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Baba Nyonya Herittage

2010-06-14T22:50:00.012+08:00

Nyonyas
According to my research, i found that there are two contrasting ends to Nyonyas characters.

Gentle and soft spoken Nyonyas- is it that this type of nyonya is the youngest one, which are more attentive in embroider skill in making nyonya beaded shoes, Handkerchief ??
Fearless and fierce Nyonyas- is it that it is related to a 'pantang larang' (taboo) of their culture and this type of nyonya (elders/ or the great-grandmother of the house) normally that are more powerful in status of the family to control their family peaceful & morality??
- For example, that no one should be watching their elder while their elder was trying to bun up her hair because it would definitely mean that the 'bunning' will fail. And the elder will punish their children if their children are not follow the taboo, even they will throw their shoes toward their children if happens.

My research topic were focus more on
Gentle and soft spoken Nyonyas & Nyonya Beaded Shoes.

In the BabaNyonya olden day, the sewing and embroider skill in making nyonya beaded shoes, Handkerchief for a young nyonya is very important for their eventual marriages.

The early BabaNyonya were competitive people in everything, as most were of the prominent background, they match made and married among their own Peranakans.
The sewing and embroider skill is one of the important skill for them besides cooking! And its need to passing down the cultures to their children. That why it is so important the skill for them to have marriage a guy in olden day.

The daughters of BabaNyonya were always quote as, "a married daughter is like splashed water" but it was important to find them good husbands to keep them.

Conclusion for the above video:
For the olden day, sewing and embroider skill is the must for a nyonya girl. Nowadays, it start to disappear. And there are the people that are contributes to recover it， and the one that learn it and passing down to next generation, is a Man.

WEB DESIGN 2 - User Testing1

2010-02-10T10:14:00.007+08:00

*All of these INTERFACE REDESIGN WEBSITE are just for college project usage,
is not for any commercial usage *

tihao.1207@gmail.com

Redesign of FullHouseCafe Website

-Enter page-

-welcome page-

-about us-
"truly novel experience"

-about us-
"petit four"

-Cafe-

-Comic-

-Store & Shop-

-Contact-

*Event page still in process

WEB DESIGN 2

2010-01-15T03:32:00.022+08:00

Strategic Brief
Project Definition
Full House Café is my client for this Web design II project. First and foremost, we need to study their existing website and its target audience to propose a new concept towards enhancing the interface of the existing web design. Besides, we need to simplify and propose better site navigation.

In this project, the main thing is to redesign the original website. The original art style of the site will not changed but more elements will be inserted to make the site more interesting and the interactive of the website will be improve to make the site more user friendly.

Current Site's Analysis & Goals
In this site is lacking of information. But after having an interview with the assistant manager of the Full House Café, I get know that, actually the Full House Café official website is actually in the process of improving. Some of the features in this site may be is not yet completed. There are a few broken link and some of image linkage problem. Arrangement of the site or site map is not ideal, it may confuse the audience. Besides that, there are no page indicators.

Web area that looks for improvement:
-Make the interface design of the site more interesting and more fun.
-Add more information and event photo to make attract more visitors.
-Make the four themes character in the site interface more outstanding.
-Updated the location of the three branches.

Client's Analysis
Background
According to my research, Full House Café is a very popular concept restaurant in Malaysia. It has 3 branches in Malaysia and it founded by Mr. Adam Swee, 27 years old.

The cooperate color or themes color is white and the concept is about “Home” with the four main themes character. Every character name is start with alphabet “T”, even their one and only pet also have a name start with alphabet “T”. Four of them have a name called Petit Four.

The Full House Café is not only a café, it also a lifestyle store that selling the guys and girl trend and fashion with their own branding, souvenirs and latest product imported from Korea, Japan, china.

Besides, the Full House Café is a open café, people can just take photo anywhere inside the café, Beside, they can just try out the fashion product and have a snapshoot, it is totally different from others lifestyle shop that strictly not allow visitor to have a snapshoot with their product.

Full house also provides event management services to help you put together the most happening, most talked-about party in town!

Mission and Vision
Full house Lifestyle Store & Cafe is a truly novel experience, serving visitors from all walks of life senses and palate of pleasing to their eyes.

