Babara Kruger style imitating poster

I was amazed by the way Barbara Kruger has impressed her viewers (including me). We only can find 3 colors : black, white and red in all her artworks. And believe me all of them look really simple, one black-white photo and one or two words/ sentences. But the results are awesome. You may want to see some of her works here : http://www.barbarakruger.com/

As a respond to my own interest, I’ve made an poster imitating her style, with my idea , and here is the result.

The photo is me and my friend Nguyen’s foots And the sentence is my fave quote )

Well yeah I know it doesn’t look good yet,>< because the way I arrange the word is stupid, actually I want to make them aligned, but , this is hand made and, just an experience rite ^^,,

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Art or design?

This is my thought about the intersection between art and design:

Artists and designers are often mistaken to each other. In some situations, artists can actually be considered as designers and vice verse. They say that artists do art, which is personal products, and they make art to express their own feeling and thought and emotion. In the other hand, designers design their products not for themselves, they make products to serve public purpose, public need, and their aim mainly is to sell their products well, which is a financial reason. Thus in theory, artists and designers are totally different, and I even heard many people say that, designers, in fact, are liars, who tell lies and trick their customers by visual means ( meaning their designs). However, that theory seems like to be true only in the past, nowadays, we can easily point out many artists who make art to sell, and designers who turn their designs into masterpiece. Let me show you some example today, about my favorite artists and designers:

Takashi Murakami (left) and Kanye West

About artists who sell their products, it’s clearly to see everywhere now, such as painters sell their pictures, photographers sells their photos, my favorite artist in this subject is Takashi Murakami (TM). TM is a famous Japanese contemporary artist who is considered as an Andy Warhol of Japan, he got his Ph.D in Fina Art from Tokyo Uni., he does sculpture, he paints, he holds exhibitions all over the world, he is, undoubtedly an example model for Japanese new art. But that’s not enough to TM, with an entrepreneur mind, he also joins into the world of advertising industry, TM becomes a designer, he makes his art to sell. His paintings are now be mass published everywhere, in any form ( T-shirt, video games, anime, toys and even chewing gum… ). TM designed cover for Kanye West’s “Graduation” album, and collaborated with Louis Vuitton to make an advertising video and designed LV new bag models combining LV luxury and Japanese cute manga character styles. Takashi Murakami and Some example of his works:

Takashi Murakami’s homage to Francis Bacon

His $10,000 bag for LV

For more information about Takashi Murakami, you can visit his company offical english homepage

or Takami at the Brooklyn Museum blog article here

John Maeda

A example for a designer who has masterpiece products, the most significant individual is John Maeda, you can visit his website . Being born in Seattle, John Maeda is considered as both an artist and a computer scientist inside the form of a designer. Look at his design and feel the complexity and simplicity JM has achieved:

Who can say that they are not masterpieces? Such graphics are not only considered Designs but actually Art. That’s the reason why John Maeda is highly appreciated and as a designer, he also has opportunities to hold exhibitions all around the world, because people want to enjoy his designs as art. Now, JM is president of Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) ( here ) and is considered one of the leading designers over the world.

In conclusion, they are 2 significant people represent two types of model reflecting the “no frontier” distance between art and design. In my opinion, Art and design are like two siblings, who have both similarity and difference, however sometimes, people might mistaken them, let say, it’s like when two siblings look too alike, or they are twins. After all, they are still differentiated and considered as two individual people (visual type).

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My final flash assignment for dim2

http://unix.rmit.edu.vn/~s3183636/A3_G1_DoThuyLinh_s3183636.swf

Sorry the link has died , please find this flash HERE instead, thank you ^^

download ( right mouse to the link –>save target as)

My 5 days with two white nights working.
Eventhough the graphics, as I think, are not good enough .
Completely sastisfied after all^^
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RMIT 2008

My group animation made from found footage^^

link
Enjoy~ ^^
It’s named “Ink Clown’s Journey”
The video are footages taken from Max Fleischer’s 5 old animation from like 50-100 years ago ^o^ Guess the name of the video? Haha actually you can find the answers right in the video credit section XD
Result of several days working with my best team mate – great great friend ever – Nguyen ^^
Although it’s not perfect yet, We love this video, indeed, very much! cause we’ve spent lots and lots of efford into it T.T idea, finding public domain videos, cut, script, and sound, and blablabla..
So we proundly introduce you this video
A Final assignment for Multimedia engineering class this semester

