People

Whenever I'm lack of design idea, PEOPLE are always the best source of inspiration.

I like to ask suggestion from others, even though I will consider others' opinion, but on the other hand, I will never lost my style in design. For me, as a designer, you should have your own style of design, no matter what concept you are working on. 

I like to ask opinion from different people such as my course mate, who eventually has a better professional ability in giving opinion, and also my family. I trusted my family, so I believe that they will tell the truth of everything regarding my design whether it was bad what are the improvment have to be done.

 

Final photo

Hi readers~!

My second trimester as a graphic design student has almost come to an end, therefore alot of final project are waiting for me to submit.

Honestly, I'm not satisfied with my exam result, especially my digital photography result. It was bad.

The final project is the last chance for me to get an A for this subject. 

Therefore, I had choose an interesting subject matter, temple.

Hopefully these photo were able to improve my GPA #prayhard

Chinese temple
Photographer: Lee Yeh Hwan
Camera: Canon 700D

Hindu temple
Photographer: Lee Yeh Hwan
Camera: Canon 700D

Rilakkuma リラックマ

Hi readers~!
Have you all ever heard about Rilakkuma? Rilakkuma is a popular soft toy character created by San-X company.

Rilakkuma is a term with combination of rilak-relax and kuma-bear in Japanese. This mean the character has a characteristic which is lazy and relax.

Somehow, this character inspired me for my mascot in my CCD project. The product I'm working on is a aromatherapy soft toy bear (which is I had mentioned on my previous post), therefore, the concept of my mascot should by cute and relaxation. Rilakkuma has always been my favorite character since the first time I saw it two years ago. The colour used and the proportion of the character in such a way suggested my mascot relax and calmful appearance.
Well, this is how it looks like originally by me.

Product inspiration

Hi readers~!

In my CCD project, I had gain my inspiration from a soft toy bear named Bridestowe lavender bear.

What so special about this toy bear is that it has lavender scent with it. This is because these bear have real organic dried lavender inside them. In another word, this soft toy bear not only look nice and hug-able but also have aromatherapy ability.

With this idea, I'd like to elaborate it further by adding a few other choices of scent such as lily, jasmine, lemon grass, and rose. These flower respectively have different function in aromatherapy, therefore, with expanded choices of flower to attract customers with different needs. Besides that, different flower can also gives different colour choices of the toy bear, for example, bear with dried lavender are purple in colour, rose ae pink, lemon grass are yellow, lily are beige and etc.

As a conclusion, with a little bit of reative idea and different choices of product will increase our target group and therefore increase our product sales.

Vampire's diaries

Dear diary,..
The vampire diaries is a hit drama since it was released, I am one of the biggest fans of TVD out there.
The main reason I love this drama so much of cause is because of their wonderful character and unpredictable story. But something very special about this drama is that the mysterious feeling created lively shown through the drama.

I had mention about my storyboard assignment on my previous post, The Secret Agent. Well, the story was actually inspired by the character from TVD.

There are several scene in the drama where they have the masquerade party.
It was covered by mysterious atmosphere, meanwhile visually attractive.

So, it inspired me to come out with the scene where the character of my story to appear at a masquerade ball. Then he meet the beautiful girl in the ball.

In the CUBE

If you're told to produce a 3D model that will represent you, what kind of design it will be?

I know you're special, no one in this world will ever replace you, but can u spell out what is so special about you specifically?

To do so, I had socked myself into brainstorming questions like this: 

What'd I like?

What is important to me?

What food, what colour, what style?

Who I like?

Who am I?

wh..wh..wh..

Yes, with a bunch of Wh-words question, fortunately,at the end I can roughly figured out what is so special about me.

My most important part of life are my family. My father and mother treated me like I'm their princess, but don't take my words wrong, they never spoiled me, when I was a girl, I used to think that they love my brother and sister more instead of loving me, but until I grow up, I can tell that their love for me had never been apart, their love are selfless. So I would like to say in their eyes, I shine bright like a diamond.

Therefore, I'd like the 3D model to be in diamond shape.

I've been told like millions of time that, the first time when people saw me, my first impression for them is that I am so skinny. I was an underweight kid throughout my whole childhood until today an underweight adult, can't blame me that because it was my family inheritance. So a good material to represent me? Satay stick is the best choice I think.

At the center of the diamond I will hang three important thing in my life.

Home, love and knowledge.

mind mapping

Hi readers~! Today I would like to share my way to brainstorm my idea.

Like any other students, I like to use mind maps to brainstorm my ideas. These are some example of my mind map.

As you can see, these mind map were strainght away drawn randomly using artline pen. It is not necessary to use an artline pen to do this, but im just kinda comfortable that way.

Mind map helps me to organised my idea. Sometimes, your had too much of ideas but they are just flying all over inside your head make you to do a harder decision. Well, mind map is here to help! All you have to do is just grab a pen and paper and write down anything that is in your head into a mind map. At the end, you just have to choose the idea with much potential in this paper.

I have always use this method in my design, and incredibly, this method not only helped my to organised my idea but further inspired me to think of other creative ideas.

Let's grab your favorite pen and a paper and let your thoughts flow now!

The Movie

Whenever I feel like lack of idea to design, I'd like to watch a movie to give me inspiration.
This is because it will temporary blank out my thought and give me spaces to reconstruct my thought.

Recently, I watch a movie named Dawn of the planet of the apes, and I think that it is one of the best movie of the year.
In this movie, personified apes are the main the character, these apes talk, walk, feel, think, and even know how to use a riffle. It also give awareness to the public that we must not harm any life in this planet, because who knows, maybe one day humans are not anymore the smartest animal in this world, and these animal will take revenge on us.

Humans biggest weakness is greedy. We will sacrifice anything that is necessary just to gain what we want. We chopped down the tree to make paper. We killed animals to produce luxury leather shoes. We just destroy the earth to get what we want.

This movie sent me a lot of messages, in the future, my designs will always be eco-friendly, and against any activity that will harm others living thing in this world.

practice make perfect

Hi readers~! Last Sunday I had had my photo shooting at the butterfly park at KL. Even though it is not a good day for photo shooting because of the haze , however it is a good experience and practice to photo shooting.
Photographer: Lee Yeh Hwan
 Camera: Canon 700D

And if you still remember this photo that in my older post, I had posted my first photography shooting using camera Nikon D5100 

Then in this photo shooting, I try to re-shoot this type of photo again and guess what I got?

 Tadaaa!! I personally like this photo so much. You can actually see some rainbow colour layer around the sun ray strike. When you compare these two photo, they are totally in two difference level. Looks like, after few weeks of practices and exercises, I had brushed up my photo shooting skill.

"Practice make perfect"this phase has always been my inspiration, we all know that practice can improve your skill in almost everything. Even if you have a creative idea to produce a product, but if lack of skill and experience to work on it, your work will filed to impress your idea. Keep on practice gives you experience and through these experiences, your skills and ability will rises.

In a nutshell, Creative idea isn't enough, you need certain level of experience and skill to produce a creative product and these can be done by never stop trying.