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Iain McIntosh

I chanced upon his illustrations when I was looking for whisky label samples. I found out that this guy's illustrations is like those we see in reader's digest and stuff. very vector, sometime with detailed hatching and stuff.

Iain lives and work in Scotland. I think his kind of illustration is very classic. Quite like some. =) The think and thin lines of hatching looks complex. Looking at his works, I know some are traditionally illustrated and tweaked in digital. But some are totally digital.

He looks like a designer who damn experienced tho..

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Sleep Deprived

Been catching up with drama series when I got home from work. And I sleep later than usual and wake up earlier than usual so I can watch and catch up with the girls at work. I know this sounds like a silly sacrifice. But I enjoy doing it!!

The Office is so hilarious!! =)

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500 Days Of Summer

I caught this with Ayul last week. It's the sweetest thing to watch and we were really enjoying the movie. All set with Nachos, Curry Puffs from Old Chang Kee and hmm what else, oh some drink, we were laughing our heads off and went Awwww--aaahhhh at those really witty scenes. 

I like the arty-farty kinda feel to it. The way they cut and paste scenes and clips into the whole film. It might not be really original but it's something different in a very long time. Most movies just flow from start to end.

This film brings us back to storytelling days of flashbacks and really good humor. Haha! Definitely a must watch and I surely don't mind watching it over and over again!

.41

My New Toy!!

Now I really have something to scream about and get sore throat!! I have my new toy with me and I am loving it! Been dreading my old cranky phone. I was so relieved when I found out I can still keep within budget and upgrade to iPhone.

Still learning shortcuts and secrets.. I am finding applications and games to play and of course a converter to convert my videos so I can watch them on my phone! =)

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Worth Drooling For!

Hmm no comments. Just a beautiful eye therapy.

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Jessica Szohr!!

Hmm I like her face. There's something about her that look timeless and exotic at the same time. I don't know how to describe that expression actually. Well I am happy she is seeing Ed Westwick though.

Oh! And I super love her style and what she wears. Especially the ones with blazers and hats. =)

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Holga!!

I am in love with Holga even before I buy it. I am going to get one for myself, after I replace my really shit phone. Urgh. Can't wait to get a hold of it and play around. It's be fun and so random. Nice things to keep into a journal and album..

=)

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Tahu Goreng!!!

I finally had my tahu goreng on Monday! Forgot to write about it. It's such a simple kampong dish and not to mention cheap to whip out too. But it's one of my favourite things to eat and really get full. 

It's made of fried tofu, sambal petis and kacang, cucumber and bean sprouts. One can add carrots if you want to eat more veggies. I think the secret recipe lies on how you whip up the sambal petis. You can make it spicy or non-spicy or more 'bacin'(that means more petis or not).

The nuts in the sambal must be well fried too. If it's not crunchy, your tahu goreng dish is just gonna one lousy one. =)

happiness...

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Well MJ Raya did went great! But my dodo was working and couldn't join us. What a pity. Well let's hope I can edit the pics soon and upload them. Opps! Actually I got the raya pics with dodo and friends to upload as well.

Jorge Restrepo

I will make time. Don't worry. Anyways, I found this great guy Jorge Restrepo. I learnt that he's teaching at some school. Would love to be his student. I like his works. The textures and graphics are rich and not so slapstick and common.

Ya I admit I don't quite like vector graphics that much. I'm more hands on kinda illustration type of person. But I am learning to appreciate the art of vector graphics. Adding texture to the whole mixed media art would be lovely. I did tried doing something like that for my pitch to ezad and ema's logo. Which reminds me.. I gotta do some improvements on the best 2 they chose. =)

.35

Leil Ya Leil

I am always fascinated with Arabic language, type and music. I love their instruments. And most of the females are very stunningly beautiful..

Here's one of them. Melissa.. hmm don't quite sure of her full name. I googled Melissa and saw that Melissa is a name given for a female child. Lovely. Here's what Melissa means in Wiki..

"Melissa is a given name for a female child. The origin of Melissa comes from the ancient Hittite word Melita which means honey. The meaning of the word has shifted into honey bee in Greek. Moreover, the pronunciation has changed to Melissa (Ionic Greek: Mέλισσα).

In Greek mythology, perhaps reflecting Minoan culture, Melissa raised the infant Zeus inCrete, nursing him with goat's-milk (see Amalthea) and honey. In later myth she was given a father, Melissus of Crete.

In 2007, Melissa was the 137th most popular name for girls born in the United States, dropping steadily from its peak of second place in 1977. It was among the top ten most popular names for girls from 1967 to 1984.^[2]

Melissa also refers to the plant known as lemon balm (family Lamiaceae; genus and species Melissa officinalis)."

