The Lucky 13!

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2009-06-11T20:04:00.000+08:00

2009-06-10T21:44:00.000+08:00

Hey Everyone!

2009-05-15T08:47:00.003+08:00

Its May 15th and I am about to finalize all your marks and grades for submission soon. I have a great big dilemma! All of you have done good. Some great some good and some okay. Overall all of you did well. I am sorry If I didn't give you all any initial marks information. we were too caught up about the next intake and the intakes after that, the plans for the move to new campus, Northumbria degree etc.

Nevertheless, I hold you guys close to my heart as you are the first pioneers of this school and you would definitely hold great sentimental value to the Design School. In light of this, I want to express a heartfelt thanks for a good semester! I thoroughly enjoyed th e sessions and I am looking forward to much better and fruitful sessions with you all for next sem. I cannot guarantee that life would be easy next sem but I do know that our team of teaching staff and industry partners, would be better prepared to equip you with more creative ammunition (armor piercing bullets! and WMD) to blow our minds!

I bet Vivek will still be waering the same shirt until the end of the Diploma programme. Why not huh! ha ha! Here is a tribute to Vivek and his shirt:

This is a tribute to Vivek's magic. When this was shot, it was only half the semester! he he! plerase click on this URL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMGsOEPryHw

GREEETING EARTHLINGS..

2009-04-25T20:02:00.001+08:00

This is the picture of me and the guy from northumbria.

PHOTO AT THE GALLERY LAST FRIDAY

2009-04-25T19:59:00.001+08:00

Sorry a bout the photo. I know its a bit blur.

stress make us being crazy! XD

2009-04-10T21:38:00.003+08:00

actor : Riza

actress: Minshen

video taken by eewon

2009-04-02T15:57:00.002+08:00

this is creepy and intresting! i love it.

kl design week 09

2009-04-02T15:49:00.002+08:00

we went to kl design week 09 dah!

2009-04-01T23:45:00.011+08:00

KL Design Week

-->HOT~~ I'm sweating like a pig.....
-->went to Capital Square.
-->theme of the first exhibition was about being environmentally friendly, save the tress and not using plastic bags

-->congratz to the designers who managed to do a great job in fabricating their ideas on the bags which managed to catch my attention

-->Scary Mr Charles~ -!!he abandon us there!!-

-->That's me on the monitor!! Don't think you guys could see me though, the quality of the pic isn't good....

-->nice illustration & drawings :

--> wanted but too expensive.... -sniffle-

-->Everybody crowding to get FREE sweets!

2009-04-01T23:07:00.020+08:00

its been a very hot day!! global warming~ I wish that there were more tress..>< style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)">barbequed" by the sun... going to be like a roasted duck soon though..hehe..=.="

When i 1st walked into capital city square where they held the earth hour exhibition, i was like "WOAH"~! it juz caught my eye @@
bags of various designs hanging on trees to explain the importance of saving our earth n to say "NO" to plastics bags, was juz AMAZING~! the place is filled with IDEAS~! i really love most of the designs.. i can even see some humour in some of those designs..:D
as i'm a nature lover, i do appreciate all their hard work in putting them up n organizing those events.. =)

the design above shows 2 different characteristics of the the earth... "polluted and non polluted"

see vivi n yen wei taking their own sweet time walking~ how sweet~ wakaka =X

these are some fine work by Gigi Gee~ they are made from polymer clay which in baked in the ending process at about 250 to 300 degress~ looks simple, bt it really is HARDWORK... ahhh~ i want them~ but too expensive~ sob..T.T

this is a portrait of Gigi Gee with her self made earing ><

these are some sinned series sketches by dennis hew, who is having an unexplainable affinity towards abstract horro theme since the age of 6..

Q: do u see someone?? who is this here??? @@??

A: secret~ shhh~ hehe =P

what you can do, we cannot do;
and what we can do, you cannot do;
but together we do something beautiful.
-Mother Teresa-

Last of all, after going to capital square... we head on to KLCC... and i went to kinokuniya, bought a book about drawing "THE UNDEAD"... hehehe... =X
and these are some pictures from the book..

i guess that's all for now.. gd bye~
*YAWN* feeling sleepy already... lolz..

by Rachel =P

KL DeSiGn WeeK...

