AY24.25 CTS B

Desy Sabrina

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Compulsory Question 2:

Discussing the matter of what I have gathered during Week 4 & 5, as I went to the Singapore Art Museum, I do love the explorations of different art pieces as they have been put together but it brings out an idea of what to change whenever I need to improve on my artwork.

During Week 10 of what I’ve intended to do as what I wanted to be in the next 5 years, I have a list of options of who I really want to be. My first two choices are to be either a Character Designer, 2D Concept Artist or a Voice Actor. I have a passion for drawing and always keep drawing for fun. However, once I’ve seen to seize the opportunity to take my strengths and turn them to master the skill.

Being a Character Designer and 2D Concept Artist requires analysis of what is the world and character’s traits and appearances that needs to be built and understanding the drawing fundamentals to portray one’s character’s personality but my other strength that relates to this is to create that it fits my style. Stylized and Expressive. It brings me a sense to change up the consistency during Illustration and Studio because of how my work portrays that is leaned to more of drawing out maximalism and character.

At the moment I have written down my desire to be a Voice Actor, it’s also my other skill. It’s where you have to perform a character that is given and for the personality, you need to find the right voice that fits in for the role. Just like what we wanted to express ourselves to portray a character.

But then I realised, I haven’t written down about wanting to be a Video Editor. It is also my other skill that I love to explore and experiment through creating your own transitions and filters. During my Design Skills, creating a Storyboard does seem different than the ones I’ve used to study during my Animation course.

Of my classmate’s comments about my choices, they wanted me to push my strengths to make it a success. And as for finding the company of which I’m most interested and comfortable to work with, it will take some time but I’m more focused on finding the most supportive and understanding on what they wanted a design to look like, based on their key points and style.

Overall, I do enjoy studying Design Skills but Illustration is giving me a sense of new beginnings to try out a new style as I wanted to express my artwork to other classmates. For Materiality & Techniques and Studio, there’s some parts that need to be improved, which is my Typography.

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[desysabrina]

Compulsory Question 1:

Q1: Of what we have learned to create our own quotes but we have seemed to be stuck on how we wanted to express them. So, here’s my take to rephrase:

You Are What To Create: It means for all subjects, you can draw out anything but as long as it is your work and not somebody else’s work. As long as you want to reference it, it will give us ideas to generate an image of what you wanted to show the lecturers that we have been created without using Artificial Intelligence.

Take A Moment To Relax Your Mind: Whenever you have a lot of stress and doubts that the work is not good enough or if it’s too much to handle, your mind needs to rest from all the worries and expectations that are set too high. It’s best to take a break and also, set up a To-Do List to check which one is the most important to finish it up on time, depending on the deadline that needs to be submitted.

And this is my group’s respond:

To Find Out Who You Are And Who You Want To Be: Not so sure of who you are and what you have been doing in your life is making you feel lost in thought and wondering if your own character is the real you… It takes time to process to look yourself in the mirror and see if this is actually you, judging by the hidden facade.

Q2: Personally, yes. Even though I’m not as talkative as I used to be, I also want the group to try and express themselves. No matter what it is, it’s alright to have a bit of a hidden facade to fit in the group to talk to one another.

Q3: Personally, it’s Week 10. What I wanted to be for the next 5 years has so much potential of what is the best role for me to be when I’m taking down notes of my own strengths and weaknesses. Wanting to be a Character Designer, 2D Concept Artist, Video Editor or even a hidden skill of mine, is wanting to be a Voice Actor.

Q4: What I have in mind during Illustration is where we're discussing and creating an art piece that it needs to send to Bacio Collective. This is my piece called Friends Through Media. It’s about two friends, connecting throughout the years using Social Media from old to new technology.

Overall, it was a tough time for me since my mind is filled with a lot of expectations and ideas of wanting this to be the right design but doing it as a simplicity makes me feeling worried that this is not good enough to submit.

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Week 6 - Critical Self-Reflectivity: How Do I Think About My Thinking Processes?

Overall as my thinking process, it went smoothly but the only thing I’m most struggling with is during Studio. Ever since I was working with a pair, our design is pretty different but it’s more that we lack communication. It is slowly becoming more of a rush as we’re trying to understand during the Lecturer Meeting. Ever since we have taken notes and looked through references for our knowledge but it’s still lacking on giving out more information and giving out guidelines for some of us who wouldn’t understand.

