Assignment 5 - Chosen work

The final work I've selected is the Nostalgic one. I thought it is better representation of Asia and asia's characteristic.
The quote written there is as follows.
"Embracing the old, Asia"

"Amidst our quest for prosperity and modernization, we take some time to look into our past."

I sort of want to bring out an Asian characteristic which is that the old always occupies a space in our lifes. Look at our calendar and often we can find holidays which are a few centuries old.

The colours remained colourful to fit the colourful Asia theme.
Sorry for not following instruction as the back of the post card should be white.

Assignment 5 - Final Work themes

I decided to come up with the colour swatches to portray clearer what kind of colour scheme I was planning. The 6 theme I came up with are Nostalgic, Eerie, Festive, Comic, Majestic and Gothic.

Nostalgic - Represented by the the colour of brown which brings out the feeling of old and antique. Something like remnance of the past.

Eerie - Green lights as we know from movies have this ghostly feel.

Festive - Without a doubt lots of red as though it is Chinese New Year. Japanese and Korean too have their own respective new years which are also represented in a very vibrant colours.

Comic - Black and White are not colours which I guess do not fit into the theme. However I'll just include it. It very much makes it very comical and feels funny

Majestic - Represented with Gold and Purple which in Asian context represents royalty. Purple dyes are the most expensive and hard to get and hence purple robes were only seen with nobles. Same for gold which are usually for the emperors or kings.

Gothic - I would rename it as sinister. The red in black background feels as though something bad has happened or going to happen.

Cheers~! Hope to add more themes

Assignment 5 - Development Process

I decided that lanterns are a very good representation of Asia after doing a search on lanterns on wiki. The origin of lanterns are mainly Asia and today there are different kind of lanterns specific to different cultures.

As such I did a research on the lanterns from the key Asian countries and gotten all these lanterns as my basis for my design

They are mainly from Japan, China, Korea and 1 more supposedly Vietnamese lantern.
I then decided that it would be good to include a modern lamp post to illustrate lanterns in our contemporary modernized world.

Assignment 4 - Poster Design Final

The 3 animals represent the 3 most commonly eaten meat in an Asian context. Pork, Chicken and Beef. I made it so cartoonish for a reason. When we were young, animals were often portrayed as cartoons and we always treat it as our friends in the world of cartoons. However as we mature we forget them as our friend and treat them as a food source. So the cartoonish feel is to remind people they are our happy friends.

I portrayed the boy eating apple from the tree as a symbol of being a vegetarian. In my opinion, I can cover the wordy parts below, read 'World Peace starts from what you choose to eat' then look at the boy eating apple, and immediately imply that it encourages vegetarian diet. Without even mentioning the word Vegetarian.

The smiling animals is used to enhance the happy and utopia feeling when we choose our diet wisely, and world peace can be related to the utopia background where clear blue sky and grassland are what we would commonly use as a place of peace and happiness.
The words below pretty much explains why one should be a vegetarian and the website is non existent.

Assignment 4 - Poster Design Process

The poster which I want to design is about Going Green more specifically Going Veg. The motive the poster would be to encourage more people to embrace a vegetarian diet.
I wanted to portray a world similar to Utopia where love and peace is the feeling one would get at first sight.
Though it remains very distant for many how being a vegetarian can bring you to Utopia, I wanted to show that it is the first step and all posters are an exaggeration anyway.
In this Utopia I wanted to portray happy animals living happily with human beings and that's when I started googling for inspiration which would be coherent to what I intent to design. I stumbled upon the 2 picture above. The pigs looked like a good illustration in which I can draw as Pork is one of the main diets in asia. As such I traced and modify the pig for it so that it is not an exact replica.
The second picture is what I envisage my background to be. Simple yet shows a very fantasy happy world.