:: Sharing_Mural Design assignment ::

A challenging assignment that i need to present it without any icon and shapes.

1. Design of Astronomical Observatory Complex.

2. Design of Acheological Museum.

:: Sharing_Momument design assignment ::

My monument design for KPPK.

Above this picture is unalterd KPPK building,
and below this picture is the altered KPPK building with my monument design.

:: Second week Sharing_2 ::

When the phenomenon of global warming is getting worst, natural disaster is frequently happen. Everything tend to being lost, but there still having some natural phenomena happen at anytime, and the best from them is, they are harmless. They are arts and designs.


Okay, the opening is fuzzy, well what i wan to say is all about Proverb, the beauty of Proverb.

Proverb, itself having an influence to everyone, it is just equal to everyone's favourite quotation and Quote as well.

There is a proverb that i always used to encourage myself, it is Never Too Late To Study. It seems to be some kind of old school, but it works on me.

In the field of Art, there are a lot of fine proverb should be explored by everyone.

I found a proverb 'Art is Unconditional' where written in a webpage called GalleryGiselle.com and i ponder deeply over it's meaning lately.



From the description, i am absolute agreed to it : "you see, when you think about it that way, thats exafctly why great minds become mad, they reject the brain's beauty and often miss out on so many other tools of expression, which this world, this playground we are all in, has on offer."

:: Second week Sharing_1 ::

Intended to share some succinct logo.
They seems like an object, and in the mean time they having a hidden message.
Necite logo

Guild of Food Writers logo

ED logo

Elefon logo

Blade logo

American Institude of Architechs Center logo

:: MMI 1023_ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN_Form Follow Function, Function Follow Form ::

What is 'Form Follow Function, Function Follow Form'?

As my knowledge,
The First 3 Fs: Form Follow Function,
- From the term of Form, i think it is considered as an object or subject.
- The term of Follow might be 'follow on', 'follow through' or 'follow up'.
- The term of Function can be 'rules', or 'function' itself.
- The sequence of 'form follow function', it may wants to bring up the meaning of the form of an object or a subject is formed by regarding the function or rules which has been established.
- Everything was fixed, orderly.

The Second 3 Fs: Function Follow Form.
- Due to the opposite arrangement, it brings another meaning.
- And these three terms were not remained the total same meaning as what i had mentioned above.
- 'function follow form', it may wants to bring up the meaning of a function or call it as ceremony was formed by regarding the commander or director.
- For example, a poster design with typograpghy is designed by how the designer wants it to be, the designer can choose the typeface either san-serif or serif.
-Everything can be vary, changeable and flexible.

In addition, the explaination of Form Follow Function from Wikipedia is:
- a principle associated with modern architecture and industrial design in the 20th century. The principle is that the shape of a building or object should be primiraly based upon its intended function or purpose.

and the following, is the video of Form Follow Function from LifeVideopedia:

Form Follows Function Architecture Principle

and the video of Function Follow Form:

Function Follow Form Architecture Principle

:: First week Sharing_3 ::

This post, im would like to talk about sustainable design, which is the topic i supposed to continue after ecodesign.

So, what is sustainable design?

From the term of sustainable, it means supportable as well. Sustainable design also called environmental design. From Wikipedia, the intention of sustainable design is to eliminate negative environmental impact completely through skillful, sensitive design.

There are some principles of sustainable design(retrived from The Green House):

1. Optimizing use of the sun.
2. Improving indoor air quality.
3. Using the land responsibility.
4. Creating high-performance and moisture-resistance houses.
5. Wisely using the Earth's natural resources.

:: First week Sharing_2 ::

There are some other topics similar with environmental design. They are ecodesign and sustainable design.

What is ecodesign?

Ecodesign is a approach to design of a product with special cinsideration for the environmental impacts of the product during its whole lifecycle. - retrived from Wikipedia.

What does the term of 'lifecycle' means in the statement above?
- Well, i found out that 'lifecycle' is having the similar meaning of 'the guidelines of ecodesign'.

What are the guidelines of ecodesign?
- Firstly, i want to say what is the purpose of those guidelines.
- The purpose of those guidelines, or we can say the existances of those guidelines is to comprehend the benefits or the harms of a product impacts on the environment.

There are 7 guidelines for ecodesign.

1. Do not design products, but lifecycle.
- From this statement, we can understand that people should not only have to consider about the design, people also have to consider about the lifecycle as well.
- For example, Do not design 'green' products. Instead, people should design environmentally sound product lifecycle. People should think about what are the materials they should use.