As I looked back on my Design Skills, I fully understood the assignment that I should not make the design look too simple and worn out. I decided to rearrange and try out a different design to bring out the attention on what it’s more focused on. Especially changing up for the prototype to indicate which page leads to another.

During Illustration Classes, it was a bit of a struggle at first but once I got to understand what we have to do is to try out different styles and not only that, even experimenting with different colours and aesthetics to give out the sense of ideas to create a series. Same goes for during Materiality & Techniques, trying out different ways to create a shape and even carving out for Embossing to bring out a symmetrical shape.

Overall for Year 2 Semester 1, it’s pretty challenging and I need to keep up with my work. Mostly for Studio since it brings me a lot of cluster and needs to arrange everything before I can finalise it.

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Week 4 and 5 - Trip to National Gallery

What I have discovered during the National Gallery is how we discover to capture the image through our minds to bring out symbolism and meaning through the arts. As for one instinct where I came across a statue of a man, curling out of agony. It brings out a sense of strong emotion and doubts of a person who does something wrong, could be a sense of sadness and grief or can be so much more that it relates to a negative feeling.

As for this piece, it’s about Music. As the lines of the stick and the spheres represent beats and mirrors can represent one’s reflection through music as one is playing an instrument. As to what it brings me a sense of attraction, it reminds me of my design that is based on a music abstract during Week 4’s Studio. The art piece is like a drum set, or maybe guitar strings and as for the embossing lines that are below the objects, can bring out a sense of waves to feel the music.

Finally, the artwork called Rhythm of Dance captures the painting of people, dancing together as for the brush strokes representing people, swaying and grooving to the beat and sounds. The painting reminds me of during Design Skills, it can be a clutter to indicate which font I’m going for and it went too much to know which one fits the Food App Website. As I looked through the painting, it brought out memories and even ideas to come up with my Illustration to capture with minimal colours. Overall, the museum brings out a sense of knowledge and understanding of what I’m going to look for to capture my next design.

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Week 2 - This Is How You Connect Theory and Practice

The topic about our self identity is how we see ourselves towards the whole world. Sometimes as for my own identity, I tend to feel shy and reserved on the inside since I do want to express myself towards people but not sure of what they’re thinking of me.

I kept overthinking and doubting myself, whether or not, if I fit right in. It makes me feel small and what I see others are more friendly and successful. As for the others of what I came across, they have a sense of passion, positivity and even kindness. I have captured their traits by their most dominant appearance of what they usually wear and colour like a white laptop, black headphones and so on since appearance can represent what we really are and our choice of aesthetic.

For example, during school days, I usually wear my black jacket around my waist because it brings me a sense of comfort and usually to wear whenever I’m feeling cold or just wanting to cover to feel more secure.

During my time in Critical Thinking Skills, I managed to communicate towards my classmates as we have drawn a picture to capture our own self reflections.

Overall, self reflecting our peers and towards ourselves brings out the real you as to wonder what it needs to understand from our own perspectives from other people who might be different or just simply wanting to change for the better. I enjoy what I like and being myself because that’s who I am as a character.

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[desysabrina]

WOII Summary

My experience during WOII Lessons are fascinating and it brings me a lot of attention to understand and not only that, it is to make my work improving during other lessons.

Understanding the concept design and even learning about which is important when it comes to functionality or form for Post-Structuralism. During Week 12, it helped me out during Studio Work as I kept changing my website design to make it more modern and simple to capture the attention of the viewer as I went for the topic for Art Ecosystem, browsing through different designs during Open Studio.

During Week 5, I went to the museum with the whole class, experiencing the design aspect of what it showcases and the history behind Singapore’s Transportation and Technology.

As for the past few weeks, Week 13 takes my Studio Website Design and Trading Card into consideration as I’m redesigning the both of them to make it less cluttered and more functional. Especially there’s a big changes for my Illustrator Trading Card as I need to recapture the attention of the design style.

Overall, it gives me a sense of personal development as I was in the middle of struggling and trying to make my work improve as my mind is in chaos, finding the right way to get the work done.

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Week 12 - Art Ecosystems

Q: What do you think are the impacts of the design communication and experiences discipline?

It will be to focus on the visual behind the real world as design can lead to a new meaning with or without expressing it. It can lead to either a simple basic design or maybe through typography, to serve a functional purpose.

