Flat Design

I was browsing through behance and dribbble for some inspiration, and found that people are starting to get to flat design approach.

Well part of the reason  is because google started to use iconography in their graphics elements: http://www.behance.net/gallery/Google-Visual-Assets-Guidelines-Part-1/9028077

This trend also brought up by simplicity and flat design of windows phone interface:

So I started to think back then , the realistic clean elegant icon design, then the low poly kind of design approach was the trend last year, now these. I guess in couple of months, people will starts to approach flat design in their work.
If we keep on following the trend, when do we starts to create our own "trend" or develop our own style?

Flash Outdated?

We are learning flash in college, and it seem flash game is not as popular as we think of in the market, native apps can penetrate more audience that a single flash game. Flash is not supported by most smartphone as well. 

Many of you might heard a HTML5 and scrolled a couple of parallax website. 

One the example is this prometheus website: http://www.projectprometheus.com

In some of the features such as: http://www.projectprometheus.com/genesis/ they were using flash to blend into their website, when comes to http://www.projectprometheus.com/newworlds/, HTML5 + CSS3 + jQuery came in.

I remembered one of the lecturer told me that the reason the college is not teaching any HTML5, CSS3 is because it have alot of limitation when comes to interactive. Check out http://www.chromeexperiments.com/ to find out how webGL and HTML 5 canvas can work out together.

You might find out that HTML 5 is able to do alot of stuff but the technique is not mature and not all the browser supports it. It still in the middle of experiment state.

There are also goods of HTML5 and CSS3, is that we can browse with most of the mobile devices.We can make simple animation and interaction in our website, and it works across all platform.

In my opinion, flash is no doubt very useful, but I believe HTML is next big thing in terms of interactive. We shall give our best in learning flash as well, is the basics fundamental to scripting and game planning. If you cant handle it, you cant handle new language in future. If you are good at graphics only, you will always end up in poster design, might as well learn and master motion graphics.

Last but not least, here is a site you can see the different between HTML and Flash: http://flashvhtml.com/

Happy Pia-ing.

Teammates interview video behind the scene

We have this assignment when our work were selected, we assigned to produce an interview video speaking of how we do it and concept stuff.

Here are one of the behind scene of this talented Jeremy's interview video, meaning many of his work was selected.

AWD Final Presentation

Advance Web Design final presentation photo with external excessor...

Creative within the box

http://bit.ly/WZTXtA

Some say IOS have limited the space for designer, I say creatives occur within rules.

http://bit.ly/VCy8xn

Digital Portfolio Presentation

Thanks our external interviewer to interview us and helped to gain some experience on interviewing.
Not really updating the blog, as Facebook is pretty canggih, we started to share everything over there.
If we have readers, here is your little update!

About us, year 2 sem 3...

Is been awhile since we update our blog and since this blog is more about inspiring graphics, I hereby share some of our class's moment over here.

Our Class's group photo.

Windows icon on da face.

Went to traveller's photography talk, inspiring and interesting.

Our beloved lecturers, they are all from MM department.

One of the campaign in our school, no Idea no talk. She is one of us.

If a fig rig in our school! Woohoo!

Jeremy Yeoh is photographing.

Jeremy Yeoh is photographing his object.

Jeremy Yeoh's mickey mouse.

Jeremy Yeoh in action.

The front was Ruth Wong, and the behind one was Jess Teng.

Kalvin Khoo aka Kalvin Pro, our photography related consultant.

Jeremy Yeoh's rare smile.

Panorama of our school lobby.

Campaign for this Top 10 Awards event.

Jeremy Yeoh in the house ( had a lot of photos of his as he sat quite close to me)

Jeremy Yeoh in action.

We went to armenian street for our video shooting.

She is Jeat Ee

We were thinking any location else for video shooting.

Ms Lian is playing water, probably haven't seen sea in ages.

We went to our lecturer Max's shop for work critique.

The printer asked us to cut paper ourselves because they are busy.

Our Seng Ying.

Jeremy in action.

This is me.

He hold for a sec for me, cause I am shooting him under long exposure. 

Left was Lian right was Jess.

Photo studio shooting is interesting and fun.

and of course, we are paying very much attention to the class.

One of our happy lecturer!

This occurs when we don't know what is aperture.

Our treasurer in class, kinda our big sister in class.

I shoot you, you shoot me back.

When we play, we stay serious; When we dicuss, we stay serious as well.

Another "long-time-no-see-sea" shot of Lian.

Every photo is precious, it records our memory and so I edit them in polaroid, to show the uniqueness and the golden moment.

That is all, I think this warps off our Year 2 Sem 3.