2009-04-01T20:09:00.013+08:00

That day the thing that i know is the weather is HOT!!!!...But the other thing is i learn a lot from that day....That day the 1st we went was the design about Saving The World.The things that they drew is about no more using plastic...Those designs are quite nice and creative but the bad thing is the area is quite warm that makes me sweating=.=". Then i saw some drawing that interest me, it's a kind of character design of a monster. It's really inspire me to learn more since my character drawing isnt really nice. The other stuff...a bit boring for me cos mayb i'm not really interested. Actually the trip was so fun and it let me know more about Creative industries and Design thingy...=P

- Demon -

KLDW

2009-04-01T05:52:00.002+08:00

it was a pretty hot day!! i was enjoyed to get tanned while walking under the sun!XD

the theme of this exhibition is 'say"NO" to plastic bags!'

well, they still using plastic wrapper for the sweets that they given to us. duh!~~

i can see that they put lots of efforts on designing the bags.

some of them are really good n strong idea and design but there are also a few designs that i think the idea are not powelful enough.

are they trying to encourage us to use tree?

it's a cool machine!

this thing is made by sugar i think.

The LV bag is inside the Chanel case?

Handmade bracelets by Gigi Gee. There are necklaces n earrings as well.

the staff told me the process of make this thing with clay and i realized this is a fine work.

no wonder it cost RM100+ for a necklace.

made up by newspaper..it's cool.

by eewon:)

KL design week.

2009-03-31T23:44:00.015+08:00

Heyos~

KL design week was quite fun for me that day. (though I wished I could go to saturday's
but.. expensive, next time bah..) I'm going to be quite straightforward here..haha..

The Save Our Earth theme was a very nice idea IMO. Wildlife ftw~♥
There were many cloth bags with various kind of designs. (I wish I could buy some.)

Here are some of the design that caught my eyes.

This bear save design is my favourite out of all the designs I saw on the bags,
because it's funny and easy to understand. (and also cause I love animals. hoho)

Wow~ the idea they come up with... ♦○♦!

..(yay for Simpsons fans..! I wonder how long they took to do this?)

Oddly enough,

this bunny reminds me of Alice in Wonderland.

Probably because of all the different kinds of creatures
displayed there. Makes me think how do they come up
with all these weird stuff. They're weird but interesting.
I love how all these things look so out of the world.

Must've took a lot of time and sweat to complete this.
Really feel amazed.

Again, I'm just really attracted to weird creatures in their
fantasy world~
Is it a bunny? Dog? Squirrel? BunnieDogSquirrel? 8O
Is that it's home? Why's it broken?

Jack in a box? Plushies~?!♥

Product Designs~
Cute and colourful.

~~Maybe I should paint my mannequin too..~~

Some students works I saw that day. From Tunku Abdul Rahman University
if I'm not wrong.

Apparently, I got so absorbed in the artworks that I lost track of the group...unfortunately.

But I did find my way in the end...

Anyway, I hope there'll be more events like this in the future,

so we can gain more experiences and get more knowledge from the experts. >)

-Vivi (thanks for letting me hijack your pc ~~Ranka-Chan~~ Yen Wei~)

2009-03-31T22:34:00.002+08:00

After all that trip to KL 2 hours exercise and jog keep your mind and body fit. Hehehe....i'm a smoker so i have to take care of my health(Riza)

2009-03-31T22:23:00.003+08:00

Check out the 2 m&m. Melts in your heart not in your hand.To cute to be true right hehehe..(riza)

2009-03-31T22:17:00.001+08:00

Can you see it? Can you? can you? hehehe.. a bit of imbigiuas(sorry i dont know how to spell)(Riza)

2009-03-31T22:11:00.004+08:00

Good job dude(Vivek) that is what i call team work. I took care of the other group and you take GOOD care of this. Err... you should hold T's hand while she was crossing the road since she got many thing to hold hehehe..(Riza)

KL Design Week !!