The impact of design is to showcase your creativity and yourself to express the art through everyone around you of what you have created and does it show a purpose? If so, it will lead into greater heights.

Q: What is one specific area in which you wish to make an impact as a designer in your ecology?

As I went to Open Studios, I came across interesting and fascinating designs that have been made by Year 2s and 3s. This is what I came across and what it showcases their design product.

This is done by Jesslyn Sugiharto. She creates a design that showcases a tea packaging that is from the land of Java, Indonesia.

Next, I came across this particular booth that really caught my attention was by Veanne Tan.

Growing up with a disability can be challenging for parents towards their child, who is going through times. They wanted to give out the best for their own child. And as for the poster for the Fridge Magnets Are Talking, it’s a great communication tool for a child who’s non verbal.

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Week 11 - Postmodernism

The Diversity of creating Postmodernism is bringing out different designs to a minimum to keep the structure useful but also needs to stand out towards society, wanting to give out the feeling of capturing the visual design through today’s art and design.

Fragmentation of making a design to break down into different groups of what sort of a viewer wants to see and makes it want to get the product or something that they’ve seen on the screen. Either to make it more useful or wanting to stand the poster out to get the audience's attention through aesthetic and accuracy.

As during Studio Work, I have changed the title screen to fit in the simplistic choice of design. The file design brings out the purpose of showcasing the amount of artists but then, I have to minimise the design as I have created a pretty simplistic design but with a complicated form. I tend to reinvent what I want to give out to make the viewer’s eyes more comfortable and readable.

The meaning behind it brings out the form of what it shows. It showcases a variety of designers and illustrators all over the world and brings out the subjectivity of what they’re looking for as to scroll down and capture what they wanted to do upon their own research. Bringing down into a simple form a design is helpful and even takes a part of what they’re looking for. Some others wanted to have more and even over exaggerated design to bring out the vibrant colours and theme.

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Week 10 - Post-Structuralism

What I have discovered is that Structuralism creates a purpose that it shows an object or a sign that gives out the same meaning but as for Post-Structuralism, it brings out multiple meanings behind the design. It’s like breaking down into different parts of the situation and it will lead to a completely different scenario.

For Post-Structuralism, it tends to be more focused on the text and the source to see where it leads into multiple categories. The functionality within the visual tells us that in this picture, for example, in this picture, it shows you a staircase, leading into a food stall.

Deconstruction is where breaking things down into design can lead to so many changes as it keeps making it more simplistic but it does make the viewer confused and concerned.

Here’s two of the pictures that I’ve screenshot and seeing the difference of how I have to deconstruct my website design to make it less damaging. I tend to put a lot of colours in as it's important to capture the viewer’s attention but what really matters is the function of operating a website to make it seem easier for all ages.

As I’ve Re-Think about my choice for what I have learned, Functionality is more important than Form. Functionality serves a purpose to create different elements and break them down into a different meaning. Form is also important but without any functional purposes, it will create a bigger mess and be unrecognisable to capture.

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Week 9 - Cultural Materialism

For centuries, we tend to live in a world where we have to move things with our bare hands like creating light by using a candle or even travelling by a boat to another country before aeroplanes and electricity even existed. But now in the 21st Century, everything has changed as electricity and technology evolved into a better infrastructure and bringing out the best and easy solution to travel across a country and even delivering through packaging from online shopping.

As history creates a better understanding as for the structures

Especially with Technology. Technology creates our entire generation into a new beginning to make everything faster and easier. It serves a purpose, whether it’s handheld or for other usage. People use it for entertainment like phones or even making robotic devices. As for Healthcare, Heart Rate Monitor checks in to show a person’s heart rate per minute.

Material realities can be handy back in the day where people used to carry passengers in a cart and ride with a bicycle to paddle and take people to a different place and it’s still going till this day in certain countries. Overall, the old and with the new technology can help us to bring out simple and difficult tasks and a better understanding of its own functionality. Sometimes it can be challenging for the older generation to actually get used to technology since they’re more leaned to the ones that they’re used to before. Same goes to the younger generation, trying out without using any form of electricity.

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[desysabrina]

WOII - Week 4 and 5

Week 4 - How to Analyse A Work of Design

The class assignment is to find and analyse the work of the product. What does this product is all about, what the material is made out of and the functionality that is it either a useful object or a gift. Most of them are useful like phones, notebooks or even a phone stand to use for their own wants. From shapes and sizes, soft to heavy and even how long does it last in the future.