Unique selling point
-The concept of “Home”.
-Interior design of the restaurant. The restaurant is form by the garden, living room, kitchen, VIP room, bathroom and etc.
-The freedom of snapshoot inside the café and their lifestyle store.

Position & Cultural value
-Full house café is a modern concept restaurant but it brings and conveys the message of home sweet home via their concept.

Short & Long-term Site Goals
Short
-Keep update more new information about the café.

Long
-Helpdesk zone for their customer.
-Run some event activity, special promotion.

Target Audience
The target audience is youths, teenagers, and young adults. Most of them are student, office workers.

Scanography

2010-01-12T02:06:00.003+08:00

....is fun!

阿基里斯與龜 08年的

2010-01-11T00:03:00.008+08:00

ArtStudent must watch it! nice!Waiting people download 4 me..=(

The Art of Colours

2010-01-10T16:35:00.004+08:00

Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett, Frankfurt, Germany
“The Art of Colours. Koleston Hair Colours.”

Beautiful Commercial Web Design

2010-01-09T02:30:00.009+08:00

{RedBox}

-Fully flash.
-Page download times faster.
-Neat layout, consistent.
-User friendly.
-Nice icon.
-Clear & neat information.
-Artstyle suitable the indentity.
-Attrative with all the famous artist endorsement.
-More focus on advertising and promotion.
-Text information able to copy.
-Target audience more to teenager, student, adult.

{Pokka}
-Html site
-Page download times faster.
-Simple, neat & clean layout, consistent.
-User friendly.
-Clear & neat arragement of information.
-Artstyle suitable the indentity.
(good & healthy lifestyle)
-Text information able to copy.
-Target audience more to adult, teenagers and student.

{Kleenex}
-Html site
-Page download times faster.
-Nice layout, consistent.
-User friendly.
-Clear & neat information.
-Artstyle suitable the indentity.(soft mood)
-Text information able to copy.
-Target audience more to adult, parent.

{CoffeeBean}
-Html site.
-Page download times faster.
-Neat layout, consistent.
-User friendly.
-Clear & neat information.
-Artstyle suitable the indentity.(naturalistic)
-Nice color.
-Nice photo preview.
-Text information able to copy.
-Target audience more to coffee & tea lover.

WebDesign References

2010-01-08T14:23:00.008+08:00

HTML Code Library:
Quackit
Webmonkey
Html5gallery
Psacake

Design tutorials
80s-style-design-photoshop
Beautiful-fluffy-clouds-photoshop-christmas-tutorial
Making-of-an-interesting-wet-web-scene
Useful-tips-for-designing-brilliant-icons

Sharing
Website:
Knutselwereld
Dragonhunters
Rabbids
Ecomagination

Advertising:
75-creative-and-humorous-beer-ads

WebDesign2

2010-01-06T23:47:00.025+08:00

GanttChart

Client: Fullhousecafe (Lifestyle Store & Café)

Food--Price range is around RM5 ~ 20 per pax.
Drinks Price range is around RM4.80 – RM5.90per pax.

Ambience--cozy
White as their theme color
Using the concept of 'HOME SWEET HOME'
the idea come from the name of a Korean drama, [Fullhouse浪漫满屋]

Screenshots of the original fullhousecafe website:

intropage

party-time page

about page

cafe page

Fullhousecafe vs oldtown

*origin of full house cafe not yet sure, still researching

Fullhousecafe vs Gardencafe

Fullhousecafe vs T-bowl concept restaurant

Fullhousecafe vs BubbaGump

*add on BubbaGump Artstyle: American style, forestry

penang! =)

2010-01-06T22:05:00.004+08:00

-静-

2010-01-05T23:09:00.004+08:00

Last semester work.....WaterColorTimer =)

ilovewatercolor

DesignMethod2 Final Project

2009-10-24T00:52:00.005+08:00

Project Title: The Influence
Topic: If we live well

DesignMethod 2 slideshow=)
*Flash Website*

Webpage redesign(typography)

2009-10-19T13:00:00.007+08:00

*All of these INTERFACE REDESIGN WEBSITE are just for college project usage,
is not for any commercial usage*
email: tihao1207@gmail.com

Web Design 1 (refine)

2009-10-18T18:07:00.008+08:00

comment pls~ :)

*screen reso;lution 800x600

intro>homepage>about_page>lesson_page>gallery_page>profile_page

-refinement on the name of my logo.. watercolor vs time change to watercolor timer
-remove texture paper behind
-trying to draw myself using water color but look weird and messy for the montage part so i trying digital effect on it.

