Cheng Sing Yang

A Trip To National Museum

2011-06-15T07:18:00.001-07:00

Cave Painting / Lukisan Gua

What so interesting about this is that....People from century ago already start finding way to mark them-self in the future. What they paint is telling story of maybe a war between tribe and so much more to be explore. Well there are also different art style?? if you goggle "Cave Painting". There are Egyptian, Asian, and so on.... Much to explore, much to preserve.

From The Beginning of Life on Earth

(Correct me if I'm Wrong)
From the very beginning. Earth it self only have 1 continent and 1 sea. After a decade... Where earth go through some changes. Earthquake, natural disaster and it slowly separate the earth into different continent and this is what we get today. So what if the earth still 1 ? Will we have just 1 language ? 1 currency ? 1 skin color ? of course that is out of topic...

Layout (a.e.i.o.u Studio)

2011-01-18T09:59:00.001-08:00

Art stlye is basically follow back at their original website art style. They uses black stroke, i indicate into my design. I havn't add color.

As for the Home page. I added a big promotion banner where user will see when they open log into the website. Also have some tab. Which is New, Tips and Event. Where user can click and will direct the user to the page linked.
New, where the page showing New Product
Tips, video on how to wrap a present?? how to decorate a present with ribbon and so on...
Event., up coming event

In the Product page. there will be a moving panorama moving side way with the hottest item on the market. This will tell user which item have the most people bought. Also there will be a side category bar where user can choose the category and view the picture according to the category chosen.

Strategic Brief & Mood Board

2011-01-18T07:02:00.000-08:00

Project Definition:
To redesign the a.e.i.o.u Studio website. To help enhance the website by improving own their design, interaction flow and usability.

Current Site Analysis Goals:
Currently the website is just give a little information on what the Studio is about. And also show casing some of their product. User also able to get "Up Coming Event" from this website too.

Client's Analysis:
Is a gift products company that sell wide range of items. From: Boxes, greeting cards, wrapping paper to so much more.

Target Audience:
Young adults 14-21.

Competitor's Analysis:
-Design on their website mostly towards clean layout
-News product will be on the main page
-Categorize neatly in the product page

Idea & Concept Implementation:
Their art style is pretty good, it just that they didn't use that art style throughout the website. Will be using their art style to redesign the website.

Remove the splash page, and change it to a Promotion Page. Where there are promotions, sales, top product. Will be on the 1st page of the website.

In the product page. Create a side category and picture will be show in the middle of the page.

"Point of Purchase" will be change to "Where To Buy"

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Mood Board

Beautiful Commercial Website

2011-01-09T07:31:00.001-08:00

BEARBRICK
http://www.bearbrick.com/index.html

The artstyle of this website is certainty very unusual because of the influence of the product. There are options to change the language, but the position of that is a little bit weak. Interaction flow is clear, button is clear. Product page, show a big picture of the product for user to see.

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Crocs
http://www.crocs.com.my/index.php

Analysis:
The design of the website is clean cut, looks like very professional. They also applied the idea of "above the fold" and "under the fold". Just need to add some roll over effect on the some of the button, it will be much better. Usability is good

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Baskin Robbins
http://www.baskinrobbins.com.my/

Analysis:
Pretty fun website, interesting design on navigation button. With alittle movement on some of the graphic, make the website more attractive. Roll over effect also play an important role in this website. Flow of the website is smooth.

Website Photoshop Tutorials

2011-01-09T04:45:00.001-08:00

1.)http://www.hv-designs.co.uk/2007/10/10/web-design-layout-2-tutorial/

2.)http://www.talk-mania.com/web-layouts/42842-photographer-layout-portfolio-layout.html

3.) http://www.hv-designs.co.uk/2008/03/18/funky-web-design-layout/

4.) http://www.talk-mania.com/web-layouts/37340-urban-layout-perfect-web-design-company.html

HTML Tutorials

2011-01-09T04:22:00.000-08:00

1.) This teach how to create a Menu Bar
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/ddsmoothmenu.htm

2.) This teach how to create a more instresting design of scrooling
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex2/sagscroller.htm

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HTML Tutorials Website

1.)http://www.tizag.com/htmlT/

2.)http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/

3.)http://www.w3schools.com/

Competitors Website

2011-01-09T03:25:00.001-08:00

http://www.superiorgiftwrap.com/

Superior GIFTWRAP

Analysis:
The white space is too much in some of the page, will affect the user thinking the website is too empty. When the user click into a product. The page is totally different than the home page. But this website clearly show the design of the wrapping paper.

