Design festival

Visited the place on Saturday, walked around and chanced along many interesting booths. However, my favourite booth would be The Moment.

The Moment

 

Mr. Charlie is a photographer actually, just that he ‘paints’ his photographs and makes them feel and look like it was painted instead of photographed. He showed us a demo in his dark room and we saw he only took 20seconds to ‘draw’ his portraits out. Here are some of his works:

Some guy with Edmund Chen

Evolving Chilli

Sad to say I didn’t take a picture with the artist himself or allowed him to draw me and my friends but I truly find his works inspirational and interesting enough to make me declare his booth as my favourite booth!

Visit 'The Moment'!

 

IDES week 2 (NTUC findings)

A part of our still-photo survey

As you can see, all the photos above have a relation to a festival – yep, Halloween. All of them has a story to tell on its own and they can be easily identified and linked back to its main purpose/content – which is the festival in this case. The colors used in the M&Ms packaging is similar to that of a pumpkin and hence the relation. Scary masks, scary cloaked figures to depict scariness and invoke fear into people, which leads us back to Halloween once again, since the festival is about scary ghosts, tricks or treats!

ides week 2 hw (quote?)

what do I desire?

 

more personal space to breathe,  lesser stress from assignments

IMM Week 13

1. What is a multimedia CD-ROM title?

A multimedia CD-ROM title consists of a series of content which does not consist of only text but also video, audio, graphics, stills and many more. They can be run on any computering software which has a CD drive and a sound card. With this, the user can interact with the content on the CD-ROM and it becomes a interactive experience for them.

2. What are some application of CD-ROM title design? Eg. Educational. Bring examples, if any.

One fruitful experience I had when I was around 6 to 7 years old was when my mom bought me a Kidsoft educational typing CD-ROM game to sort of improve my knowledge towards the computer. Basically the game teaches you to type fast, properly and correctly, with the visual aids of a cartoonish ghost who supposedly is your mentor, and it monitors your learning rate and speed.

It has good navigation, which allows and enables the user to go back to the stage where they previously stopped at, so that they do not have to start all over again or play non stop to improvise and unlock new levels of the game. They also have a clear toolbar which allows the user to stop, start, exit, replay, go back, move on and many more. The pop-up labels tell the user what each button does, which gives good indication and gives the user clear instructions for them to understand.

3. What are the differences between website design and CD-ROM title design?

The main difference is basically the size of each design. A website design works best with the maximum capacity space of less than 250kb or so, whereas for a CD-ROM title design, the allocated maximum space is around 700mb. Comparing with the two sizes, we can see that using a CD-ROM title design would be more appealing to designers who wishes to work with no size limit constraint. With 250kb, we constantly have to optimize our images in order not to allow slow loading time which in turn can frustrate visitors of our site, but however with 700mb, it allows a lot more space and a lot more freedom with what the designers want to do. It allows us to be more creative with our content, such as putting in music, images and a lot more flash stuff for the user to interact with to let them have a memorable interactive experience.

In conclusion, working for a CD-ROM title design is much more appealing than working for a website design because of the space issues.

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IMM Assignment 1 Part 2

Video of my good experience.

The below are the pictures of it:

krys and shing

me and my friend while waiting for the concert to start

IT IS STARTING!

Out came our idols. (S.H.E)

They performed like 4 songs because they were the special guests.

Description:
Initially my bunch of S.H.E friends wanted to go to this Yoga Lin concert just because our idols are the special guests for it, however after much thinking we decided not to. Suddenly a few days later, my friend got 2 free tickets and asked me if I wanted to go. I agreed instantly and off we went. The concert started with the main singer (Yoga) singing some songs and we waited quite long and anticipated for S.H.E to appear. Once they showed their faces on the stage, everybody (I think all for the S.H.E fanatics who were also present in this concert) went screaming their heads off to welcome them. They started off with a upbeat new song of theirs, which made the deafening atmosphere even higher. The video above was taken during the starting of their first song, which was ‘Miss Universe’. Everybody sang along to the song and watched them perform with their dances. After the song they interacted with the audience by chatting with them for a short while and proceeded to continue their songs. In all, I think it is certainly a very good experience for me as I haven’t been to their concert before (due to shortage of money). They had let me experience what it would feel like if this was THEIR concert, which convinced me even furthur to CONFIRM that I will be going to their future concerts!

Keywords to explain good experiences:
1) screamed
2) deafening atmosphere
3) higher
4) sang along
5) interacted
6) convinced
7) anticipated

GUID Science Centre Screen Mockup

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GUID Science Centre Screen Mockup 1.

Have to change colors to suit the vibrant outlook for Science Centre.  Update soon again.

IMM Assignment 1 Part 1

Sorry for the late posting for this part 1.

neoprint 1

neoprint 2

1. What happened?
Went out with my friends to celebrate her belated birthday, and also a mini catching-up session.

2. How did I react?
I think all of us were very excited when taking the neoprints because we wanted to make the picture as quirky and unique as possible. I also feel happy because I haven’t been seeing them for quite a long period.

3. What was my subjective response?
Happy, excited and nervous (due to thinking of crazy poses for the pictures)

4. Was the experience likely to be intentional or designed?
Intentional, because we decided to take them when we reached the area.

5. How does this experience affect what I think of the provider of the experience?
I am just happy that they didn’t close down at the area because many in this business either folded early or moved to somewhere else, and I’m thankful for them being there for letting us to capture that atmosphere at that time and providing memories for us to remember in the future.

IMM Wk 5

Site for the given flowchart.

http://www.leongshiying.com/imm