2. Natural materials are not always better.
- For example of some products are made from wood. They cannot be recycle, but plastics can often be recycled.

3. Energy consumption: often underestimated.
- This means the total sum of overall energy of the process on the product being produce is worth than the total sum of each part of the product being process.
- Maybe this simple example can clearly interpreted.

a. 10kWh electricity needs 2kg of oil.
b. Making 1kg of plastic needs 1.5 to 2.5kg of oil.
c. A coffee machine uses 300kWh electricity during it's lifetime, equal to 60kg of oil.
d. For the production of the machine less than 1kg of plastic of used.

- People normally underestimate the environmental impacts of energy as you cannot hold electricity or gas in your hands.

4. Increase product lifetime.
- The way to increase the lifetime of a product is make it more durable from a technical point of view, or make it upgradeable.
- For example, allowing the product to insert latest chip in a computer, washing machine or television.

5. Do not design products, but services.
-Here, the statement for this guidline: A service rather than a product can be the right solution.
- People do not always want a product, their intention of buying a product is because they want a solution for a certain problem, thats all!

6. Use a minimun of material.
- Minimize the weight of a product, which means less fuel consumption.

7. Use recycled materials.
- People always unstatisfied. Why? It is because people nowadays keep searching others materials to make a product recyclable. Why dont they just use recycled materials as much as possible?
- As i mentioned in second guidline, use the material which can be often recycled.
- If there is a demand for recycled materials, the supply will follow certainly.

Well, the last thing i would i like to say about this ecodesign is, people can make a huge improvements by simply asking the very obvious "WHY?".

:: First week Sharing_1 ::

What is environmental design?

Well, when these terms came to me, my thought was design something related to the world, something related to the surroundings and the term of environment friendly pop-up in my mind.

From Wikipedia, the definition is more formal, environmental design is the process of addressing surrounding environmental parametrs when devising plans, policies, buildings or products. Classical prudent design always considered environmental factors.

Some examples of environmental design:

Nanyang Technology University, Singapore ArtSchool.

Kandalama Hotel Sri Lanka.

Culter Anderson Architech, Washington.

ACROS Fukuoka Building, Japan.

There are more environmental designe buildings, here.

:: MMI 1023_ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN_Concept Store ::

Concept store is not fuctioning like retail store. The range of products in a concept store can be defined. For instance, Padini concept store, applied the concept of one-stop-shopping, which is all brands in one store.

The Brands in Padini concept store are Padini, Seed, Vincci, PDI, Padini Authentics, P & Co, Miki Kids & Miki Maternity.

There are much more concept store can be found in Malaysia. For instance, Sasa, Croc, Elle, Shinma, Le Sac Shoppe and etc.

In the nutshell, concept store is a convinence store that let people shop with a fruitful results.

:: S's sharing( : ::

phew, i have been a long time never blog about what i am doing recently, kinda feel like i have lost my orientation of 4w1h-design. When i am designing a thing, 4wh1 was the first thing came into my mind. They are: what should i, which should i, who should i, when should i and how should i.

So, now is the third week of my second semester, some assignments were briefed, and i started to do some researches on video productions and environment design( ass again, lol~ ).

In the mean time, i also got a freelance job from my kakak @ ex-classmate from TarCollege( : Kakak asked me to customize her friends into cartoon potrait, so for me it is kinda easy to draw, i dont think that will waste my time and money, neither( :

here, i want to share my cartoonized portrait and wish to get some feedback from whoever read my blog~( :

and this is kakak's friends,

my sketches, kakak asked my to draw them into some kinda partner,

so, i drew it became...

after that, i traced my sketches into an A4 paper, adjust the figure nicely, composition and blabla~

and, lastly.. i will update my illustrate cartoon potrait in this coming friday~ *paiseh, heheXD*

:: Final Assignment_Advertising evolve Creative Multimedia ::

Group members:

Khoo Seng Fui 1101108877
Lee Pui Sun 1101108875
Soh Jian Yuan 1091104099

Wong Shu Ping 1101108901

Yeoh Zhi Sheng 1091102952

First step: We drew a logical mindmap about Creative Multimedia, and Design is our key word.

Second step: Design report.

After consulted: We changed Design into Advertising.

Third step: We got our design concept, Advertising evolves Creative Multimedia.

Forth step: Research and sketches from us.

