January 2010
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Looking Towards iWork 201x
As many of you would have noticed by now, I’ve been an avid user of iWork 09, specifically Keynote. And each Apple event gets my hopes up on a new version of iWork I can use to impress audiences.
Now of course a disclaimer. You CAN make terrible presentations with Keynote and great presentations with Powerpoint. Trust me, I’ve done both and everything in between. But Keynote is a real...
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Using Sketches To Show Concept
Once again, another compulsory post on DI!
This time, the topic is on using sketches to show concepts.
Okay, end of post. That’s because I don’t sketch.
But that doesn’t mean I don’t understand the concept behind sketching. So this post should be called The Concept of Using Sketches to Show Concept.
Let me just bring up a couple of graphics I used for Advertising...
Random Finds.
This is um… effective copywriting for images. Heh.
Alright, alright, to appease the conservative and innocent minds, the other find of the day.
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Your Favourite Browser
Stole the above pic from Maximum PC, because there’s probably already a gazillion pictures of browser icon mash-ups and I’m too lazy to make another and clutter the internets with more repetitive crap. No idea about the random machine thing in the middle.
Anyway. A browser is something that many of us use extensively on a day-to-day basis. The new Chrome OS is basically just a...
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Lousy Marketing
On the train now, looking at this Crispy Chocolates mini-billboard on the MRT. Having gone through my Advertising Management and Design & Illustration material in the past few days, I must certainly say the marketing guys have absolutely no clue to what they’re doing. First look at the billboard: - Colorful illustrations - Dino mascot Very obviously, a kids product. At this point, I...
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Productivity?
It’s 2.35am.
I did a ton of non-school-related stuff, all of which fall under admin/cleaning up. Does that translate to productivity?
Also, my internet is down. It is a blessing to have this HSDPA internet up while my main internet is down. Sure, it is common sense for the operator to do maintenance between the “non-peak hours” of “2am-8am”.
But you know, if...
Required Reading!
If you haven’t realized by now, this blog serves two primary audiences:
1. The software/coding crowd
2. The design/art crowd
So here are two sites that I recommend for each respectively. If you’re into the scene then chances are you’ve already heard of them, but if you haven’t, you don’t know what you’re missing out on!
For the geeks:
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Drawing...
After another night of finishing work up, I’ve decided to work on one of the modules I’ve been neglecting for quite a while. This time, I decided to do something about my sketchbook. You can see the results below:
I have to say again, I hardly draw and have minimal prior experience with it. I guess it really comes with practice. Mum told me shading should be done with thicker...
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Apple and Microsoft, listen up!
Apple first, because I actually like to think you guys care about the end-user at all. I WANT to like your products, so these are my gripes.
iPhoto is broken for me. Your checkbox to not save photos in your library is not working at all. The average user doesn’t care and lets iPhoto eat up disk space for no good reason. The slightly clever user unchecks the checkbox and feels happy, not...
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