World Aids Day 2008

Do you remember that this semester, we have a quite big event called World Aids Day 2008? I am a member of RMIT HIV group and I designed the poster, standy and ticket for this event. This was a job that i like most in this years because it is a meaningful job that i can do to help people realize that danger of HIV. Let me show you my works

Macro

During last weekend, I also tried to take some Macro photos with my Tamron 90mm lens that I borrow my cousin. At the first time, it was hard to control this lens because it focus is to bad!. Anyway, please have a look on my macro photos.

My sister

I'm so happy now because my sister has just come back to Vietnam from Australia last weekend. Therefore I did take her out to take photos. These following photos are not Photoshoped, they are all original ^^

Uncle Ho and Typography

"Duong Kach Menh" is one of the most famous book of Ho Chi Minh who is usually called Uncle Ho, this book is now 80 years old. As I said in the title "Uncle Ho and Typography". why there is typography here? It is because of the title of the book "Duong Kach Menh" there is a spelling error here. "Kach" should be written as "Cach" even though the pronunciation is the same. Actually, people usually talk about the content of the book and they ignore the title. They don't try to understand why Uncle Ho write "Kach" instead of "Cach"? or they just explain that this is just Uncle Ho's writing style.

But I strongly believe that there is a relationship between the title and the content of the book. First of all, what does "Cach Menh" means? it means revolution. Moreover, in the first page of this book, Uncle Ho also explained that Cach Menh is that: the old and the bad one should be replaced by the new and the good one. That's why i believe that when he wrote the title, he played with the title by changing "Cach Menh" to "Kach Menh" which represent to the revolution and the replacement. 

Painter of Light

This is the picture of my Aikido Sensei, Ngo Khac Hoang, it is quite out focus and look like it was Photoshoped. However, this picture has not been touched by any software and it was taken with f6.3 and 25 second of exposure time!, Moreover, when it was taken, all the lights were turned off and the photographer only used a small flash lamp to "paint" on the model to create the light and shadow. How amazing is his technique!

This photographer is famous with the name "painter of light", his real name is Charlie Lim who is a Singaporean. For more information please visit his website: charlielim.com

Flash' Exercise (Typography)

This entry should be belonged to week8, sorry for my lately. During last weekend, i was crazy and angry with Flash, i cannot tell you how much i was crazy with Flash, i cannot export my 5MB typography fla file to mov file to post into this blog. My flash get stuck everytimes i try to export my work in to movie even though i have tried to choose the other compression types. Moreover, I already try to reinstall my ADOBE CS3 but it does not help. And then i try to upload my swf into blogspot via another host( by using HTML code) but I CAN'T, Merde! 

As you can see, even though the bar is full but Flash get stuck there, and of course i left it a whole night but there is nothing change. Why i cannot export just a 5MB fla file into Movie? Why i always have troubles with Flash ? Does anyone has same trouble like me?

Actually this work is showed in class last saturday, for those who was not in class this day you can click into the following link to see my work.

http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ss3175486rmit/images/detail/#262/allyeg4.swf

Playing with typography

I created this Bag for Iceberry, which is an imagination ice cream shop, I used pure Typography and color harmonies to design this bag. It is not bad in my opinion ^__^. ( I'm fascinated with typography now ^__^ )
Note: I designed this bag based on the idea oh my friend, who is studying PR now.