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http://www.papermart.com/
Paper Mart

Analysis:
The color is quite unfamiliar to me. I personally think the website is weak. With no typo treatment, and the arangement of the Layout is very messy. The side, when the page is long enought, when scrooling down it will follow the scrooll bar as you scroll down. Is a pretty usefull tricks, but I think they use it in the wrong way

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http://www.noblepackaging.com/

NOBLE Pakaging

Analysis:
Because this website is a international website. When a use go into the website, it ask the user to pick 1 out of 3 country to change the currency of the prize. User friendly website, user know where to click, where to go.

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http://emmakdesigns.com/

Emma K

Analysis:
This website is clean and with the touch of pink, it give a homey fell into the website. The menu button bar, the words inside can't really read. Because of the noisy background and the color combination. The navigation is quite clear.

Client Website & Site Map

2011-01-09T03:08:00.000-08:00

http://www.aeiou.com.my/index.html

a.e.i.o.u Studio
Analysis
The website is not bad already. With some animation and some simple graphic really brougth the website alive. The website currently is lacking of information. Placement of the logo is quite weak.

In the "Products" page, user might not know there are link inside to show the visual of the product.

In the "Point of Purchase" page. there are box for user to click, and it will open up another window to show a picture.

Site Map

Grantt Chart

2011-01-09T01:35:00.000-08:00

MoodBoard & SiteMap

2010-09-23T08:42:00.001-07:00

How To...... (Ideas)

2010-09-16T05:31:00.000-07:00

How to Take Care of a pet dog
1. Who am I - Experienced Pet Owner
2. Who is them- New Pet Owner
3. What for - To give them tips on what the do's and don'ts
4. 1st task - The different need of guard god and a house dog
5. 2nd task - tips on training the dog
6. 3rd task - What is big NO for a dog
7. 4th task - Facility to takes dogs for medication, grooming.....
8. Outcome - New Pet Owner will fell much more secure with his/her pet
9. Showcase - Gallery

how to make a good 1st impression for Men
1. Who am I - A Guy
2. Who is them - anyone
3. What for - to give a good impression to stranger
4. 1st task - Personal cleanliness
5. 2nd task - Clean and Polished face
6. 3rd task - Hairstyle
7. 4th task - Personal Style
8. Outcome - Feel more confident towards your personal style
9 Showcase - Gallery

how to make your dessert look interesting
1. Who am I - Pastry Chef
2. Who is them - anyone who want to learn simple decoration
3. What for - To teach the audience
4. 1st task - Introduction Tools
5. 2nd task - Fondant
6. 3rd task - Piping technique
7. 4rd task - playing with technique
8. Outcome - Simple technique that can be use by people who didn't go through bakery class
9. Showcase - Gallery

how to make our earth greener
1. Who am I - Adviser
2. Who is them - anyone who want to take action
3. What for - to make the earth a better place
4. 1st task - pollution
5. 2nd task - why?
6. 3rd task - small changes big different
7.4th task - how us can make a different by taking action
8. Outcome - a better environment
9. Showcase - Gallery

Illustrator Tutorial

2010-09-16T00:54:00.000-07:00

Illustrator Tutorial 1

They have few interesting tutorial, they have good tips on lighting

Illustrator Tutorial 2

Photoshop Tutorial

2010-09-16T00:31:00.000-07:00

http://10steps.sg/
I use few of the tutorials from this website to brush up my photoshop skill,
go under "Learn New Thing" where i create a graffiti work
and also "Practice (Illus cs 4 and Photoshop) where i learn how to create fire words

http://chaoslt.deviantart.com/art/Free-Interface-PSD-Files-79704361

http://www.snap2objects.com/2009/03/09/20-great-tutorials-for-digital-painting/

There are few digital painting tutorials in the site

Beautiful Website

2010-09-16T00:12:00.000-07:00

Here are some website that i find beautiful, click on the link to check out more ^^

