Friday, February 12, 2010

it's been a while !!!!

It has been a while that I have not bloged.
I was super duper busy with school and personal things that I had to take care of.
Niway, that should not be the excuses!! I better be motivated and inspired by pretty and high-quality designs without any excuses.

I came across the idea of inspiring myself to use the different elements and techniques for designing my project. Also, it was the original idea for me to think about my thesis project.
I was thinking about designing the information design. However, I had a big problem of what kind of information that I want to do. I did tons of research on others designers and design students. I found so many interesting sets of information that those people did for there project. Most of the information came from personal interests: planes, houses, foods, places, etc. Therefore, I asked myself, "why dont I pick the thing that I am obsessed with or that I would love to see it for another year from now?"

I decided to collect the information from my personal interests: faucets, fire hydrants, shadow, time based information, etc. I did some of the experimentation for examining my ideas and showed the designs to my professers. I would like to thank Prof. Jimmy Moss, Prof. Connie Utterback, Prof. Michael Henderson, and Prof. Jim Ovelmen for giving me so many advises even though, some of the advises I did not take I really appreciate for their generous and kindness. Without their advises, I could not pass my proposal and continue doing my project.

Well, I would like share those designs that I developed in the past two months
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Obsessive Consumption.

Well, let me start with what I have been up to lately....
My school just started last week with many anxieties ... lol cause so many things going on to our campus. The government cut the ( I would say "BIG") budget from our school, actually the whole CSU. Which means, the CSU schools have less money to spend on the education and everything. Therefore, they have to cancel bunch of classes and close the school every other Friday.....what ??? close school every other Friday ???? Yeah.....BUT, not completely close...but close HAHA whatever !!!!

So, is that affect me and my other design students including undergraduate and graduate students ?? Oh hell yeah !!!!
First of all, we have to pay 10 % - 20 % more for our tuition fees but there will be less class than it was !!!! make so many senses huh ?$!@#^#%
Second, the school will not accepting new and transfer students until Fall 2010.....Oh my, we have to face to same design students, dame ideas and styles from them for another one more year !!! We need new students for sharing and opening our eyes with the fresh and new ideas....

By the way, I do not want to complain more about this...I would let it just .......Sigh

Hey!! since the first line there was nothing to do with obsessive consumption !!!!
Alright, here is the thing, I have to come up with ideas for my thesis which I have to propose in the Winter 2010.
Since, I took a class with Prof. Jimmy -Information Design, I am kind of interested in the information design. I would say I am obsessed looking at the visual information no matter how complicated it is. even more, I could not get the massage or the content from that design. I still appreciate the beauty of the color, the composition, the letters and the background.... Background ?? Yeah, Background... why is the background? Because, this canvas gives the balance to the design and to the information underneath that design....take a moment and look at every single design around you, you will see how important of the background and the color of it.
Ok, let's get to the point of obsessive consumption. I will talk about consumption in the capitalism society. I will be documenting and collecting the data of what I consume for a day in a year and might be able to manipulate those information to some sort of and visual graphic which could tell all my story and and contribute to some other prospective international design students.
Hopefully, this idea might be interesting and might leads me to something in the end of the project.... It might be something totally different from the thing that I have mentioned before...Who knows ?

Friday, August 14, 2009

weekly wrap up + slash: paper under the knife



whew! it has been a long week so i’m heading out a tiny bit early to work on a side project for d*s (news on that soon!). so i thought it would be nice to start and end the day with beautiful paper projects. these images are from the upcoming exhibition, slash: paper under the knife, at the museum of arts and design. starting in october, the MAD will feature the work of about 50 contemporary artists from 16 countries, including sculpture and large-scale installations. and the best part? during the first week of the exhibition, visitors will also be able to watch several of the artists working on-site to install their piece. so cool- click here for more information. until monday, i hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

from Design Sponge
August 14th, 2009 - 12:30pm

Friday, July 31, 2009

Romanian Traffic Police


Advertising Agency: Mercury 360, Bucharest, Romania
Art Director: Ionut Rusu
Copywriter: Alexandru Malaescu
Creative Group Director: Liviu Turcanu
Published: April 2009

Monday, July 27, 2009

Typography Inspiration Showcase


Typography can be one of the most fascinating elements of design. Whether it’s web design, album art, posters, or any other type of graphic design, typographical inspiration can be a great resource for designers. With that in mind I’ve compiled this collection of beautiful typographical works.

Monday, July 20, 2009

Unloveable

รัก....คำที่มีนิยามและความหมายแตกต่างกันออกไปขึ้นอยู่กับว่าใครเป็นคนให้คำนิยามนั้นๆ
ในที่นี้ผมจะไม่ขอกล่าวถึงรักจากครอบครัว...ซึ่งนั่นแน่นอนว่ารักจากครอบครัวเป็นรักที่บริสุทธิ์ ไม่มีเหตุผลใดมาโต้แย้งได้

บาง คนพยายามเข้าใจความหมายและนัยโดยแท้ของรัก แต่กลับกลายเป็นว่ายิ่งทำความพยายามเข้าใจมันมากเท่าไหร่กลับยิ่งเข้าใจมัน น้อยลง....เหตุผลเหรอ ? หรือใช้เหตุผลกับมันมากไป >>>นั่นก็อาจจะใช่...หรือในทางกลับกัน ในบางสถาณการณ์ เหตุผลที่จะรักก็เป็นสิ่งที่ถูกยกมาเป็นปัจจัยและกลับกลายเป็นประเด็นให้ถก เถียงกัน!

บางคนเข้าใจและให้ความสำคัญกับรักผิดออกไป รักกลับกลายเป็นเครื่องมือ, มาตรวัด หรือดัชนีบ่งบอกค่าอะไรบางอย่าง เช่น การที่ถูกรักโดยคนมากมายนั่นบ่งบอกถึงคุณค่าของตนเอง...!!!!!!!!

Monday, June 29, 2009

Tuesday, June 23, 2009