Nice song to keep me awake at work... Urgh busy busy turns bored bored turns bleaky bleaky..

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Life's Simple Pleasures

I wanna be inside there swimming in the chocolate pool and feeling high... yummy!

.33

As Busy as a Bumble Bee

I am so busy at work this week I havent got time to scratch my butt. If we could not finish the latest changes tomorrow, then we've to come back on Saturday. Which is super annoying!!

By the way I sent my email to Rich and Selva. We're gonna talk late Monday evening. Hope this will go ok. Another meeting tomorrow for a Japanese company. Think they're doing a brochure. I am glad I am busy at work doing some design stuff I can put into my folio. =))

I wish I could blog more often and look at inspiring things. But this week has been dull with AIA stuff. Mostly visual works, pretty boring adaptation stuff. Something Yani describes as Desktop Artist. Heh. But at least I did a label already, some re-branding collateral and hopefully I get to design the brochure for the meeting I am going tomorrow!

Awesome awesome!

.32

The Office

I love my work pals. Haha we keep pranking each other at work! Recently Aldy went for her Europe trip for two weeks. And this is what we did to her desk! We worked hard. Seriously!!

Stayed back and missed a movie after work yesterday just to put the cotton balls everywhere! Haha! And the fake cats. The reason why we put fur balls and cats is cause Aldy hates cats! How can someone hate cats!!! URGH. And by the time it was almost noon, she feels like she is getting an allergy with cotton so she had to clean it up.

My office working environment is fun. It's pretty sad if one of us would leave the design studio. Well, I will have to negotiate with the bosses next week about my stay here. This is my last month working here and paying my bill. After this, i am not sure where I am heading to. Perhaps stay or maybe get an offer somewhere. I got a couple of places for interview and invitations for interns though...

Hmm thinking..

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Trying the look

I edit photos before but not in this kind of way. I like how antique photos look like. Like the ones Sarah Maren did to hers. Those colours are so rich and beautiful. So I was just playing around with some raya pics I took. More to come and hopefully I am hardworking enough to post it up on facebook. haha!

Getting the look is not that difficult, but tweaking the photo to get the right colour takes a while. And I don't want to lose too much detail in the process. Keeping all that in mind, I guess I am lovin' photo editing and taking nice snapshots for keepsakes. =)

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Singgih Kartono

This guy is freaking cool. Yani was reading about him in the morning. Not only is he a tree hugger big fan, he is someone who makes his mark in product design. Recently won an award in International Design Resource Association (IDRA) in Seattle, he creates job for the people who were making simple handicrafts. he certainly uplift the living standard of the people living there and creates a room for further expansion of commercial activities in the area.

He also encourage sustainability in design, promoting recycling in design and overall, great design! I love his works because I love wood myself. I have this natural attraction for anything wood for its natural texture and warm, cosy and so familiar comfort. I absolutely love earth colours!

I would love to get one of the radios. I was told I can plug in my ipod and it acts as a speaker. Coolness!

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Turner Duckworth

Erica mentioned it on facebook and went to look at the design studio's stuff. Turner Duckworth has branded those really high notch brands and retailers for instance Coca Cola. Their works is very simple too. Their packaging and branding strategy approaches are unique and something loud enough to stand out in the very bombarded consumer market.

I enjoy their website. Very easy to navigate and the scroll thing at the side make it so convenient for them to update their website. I think this week I have been looking a lot on branding and packaging. I am working on ezad and ema's logo and some packaging assignment at work.

Actually I have been working on some patterns as well. I am just too lazy to put scan them in and put them up. But I will have to find time. =)

.28

I need to re-construct my website SOOONNN

I decided to change my website homepage. I prefer this treatment cause i think this reflects my personality. I like to doodle and draw random things. I want bright and colourful things but they should stay simple and clean.

I want to make this happen.

.27

Packaging Mania

I was assigned to think of a packaging for Wines2u. I did some research and was glad to find some real cool and very attractive Japanese packaging. I really think Japanese has a natural flair for very minimalist, modern, sleek and effective packaging as well as branding strategy. Their works always have this certain unique quality to them; be it the way the packaging looks or how the logo is designed. I find myself mostly amused with how simple some design concepts are and they always work the best.

I have an exciting logo design and packaging design project coming up. Something interesting to keep me real busy at work. I am exposing myself to more of these simple Japanese designs to be inspired. One more nook to look at is also Scandinavian designers. Their works are always a WOW too. I am glad I have lots to learn. I don't want to be stuck in my own world all the time.

=)