2009-03-31T22:07:00.002+08:00

I know, One thing that on that day It was Blazing Hot !!. But Kl Design Week Open my Eye to See Things in different way. There Were a lot Design about Saving the Earth. The Idea for saving the earth was very unique. The Most Interesting to me was the Kl Flicker group. They are group of community that meet up somewhere in kl and take picture. Their picture was really great. and they did some Really Unique Stuff.. i Don't really know how to explain but It was really Cool.. Maybe One day i do something Like that.

But there was some really boring display of stuff. They dont even attract anyone and it was so empty no want even bother looking at it. Ha-Ha.

Learn Alot that Day, Sorry i dont have any picture.
Haha

-Darul-

2009-03-31T22:06:00.001+08:00

hehehe there goes her diet(Riza)..

2009-03-31T21:37:00.004+08:00

Hohoho...where do i start man.The design week really open my eyes. I know that designer's are creative but i never tought that they are this good(i mean for MALAYSIAN). This show's that Malaysian are now open for design like this. So far this trip is really meaningfull to me especially the information for the incoming party(free boose dude) hehehe... wish i could go anyway. I added few picture from there wish you guys enjoy it(Riza)

2009-03-31T21:32:00.000+08:00

Heheehe.. idon't know what i was pointing but i look good don't I(riza)

2009-03-31T21:28:00.000+08:00

Two of the cool dude. The other one is having flu hehehe...

2009-03-31T21:15:00.006+08:00

If only i could draw like these. This is one of my favourite artis. I used to collect magazine like utopia,gempak etc. But unfortunately zint is not there.

KL Design Week

2009-03-31T21:11:00.004+08:00

It was a good trip overall. Got a chance to see alot of unique & creative design work done by pro designers and students. The 'Go Green'/'Say No To Plastic Bags' campaign had alot of unique designs that gave out some very powerful messages. There were also a bunch of digital paintings done by some guy(forgot his name) which were pretty good too. Then there were also the very boring & weird designs that didn't attract me at all. Well maybe that's just me. Anyway, the weather was blazing hot, Capsquare sucks (yes it really does) & Starbucks owns the whole ground floor area, that means they even protect their dusty little chairs outside. Let's try putting a pregnant woman there & see what those people do. Nescafe for life!

---(you know me when you see me cause I'm easier to spot than the rest, but only in the mornings, at night I camouflage with the darkness. You definitely know who this is already).

2009-03-31T21:11:00.002+08:00

Wina sure is having fun hehehe...

2009-03-31T18:31:00.004+08:00

HI HI XD

Ah, it was so fun to be able to visit the KL Design Week...next time should attend that kind of event somemore. About the visit, i like the exhibiton about the plastic bags, so inspiring....also wanted to buy the design magazine...but very expensive loooohh T_T sob. Love some pictures escpecially the character design, and illustration. woa it's so damn nice XD eventhough the technique is not that hard but the concept is tottaly awesome! XD XD XD XD Love it....
And got one fashion illustration thingie which make me jawdroped, omg omg marvelous! I love illustration, i love fashion, and i love digital painting...hmmmm i should think about it....(future job maybe?) LOLLOLLOLLOL

it will be so exciting if we can invite one of the artist to our school, give a short tuttorial or workshop maybe???

Wina~ =P

KL Design Week 2009 visit

2009-03-31T10:43:00.004+08:00

Hello hello!

Since I have to post something about our visit to the (free) KL Design Week exhibition yesterday...

We saw brown bags encouraging people to say NO TO PLASTIC BAGS. We saw trees wrapped in coloured cloth (God knows what for. Probably because designers are weird.) We saw a guy trimming leaves off a bush in complete ignorance of environmental conservation. We saw some aweshome drawings (aweshome is correct, I like to spell my Awesomes with an H in between) and paintings and some pretty things.

I have pictures, but this is typed on Kar Heng's laptop in class and he just said "Why so long wan.." so maybe later laa. Okay? Okay. Yay.

:)

*minshen

Hi all,

The first thing we saw on that day is the Eco Bag Exhibition. It's quite interesting to see various designs and works to promote the same (one) message. It is very encouraging. Some designs are really nice and special. The next thing the fascinate me is the digital fashion designer thing, beside USM booth. The designer can really draw and came out with really beautiful work. So nice till I forgot to take a picture of it haha..

kar heng

URLs for you guys to check out.

