It's not that complicated

Yesterday, I went to NAFA's Gallery. There's an exhibition being held there, lots of artworks from various Singapore art students mostly graduated and connected to NAFA. One of the artworks which is my favorite is this one. I think this is categorized in 3D object design. It is actually a swing, but not just a regular swing. It is designed to be connected with the lamp in the back of the swings. The lamp is designed to light when there's a movement in every swing. If you swing high enough the lamps will start to light and shows the message it wanted to express. It is actually written "It's not that complicated". 

I think the design is really unique and fun because it needs the participation of the viewers to catch the message it wanted to tell. So it's a lot of fun, and more, it is using swings. Who doesn't love swings??

By the way, this work is made by Joey Soh which is a full time lecturer in NAFA.  So cool right! I wonder if I will meet her in person someday... :D 

Avatar Designs for Crunchyroll

I used to be active in this site called www.Crunchyroll.com . It is kind of a site where you can watch anime movies, but I never watch it there. I usually talks, chat, and get to know different people from all around the world. It was really fun back then. I got a lot of friends, mostly they are from Thailand, but some of them are from China, USA, and other. I learned more English when I was active there. The site is kinda cool too, you can personalize your own page and profile in the About Me section. And there's also a lot of people who likes to customize their own avatar using characters from anime mostly.

 Editing your own avatar has become so popular in Crunchyroll, that's why I started to learn using Photoshop all by myself from watching videos and asking people. I think I've gotten a lot better in editing rather than back then when I was young. Some people, who can't edit their pictures themselves, or don't have the program, or just simply lazy to do so, usually request their avatar from groups that receive avatar request. 

These are some of my works (and yes I need to put on watermark because a lot of thieves in crunchyroll)

 NOTE: I have quite a lot of account back then, so that's why some of my works have different names on it. 

Border Design for School Magazine "DOMINOS"

Back then in my high school in Jakarta, I was in the school magazine club. I was chosen in the design section. My task is to make borders for the articles inside the magazine. Every month the themes of the magazine varies. When it is August, usually the theme is about Indonesia because Indonesia's Independence Day falls on 17th August. So this is an example of my work with Indonesian culture theme.

NOTE: the pictures used in my borders may be taken from another source. The pictures used are not mine. They are taken from Google.

You can see in the bottom side of the border there are two wayangs. Wayang is one of Indonesia's heritage. There are different types of wayang, like wayang kulit, wayang golek, and wayang orang. I used wayang in the border because it symbolize the Indonesian culture and it's also unique.

These are also other designs with other themes, you can see all down below. Can you guess the themes?