Art Nouveau - The Deepest Inspiration to Me

The Art Nouveau (c.1880 to 1910) were applied on the wide range of everyday life, from design, architecture, art, furniture, ect. It was a revolution because untill this time art was not allow to look at everyday objects.

Supporting by the industrializaion, Art-Nouveau things were mass produced. Therefore, the Art Nouveau became popular to most of people; and the price of Art-Nouveau was cheap, except pieces designed by famous artists or designers.

Art Nouveau had a deep influence on a variety of art and design movements then.
For example:
De Stijl, a Dutch design movement in the 1920s, and the German Bauhaus school in the 1920s and 1930s.

I love these curve lines, stylish flowers, leaves, seed, wood in Nouveau Art. I have created a new pattern based on this.

Art nouveau (c.1880 to 1910) vs Psychedelic Art (1960s)

(source: bbc.com; fontcraft.com)

Art nouveau (c.1880 to 1910)
--> Stop looking backward in history for ideas, but take inspiration from natural world.



Psychedelic Art (1960s)
--> Combine previous art styles together, including Victorian and Edwardian, the 1920s and art nouveau; presenting for post-modernism period.



Styles:

• Art nouveau:
  --> sinuous, elongated, curvy lines
  --> the whiplash line
  --> vertical lines and height
  --> stylised flowers, leaves, roots, buds and seedpods
  --> the female form - in a pre-Raphaelite pose with long, flowing hair
  --> exotic woods, marquetry, iridescent glass, silver and semi-precious stones

• Psychedelic Art:
  --> plastic and PVC
  --> disposable, throwaway
  --> multi-purpose furniture
  --> low-level
  --> revivalist
  --> fun, witty

Art Nouveau in Design:

Pattern

Fonts:

Psychedelic Art in Design:

Pattern:

Font:

RMIT Website Mock-ups - Applied User Experience Design

Based on what I have been taught about User Experience Design for web. I have created a new RMIT Website.

The Homepage:

The Subpage:

The description for the design:

Preferred screen size: 1024*768 OR 800*600 à both is okay
Navigation: Global navigation: using TABs à easy for visual trackingLocal navigation: on the left-side
Information presenting:Similar contents are put into modules
Font consistent: Arial for ALL
The big image at the centre of the Home page à should be in Flash à will show how advanced RMIT Vietnam is.
Warranty: having the same appearance on cross-platforms, safari, IE, Firefox.

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

TRADE OFF - I am trading off my money to get the experience

I was really imperssed by the term TRADE OFF that Don has told us!
We should trade off our money just for now to get real experience with a real client.

I have done this then! My friend's father has a company with 2 TOTO showrooms and he'd like to make brand stretagies to rainforce the indentity to the target customer's mind.

I have a freedom in creating all the designs and making the marketing strategy by myself; and he will take care the budget at appx US$1500.

The duration for this project is around 6 weeks (started from 4th March 2007)

Thanks to the "Creative Advertising" book, it has helped me much in sparking the ideas out. (^_^)

An Example of Design Creativity

The pakaging design is from 2POP company at http://www.2pop.com/

The design has followed the creative rule: combine things into 1 whole thing.

Spatial Experience

It's my own experience and I don't know if this feeling happens to the others as well!

A day as a normal day, I came back to my house from school; then I accidentally recognize that the scence was really strange to me, like i have never been there, my house. But this feeling just lasted for seconds, and the old feeling came back then.

I likes this feeling, so I tried to create it again and again. Trying to have a new spatial feeling of an familiar place; sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

I have thought about this feeling and try to explain it in a verbal way:
When you see a place over and over again, you eyes automatically has a habit of scanning things in a certain way.
For example, coming in your room, you would see you table first, then your windows, then your cabinet, then your bed, etc. --> so, table -> windows -> cabinet -> bed.
But for an un-concious moment, your brain has a chance to look in a random way, so you will look at your windows first, instead of your table --> your brain will lost its habit --> the brain will look things in a new way, till it realize the place is the familiar one to you --> the brain will come back to its habit again!

I would say the moment your brain freely to look things in a new way is really short and rarely, so try to remember this feeling, and force your brain to look at this new way again; if sucess, you would experience the new spatial feeling of the familiar place!!!

What do you think?

Multimedia - I am in the crossroad, which way to choose

Multimedia is the mother term for all kinds of media.
The childs are Graphic Design, Sound Design, Video Design, Web Design, Animation, and 3-D.
Each of them has its own passion to me!!!

Graphic design, I love the way you expressing the abstract idea in a visual maner. I love to play with texts, layouts, and put things together.

Sound design, it's interesting too! We can understand most of the world without seeing! Sometime, I imagined to be blind, and then listened to the surrounding world.

Video, I think it is a more complex form of graphic. Video reflects the realities and fantasy as well. Human is animal; animals are dynamic things, and that's why animals are more intersted in dynamic things rather than static things.

For example:
A hunter pretended to die at front of the bloody bear. Why he did so? Because the bear don't like the static, none-moving objects. The bear wouldn't care the hunter anymore and he lived!

Moreover, dynamic is an innate chracteristic of animal!
So, video, or animation in general might be the most interseting form for us to watch!

Web design, I don't have much interest on it! But I can do it if I have to!

Animation and 3-D, they are so COOL, I must say! This is the place for us to expand all of our dreams about the world. We can create any thing we can imagine virturally and visually!

The following is the rank for my abilities and skill for each form of multi-media for NOW:
1st --> Graphic Design
2nd --> Flash, animation
3th --> Web
4th --> Video
5th --> Sound
..
I don't know about 3-D.

So which way to choose now, i have no idea, i just do things i am keen on. Let's see how multi-media will drive me to where!