Carhartt

This exercise cost me a lot of time, at the beginning, i tried to recreate the brand name "carhartt" with many different ways and many different mixtures but they did not work. Finally, I take the idea from the Shirt (you can see above) of carhartt to create this works.

The secret Sex Life of Plants

This is my Gestalt Exercise, I try to illustrate the flowers by using the basic shapes and by applying the Gestalt Theory into it to make it more interesting. However, in my opinion, it is not as close as the Theories of Gestalt. If you have any idea to help me make it better, please give me your comments. Thank you very much.

Gestalt Theory

This week i studied the Gestalt Theory which is very important and necessary for designers. After that i when to the internet to look for some the others Art Works that based on Gestalt. I finally find out some very interesting Art Works of Jesse Bransford on his/her blogspot. These art works were drawed by pen and ink directly on paper.Moreover, by looking at these works i can understand more about the Gestalt Theory. Jesse Bransford just used and combined the basic shapes together and How amazing Brandsford made these Art Works?. I really really love them.

Jesse Bransford, Gestalt No. 24 (Apocalypse: Abraxas Annihilation), 1999, 40x65", Pen and ink on paper


Jesse Bransford, Gestalt No. 11 (Drowning By Numbers), 1998, 60x80", Pen and ink on paper.


Jesse Bransford, Gestalt No. 17 (History Lesson), 1998, Dimensions variable, Latex, marker and graphite on wall.

To see more Jesse Brandsford works, please visit Brandsford's blog: http://jesse-bransford.blogspot.com/search/label/Gestalt%20Drawings

The Sun and The Moon

In this entry, i will show you my design on The Sun and The Moon. This is an exercise from week2, our lecturer, Thierry asked us to design and to stylize the Sun and the Moon with our own style. Actually, this exercise is quite difficult for me because i have to draw by hand first (this is an extremely hard step because i can not tell my hands to do what i want !) and then trace my design again on computer by using Adobe Illustrator

When i designed my Sun and Moon and took the idea from the Sun of the ancient Aztecs. Actually, i did do the research about the Sun and The Moon of many different culture such as Japan, Egypt, China, ..v...v.. but i am really impressed by the Sun Stone of the Aztecs ( you can see the picture below).
I was socked when i did the research on the Sun Stone of the Aztecs, it was not only a amazing decoration but it was used as a calendar and an astronomical measuring system!


To see more information about the Sun Stone of the Aztecs, i strongly recommend you to go to this webstite : http://www.gizapyramid.com/CliveRoss4.htm

and Now go back to my design, i even though i simplified the Sun Stone of the Aztecs and combined it with the Moon, but i still keep the most important parts of the Sun Stone: earrings, 8 spears around the sun,... ( you should read the link the put above to understand how the Sun Stone "worked"). Moreover, when i design this work i also though about the shield of the Aztecs Warriors that they used in their wars

What is design?

This is my first entry in Semester 3, now i am studying Electronic Imaging & Design that has another "illegal name" is DIM 2,5. In this semester, i also have to keep working on the blog with 24 entries in this semester and this is not an easy stuff for me because my entries should relate to the lesson that i studied in class. Now let's move to my first entry in this semester.

What is design? this is the question that my lecturer, Thierry, give us in class and ask us to illustrate the definition of design. That's a cool exercise, let's me show you my work.

First of all, i give you the definition of design ( this definition was given by Thierry): Graphic Design is the business of making or choosing marks and arranging them on a surface to convey an idea.

The key words in this definition are: business, making, choosing, arranging, a surface and convey an idea. And this is my illustration for this definition ^_^ ( i hope that you can figure out what i was trying to do)

New art works

In this entry, I will show you my newest designs that I have just finished today.

My girl friend is now doing the marketing plan for Canon IXUS 80IS she asked me to design a cover of any magazine in which Canon IXUS 80 IS is promoted as a hot product to attract more customers. Actually, this is the first time I try to design the cover of a magazine so at the beginning I have so much difficulties and i did not know how and where should I start to design. In my opinion, the use of color and the compositon in this design are not so good but I am satisfied with my work.

The second work is the ads that I design for my team in BE2 class. The product is QGirl New York, a cosmetic line products of ICP Company. This ads was designed to promote QGirl New York on the magazines. I decided to use the very simple design but attractive so I only added the logo and the slogan of the product.

Sunny 16 Rule

In photography, how to get o right exposure is very important and it is not an easy work to do. To day, with the help of new technology and the arrival of DSLR, photographers have much more ease to get the right exposure. However, even the newest DSLR of Nikon, Canon, Sony etc.. can just give photographer the acceptable exposure to their photos. In this entry I will show you how to use Sunny 16 rule as a guide to exposure without a light meter.

Set your aperture to f/16 and set your shutter speed accord to your ISO film speed.
For example: for ISO film 100 you should set your shutter speed to 1/100 or 1/125. Actually, the shutter speed will not exactly equal to film speed but try to set it as close as possible to the film speed

There are the elaborated forms of Sunny 16 rule to use in different lighting conditions :

(source: http://www.camerareview.com/templates/sunny16.cfm)