Only another assignment for Dim2 ( which is the tutorial flash ) and then come the final exam XD
In 2 week I’m gonna finish my second term.
So excited for the holiday lol ^o^

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New character for the upcoming flash

I’ve come up with an idea of my new flash, a baking cake tutorial for girls ^^

Thus, I have sketched out my main character, a cute home-cheft :” XD

What do you think ? Is she cute enough for a girly flash )

another shot of her (with color) ^^

I like her very much ^o^

Look out for the upcoming flash next week

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Story of my icecream ^^

^^ As usual I started everything with my illustration

Then I made an ice cream 

Oh it’s so delicious I want to open a store and sell these ice creams )

So I created several favours and made a poster ^^

(let’s pretend that this poster is informative and there’s company name and all the information in it )

Here come the fun part!

I put my posters everywhere to advertise my product ^^

In front of the stores…

Pop art exhibition I guess ? :-ss…

Tv…

Even Gallery…

yeah I mean everywhere :”>:”> =))

Then one day my ice-cream become so popular , people start to love it

Now it is a trend! Paris Hilton’s also a fan of our icecream!!!!

And finally, the Ice cream brand has proved that they are not only a trend, everybody love Ice cream!!!

And after that, Icecreamly ever and ever after.

[THE END.]

Oh well now I just want to say that I’ve “taken” all of these above photos through a website called http://en.photofun.od.ua/

You can come there and try these effects with your own pictures, especially the picture with your face, because some photo effects of this website have face detection technology.

Enjoy and have a nice week~ :”)

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My portfolio Flash

Heheh I submitted it today ^^
I spend like 4 days doing it so I’m quite satisfied with the result . :X
Here is the link to my file ^^

http://unix.rmit.edu.vn/~s3183636/A2C_G1_DoThuyLinh_s3183636_finish.swf

Sorry this link has died , please find this flash HERE instead, thank you ^^

Please have a look and feel free to give me your comment here :X Thank you ^^
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Top 30 most popular Japanese emoticons

Using typing emoticons such as (^__^) or (>__<) when writting sms, chatting or typing on your PC have become a very usual thing these days. Have you ever wondered what’s the origin of these imoticons? The correct answer is Japan. Yes, first imoticons are said to come from US, where is the birthplace of internet also, however the cuter looking, and nowaday even more popular between young people are come from Japan ^^. Here’s a small compararion between the two styles of emoticon.
Example:

Japanese Smile imoticon _ 2 bytes _ vertical read

American Smile emoticon _ 1 byte _ horizontal read

Isn’t it obvious that the Japanese emoticons are more easy to read, since we don’t need to turn our head 90 degree when seeing them (*_*) ) Eventhough American imoticons are more convinient to use (because they cost less space) and American imoticons are more popular around the world, Japanese imoticon are gaining more and more attentions and become extremely wide used among teenages in countries around the world, including Vietnam, because of its cute look and easy to type ^^

From the website I have discovered a ranking result in Japan, about the most popular emoticons that Japanese people using nowadays.

Will you try to use them ?(*^_^*)

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8 steps to make a cute calendar

Don’t know what to do on the holiday, so I play with photoshop and make this May month calendar ^o^

These are 8 simple steps that you can do to create your own calendar ^____^

Step1 : Begin with drawing a round-square

Step 2 : Draw the lines around the edges of the square

Step 3 : Decorate inside with dots and dots

Step 4 : Draw a cute character ( a white fox here ) and put it at the corner of the image

Step 5 : Draw a white box next to the fox and set it as 50% transparent

Step 6 : Choose a font and type in the month of the calendar

Step 7 : Arrange the dates ^^

Step 8 : Decorate some more and finish your own calendar

*Note: Each step should be done on a new layer in case you may want to edit one particular part without affacting others (ex. change the color of the background, the month, the date …) :”>

Enjoy and have fun ^^

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Converse poster

This is made from the 2 photos of my legs and shoes ) , I took them unintentionally some days ago and when I saw them together I’d come with an idea of creating this :”D

I put a logo of converse in the corner of the pic so it will look like a real poster :”P

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