My book cover

So far, I haven't fixed it yet. The mistake here is that I didn't put a correct bleed.

Ao Lua Ha Dong trailers

This is the trailer of the film which has won the "Canh Dieu Vang" (Golden kite), the most honour prize in Film Festival 2007. This file is about the Vietnamese women in the War. War combined with the Love and were represented through The White Silk Dress (Ao Lua Ha Dong), a symbol of Vietnamese woman. The film is sympathetic and it has influence audience so much.
Another trailer in English.

...The Flyer

Again, Softball tournament but now is Flyer which I used 4 main behaviors when playing this, Throwing, Hitting, Running, Catching. Again, all of the needed information are provided in this flyer ( actually I miss the time).

A poster

This is the poster for Softball Tournament which is my final project's subject. The green I chose in purpose of being the same color with glass color. Moreover, I separated the poster into 2 colors, black and green because I want to represent the competition of two team. The Base which are in yellow were the metaphor for middle thing between them. The poster was simply design for people to get the information about Softball.

Continuance

When study about Design Principle which was taught in week 4, I have read a article about Gestalt theory. Gestalt is a basis study for making a good design. "Gestalt theory is involved with visual perception and the psychology of art among other things. It is concerned with the relationship between the parts and the whole of a composition" (Design note, 2000)


After read through whole article, I was interested in the concept of Continuance so I tried to look for something related, and here they are:

Long road, viewed on 27th January 2007
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www.visualparadox.com


Ceslovas Cesnakevicius, The return, viewed on March 31th, 2007
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This kind of continuance method is called Path. That is using path, road, railroad track, row of tree to lead viewers to a specific place (in these cases this place is far, far away point, for me). Also, the perspective method was used and again, the "far, far away point" is called vanishing point.

Mehmet Ozgur, Floating II, viewed on March, 25th, 2007
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This image was used the same technique as three images above but I post it separately from them because it's slightly different, for me. As Gestalt theory, the road lead viewers to the vanishing point in the right of the image. However, in the middle of the road, there's...a tree. And the tree, makes the continuance be ...cut.

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In period of doing presentation about typography, I intended to talk about Artext which is the way to present a photo by thousands of words.
Below is some illustrations:

Angel, source (click to enlarge)

Fade, source, (click to enlarge)

This method looks quite interesting and strange. In theory, pictures are made of thousands of pixels, now they are made of words, instead.

Moreover, the text that contains characters to make whole image can be customized by yourself.

To make a picture by this way, carefulness in color words are significant. If thay are done by hand, it's possible but will take a long time. In fact, they have a software to make those...

Just an interestingly meaningful video

Dony Permedi, Kiwi!, viewed on 4th April, 2007

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This video is made by a group of people in The School of Visual Arts. The film has been viewed over 7 million times since it was introduced.

About technical method, they made it by Maya and Adobe After Effect. The interesting things for me here are the idea and how they represented this idea.

I guess that you guys can easily get their ideas when finish watching it.

Enjoy!

Dynamism

There are many way to make a static image look dynamic. It means that, the objects inside the image look moving such as a car, a bird, etc. I found some below.

Use Rhythm and another effect:

Marco Turini, cristmas Ligt panning, viewed on 24th March, 2007

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This image gives me a feeling of movement using repetition and perspective. There are many clones of squares which were the combination of many lines. Many quadrates seem to be reaching to one invisible point.

The next image also used the rhythm concept in design to make dynamism. The repetition of water circles plus the size reducing make the movement is in the direction of right bottom to left top of the image.

Dean Agar, Pool V2, viewed on 31st March, 2007

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Use Blurry effect:

Floriana Barbu, The flight, viewed on 31st March, 2007

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This is more popular than the first one. The blurry image in their own way often makes dynamism. This picture is an example, the road are made to be blurry and seem to move to the audience. This effect makes a motorcycle looks like running. However, not all blur effects make something look moving, so be careful.

Next, the direction of auxiliary objects.

Look at this illustration and see how the man's tie and coat were directed to. The reversed direction is the way the man moving. Right?

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