Category: Final Project

Infographic: Kranji War Cemetery Final

Tone: Solemn but not sad
Target Audience: Millennials
Message: Information on the Kranji War Cemetery
Concept: Reminiscent to the neon highlighter, war is something that we’ve mostly learnt in secondary school, but something that we never really remember. With this infographic, I bring information as reminders of the war, reminders of the lesser known war memorial and soldiers who fought for us.

Other than the information found online, I wanted to include my on site thoughts and observations as well. Being:

  • The difference between the War Cemetery, Military Cemetery and Memorial was something that I only found out after a more in-depth research
  • The serenity of the hill these graves lie on, how beautifully maintained the entire cemetery is
  • Who maintains the cemetery
  • The fresh flowers that were placed
  • I realised i didn’t know much about the war, and had no idea why they were names of mostly foreigners
  • This also led me to think how war was only a subject we learnt in secondary school and never remembered as I did my research
  • The cemetery register that was printed and available on site (rarely anywhere else you would see something shared like this laid out in the open for visitors?)
  • The other war memorials apart from the Singapore memorial – which commemorated other significant deaths.
  • It really felt like the organisation behind the war memorial tried to commemorate the soldiers individually as specifically as possible
  • Researching, I also realised how there were numbers everywhere and not all in one place – hence the inclusion of some statistics

Hopefully, the information I presented was good enough and conveyed well enough.

Reflection on this project is found on the Process post. (:

Link to Part 2 Zine:
Zine Process
Final Zine Images

Project 1 Que Sera Final Works

My name is

coursingriver-6-6And I am a Coursing River

My name is

typhoon-3-8And I am a Great Typhoon

My name is

fire-4-6 And I am a Raging Fire

My name is

moon-3And I am a Mysterious Moon

Mounted Workmounted2

Updated:

To summarise this project, it was indeed a tough yet beneficial challenge to tie in messages to visuals.

The final over arching message for my visuals would be “it doesn’t matter if you’re male or female, you can be anything you want to be“.

I have made use of song lyrics from a song titled “I’ll Make a Man Out of You”, that came from Mulan, the animated feature. The particular verse goes like this:

[men] WE ARE MEN
We must be swift as a coursing river
[men] WE ARE MEN
With all the force of a great typhoon
[men] WE ARE MEN
With all the strength of a raging fire
Mysterious as the dark side of the moon
I am relieved to have eventually found a message that resonated with my stand. smile
Evidently, each of my design showcases the elements and are united with the use of the same colour schemes and side profiles. Equally proportioned Male and Female faces, represented by colours, were used to represent the equality between the genders.
As a believer of teamwork, I also see a sub-message that goes, “if everybody would work together, they can be anything they want to be” in my compositions.
In Coursing River, action is implied with flowing hair and air bubbles forming my names.
Similarly, in Great Typhoon, action is implied with the rotation of the faces, the background and my name.
In Raging Fire, my name was formed with fire and smoke is presented in both the foreground and background.
In Mysterious Moon, my name was ambiguously hidden and it replaces the eyes of the faces.
Agreeing to the feedback I have received, I believe I could have explored more with using colours in the Typhoon and Moon compositions as I did in the River and Fire compositions. Also, exaggerating the pull of the alphabets in the Typhoon composition.

The other feedback received includes the good use of proportions and unifying colours.

The reflection for this project can be found here, in the Progress update.