The learning point is that what does the product symbolise the usage to apply if this is a need or a want. Design means anything that gives out the visual representation of what it intends to showcase either it can be from a product, an image or a video to express their ideas and imagination.

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Week 5 - Field Trip

I went on a Class Field Trip that took place in the National Museum that is located near Dhoby Ghaut area. The task is to find some pictures and make 5 documents about the points of interest that give out the poster’s meaning and what it implies towards the viewer’s eyes. It is an interesting experience to find out the information through history.

I came across the Boarding Travelling area where they showcase a variety of Singapore’s transportation and travelling over the years through history. They show how Singapore used to take the train and even show a map about what it previously looked like. Same goes for Tourist Magazine, Map and the history of riding the MRT. The old and new MRT Map brings out how it expands the horizon of travelling from one place to another.

Overall, what I have learned is that signage leads to many things for others to explore and to know its meaning. Not only that, technology and transportation changes everything to make this easier.

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WOII Week 3 - Semiotics

As the group and I had a discussion about which poster gives out the meaning behind the product, we tend to focus on what it sells, who are they selling for and any alternative way to make the poster look more understanding.

For the Slides that our group did: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17YXdLVUVsJLJpGehfd9gFngA0b40gU4wYrhb_Zs_3q0/edit?usp=sharing

(The URL Link is in the picture if you might be wondering)

The poster itself describes two world leaders, yelling over a person and it has a shape of a headphone to cover up the noises around him. It implies that it doesn’t want to be heard from what is happening about today’s society, that is politics. When it comes to an alternative, it can be anything that is related to loud noises like a train that is packed with so many people, children playing that it creates a lot of noise. It could be anything that captures the attention of the image.

And it can be pretty useful to target people who have disabilities and showcase what it can help them to prevent overstimulation through their mind. Representation matters for a poster about what they’re selling and giving out the information towards their target audience.

Overall, I do enjoy this week’s topic about finding out the poster’s background and their intending to sell and promote towards a certain group of people. It can be from any age or towards the younger generation as they tend to wear headphones from time to time.

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WOII Week 2 - Aesthetics

Our group (Bo-Geun, Carolyn, Cathy, Desy and Kara) went to Sim Lim Square to capture some pictures about the topic of clip art that is located at today's hawker centres. We went around to capture what the food stall intended to sell and the meaning behind the name. Same goes to the background pictures to make it stand out to find their aesthetic.

It is pretty challenging to find a certain stall name that has a real meaning. Some of them are aesthetically pleasing like a café but once we see what they’re selling, it is completely different than just a regular café. That goes to apply to about one restaurant, selling two different types of cuisines. Which they are selling is both Western and Vietnamese. When I noticed their choice of clip art, the western is a pair of utensils that is a knife and fork. The Vietnamese one has a pair of chopsticks and their cultural Vietnamese Hat.

Overall, it is a pretty interesting experience to understand that some food stall brands can be either confusing by their design or actually understand the full concept of what they’re actually selling to their customers but it is tough to find the brands that it does make sense to understand. Some of them do have their historical background with bold fonts in different colours while most of them just put a simple plain background with just normal words, which is plain and simple but it has a lack of creativity and aesthetic.

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Week 9: Digital Media - Documents For Art Practice

As for the assigned team, we have to gather some information about what is all about Design or does it mean anything by giving out image references. As for us, we divide by the Post It Notes and we choose one to put some images in. It is for us to understand what is Design is all about. Could it have a purpose? Who do we serve to create designs with a lot of visuals?

As for what I have chosen for, who do we really work for? Well, we create as a purpose to design for what it’s worth. It could be served by religion? Politics? There’s so much more to just serve but there’s a purpose to get the job done by its meaning of the visual design. As we might work in big corporations like Windows. Maybe Google? Or even Meta, which was previously Facebook. It can be anything as to understand the concept of who we really work as a Designer.

Overall, working with big companies or even with any secret organisation just to spread the word through design and hopefully it will get the message as to know what is this all about. It can work with Healthcare, Army, through a Painting but we’ll never know of what’s it like to be working inside of the industry. Intrestingly, it seems to get the audience’s attention through art and design to serve a purpose in life whether if it’s good or bad. It is all through a piece of design.

