#9 | Oxygen Advertisement Poster & My Self Portrait.

This week's work is to create a poster to advertise the Coca Cola's new product, oxygen. My group consist of Xiao Lin, Myu and Rita. First of all, we went home to design how the container should look like and then met up at the library to discuss which was better. We then decide on the colours, the fonts and the price of the product. 
Our target market is the elderly, we did not want the poster to look overcrowded so we chose to keep it plain and simple. Less is more right? The bottle it designed to look like the Earth with the both side indented so it has a better grasp and it looks like you have the world in your hands. The straw is shaped into chemical formula of oxygen. We tried to keep it as simple as possible so our poster is inspired by perfume advertisements. We priced it at $67 because our group consisted of Chinese and Indian, 6 which is a lucky number for Chinese and 7, a lucky number for Indians. We also choose this price because we wanted it to be a luxury product like tonics. I gained a lot of things from this project because it felt like we have a real client. And this time everyone worked very well with each other. I used to think that doing a poster, it just have to look good aesthetically. After this project, I learnt that other than making it look good, we have to about other aspects too. Example, the target market, the price, the placement and the fonts etc. 
---------------------------------------------------------------------- This week, Ms Ho made us draw a portrait of ourselves with the stuffs we like and represents us. Initially, I didn't know where to start so I decided to do the easiest, which is drawing a face. Then adding the things I like to fit the different parts. I did not attempt to make it look pretty, think too much of the placement. Because if too much thought was put into it, I don't think it'll be who I really am, instead it'll be who I wish I am, does that make sense?



Let's start from the hair, it is tied this way because I believe there'll always still be a kid in me no matter how old I get. As for the colours, it is what it is, I LOVE COLOURS ON MY HAIR! The headband's a volleyball net and my eyeballs are volleyball, I don't think I need to elaborate any further for my love for that sport right? Brushes for eyebrows because I love to draw and paint! Should have draw pencil for one side... Eyeliner because I prefer myself made up. And those are not random scribbles on my cheeks, they're my horoscopes's logo, Aquarius! Yinyang for my mouth because I think I'm both extrovert and introvert, and a little of the other in each of them. The dollar sign choker is to show how I feel about our world. How everyone and everything is revolving around money, including myself. The hand is my favourite cartoon Stitch's. And I hope one day, all of us can pull ourselves out of the world that only cares about money.

#8 | Faces.

This week, our topic was Pareidolia which means seeing faces on things, skies or anywhere that was not intended to look like faces. I thought it was pretty difficult. I do see faces a lot because I'm someone that thinks a lot but when you're asked to do or in this case spot something, all of them just go hiding. But I still manage to get some interesting ones in school! Hopefully you guys can see the faces!!!  These are the 3 more interesting ones that I took.






I tried to spot faces that are not as obvious like the others which has the '_' and '.' face created by the windows and doors or walls. I hope the face is still visible though because it gets very interesting when you are able to spot them because they are not intentional! 
And this are some of the "faces" taken by my group mates, Myu and Xiao Lin.

#7 | Julie Burstein & The Marshmallow Challenge.

This week, our homework was to watch a video of Julie Burstein giving a talk on 4 lessons in creativity. I feel that creativity is born in everybody and it changes with the surrounding. Different people inspire me to use my creativity in different ways. And I learnt that creativity isn't always about art because people can use their creativity in their everyday lives. Nowadays, people don't appreciate what they have and we have a lot of things given to us. We don't use our creativity as much when it comes to solving problems. We don't realize that we are capable of thinking creatively and think of only logical ways.
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Rita and I was grouped with Samyu and Xiao Lin because we did not have enough group mates. Everyone was awkward at first but I'm glad the challenge made us closer as classmates. We started out wanting the spaghetti to be arranged like a campfire. The whole thing was strong until one of us taped the spaghetti too hard and it started breaking apart. We did not have the tallest and most stable one in the end but we were determined to make it work even after the time have stopped and the winner announced.  I was very glad we did not blame each other when spaghetti starts breaking instead we thought of ways to fix it. That's what we should do right? No point crying over spilled milk, just think of a way to fix everything and you might end up with better results!

#5 | 3 Artist/People That Inspired Me.

Peter Underhill

He is the creator of the collectable Bad Taste Bears. I came across them when I was browsing through a figurine shop and BTB immediately caught my eye. Teddy bears, something that little kids or maybe even adults love because they are just so adorable and cuddly. But Peter Underhill did not make them "adorable and cuddly". He was designing a range of cutesy bears to be printed onto little girl's pyjamas. To clear his head after becoming "all cuted out" he drew his first ever Bad Taste Bear, "Hey kiddies! Here's the chainsaw bear!" He enjoyed drawing it so much that he started putting a list together and drawing and painting bears in "interesting" situations and a distorted view of reality as a release for his twisted imagination.

I love how he has this crazy mind, as I would call it. Because of it, he came up with something that is different and one of a kind.

 

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Mark Ryden

He is an American painter, part of the Lowbrow (or Pop Surrealist) art movement. He was also dubbed "the god-father of pop surrealism" by Interview Magazine. I'm very inspired by him because firstly, he is a surrealist artist and because his artworks always have a certain sadness and mysterious vibe to them. I never like dolls because they look creepy but I especially love the eerie dolls in his artworks.

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Low Kay Hwa

The last one, is a Singaporean Novelist. I am not someone that particular love books, but his books caught my attention. The first story I read from him was "A Singapore Love Story", I remember myself finishing the book in 1 day when I was in Secondary 4. Teachers even had to confiscate the book because I couldn't stop reading it. The second book I read is "Lilith". I am looking forward to read more of his books after reading the summary of all of them in the bookstore. To me, there's always this "dark" feeling in his book. Like works of a crazy person. I love the twist he always have in his stories, the very "dark" feeling it gives and actually how true his stories are to reality.

The Perfect Story is the next book I want to read of his because I feel that he's talking about himself. This is the summary:

To create a convincing story, the writer has to detach himself from the real world.

The process of writing an outstanding story is frightening. In fact, frightening is too mild a word. Obsession would be an understatement as well. The accurate word to express the process will be severance. The writer severs all ties with reality and becomes a new person.

He talks to imaginary people. He acts out imaginary scenes. He walks in the dark to feel the fear. He cuts his hand to feel the character’s pain. He experiences the full flurry of emotions that the characters feel.

He lives a solitary life and teeters on the edge of sanity.

He grows up with the story. His only friends are the characters. His only foes are the characters. His only respite is to write the last word of the story.

Often, the writing reaches a stage where it possesses the writer’s entire being; scenes are constructed from his memories; the story becomes part of his life. He no longer writes the story; he lives in it.

All these sacrifices just to fulfil one desire. To write The Perfect Story.