1.) http://www.krijtenberg.nl/index.php

2.) http://www.meomi.com/

3.) http://www.ispoil.net/

Survey Info Graphic

2010-07-07T19:00:00.000-07:00

I have created an info graphic that showing the steps of making a pancake. You are welcomed to drop some comments or answer the following simple question on the info graphic. All comments will be appreciated. Thanks.

you can always comment on my facebook wall, or just comment it in the my blog comment box
Please and Thank You

Q1: Does it attract your attention at the first sight?
a) Yes
b) No

Q2: What is the design element that has got your attraction at the 1st view on it?
a) The title
b) The graphic
c) The content typeface

Q3: Do you feel confuse with the graphic?
a) Ya,
b) No ( why )
c) Point out the one u feel not suitable and suggest

Q4: Do you follow up with the sequence of the steps?
a) Ya.
b) No. (comment…)

Q5: Do you think everything is well-arranged for understanding?
a) Yes, sure.
b) No, it looks quite messy

Q6: Does the color combination interesting and contrast enough?
a) Yes, they do.
b) No, I don’t really think so.
c) Suggestion…?

Q7:If you don’t rely on the words, can you understand the meaning of the graphic?
a) Yes.
b) No. (comment…)

that’s all for my survey question, appreciation and gratefulness for your help is in my heart. Thanks for your effort to complete this survey, sincerely. :)

Boom De Ya Da !?!?

2010-06-28T08:03:00.000-07:00

This week is my exploration week, meaning 1 week holidays.... can rest for a little
but still there are class to replace and so on........

This is one of my small project for the subject Design Method.....
The project is to visualize a song into an image
and tadaaaaa.....

I choose the song from Discovery Channel.
The tittle of the song is Boom De Ya Da...
love the song !!!

So this is the image from my brain
and also 1st time using digital painting (I think is still consider digital painting)
Everything is digital painted with color reference and real reference

That all i guess ^^
Thank you for reading
Have a great day.....

What Have I Been Up To ??

2010-05-17T07:28:00.000-07:00

well my semester break is already over, 1 moth holiday just passed by........
in the holiday i pretty much slacking and relax
I did work for couples of week, but is not biggy... still get to relax~~~

There is 3 books in the picture (ignore the red puppet LOL)
From bottom
1.) Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
2.) Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
3.) The Curious incident.......... by Mark Haddon

I read these 3 books in the holiday, since I got nothing better to do. So reading is my next best choice of entertainment. All three books is awesome !!! My favorite out of the 3 is "DearJohn" because it have a great story line and unpredictable ending
the others 2 also good.... :)

Now my semester break is over, back to college. And this is our 1st semester home assignment
Draw a self portrait by using Adobe Flash...

Well that all i guess.....
Have a good day ^^V

Perspective Study

2010-03-28T07:13:00.000-07:00

Not that good but i did my best

this is my perspective study assignment ....

my bedroom design (1 point perspective)

My Bungalow House design (2 point perspective)

use 1 and a half day to finish it

but i quite stratified with the outcome ^^

Hmmm Good or Bad?

2010-02-19T07:44:00.000-08:00

Photoshop !

Not great but atleast i m happy with the outcome ^^V

This is a CNY home assignment....

Photo Editing

This is freaking hard for me to achieve this.......

Not good in photo editing but i try my best ^^

I just apply what i learn from College and put it here

FUN

This is not part of CNY home assignment .

Learn how to create Linen object by using photoshop

Below is the final outcome ^^V and i like it

After that i create a wallpaper for my desktop

and Ta-Daa the final outcome of the wallpaper ^^V

Flow Chart !

