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Sabah Magazine

The crisis has stopped me from accessing university facilities to create my work and the library was closed for students safety. I have no choice but to stay at my accommodation to work on my magazine and having lectures through Microsoft Team video call. Although it is a pain that I could not produce my work physically, I took the time to develop my computer drawing skills with Adobe Photoshop…

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Bearded Fellows: Understand the language of motion

I joined an online session with Samson Owolabi, co-founder of a creative agency named Bearded Fellows. He organised a 1 hour talk about his experience working with the clients and the growth of his agency. He also created an opportunity to meet with the students who is about to graduate and gave some advices and encouragement to them regarding their future career. Bearded Fellows was formed from…

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3rd Degree Show

I have submitted one of my design for the degree show months ago and was going through a period of voting from my classmate. I am glad my work has been chosen and my lecturer like my digital flower. I was asked to join their group discussion and help to design invitation, brochure and poster. The discussion went well and I was being encouraged to explore and create various kind of flowers. I have…

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Last Talk: Our experiences

The university has invited AA2A employees came to give a talk about their life experience as an artist and some advices to the students. Two of my lecturers joined the conversation as well which has given me a thought,”We make different decisions and walk different pathways yet not every path is easy. It is our duty to solve every difficulty and our hard work will achieve our goals. This is…

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Scott Duffey: Be Creative

A former University of Chester student, Scott shared his life experience as a designer with the students in a live video chat. He was currently hosting Toucan Tango with his partner Luce which is a screen printing studio and worked as a web developer, graphic designer and an illustrator. He encourage the students to take up challenges and learn new think from the experience. Without any…

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werk ohne autor (Work Without Author) It is a German movie describes about the history of Germany during the Nazi colonisation and the Soviet Union after the Second World War.

Custom paint brush from Photoshop

Due to the Covid-19 situation, the university has locked down for the students’ safety. Art and design students are allowed to access Adobe Creative Cloud for free until 31st May however, students who live outside of university accommodation are not allow to enter the library. I lived in a private house and I could only work in my room during quarantine period.

Digital paintbrushes can be as…

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From fine art to interior design

Former University of Chester student, Jenni Greenwood has given a presentation of her life experience as a interior designer who majored in fine art yet having a career change to help to design the interior of the house. The proudest project she had ever taken was building one of UK billionaires’ home. The house worth around 65 million pounds and become Britain’s most expensive home. Jenni…

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UX & UI design

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Movie Time

Quarantine in the room in a house is a pain for me as I am the person who loves to go out. The spring has arrived but I am not allowed to enjoy the hot sun and the beautiful flowers in the Grosvenor Park due to Covid-19. Watching movies is my hobby and I would love to introduce two interesting movies produced from China which are “The White Snake” and “Nezha”. Both stories were Chinese popular…

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Doll house of death

Photoshop Experiment

The Rhinoceros Hornbill print is my favourite so far and I would like to experiment double exposure effect in Photoshop with it as its black ink which I thought would be nicely blended with my photography. The results were quite nice but I think it can be better if I could find another method to either blend effect or exposure effect. This could be the back page of my magazine in order to match…

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Handbook

Last year I have submitted an A1 relief print for my final project which was a self directed project, a Chinese legend named “The 8 Immortals”. The immortals were a sign of blessing as they were worshipped by Buddhism and their story encourage people to achieve their goal with the. I decided to challenge myself to create one story with one illustration by relief printing my work because I like…

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Batsford Prize 2020

I decided to take part another competition which was the Batsford Prize as I am interested in their brief, “Our Planet”. The competition allows students and artists to take part the competition and there was a couple of categories such as Fine Art, Applied Art and Textiles and Illustrations. I took part on Illustration as I have huge passion on it and I would love to get involve in some projects…

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Bazza Media Logo

One of the members from Bazza Team approached me to redesign their logo as he thought it needed improvement to a much more professional design.The team aims to publish university activities and students life in the social media in order to attract more students to come to University of Chester. It is known as “A cocktail of students news” therefore the logo of a man drinking a glass with the name…

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Zine

Before Christmas holiday starts, I have to submit a zine about my idea for my final project. I would like to make an illustrated magazine about Sabah which is my hometown because I found that most Westerners knew Borneo instead of Sabah which is part of a state in Malaysia and they thought the whole Borneo island is Malaysia. Borneo is actually an island formed by three country which is Brunei,…

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