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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Mass?

Ed Book, Lonesome, viewed on March 25th 2007
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When take look at this image, you are first attracted by the brighter zone. Right? It's because of the effect of negative space which is a black area located in the high half of picture. Moreover, people eyes tend to be caught by the hot colors first. Then, you look through the picture and give more attention to five chairs beside the lake, right? Try to predict the mood of the picture...

For me, this image creates a mood of desolation. Five chairs can present for five people. Usually, they five have the same gender. The use of rhythm here gives the feeling of share and sympathy while they are in the same condition...

NOW...

The picture would have remained these moods unless something had not occurred. It's hard for you guys to see it if you are seeing the normal size of the pic. Now, click on the image to enlarge it.

The thing that you can not easily see in normal size is something very small in the dark area above main part. See it? Yes, a white dot...

For me, it looks like a star, the unique star in the sky, is shining...

Now, the mood could be changed, at least, for me. When I found the star I looked back to the five chairs and now, I felt that they were looking at the star. The new mood is created here is that: Five people are looking forward to something brighter, something newer,and something...extraordinary for their lives.

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P/S: Even the author of this picture had not realized the star before he posted it onto Internet. He thought it was just a fail pixel. The audiences, the other photographers pointed out it.

SymmeTricaL and asymmetriCAL Balance

Balance is the most significant element in design, it can produce equality, emotions and important parts of the artwork. I started studying about it in DIM 2 class and I found out that I have to experiment a lot in order to work well in that field. I tend to look at other authors' art work, see how they present their ideas using balance.

To me, symmetrical balance is the easiest concept to realize in design because of its simplicity and there are many illustrations using this concept in the world of art.

Elisabeth E, Space Variation, viewed on March 24th 2007

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This image looks like a combination of 4 stone stairs located in 4 corners of the frame. It's easy to see that there are vertical and horizontal symmetries.

More than that, to me, it creates a mood of protection to the center where the thing looks like an eye was put.

Asymmetrical balance is quite harder than the concept of symmetrical balance, at least, to me.
However, artworks which are designed in symmetrical balance is often more interesting and more creative.

JudyBooty, Before Rome Fell_Part II, viewed on March 24 2007

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This poster was designed for Before Rome Fell band. I didn't know this band and also the purpose of the author when creating it, I took it just because it looks asymmetrical. The most of the design (the man and the flower) is placed in the right side of the image and look unbalanced compared to a small branch located in the left side. However, the whole image still fine.

Cbugster, BrainGame, viewed on March 24/3/2007

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Again, although the complex part of this work, the flower, was put in the right below corner, the big word on the left top made whole image look balanced asymmetrically.

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Texture

After I had studied about design elements in DIM 2 class, I found that there is one thing I haven’t known before, maybe I saw it but I did not know how to explain, It’s TEXTURE. Therefore, I spent some time to look at some image that I got before to find something related to the texture concept. Here they are:

Umair Ghani, Butterflies in the Wall [Wedding Against Will], viewed on March 14th 2007

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This picture looks like an old wall, to me, because of some fissures and dirty traces somewhere. This kind of texture makes the image look like it was created hundred years ago.

(From Internet, I don't remember where I got it)

The second image, again, is old, but now a wall anymore. It’s a book. The way the paper was designed is so interesting. When looking at it, I can imagine about the Chinese paper which was used a long time ago. Besides, the scene drawn there also looks like Chinese scene, such as the mountain, the pagoda in the hill.
The style of ancient Chinese has affected me a lot since I started reading books and watching films about them. It somehow looks romantic and free; they can release me from the busy of this world, especially the flute’s sound.

Next are two interesting images:

Mehmet Ozgur, Incensed-You are not alone, viewed on March, 14th, 2007

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Stephan Brauchli, Chicken?, viewed on March 17th 2007

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They make audience think of incense. I’m not sure whether it can be considered texture or not. However, if these 2 images are made by the normal way with normal lines and curves, they won’t have anything attractive.

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Positive & Negative spaces

I have found some interesting illustration using Positive & Negative space in design. Let's take a look:

erdogan atilla, Fisherman, viewed on March, 12h 2006

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Grigor Atanasov, Minimalistic, viewed on March, 12th, 2007

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Biswajit Pandey, ...Spotlight..., viewed on March, 12th, 2007

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They also abstract images.

Compositions

Andrei Nacu, viewed on August 19th 2006

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When I took a first look at this picture a long time ago, I liked it just because it looks emotional and different from others.
Now, when I re-see it, I find something more than that. This picture are certainly manipulated before appearing on Internet.

First of all, the Dominance and Subordination, the author used the dark color to present all elements in his art work: 2 people, an area outside them and an area looks like the scene outside the window. When we first look at it, we tend to see the scene outside the window first, because it's a little bit lighter so it attracts our views. Moreover, the scene where two people are located is put in the up side of center area, so again it dominates the audience's attentions.

Second, the Positive and Negative space, here, the positive place is the shape of two people and the negative space is the scene outside the window. The black area under and around a couple could be considered as both negative and positive spaces. When looking at the picture, I can determine the black area as a room, so it's positive place for me, but it could be nothing for other audiences. Furthermore, the negative space, here, is the scene outside the window, plays a role of making the balance of the art work, also, it's function is to attract people's views. That's the interesting point I like this picture.

Third, the Rule of Third, I have tried to do a little thing on this image after studied about Proportion in DIM2 class. Here is the result:

To conclude, this image had a few things specially which caught my attention of it. In design principle, it has a dominance element, an extraordinary combination of positive and negative place, the proportion - one of elements that can make beauties. In the sentiment field, I find this image is presenting the serious atmosphere between the man and the woman. It could be a break up, could be an argument. Overall, it's sad like my emotion in this time...

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My Icon

Alright, at last, I finished my icon. It looks simple, both shape and colors. My icon is made of 4 letters of my name. Moreover, the colors I chose also contribute the way this icon represents my name. My name is V I E T but as you can see, there are V, E, T, right? where's the I? Let's take a look and find, , and write down in comment box, if you don't mind :D .

Most of colors I used are hot colors such as yellow, orange, red and dark red. They can represent my characteristics a little bit. For example, I'm warm in friendship, ardent in love and fervid in work. As you see, I arranged my letters to look like the heart. However, I try to cover myself with an around border which was colored by gradient of a lot of brown and little white. This combination, to me, used to show a cold and non-welcomed state which I look everyday.

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