PD Oral Defence

Last Wednesday was my PD Oral Defence. The first disastrous thing about it was deciding what to wear. I thought of wearing heels but I might not make it there. So I just put on of my Chuck Taylor with a cardigan over a tank. I know.

While waiting (after flipping through everyone's portfolio), I look right, look left & look right again & prayed a little. When I'm done, Shiping ask, "did you just chant?"

Then finally, it's my turn. I knock the door then dumbly greeted them, "Hi bosses! ;@ Shouldn't have done that. Chuan said, "erm... maybe during an interview, you shouldn't do that."

Questions

Assessor 1: Usually you pray in a certain direction. Did you take that direction into consideration when designing the cafe?

Answer: no.

Assessor 2: Did you ask your friend if this is how she wants her cafe to be?

Answer: no.

Today, Malissa sitting in front of me, suddenly gave and eerie laugh. That's because the PD result were released and she passed. Guess what? I passed too :)

Comments

Assessor 1: below average due to poor use of visual and graphic design principle. (agree)

Assessor 2: mostly graphic design. Should include of what she has learned in this diploma and should try apply interior design in a café to a real place. (agree)

Characters (Ilustrator)

I was suppose to create my characters using illustrator and since I can't create the characters that I had drawn using illustrator because I lack the talent, I decided to create characters like this instead using illustrator.This image is almost similar to the image that is introduced to me during illustration workshop. The difference are the shapes and the body.

This is the other character that I created. His name is Blue I because his eyes is so blue :)

Project Rice web layout

I was suppose to design the layout of Project Rice as part of PD and this is part of it. Design the layout of the website, not designing the website cos I tried using Premiere Pro but its just to hard for humble me.

On the bottom right I thought of putting an image of a bowl of rice and some other images wherever plus the information in the middle. Is it too simple?

Like these.

This is the page for the events on the website. Does "It's all about your bowls of rice" sounds nicer?

How should my name card look like?

I wanted to do a name card for myself and I did this, a plain background with black text. Really inspired by a friend Kamal. I was thinking of including "graphic designer" on it but I got self conscious cos I'm not exactly a designer :P

I did this one first before creating the plain one. Let me just show how I did it real quick.

Get a plain background on a name card size,

get a brush tool and start scribbling.

Continue scribbling...

until you get this.

Then just add a layer and start typing your text.

PD discussion with advisor Ling.

mArYm'S BAKERY series

-background

-design cafe

-signage

-card

-menu

-where?

-homemade

BMDP Brochure

-background dark red

-exhibition setup

-text white

-task flow

Project Rice

-website layout

Characters

-illustrator

FYP

mArYm's BAKERY SERIES - logo

Characters

I decided to draw a few of my friends and families during Raya and I was told that I can use it for my PD but I have to recreate it using illustrator. Note that this is just manually drawn and not by ilustrator.

This is my friend Keith. If plan goes, he'll be the next RP Redcross president. I'd like to wish him all the luck that he can have cos he's gonna need it :p I did draw Chauwei & CT too but while scanning, I, without realising, have sent it to Zul Adnan...

This is my elder brother who's serving the NS. My mother miss him all the time. I wish I could tell him that sometimes I miss him too :)

This is my cousin Aziq whose always teasing fat people and have not realised that he's almost as fat. My kind hearted nature stop me from telling him the ugly truth therefore I had this drawn to show him :) And btw, I always thought that he should shave as well.

My cute grandma:)

This is my bestfriend Maryam. When my mum saw this she asked, "why is Maryam so simple?" I told her, "Maryam is simple."


This is one of my good friend in class. I do not have many friends because I'm really quiet :(
She has one of the best sense of fashion.

My 2nd Pd Submission

For my 2nd PD submission, I decided to do a brochure about BMDP which is Bone Marrow Donor Programme.

However my advisor that the background colour does not suit and it looks dull. Plus the BMDP buddy that I designed inspired my the look of bone marrow looks like a seal. So I did all over again. However My advisor said that the text colour will not show up on black background.

The final one is this with red background and white text and no seal.

mArYm's BAKERY SERIES - menu

This is the menu that I created but I realised the portion where I want to insert the image is black and the image is black. However if I change the black portion to white then the text will have lesser contrast. This means I have to change the text to black. Also my advisor said the title in black does not suit the brown and I should change it to white.


But I remembered my advisor telling me to add an image of a cup of coffee.

mArYm's BAKERY SERIES - namecard

However my original idea is to have the namecard in the shape of the cake itself. For now, I do not really know how it is gonna be printed in this shape.

mArYm's BAKERY SERIES - namecard

My best friend, Maryam have a dream to open up her own bakery shop. She is best at baking cookies, brownies, and muffins and such. I hope her dream will come true. I came out with the name of her future bakery or café which is mArYm’s BAKERY as part of my PD.

This is her namecard but my advisor didn't think that black will suit grey at all and she said why didn't I make the name card similar to the menu. I'll show the menu later.

So I changed the text to white but I din't think it look nice.

Then I change the colour of the "muffin" but still... it looks... Maybe I should change the background instead.

Like this?

I have another image of cake.

Another Blood Drive Poster.

I created another blood drive poster for the next blood drive however due to certain issues there weren't any blood drive held. I did not use this poster for my PD. The blood buddy weren't drawn by me.

My First PD Submission.

For my 1st Portfolio Submission (PD), this is what I submitted. Just so happen, at that time there were Project Rice and Blood drive going on so I decided to create posters about them and at the same time use it as part of my porfolio. However, my Project Rice poster wasn’t used as there was already an approved poster on it.

Portfolio

This blog is to show the works that I've done for my portfolio development.