It’s been awhile since I last blogged, this summer was just soo busy! Anyway, here is the last assignment I did for my typography class (comd 204) over the summer. It was basically designing our own modular typeface. Overall, I really enjoyed the assignment, but I wouldn’t say I am 100% satisfied with what I came up with, but with the time restrictions and everything going on, I would say I’m at least 80% satisfied.
I still can’t believe summer is almost over, but the sad part is that it has to end with rainy weather this week. TypicalRaincouver life.
Anyway, stay tuned for more posts of my design work (hopefully it won’t take me another month to post, haha). Happy Tuesday!
So for summer, I decided to take a DIVA (Digital and Interactive Arts) course, which is labeled as a web course. I thought: oh sweet, a web course! However, at first I was unaware that it was focused on a special topic— Graphic Novels. The course revolved more around the world of graphic novels than around the web. Wow, graphic novels, I never read a single one in my life! The only comics books I’ve actually read are Archie comics. (haha) Although, I’m a big fan of web comics, but then again, that’s not the same.. or is it? Ok, I’m not going to touch upon that controversy. Anyway, back to where I started, little did I know, we were supposed to create our own and put it up online. (scary thought, no?) Definitely a challenging (but enjoyable) class for me.
So I’m a designer, not exactly an artist. I can’t remember when was the last time I actually drew things (other than mockups/sketches) by hand, let alone comic art. I know there are many designers out there who draw alot, possibly every single day. Unfortunately, I’m not one of those. I wish I was. But when you have freelance clients and full-time school, who has that kind of time? I’m pretty embarrassed about my drawings actually, they look very child-like. I would love to clean up the work a bit in Illustrator one of these days, but for now whatever, just enjoy!
My “graphic novel”, based on many true stories and stereotypical chick flicks, titled: Help! (click to view)
This is a video project I did with my classmate Jennifer C for design core (DESN 210). It’s still pretty rough, and probably needs a better ending.. but oh well! It was due today. Maybe in the future I will polish this piece up, but for the time being, just enjoy!
Someone mentioned I should post my data visualization project from design class, so here it is! The main project topic was on Myers-Briggs personality types. If you don’t know much about Myers-Briggs, then it might not make so much sense to you, but anyway, check it out!
* Note: Because it was a school project, I only had time to test it in Firefox and Safari/Chrome, so if you’re using a different browser, like IE, then I can’t guarantee that it functions properly, use at your own risk! *
