Linh's Visual Diary

This is my Visual Diary for the class Visual Communication.

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Movie Poster Assignment

My poster was made for a romantic movie named “So young”. The movie’s story was about young people who were full of dreams about love and ambition. While the girl who was a youthful vigor has dedicated her heart to her next-door deep love and tried her best to go to college with the only hope is to reunite with him. However, the guy had a different plan, when she contacted him, she found out that he had left the country to the US without any information for her. After that, she could not forget him, even though she tried to move on with other men, the first question she would ask them in the first time they meet always is “Do you like the America”. A few year later, her first love came back to find her. What would she do?

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Dublin at dawn!

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Emotions

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Christmas 2017 in Dublin City

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My Chibi Project!

Sketched by AI and PTS

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My Chi-bi Project: Chi-bi resume 

Sketched by AI  and PTS

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My Chibi Project 

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My poster is dedicated to a fictional jazz concert; taking place in Grafton Street – Dublin city

I am not a music person; my impression of music is usually from the random tone in coffee shop or any place that I am being. With poor musical knowledge, I enjoy music in the most primitive way - emotions. Honestly speaking, jazz is always a nostalgic and old-fashioned music to me, and I used to call them “old songs” with a passionate saxophone in timeless bars and the audiences are usually old men.

However, La La Land has changed that impression. Sometimes it is shallow to say that a movie can change your impression of a whole stream of music. Nevertheless, that is also the purpose of the film, bringing little old things to young people - people like me in a subtle and gentle way but as bustling as possible. Believe me, no matter how many negative comments about superficial content, the contribution of the film in term of bringing classical music and movies to the younger generation is something people cannot deny. One of the classic scenes of the movie is when the girl danced on the stage of an old jazz bar in the sound of her man’s piano. Still that exciting jazz tunes, still that old and slightly dark bars, still old men surrounding, but suddenly the music became so close and full of emotion after each movement under her feet. It has opened up a completely new boundary of music in me, the classic does not mean old age, and old age does not necessarily mean boring. Jazz carries the power of freedom and the ability to transform flexibly to show the artist’s soul and find the way to reach the audience’s hearts.

Jennifer Leitham is also an artist of freedom. Not only she is an artist brave enough to perform transsexual surgery, define who she is when her age was no longer young. Not only she is the artist playing with her left hand. The first impression of her that I have when starting to learn about Jazz is when she passionately played a Mozart music with the familiar jazz tone. That may bother the fans of classical music, but to me it is a positive break, it is always interesting when you combine old and new, classic and modern when you know what you are doing to respect and treasure the essence of both.

I try to recreate the neoclassical music space within jazz bars in dark and neutral colors. The unordered characters express freedom and openness in music, which is also the abstract image of a girl swaying to the music. The classic Copperplate Gothic font combined with the modern Dosis font offers a contemporary and nostalgic feel. I suppressed the colors at maximum level and kept the details as simple as possible. Still those old bars, still those simple instruments, but music has never been tied up by any constrain, the music is emotional, and the emotions are always free.

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WINTER IS COMING...

Practicing on different textures for my Type Project!

I intended to make ink stains however I failed so hard therefore I fixed it to be dispersion effect (not really related though). Anyway it did express my idea about winter when all the fragile daisies - the flowers of Autumn - fading into thin air. I love the short precious beauty of daisies.

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Practicing on Neon Effect for my Typo project. 

I used color blue to make it a little bit  fishy in the hope it would go well with the band’s name. The background was thick and dark expressed the sadness and loneliness yet it was lighted by the letters as hope and passion will never fade away.

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Contrast Worksheet - Contrast in shape, texture, color and position.

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Shape worksheet - Using point, line, shape, color to create circle!

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I bumped into this wall in the trip to Galway last Saturday!

It was in Kinlay hostel near the coach station and this piece of wall decoration was in the dinning room. I won’t write about how fit it was with the room and the environment which was perfect but what made it caught my eye was the typography. The font looks simple and the color is plain white however the contrast in the size of different letters helps highlight the main statements and makes the whole picture decorative. The plain white color stands out from the background with two contrastive colors: blue and orange. The author cleverly followed the rule “no more than 3 colors” to deliver a strong and bright tone for the picture

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#daisy #nofilter (at Dublin, Ireland)

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Feeling homesick on a rainy day...

I drew this picture on a rainy day at Dublin, Ireland. The rain here is much different from the rain in my hometown; where you literally can swim on the road after a heavy rain. I hate being wet but I miss it anyway....

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Using Rectangles to create a shape of X!

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Contrast in Color