Refinement

1.What do you think about my artstyle? Suitable for my topic?
2. How about the color mood?
3. The homepage it is attrative enough?
4.The site is well suited to first time visitor? or it is too messy and hard to find out where is my button?
5.Any comment? Just shoot me...i wont gigit u..XD.

Prison rabbit =)

2009-10-11T00:41:00.003+08:00

Prisonrabbit version play boy...

Fly me to the moon =)

2009-10-05T02:43:00.011+08:00

Explicit meaning
What u see through the overall animation
•A jungle boy that pursuit his dream to the urban life.
•It showed eagerness and well passion of a boy towards knowledge

Implicit meaning
•Metaphor .
•Listen to the song and think about the others meaning about the song lyrics.
It not necessary about the “ love ” , although the original meaning is about “love ”.
•An ignorance of a jungle boy of pursuing himself to the urban life.
•Despite his dream of putting himself into an urban life, he wasn’t aware of the serenity of humanity in the city

•The puppet symbolize their daily livings that were being controlled by human, with no freedom in actions.
•Due to their blindness, they couldn’t stop the jungle boy of pursuing his dream to move to the city.

•Why snowing?
•Snow can represent an emotional coldness of human toward the natural environment. They ignore consequences that happened to achieve their aim.

how to......

2009-10-04T16:33:00.004+08:00

"How to...." webdesign progress....
still alot alot of thing nid to prepare........@@...

arghh...有点退步了......TT.....i hope i got back all my artwork i draw before...;D...

Creative Adv :Radiator waterwear rubber(18++)

2009-09-27T02:45:00.005+08:00

Improve your flexibility. Not as thick. Just as warm. All the rubber you need.

*Radiator waterwear rubber*

Creative Adv : Deadline is super super important!

2009-09-27T02:36:00.003+08:00

Advertising Agency: BBDO Guerrero Ortega, Manila, Philippines
Creative Directors: David Guerrero, Joel Limchoc / Art Directors: Joel Limchoc, Mich Uy / Copywriter: Tiffany King / Photographer: Dindo Villaester / Producer: Al Salvador
Pizza Hut

Beautifully Imperfect by yasmin ahmad

2009-09-27T01:08:00.003+08:00

Please spare some time to go through these thought provoking advertisements and short films.

TOP ADVERTISING AGENCIES WEBSITE

2009-09-24T02:37:00.005+08:00

bbdo
bozell
dbb
crayonad
draftfcb
freestyleinteractive
diamond
jwt
leoburnett
mandate-international
hsad
kb
mudra
mccann

Fly me to the moon

2009-09-17T05:26:00.010+08:00

Fly me to the moon
by

Westlife
Jazzamor
EVA OST II
Michael Bolton
Claire
Utada Hikaru
Utada Hikaru(mix)
Aya Bossa Techno Version
Aki Jungle Version

try to grab more suitable version for my flash..

Web Design 1 (weekly progress 2)

2009-09-16T07:56:00.003+08:00

Refinement=) for my mood board

How to play with water color technique.

Mood Board:

*collapse image as my bg x.x

Flow Chart:

Flash interactive design interpreting

2009-09-13T10:00:00.001+08:00

Jonathanyuen 2006

Warm up Warm up*updated

2009-09-12T21:29:00.009+08:00

Bird again =.=

my references is from zhuzhu deviantart done by digital painting in Painter 6.
and it is so amazing.

i try touse the image and draw it myself in water color..
but not as nice as the original....and distord ad my kingfishes..TT

allien king fishes with big head small body

Extraordinary Pantene Commercial

2009-09-12T18:16:00.003+08:00

Pretty cool visually and musically.
The message is all about going beyond the barriers of what people say you are and becoming who you really are.

