Different form of music... ♥

Kashiwa Daisuke's music collections.

Get to know this Japanese artist from newspaper today. Listening to his music gives me the goosebumps, it's fascinating. Incredible. Unpredictable. Interesting. Sentimental.Romantic and so on... ... ...

I, have never heard of something like this before. How i wish i can actually owe one of his CD now.



PS it's just plainly personal opinion. why not give ourselves some refreshments for our ears? ;)

One of the example of the reviews i can get to research online :

http://airplaneshadows.wordpress.com/2008/05/22/kashiwa-daisuke-%E2%88%9E-program-music-i/


"Stella Part 1", from album [ Program Music 1 ]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh6eT_zhmRg

Another wonderful piece by him:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzRW9SiSx2I&feature=related


Just wanna share it here. It's nice to know some awesome music right before sem starts again. Hope everything will goes well for the future semesters. Can't wait to learn more stuff. ^__^

Enjoy your last day of sem break, my fellow friends! ♥


PS my holidays has been good. Satisfied coz can get to finish
most of the stuff i wanted to do. Hope you guys are doing well too

See u all tomorrow! haha~

Blog header project ? XO

Lolxx, haven't update this blog in ages. Had been quite busy doing all sorts of stuff. XD Just to stop here to *perhaps show* u all what i have been doing during this semester break.

1st of all, had promised to help my sis to do her blog header since a few months ago. But i was very lazy to start, and i did create one before but the result was not satisfying, so i plan to make use of this holiday to really concentrate on this and *hopefully* create a nice blog header for my sis ^^

Lolxx.. so i'm here to show my progress and my final outcome. *sounds like assignment now rite? yea its kind of like my home assignment, hahaha~*

lolxx.. 1st of all, sketches. hahha~ i drew 4 ideas,
she prefer the mask one so tat one got accepted. XD


progress...


i took a LONG time on the mask. which i dunno why also.
maybe coz i procrastinate ==" lolxx..

final ai file look. XD

after finish tracing and colouring, i switch to Photoshop to put in the words.

so, here's the final look!


and then one printscreen of my sis's blog, let u all see how it actually looks there...

Overall, i had fun doing it. At least its better than spend time on *more and more movies and snacks and Facebook :O * but but, most importantly, im glad tat my sis likes it. ^__^

Hehe. ok, tat is all. Shall move on to the next 'assignment' which awaits me. ><

will update you guys on tat SOON. yea... XD
byebye~

Just a short update...

Yes. We actually tried to do some simple photo montage on Monday (26/10/09) and i admit its quite fun to do those simple yet effective effects! ^o^

So here's two photos that i play around with, cant say to be the nicest or best one, but i kind of like the end results. =) Should study and explore more effects and hopefully i can share more with u all during my coming sem break, or whenever im free to do so. XD !

Okey.. So here's the 1st photo. I think this photo is too dark so i decided to make it brighter. =D

Before:


After:

*my first try. not so good in my opinion. =.=" *

Okey. Here's my second try. XD



Overall, still need more practice. XD ok. i go continue my work.

Byebye~~ ^___^

Colour Palettes! ^^

Hehe.

I had a fun time searching for colour references and here's some nice colour palettes I've got.

It will be useful for my current project and also future ones i guess. ^^

I call this "brilliant orange". ^^ It's suitable for my e-card design because my card has more
orange-y feel. XD


Love the colours on the top of the picture. I call this "cherry cherish" Lolxx.. XD



Love the bright colours of the cupcakes and the colour i've picked!
and its surprising that this kind of colours can also bring out some level of
energetic feel, in my opinion.. lolxx.. XD
palette name: colourful cupcakes. ^^



I call this "summer kiwi". Again, more on bright colours coz my e-card has more
bright and energetic feel. =)


"japanese kimono".
Got attracted by the colours of the kimono so i made a palette out of it. ^^


I actually collected more, but i guess i'll share more next time. =D



This assignment is really fun! =D
Okey, i shall back to my project work... til my next post then.



Byebye~ ^^

Flowchart ^^

Hey hey, it's Thursday night! XD lolxx.. okey. we were actually been told to look through some videos about this thing called 'flowchat' .

So basically what is a flowchart? When i first look at it, *maybe because of the shapes and style* i thought it is somehow like a mind map. But after i look through some other videos only i get to know that this "Flowchart" has much difference compared to normal mindmap because it actually comes out with a certain format, with each shape of the chart to represent different message/idea.
Such as: the diamond shape represents a decision, while rectangular shape represents process etc.

In that way, it could make things look easier to understand.

So here comes the Q & A section:

1. Who do you want to use flowchart in your mobile interface design & screen interface design?

I think flowchart is convenient and easy to use for our project planning part. This is because through making a flowchart, we can know clearly how should we have all the design processes, about how we want that design to be/how it will turn out (decision) and then all the consequences that may happen during the design processes. It can let us see clearly about our own target/decision, hence we create our designs follow the 'process' part and then if it will turns out to be a 'yes' or 'no'. If it's a no, then we can do refinement and improvement for our design through the 'process' part again. At the end, we will not/hard to run out of track while doing our project because we can see the whole design process clearly already.

2. How will it help your users to meet the interactive goals?

I think a Flowchart helps the users to meet the interactive goals by just perhaps looking at the flowchart: get to know how we get the project started, how we do the whole planning part, our design processes, and the end results. It helps the user to understand how we actually taken out this project, what we have done, and so, they would get to know our attitude towards this project, and hence will appreciate our work more *maybe*. The 'interaction' actually happened in the sense that people/targeted audience could know what have we done. It is more interesting than just looking at a very nice/wonderful artwork without any process explanations/working process. And so, a Flowchart could perhaps help to add value to our artwork, in a certain way. =)


Okey. Please leave a comment and i'll go leave comment too. lolxx. XD