[project] Vietnam Vespa Adventure

My recent project, designing logo, poster, banner, flyer, ad for this US-based travel company in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam.

Logo (Black and white background versions)

Advertisment on The Word Magazine

Hand-in flyer

Walk in Sign (0.6 x 1.6 m)

Table sign

Interesting project ! Got chances to know more about vespa and another way of travelling Vietnam^^

They have their website with specific information about their tours here, incase you are interested, though the website is pretty old and not designed by me

Nice day guys~

My Movie Poster

Basically, In Narratice class, We need to write a story and develope it ourselves.

After finish writing, chose a part in the story to make a screen play on it.

Today I’ve just did a presentation to pitch my screenplay.

And here is its poster ^^

Plot:
A typical high school girl telling story about herself, her daily life with a  strict mom and a nice but talkative step-father. Especially her love for landscape photography. One day she dreamed of being fall down from a cliff of a high mountain, and days later while going on a trip to Sapa, she found the mountain in her dream for real. She was about to fall down from the cliff if there wasn’t a guy to help her. He was a professional photographer and they became friend on the way traveling to the top of the mountain and back. When they reached the cliff again, he decided to give her his camera and suddenly disappeared. Later she was made famous by the Sapa photographs that she took with his camera. And one day a woman appeared and told her that she was the mother of the photographer the girl met and he died right at that first day they met falling down from a mountain.

The story seems to be misunderstanding and unrealistic in many parts, like it has been made up to cover something. Only when a third person’s POV is told, the truth is reavealed…

Photomontage

We were asked to make a photomontage/ collage from free stock single images.
I picked the topic related to “mental illness”, my idea is that untreated or under-treated mental illness may raise the crime in society. Above are 2 version of my work, one with text and one not. I can not decide myself which one is better so I upload here both. However I submitted the one without text.
Below is my explanation of the theme:

At first I chose the topic “mental illness”, however it turns out to be such a large topic to work with. When doing research, by chance I came into very interesting news: untreated mental illness may lead to the patient’s committing crime, thus I decide to take this information as the topic of my work, as a result I will made the theme based on a both realistic and horror atmosphere. As the topic idea is a problem related to society and mental illness, I want to construct it with real photographs and the best place for me to take nice shots and high quality photos are from free stock exchange image website.

My collage was made using 8 different images blend in together.

The first chosen image is the hospital corridor photograph. At first I simply want to express a gloomy space related to illness in the background. After that I use an image of a man touching his forehead, looking like he is having a headache and made it blend into the corridor image using multiply layer. My idea of doing this is, I believe that each people has a private imaginary room of thought inside their head, however people with mental illness are stuck and can not get out of their own “room”, thus they can not live normally like other people (the image of a bold man screaming and wanting to get out represents this idea). The top right of the collage is an x-ray photograph of a human brain/ head/ skull, which helps explaining the problem with the man having headache, who actually is having a mental illness. Furthermore, the fact that mental illness without right treatment or untreated may lead to stress and bad behavior among patients, those can finally end up with their committing suicide or even worse, crime, is what I want people to feel when looking at my collage. Therefore I decorate the theme with blood and a photo of a woman scarily screaming in pain. The place where I put the woman photo is the same as the position of the man’s ear, which also means that the voice talking inside mental patient head (a symptom of mental illness), without treatment, is getting louder and louder until the patient can not control anymore and finally gave up by following the voice instruction to do bad things.

This collage was made to call for balance treatment to people who have mental illness; because after all even mental patient do unusual things and can not control themselves, they were still born human like any of us, and nonetheless, it’s true that mental illness can be treated and many patients have been though this illness and become normal person after a period of treatment time.

This problem, however, should be seriously concerned in Vietnam, where the fact that untreated illness and under treatment to mental patient happen almost everywhere everyday, this is blamed mostly for the country lacking of financial situation, but if this problem continues and not be solved right, it may cause the society rise of crime as warned.

In conclusion, I named my collage “Untreated mental illness causes the rise of crime in society”.

Do Thuy Linh, sem2 2008, explaination of the theme , Assignment 2A , electronic image and design

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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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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Tiger poster ^^

Haha, properly since we spent lots of time and effort in making the tiger posters, most of the class members posted these posters as entries this week . ^o^ I shouldn’t be the odd people here )

This is the process of how I made my poster.

At first I thought about the idea of the contrast between the living tigers and the dead tigers, I searched for a lot of images of tigers and tiger bones (!) and used Photoshop to cut the tigers out of the background. I want people to see the diffirence between the living ones and the dead ones, and after that, feeling scared and worried for the tiger lives. that was my first idea. However, when I’m trying to work with that idea, it didn’t go well. You can see my first draft:

I wasn’t satisfied with the result at all because they looked so bad T.T I mean, I could not express my idea clearly in this poster , and I was really disappointed. Then I thought about other ideas. I looked at many WWF posters and I found out that them (the WWF posters) always look so simple and easy to remember, but really meaningful and impressive too. So I suddenly thought “Why don’t make a poster that’s only contains words and no tiger images?” . Luckily I got a really impressive image of tiger skin, so I use this as the background of my poster. And this time, the second time, personally speaking, the result look much better ^^

There’s problem with this poster, it looked too simple, yes simplicity is important in these types of poster but this one was too simple, and beside the nice background, there’s nothing impressive at all. So now I put some blood in to it, and changed a little bit the typo. I wanted to keep using Arial font because it’s easy to read and is a formal font, people may find it’s friendly looking (!) :”D

And here it’s my final result :

Oh wait why I still think that the extinct and 95% word are a bit unnescessary T..T

How a bout this as a final piece?

Visual alphabe and Levis advert.

First, I took these photos in different angels of my jean shorts and turned them to a visual alphabet.

Then, when looking at the final work, I found out that there’s a big logo of levi’s jean in the middle of the image. So, I thought about making an advert poster for levi’s with this alphabet. Interestingly, the logo of levi’s presented “M” letter, which sounds like “aim”. Thus, I call my poster ” Our Levi’s , your aim” :”D

And here’s my final poster ^^

Our levi’s , your aim, Thuy Linh 08