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Saturday, December 5, 2009, 10:01 PM
Designer's Day 2009!

This is honestly the first time I've ever been to an art exhibition/gallery I believe, and I must say Designer's Day Festival 2009 was awesome! It feels pretty wasted because I never got to visit the other exhibitions other then the ones we went to for our DI field trip. Hence, I've made a mental note to definitely go check out next year's Designer Day 2010 exhibition. :)


To kickstart the day, Joel, Clarissa and I went to a courtroom which was featuring CCC Character Festival. Inside, we found many cartoon drawn characters in these black bubble like things.. The cartoon characters were all brightly coloured and cute! These drawings are Japanese productions and has a form of 'zenny' feel to it. Some of the characters were ninja, while some just look like the random cutesy characters you can find on your game console Japanese music games! One of which is a taiko drum (Picture below)


One of the key features of the characters drawn is this exhibition is the way they are shaped symmetrically. In my opinion, this may sometimes work if you want the character to look slightly flat and in shape (neat). For example, the Chang Er (Moon Princess) character below. She looks neater and tidier in a way because of the symmetrical effect, also it is easy on the eyes and it is also simple to imagine and understand what kind or character is that.





Kotomi sketchbook





Chang Er cartoon

Another thing that has been noted is the frequent use of the simple stuff we use in our daily stuff to create the characters. As seen below, they use simple stuff like the jigsaw puzzle, clock and birthday cake to actually create these characters. It's really something to learn from and I think I can probably use something relating to an item or something to create the Sobe Mascot for our AM project! For eg. Mr Bean uses a Bean man as their escort.

So i reckon, Sobe can probably be related to... more beans? -_-

All right. I'm really just kidding :D

Next up, theres the typography 101 gallery too!

That place is really pretty cool, the first thought that came to my mind when I stepped into it was...

"Somebody must have switched off all the lights!"

It's because the place was entirely in darkness. However...

We later found out the magic of it. There were several posters hanging around from the ceiling. And attached to each poster was a mini torchlight... and the cool thing was! You get to read the stuff written on the posters by shining the torchlight over the posters! The words on it were sentences that were related to the Singapore Culture I reckon. :D

Really interesting stuff that I'd never seen before in my life. Hahahahaha

Sad to say I didn't take much pictures for that because of my lousy handphone's camera. :(

However, I can totally remember how the whole thing and place looks like!

Another random picture for the typography gallery! It created a 3D effect for it and I love the colours orange, fuschia and yellow. So retro! :O

All in all, it has been an eye-opener to be able to have the chance to have a good look at all the exhibitions and talented works/galleries that day.

& It has certainly enriched my DI learning experience!