian right.
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New layout!

posted on 9.1.10, at 02:01.
New year, new beginning, new website! Woot, after a couple of nights of Adobe Illustrator and playing around with HTML and CSS, I finally got me a new blog layout! And yes, (I apologize) it's back to Arial. I'm still working on my portfolio site, so links to my portfolio pages are not working just as yet. Coming really soon. I hope I don't get lazy. Feel free to feedback. And old blog with Lucida Sans, I will sorta miss you. Goodbye old, hello new!

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Epic Work Update Post

posted on 6.1.10, at 23:09.
Hello again everyone! It's been a while. Pardon me for the lack of updates, for I've been pretty lazy after that one crazy helluva semester. So I'm finally uploading more work on this blog. I did some significant projects during this previous semester, so I've got pretty much to blog about now. I hope the messy chronological order won't affect your visual pleasure.

BE THERE OR BE SQUARE

This was an exhibition proposal for our History of Graphic Design class. The zeitgeist was for "Suprematism and Contructivism", so I worked around the idea of celebrating geometric shapes. The first one is a detailed proposal for the exhibition. The second one below is the invitation; it is supposed to contain an envelope of geometric shapes in the form of stickers to allow the recipient free creative play on the invitation itself. Thanks to issuu.com, you can now view them virtually!

TYPOGRAPHY CLASS JOURNALS

And here are the two books that I did for my Typography class with Astrid. The first one is a letter journal, in which we focused on a single letter and documented it. The latter is my process journal.

The night before submission, the two books were printed entirely in school. I have Davier, Ken and Tioranu to thank for their printing credits. THANK YOU LIFE SAVIOURS. The double sided-printing was a bitch. Alignment went wild and I had to trial and error so many times I killed a lot of trees that night. The papers were then painstakingly cut and perfect bound by hand. The white glue barely had enough time to dry! (Which explains why my book is now falling apart, sadly.) Anyway, the hard cover was made of mounting board wrapped with, surprise surprise! Free brown paper from Viscomm Lab! Words were then transferred onto the cover and back using the highly intoxicating xylene on the morning of the submission.

And there you have it, a super low budget but still professional-looking books all in one night!

OTHER WORKS

I didn't actually document all my other individual projects here, so I think the process journal I did for Typography class with Astrid is enough to speak for itself. Hence I'm posting the pages here, so you can see them all at once!

Phew. Okay, Epic Work Update Post done. Coming up, Epic Life Update Post. Stay tuned.
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