2010-01-27T06:27:00.001-08:00

Q1 : Why do you want to use flowchart in your mobile interface design & screen interface design?

In my opinion, flowchart is to help the person to choose different option than can help interaction stronger and also enhance the design. By doing this, can help the designer to found out the glitches if any along the chart. By laying out accordingly, can easily spotted the structure is it to complicated to understand or lack of function.

Q2 : How will it help your users to meet the interactive goals?

By using a simple and easy to understand flowchart to create the design. Users now want things to be done fast and easy. If the flowchart is too complicated and hard to understand, none of us will use it...... for example : call people, instead of typing the number, can just press from the contact list and call straight away with just pressing few buttons....

Need a favor ^^V

2010-01-26T04:24:00.000-08:00

This is a questionnaire for user-test.

Please give comment accordingly,

Comment will be appreciated ^^V

Vector Icon Design

Pixel Icon Design

*Note : (For the pixel icon design. The original design is the small one. I enlarge it, so that can see the detials)

*Note : (you can add your opinion even though i didn't ask to, please kindly proceed)

Kindly stat down your major

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1.) What do you think is the theme of my Vector and Pixel icon design?

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2.) (Home ,Music ,Gallery and Contacts)

From the key words above please use only 3 key word to label the icon (from left to right)

Vector Icon : _____ , _____ , _____

Pixel Icon : _____ , _____ , _____

3.) Which icon design is the hardest to identify?

*Note : (you can have more than 1 answer)

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4.) Base on the answer above, please stat why you said that answer.

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5.) Overall do you like my icon design? if no please stat why.

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Practice (Illus CS4 & Photshop)

2010-01-15T20:02:00.000-08:00

Practice and practice !!!

but the 3D Book Tutorial is very hard to do !!!

once i finished i will post it up ^^

Learning how to create fire word?? not really that obvious... but atleast i try ^^V

It Just Me , Rock & Roll !!!

so this is my other practice......

Glossy Icon !!! D represet Dodddlez !!!!

3D Clock ..... creating this by using simple shape and colour arrangement

Learn New Thing

2010-01-08T06:30:00.000-08:00

While I surfing the internet

I cam across this website that teach people how to design by using photoshop

and also it give u step-by-step tutorial.

You can also download free brushes here too for adobe......

the website is

http://10steps.sg/

This is what I do for 1.30 hour .

The word is random "clash" and is a graffiti art

is easy to do if u just follow the instruction

This is the final outcome ^^

10 Things about (not so interesting) Me

2010-01-06T01:57:00.000-08:00

What things best describe me?

I'm like a mouse

One word ! Quite

I'm like a Koala

What is Koala famous for? Sleeping of course. I am pretty lay back person and a happy-go-lucky king of guy

I'm like a Hermit Crab

Shy is my middle name >.< . Like to hide behind the shell if i had to

I'm Ketchup person -_-"

Because I'm not a Chilli Sauce person. I can't handle spicy food. Why torture myself if I know i can't handle it ><>

I'm a Camel

I can eat a lot of food if I want to. But i can control myself from eating. Worst thing that can happen is to gain weight........

I'm like the Weather

Weather is unpredictable I consider myself unpredictable I think. Sometimes I can be happy like the sun shine or emo like the drizzle rain....... -_-"

"Apple"

I almost everyday will bring 2 "apple" to college, which is my laptop and Iphone. As one of my friend told me: "An apple a day, keep the doctor away". Now i got 2 apples a day, so I must be a healthy person. XD Mentally not physically.

I'm like the Television

TV have over hundred of channel, is hard to choose one channel. This mean that I can't focus on 1 thing too long, I will lost my patient and do something else instead. Have to admit is a bad habits >.<

I'm like a Rubic Cube

I can be twist and turn, can see many different side of me. But once put all the things in order will bring out the best of me. XD

I'm like a Stone

I can be as boring as a stone. But once the stone get polished, the person will get the "good". Meaning that once you get to know me, I can be a good friend and fun to hang out with?

I think~~~~