When I have free time I like to design and make something useful and meaningful. This time I decide to make a small drawer so I could fill it with all the pins around my room. This design actually concerns with the final design tutor in DIM 2 which I show the viewer how to make the gift box in seven steps. Unfortunately I could not upload the flash up but I like the idea of so I make the real one based on that seven steps.
Idea and Sketching: As the basic steps for any design, the idea is very important and the users need to spend a lot of time on it. They need to do some research, learn about the box structure, how to use the basic skill in Illustrator and Photoshop etc. They also need to do some sketching draft paper so they could form what they want for their gift box (font, logo, color).
Concept Development: After drafting on paper, now the time to develop the design. I will give one box design so the user could base on it make their box or they could follow my instruction and make one like mine.
Design on the PC: As this step the users need to have some basic skills in Illustrator or they could draw on paper and scan into PC. They need to do technique drawing because making the box need the measurement.
Printing: using thick paper as the requirement so that the box will be built up nicely. The print
Paper cutting: The users need to spend a lot of time for this step.
Box contributing: As this step, the user need to pay attention to the tutorial and make it really carefully.
Final decorating: Using crystal or button to decorate on the final product. This step really depends on the eye of the users, make the final looks nice or not.
Kimiko was born in Japan but her career is most in France where the ideology about the woman doing art is more freedom than in Japan. She has created a lot of beautiful and abstract photographs since she has been working in France. Her photos are using from the unique metal to the hand made tools of the Indian in America to represent about the meaning of the space, the time, the empty and the creative characteristics of the artist. She has used the camera as the brush and the objects as the paints to create beautiful painting.
Kimiko has been kicked out from her house since she was 3 years old because her family could not afford the rent and maybe her special situation has become the power and the unlimited inspiration for her to create arts. She studied French literature in Tokyo at first but she found it is boring soon when the artist blood is spreading through her body. And then she tried the fashion design course but after all she decided to do art. She has went to Europe and she discovered a lot of differences to Japan, the culture, the art, the thinking etc. Looking her works, we could see a lot of topics such as: sex, woman, racism, etc. Kimiko has combined the cutting edge, the freedom, the strength of the Western female with the patient, the philosophy, the mystery of the Eastern female through her works. She has brought to us a lot of story about different people all around the world, each image seems like a story behind with the special costumes represent for different race in the world. It might be the white theme with the velvet of the Muslim female but it could the dark tone of the African female with their unique jewelry and bracelet etc.
The images are portrait type. The collection has shown us the colorful and variety of the wedding clothes in all over the world. Different culture gives us different color, jewelry, clothes. The inspiration for the collection came from the memory of Kimiko about her arranged married when she was young, therefore those pictures are also her own story, her own life experienced. Kimiko pays extra attention to the facial expression, especially the eyes: the sadness face, the curious eyes of the bride when she is seeing her husband the first time in the arranged marriage, or it could be the pale face of the young girl who is not ready to marry etc. The expression of the eyes and the costumes has become the strong point of the picture which makes the viewer thinking carefully about the fairness of life, about destiny, the unlucky situation of the woman around the world. The artist talent and her fashion design experience have helped her to achieve the ideas about the brides’ pictures collection from different country: Japan, Africa, China, South America etc. For each country, Kimiko brings to us the culture, the life style of that place, it could be the big and heavy wedding jewelry of the North African Brides, it could be also the velvet covers the whole face of the Muslim brides or the Pokemon represents for the Japanese manga etc. These pictures also are successful in using light to press the costumes and face expression into the dominance. The way she did with the color of the costumes and the tone of the background are so attractive, they might be black, white, yellow etc. It is really making the passengers stop by and watch the pictures carefully to think, to feel and to understand the real meaning behind it.
You could view more a bout her art works and her background at link:
http://www.kimiko.fr/
On the Saturday last week, 18th October, I participated in the Canon Marathon Photo Competition. My goal when taking part in this competition is gaining more experience about still life photography, making friends with other photographers and finding the inspiration for the new semester. That was the long day (from 6:30 am until 10 pm) but a lot of fun. Me and my cousin has travel through the city to take pics for three different topics: Speed and Motion,Water, Happy Moment. These pics below was my choice to compete with other opponents.
Happy Moment:
This photo was taken in the small alley in district III, the young couple just gave birth and I want to capture their happy moment with their baby.
Speed and Motion:
This picture was captured in district V, at the Chinese Medicine Producing Store. I took the picture through the plants leaves. The wind vibrated the leaves compete with the man's moving hand making medicine.
Water:
Water is one of the most important element to create the living of other creature on the earth. The position of this pic was actually a big trash on the side of the Pasteur street. I was kind stuck of ideas so I took this one with the meaning is war (against the topic) but there were ice cubes around the tank anyways.
The idea is about the solar eclipse when the sun covers the moon as the strong visual that we could see by our own eyes the relationship between the sun and the moon. But the timing is set a bit further in the future, when the earth is full of people and we have to move to the moon for living. Therefore the moon’s surface is covered by human facilities and their building. After trying different color for my design, I decided to pick the tone that I have the strongest feeling for.
Friday, 5 September 2008
UNFORTUNATEJUXTAPOSITION According to the poynteronline.org/content/content_view.asp, juxtaposition is the act of placing or positioning items in the image area of a photograph side by side or next to one another to illustrate some comparison. Unfortunate juxtaposition is the mistaking in placing images so the final meaning are awkwardly.
This picture above is an example of the unfortunate juxtaposition I took in Tao Dan Park. The skull sign represents for the death and dangerous is put nicely next to the drink selling machine. So in my opinion, the final meaning we got from this sign is that drinking soft drink is killing you.
Even though this picture is not a juxtaposition images as the definition but I still want to put it in because it also the two subjects matter were unfortunately put next each other. It might represent for what the developing country like Viet Nam Has to face to, the hole between the rich and poor are getting deeper and deeper. This picture is captured nearby Sky Garden, Phu My Hung. Just right next to the new luxury building is the house boat of the poor family still living by the river bank.
This is the other one I took in my own opinion. What the sign advertised compare to the real situation of the construction ( still blank ).
http://flickr.com/photos/33917790@N00/191195001/ chicken store vs beef store.
http://pzrservices.typepad.com/advertisingisgoodforyou/images/2007/11/17/sick_birdsjpg.jpg From CMM news, eating turkey and get bird flu.
There is a photography competition in the xonnhiepanh.com. You guys could visit through this website at the "xon xao xom ".
The topic is the photo essay of what are going on around us. I am going to post three different topics for this competition. Everyday we see the janitors on the street are cleaning our city. I am curious about their tough work and I want to go deep in to have the general look and feeling about one normal morning of the janitors. I want to create the mood that I have got through when I shot these images.
++ 4 am the empty alley ++ 4:15 am the janitors' tired face
++ shadow ++ the couple scarf
++ 5 am
++6 am time for meeting up
++ the other janitors fall asleep on the pavement after the long night cleaning the street.
++ a minute for a smoke and relaxing
++ thinking about future
++ a fresh start after a street sleep
++ things are trash with someone but useful with someone else
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