Rebecca Yang – Page 4

Process – Banner

Hello! I have done up three banners, all playing with the various motifs that I have posted earlier on.

Number 1:

This is the first one I did up, which I wasn’t very satisfied with because I felt it looked too rigid and the motifs were too straight and didn’t relay the playfulness I wanted in the banner.

Number 2:

Because I wanted some sort of dynamic component and didn’t like the straightness, I reorganised the motifs and made them slanted and slightly messier, so it would create a sort of falling down effect and the food items would look like they were dropping down from the sky in a haphazard and playful way.

Number 3:

This is the last design I was experimenting with. I kind of like the splashes of colour which I derived from the test sheet 1 and 2, using the colour select tool on photoshop. It gives the background more depth and character, like splashes of paint, so it does not look as flat. I decided to keep the motifs in the falling down/cascading sort of movement from Number 2.

New Photograph

Postcard – Social Media Tracking

So I tracked my social media usage from 8/2/2017 to 13/2/2017, which was the Wednesday after class on Tuesday, all the way up to the following Monday. Some findings were that the top three most used applications for me was Instagram, Whatsapp and Facebook. I also frequently used Spotify, YouTube and Telegram (all in consecutive order), but I guess for this particular week it was the first three listed that came up tops! I also found that the amount of time I used on any particular app is relative to the amount of free time I had on my hands (e.g. when I’m not working my part time job or when I’m on the train), and if I used less of Instagram any particular day, chances are that I used less of Whatsapp and Facebook as well.

Final Drawn Motifs

Hello!

I have added colour to my motifs by watercolouring them in, and decided to go for very bright, vibrant colours that would work for the fairytale about children like Hansel and Gretel.

Below are the scanned versions of the final work as well as the work in progress to show the kind of style I was experimenting with.

Final Drawn Motifs

Coffee cake (same design as chocolate cheesecake as I was playing around with the colour and how it would change the type of food it was)

Chocolate cheesecake (same design as coffee cake as I was playing around with the colour and how it would change the type of food it was)

Test Sheets (To be incorporated into patterns)

Test sheet pattern 2 — Test sheet pattern 1

Test sheet pattern 1 — Test sheet pattern 2

Rough Work

Photographer who inspires me: Steve McCurry

Afghan Girl, cover of June 1985 National Geographic

My inspiration would be Steve McCurry, the photographer who shot Afghan Girl for the cover of National Geographic in 1985. I think what strikes me the most about his work is his portraiture style and the way he shoots people in general.

He has very good control over the lighting conditions and the use of colour, often being able to make colours pop out and allow the subject to really stand out from the background. I also particularly like his shooting matter, as I can identify with liking to photograph people and to travel to various countries that are underrepresented and engage with the culture and people there. It becomes a very wholesome eye opening experience combined with photography.

Below are more of his works that I found particularly captivating.

The World's Ride, West Bengal, India — The World’s Ride, West Bengal, India

The World's Ride, Nepal — The World’s Ride, Nepal

Eco Park

Here are some of the photographs I made from the Eco Park shoot.

Image with Text – For Week 5

Photograph taken at Ô Comptoir, 5th February 2017.

Water Postcard

Here’s my postcard for water! I did this over 30 minutes while hand washing clothes in the tub (probably lasted a little too long because I got carried away and forgot I was soaking the clothes, but oh well). Each line is an interval of 30 seconds. The silver lines represents clean water and the black lines show when the water turns dark because of the blue dye. The length of the lines also represent the amount of water in the tub at any given point in time, and the little blue circles are the number of bubbles present.

Visualising Sound Postcard

Here is my postcard for visualising sound according to Triohatala by Stimmhorn. I categorised them into various colours to represent the time frame (I chose to listen to 2:15 to 3:30 minutes) by the block, and to incorporate how I felt while listening to it into the postcard as well.

Describe a photograph

The photograph was taken at about 5pm in Perth, Australia at King’s Park. It’s a beautiful day, with no clouds in the sky, and the golden hour is casting a warm golden glow that gently touches every inch of the otherwise blue-ish evening. I’m perched on a large hill, with the chilly evening breeze blowing relentlessly. I’m surrounded by nature – trees, grass and shrubs are abundant, trimmed neatly along the stone pathways and creeping up gravel roads. There are all sorts of charming foliage. Some stand tall and magnificent while others are spread out over the vast land. People trickle in and out, walking around me, but everyone is quiet, relishing in the relaxing atmosphere.

To match the glorious blue sky, I can see the giant lake at the base of the hill that stretches out miles and miles. From where I am, I can peer through the leaves to see the tiny residential area that is spotted across the opposite edge of the vibrant blue water. It has dissolved into a thin, yellowish line that distinguishes the horizon, separating the sky and water.