Sketches from Khoo Seng Fui,

sketches from Lee Pui Sun,

sketches from Soh Jian Yuan,

sketches from Wong Shu Ping,

and sketches from Yeoh Zhi Sheng.

Last step: Sketches and illustrated poster.

SIXTH LESSON :: Random Word/ Image Association ::

Random Word- Kitten

Situation- Create "Scary Images or Object" that will instill fear among people through out the ages.


The picture above is my drawing of a kitten with different words. Anticlockwise from the top is bloody face, think whiskers, irregular shape and bright colors.

Association of the four words:

1. Bloody face: make it terrible and violent as well.

2. Thick whickers: make it unusual.

3. Irregular shape: to bring up the term of wreak.

4. Bright colors: Evil and yet unique.

In practise What might is mean?

When we combine these elements togather, it formed a scary kitten and looks lascivious as well.

Full kitten drawing

Close-up of the kitten

:: Analogy Excercise ::

Love is like a chilli, full with passion.

It's taste kill human's thinking.

It's seeds bring innocent lifes.

Life is like the light of a candle.

It is exhauting to stay alive by itself.

Yet, it learn a lot from it too.

Man is like a mortar and pastel.

Strong and reliable.

generous and lovable.

:: JUXTAPOSITION ll ::

My understanding from this lesson is,

Juxtaposition of analogy can be divided into two, which is : Metaphor and Similies.

Metaphor is a figure of speech.

The example of metaphor statement and similies statement is,

Metaphor : Life is a box of chocolate, you will never know what you will get!

Similies : Life is like a maze in which you try to avoid the exit.

From the two examples above, the differences between them is, metaphor statement never add 'like' or 'as', but similies statement.

In the analogy itself, it has logical analogies and affective analogies.

From the fifth slide of "Lesson 5.4 Juxtaposition" powerpoint,

Logical analogies is analogies, which use similarities in the design or function to connect back the subject. For example, the whale and submarine, both of them can dive into the depth of the sea, and yet they still need to surface for air.

Affective analogies is the emotional resemblance. For example, he is like a pig ( because he is lazy ), she is like an ant ( because she is hardworking ).

Before end, i wish to show a picture, u might guess what kind of analogy they have applied on it. A train and a woman, as shown in the photo, how your brain works on this?

Well, what you think on this picture is what i think

and,

this is a picture of "Metaphor". ( please highlight to see the answer :)

Vl :: Sharing Creative Thought :: Public Image

Its my pleasure to intro this guy who has a wonderful voice, Sam Tsui.


Sam Tsui
- is an American internet celebrity. *rose to fame on Youtube after covering and performing original medleys of songs by artists such as Micheal Jackson, Lade Gaga, and Beyonce.*
- Currently an undergraduate at Yale University.

Tsui Youtube Career
- July 2010, Tsui's classmate Kurt Scheider har garnered over sixty million views with a total of 52 videos uploaded. *more*

There are 5videos of Sam Tsui that i like the most.

The first and second is Micheal Jackson Medley and Don't Stop Believing, this is their most viewed video, both are more than ten million views~! The third is Nothing On You, The forth is Need You Now, and Replay.

Here are the 5videos i want to show, and please enjoy~( :

Micheal Jackson Medley

Don't Stop Believing - original singer: Journey.

Nothing On You - original singer: Bob

Need You Now - orginal singer: Lady Antebellum

Replay - original singer: iyaz

Hows your feeling after listening to his voice?

*you can leave your impression on Sam Tsui in the comment box below ( :*

For me, his voice is just like a medicine for me when im rushing assignments~!

Well, you may search his name in Youtube for more fascinating edition~!

FIFTH LESSON :: JUXTAPOSITION ::

What is Juxtaposition? There is another term has similar meaning with juxtaposition, which is antonym. Antonym, is a word that has the opposite meaning as another word and Juxtaposition is literary, synonymous with contrast, two objects or texts that oppose one another.

Some examples of antonym that found from Wikipedia are :

dead and alive

old and new

big and small

young and old
on and off
light and dark

For more examples, u might click here.

Apart from that, the examples of Justaposition pictures i surf from net are :

1. Juxtaposition of Print Ads :

Healthy print ads and Cigarette.

2. Justaposition of Website :

3. Juxtaposition of Buildang :

4. Juxtaposition in Sports :

Juxtaposition in Expression :

Look at The President of U.S, Obama and the people all around him. He remains cool and calm.

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