Word Count: (254 Words)

Image References: Google JamBoard (https://jamboard.google.com/d/1BsCYDHTDc09mtiPDfO60FBxGtHntW2nkJqndGL6xUSs/viewer?f=2)

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Summative Assessment Compulsory Question 3

Question 1. What kind of Collaborations projects would you like to do?

For me personally is to work with animators who are either creating Storyboarding since I’m familiar with Animation or even creating UI / UX Design as I have done in the past and even in my free time to gain experience. Both of them are really fun and exciting to create your own visual effects and even add some designs for creating a video game or apps on either Mobile, PC or any gaming device.

Question 2. What kind of final project would you like to do?

As for the final project, this is a good question because I tend to do either of those but if I were to participate in an event or such, I would say if I were to be an Event Planner or Design Marketing that will bring the community together. What do I think of that? You see, as I went to conventions from time to time, artists around the world, displaying their art and design towards everyone to see their displayed works.

Question 3. Consider “ Community Engagement and Professional Skills"

As for Job 1, I would like to try out social events, especially towards the community where all artists and gamers show their works and skills around the world. I do tend to try out to open up an Art Booth one day, just to sell my art but it does take time to understand what it's like to promote either as a beginner in a small event or an expert in a huge crowd that is well known.

Job 2, doing concept art can be my biggest dream if I can get the chance to do solo work. I don’t tend to work in such big companies but rather start as my own. As for Game Design, if I can start myself to create an indie game with the people who know about game design, we can do our best to give it to the world.

Question 4. How might CTS A help you professionally?

It helps me to understand what I do want to work as but it needs to meet the criteria in order to fulfill my choice of career.

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Summative Assessment Compulsory Question 2

Connect CTS A to all your other modules:

As what I learned over these past few months in Lasalle, I was feeling a bit challenged as I am opened up to experience the world of Design Communication. So, here’s my reflective answers.

For Craft Studio, it is an interesting experience to express my creativity through different mediums, shapes and sizes by using different various tools like using a Dot Sticker, different set of materials to create lines etc. As I had my feedback about my work, especially Week 4, which is Positive and Negative, I need to redo it again due to the mess of the edges and cuts. As our Lecture gave me advice to sketch out before making the work as a complete design.

Photography is a lot of fun and it helps me to focus more on capturing the perspective and even the quality of the photo itself. One thing that really gave me a struggle is to capture the perfect moment as I can be a perfectionist when it comes to taking photos in my own spare time or during school hours. Especially when I was new to the topic of Movement and Time. Taking and controlling the right Shutter Speed and ISO, which is to increase or decrease the photo to make it either brighter or darker. It depends on the lighting.

As for Studio and Digital Skills, it is pretty challenging when it comes to Week 4, which is Type & Language. I did try to learn about new software which is InDesign. The software I'm not that familiar with but it gives me a sense to try it out but I do need to buck up more. It may look easy to put the text in but when it comes to turn into a design, it needs to be effective towards the viewer’s eyes.

Overall, it is a big learning experience for me as I love to study that is outside of my comfort zone.

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[desysabrina]

Summative Assessment Compulsory Question 1

Question 1: How do you understand the Critical Thinking Skills Module?

It’s about what we have been learning over the past few weeks to gain our knowledge by cooperating with a group of students and collaborating about our times that we did during Critical Thinking Skills Session. It is fun and it gives a coping mechanism to learn about things that need to be reflected through school. As time passes by so fast, it will have to go through challenges when it comes to work overseas or even getting to know one another.

Question 2: Which was your favourite activity or session? Why? Which aspects of it were memorable for you?

Personally, I would say it’s between Emotional Intelligence and Growth Mindset. One is about how we can change to become a better person and what does our own self reflect towards other people while for Growth Mindset is about how you want to see yourself, as an artist or designer, to create something that is so well known and make something new and original.

Question 3: What is the value of working in a group?

Value of working in a group is about trust and a sense of being confident. Why do I mean that? Confidence is that one key value that is so important and it needs to be addressed to express yourself and given the opportunity to share towards classmates. It can be tough if you’re not familiar with anyone who barely knows the other person but there’s a chance in everything.

Question 4: What do you wish you did more of, or better?

I would say I should do better when it comes to being confident. Confidence is not my strong point but it can be tough for me ever since I wasn’t this confident ever since as a child. I tend to be reserved because of the way I act or even say something that they do not understand. It’s common for me but that doesn’t stop me from being who I am. I have to get myself a chance to try again. Don’t let myself down.

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