2009-02-19T00:36:00.002+08:00

http://www.vwfa.net/kl/index.php

http://www.annexegallery.com/

http://www.kakiseni.com/events/visual_art/

trip to Valentine Willie Fine Art Gallery

2009-02-19T00:08:00.006+08:00

Such noble individuals, saved a space for Riza to park his car.

That's Snow and me...erm..how I blend in with the floor! My Gosh! Anyway, Snow was my ex-tutor back in my old days and she was and still is, a truly gifted designer. She is the manager of VWFS and This won't be the last time we will be seeing her. I am sure.

Genevieve, in contemplation?

Li Wen, enthralled by the catalogues!

busy,..busy!

Snow, explaining all about VWFS and what they do.

Many questions, and much wisdom..

Hey guys! Its been fun wasn't it? I was for me. It wasn't just the pictures and the uniqueness of it all but rather the sense of being part of something really great. Art is like that. When you apreciate it, you are a part of it. We become very much what our thoughts tell us. Its that intangible element that manifests into an art form. The exhibition we saw today presented the a different approach to human values. A picture doesn't just paint a thousand words but more like precious words, because expression like that never comes easily.

Visit to KLCC

2009-02-18T00:49:00.008+08:00

erm...leaves coming out of the frame..

'don't disturb me!'

These were trying to get the sense of perspective during this exercise.

One Big happy family! There we were at KLCC park during fundamental drawing class. Apart from experiencing rivers of sweat, we had fun! I was tempted to 'do something' to this picture!;)
Only Li Wen wasn't in this picture, his dad was in KL on that day so he went to visit him.

Kuala Lumpur Design Week

2009-02-15T21:55:00.002+08:00

Hey guys! I hope you all had a good weekend off.

Here is an excerpt from a facebook invite I got for an upcoming event. Please click on the hyperlink for the event

Kuala Lumpur Design Week
27th March- 04th of April / 2009

Conference / Exhibition / Forum / Masterclass/ Installation / Awards / Art Market / Party and many more....

For the first time, Malaysia will be playing host to KL Design Week. International design festivals and week long showcases of design excellence are held annually in Tokyo, Bangkok, London, Singapore and Amesterdam etc. These showcases are important platforms for artists and designers to exhibit the latest innovations in design, and serve as a cultural and artistic discourse of emerging design trends internationally.

KL Design Week 2009 promises to present an exciting and diverse range of work of Malaysian and international exhibitions, forums, talks and installations to a broad audience. The exhibitions have been specially selected by renowned curators to extend a greater understanding of design across all disciplines. The aim of KLDW is to nurture potential and diversity, that is inherent in Multi-cultural Malaysia, raising the bar of design in the region to international standards.

This festival will include an excellent mix of well-known designers, students as well as emerging practitioners in the areas of Product Design, Interior, Architecture, Graphic Design, Advertising, Illustration, Character Design, Animation, Digital Art as well as Mixed Media.

Several foreign design associations, curators and speakers will be participating in this event which will span in various venues around the city in the period of ten days.

Participating Venues:
KL convention Center,
CapSquare KL,
National Art Gallery,
LeMeridien Hotel,
Malaysia Tourism Center (MATIC),
The Annexe Central Market
...and many more..

Invited Guests...
David Carson / Hue Visualab / JL Design / Stefan Sagmeister / Koji Morimoto-Studio4°c / Tokyo Plastic / Supernature / Troika / Chris Bosse of Lava / Kuntzel+Deygas / Shun Kawakami of Artless / IDN Magazine / Hexa Project / Umeric / Jackson Tan/ Aya Kato / Graham Perkins / Felix of Silnt / Heath Nash / Neubauism / Uselesshop and many more...

http://kldesignweek.com/

Visit to Petronas Gallery

2009-02-11T09:10:00.002+08:00

It will be an hounour this morning to bring the Lucky 13 to the Petronas Gallery for a briefing on 2 Dimensional Design and an overview on Art. This is the exhibition that is going on:

GO BLOCK: Five Contemporary Malaysian PrintmakersVenue: Main Gallery5 Feb 2009 - 15 Mar 2009
GO BLOCK: Five Contemporary Malaysian Printmakers celebrates contemporary printmaking in Malaysia by showcasing new works by five artists - Juhari Said, Ng Kim Peow, Izan Tahir, Zulkifli Yusoff and Shahrul Jamili - all of whom have made significant ontributions to the developement of contemporary printmaking as well as the most importantly, its impact on the Malaysian art movement today reflects the dynamic and innovative nature of contempirary printmaking.

info taken from the URL below:

http://www.petronas.com.my/galeri/gpcontent.nsf/frmset_programmes_lists?OpenFrameset

Weekend with meaning!

2009-02-08T23:58:00.002+08:00

Hey all,

Its been a long weekend, I have been busy with family! I actually went to the park with them today and gueass what, i actually flew a kite! can you guys believe that? For the first time, i did! I was in deep jubilant glee! hehehe! Anyway, hope you are all having a peaceful wekkend, if you are not then, my only advice is to hang in there. You know, creativity is about believing in yourself. Its about having faith in you. As humans who aspire to better ourselves, we tend to have wishes and dreams.

That's okay because its gives us something to believe in. It gives us faith in ourselves. If you can imagine yourself achieving something no matter how far-fetched it is, then let that be your dream and your vision. You can't see it yet but hey, faith is all about the unseen! so have faith in yourself. Let it motivate you always to keep up the effort, speak to you in times of trial and open your mind to alternative ideas. Discipline does knock on your door but, if you have a vision to believe in, discipline will never be an issue.

So my fellow apprentices, take heart, although you have far to go, it will not be in vain. Your journey of self discovery has only just begun. I will see you all soon.

2009-02-05T17:51:00.000+08:00

Hey all,

I've been really sick and unable to attend classes. However, I managed to do some surfing on the net and guess what I found..

The Adobe® Design Achievement Awards

It's a competition with various forms of categories to choose from.
Entries can be sent in either as a group (with no limitation on team members) or send in as an individual.

Submissions close June 5, 2009.

For more information, do click on the link above. =)

kar heng

This is a very interesting situation.

2009-02-05T12:27:00.000+08:00

I just thought you guys should know about this. I found this article at Yahoo.com. Do read about it. Here's the URL
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090204/ap_en_ot/obama_poster

Hellow

2009-02-05T11:18:00.001+08:00

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

an artwork i drew few months ago, got a dailydeviation award

on deviantart.com, manga category

http://veleries.deviantart.com/art/Angels-106112772

Lmao, c n c are welcome, juz dont stab me so hard

guys visit my website plz...its lonely there T_T

http://veleries.deviantart.com/

http://veleries.blogspot.com/

email veleries_fgtatt@yahoo.com

btw veleries is..me..wina LOL

poor english...blah

All that jazz

2009-02-04T22:48:00.000+08:00

Hey All! Guess what, I have visit EMO bookstore and met my old buddy David. He gave a few books and some catalogues. Most of the books are new titles but three of them I would love to recommend as your official reference. This one here is the History of Graphic Design which I would recommend to Graphic Design students. Multimedia students, I have books on motions graphics, film-making and drawing for animation. These are new titles. Well, we will see these in class soon. You know, I used to think that there is no need to buy reference books. But who can really stop you from acquiring knowledge? What is important here is to buy books that touch on fundamentals and history. Sometimes, proven methodology and successful designs can inspire you to be better designers.

Greetings Lucky13!

2009-02-03T23:17:00.000+08:00

Honestly, I am not too sure about the 'Lucky 13' title for you all, i just made that up, you guys may like it but then again, you guys are a team and you all should decide. I am proud of you all because you all the courage to explore the creative industry. All you need is sheer determination. This year will be a year of self discovery. Hard work and creative thinking will get you very far. So, here's my hope. You will all be active, not only in the studio but outside the studio and also fully utilising the technology that will assist you along the way. This blog is for you to use. You can upload pictures, make comments, write articles , share knowledge, share experiences, events, design revelations, show off your skills, and etc. All will be related to design and you do realise that the world of design is HUGE! So come on, what r u waiting for?