Damien Walters Show ReEMIX 2009

2009-09-12T18:09:00.000+08:00

How to Get Through Life

2009-09-12T17:23:00.010+08:00

How To Get Through Life

1.Sleep as much as you can...not now T.T

2. Read books that you enjoy...

.3.Play with simple things..

4.Do whatever you want -- whenever you want...

5. Look for affection when you need it...

6.Get serious once in a while...

7.Forget about diets....not for me T.T
.
8.Show some affection...

9.Get angry once in a while....

10.Change your looks..

Above all, be happy,
regardless of what

your challenges may be...
Have a great life!

May your troubles be less,
your blessings more,
and may nothing but happiness
come through your door.

ps: forward mail

earlybird=)

2009-09-12T00:10:00.003+08:00

done by me juz now v water color ....
wanna go to oi oi ad....
later wake up early to continue my assignment...

Celestial destroyer 2

2009-09-10T03:52:00.012+08:00

celestial destroyer 2 / zhuxian 2 in china...

addicted ad >> Celestial destroyer 1 ..

now come out celestial destroyer 2 lagi...=.=

i wan play!!
aizz....new semester start ad la....concentrate on study better...=(

The original story very nice but i not yet go read all of it...only touch little bit infront...ggg

周迅 - 爱恨恢恢

作词：林夕作曲：小柯

宁愿时间放过我的眼把你看成墓碑
还是想起残缺的回忆曾经让我完美
以为相逢流下不相识的泪无情如流水
只是忘了你是谁难忘你是我的谁

宁愿牺牲忘情的道行在你面前崩溃
还是选择枯木的坚强把那春草摧毁
宁可吹起凋谢的夏花还是如秋叶静美
难道不懂得绝情感情就没有枉费

就算不再见都再会面目非全非
有些恨剉骨扬灰不后悔
给我一万年一两岁也都无所谓
有些爱逃不出天网恢恢

宁愿牺牲忘情的道行在你面前崩溃
还是选择枯木的坚强把那春草摧毁
宁可吹起凋谢的夏花还是如秋叶静美
难道不懂得绝情感情就没有枉费

就算不再会我都会越睡越憔悴
你的笑是我梦中旱天雷
给我一万年万万岁参透了错对
你一来我依然插翅难飞

给我一万年一两岁也都无所谓
有些爱逃不出天网恢恢

宁愿时间放过我的眼把你看成墓碑
还是想起残缺的回忆曾经让我完美

紫.ｓè制作 QQ：253057646

Web Design 1 (weekly progress)

2009-09-08T19:48:00.018+08:00

1.Web design Project title: How to....?

How to make good use of my hobby
Themes: Fun with color

1.Who am i - Artist
2.What is it- Fun with Color
3.What for- Sharing/decoration
4.1st task- Materials（chinese ink & water color)
5.2nd task- The making/ Sharing
6.3rd task- Product
7.Outcome
8. Showcase- Gallery

How to play with water color =)
Theme: The beauty/flexibility of Water Color

1.Who am i - Artist
2.What is it- Water color drawing interesting technique
3.What for- Sharing
4.1st task- Materials
5.2nd task- Different technique showcase
6.3rd task- Combination of all the technique into one landscape drawing
7.Outcome
8. Showcase- Gallery

How to make Batik Eggs (easter egg) flower pot
Theme:

1.Who am i - Designer
2.What is it- Reuse the egg shell
3.What for- Decoration
4.1st task- Materials-acrylic color/crayon, D.I.Y material...etc
5.2nd task- Designing/ Steps
6.3rd task- no plastic flower pot
7.Outcome
8. Showcase- Gallery/ Upload your own hand make egg flower port

How to make Simple Batik
Theme: Batik

1.Who am i - Designer
2.What is it- Mix Culture
3.What for- Decoration/anything u like =)
4.1st task- Materials-crayon & poster/water color
5.2nd task- Designing/ Steps
6.3rd task- Product
7.Outcome- Download
8. Showcase- Gallery

2.Photoshop tutorials

3.Beautiful website

Darasgarden

ndesign-studio

Joshtilton

Pixelcriminals

Toucouleur

Narfstuff

Coalmarch

Foxie *****nice

Emotionslive

4. "How to" tutorial website

Some joy and laughter to start off our second year and second semester

2009-09-02T19:34:00.001+08:00