DigiTree

ArtChipelago Indinesia!

2009-04-05T03:41:00.007+07:00

One of the ArtChipelago’s project, India mixed Indonesia. I made some illustration for it, using the story of Dropadi, woman who married the Pandawa 5. The original story, Mahabaratha, was came from

India

. And it blended with the Indonesia culture when the foreign trader came to Indonesia.

I mixed the pattern of those two country. One is ‘batik’, from Indonesia, and the other is ‘parsley’, from India. The woman in the middle is Dropadi (in my imagination). The color of her copped skin, type of face, and the red mark in her forehead show that she is an Indian. I think exotic is the characteristic of India. The woman, the culture, the legend, all of it. So I chose a colors that can consider to it.

The other illustration are Dropadi, with her 5 husbands. Dropadi is a very beautiful woman, attracting with a very high sex appeal. The polyandry she did with Yudhistira, Bima, Arjuna, Nakula and Sadewa is a part of Mahabaratha story. Their hands are blue, for stabilized the red colour of Dropadi’s hair (which known as a princess of fire), also because after the pandawa 5 died, they become a goddess, which often described have a blue skin.

The media is pencil colour, in an A4 drawing paper. 100% handmade. The references I’ve got are from Wikipedia, or other site I’ve searched in google and some books.

Surrealism Photography

2008-11-25T21:35:00.007+07:00

My digital photography assignment… is a montage. Thanks to the angel who saved my life(yes, I live around the angels), Andi for borrowing me his camera :D Well. This is ‘Seniman dari Mimpi’. Simple concept, just about creativity(but I made a very long essay about it…hahaha). I made the ‘invisible man’ and the model(waw) are Andi and Unang (thanks to you two!).

The idea came from them when they were having a painting minor class. So they don't have to pose for it(except Unang who have a very high awareness of the camera). The backgrounds are a mixing landscape of trees and clouds, editing in Photoshop, captured by a pocket camera.

So if you have addlebrained, open your eyes and see around you. There are many things that you never recognize are very extracting and possible to give you an inspiration ;D

still life photography

2008-11-16T19:27:00.005+07:00

Digital Photography always make me panic... 1.because I don't have a digital camera 2.because I'm very inexpert in taking a picture -_-;

The fifth project in my class was a still life monochrome-black and white photo. I fall asleep and pass the class, so I don't know what the task is it until the next day. I have 2days to give the photos for acc. ops... I won't make it.

So I opened my files on my computer, and editing it in photoshop into black and white. The picture above is from my project in fourth semester. I took it with AE1 Canon analog camera. And the other one was taking with pocket camera...

Best Songs When Rain...

2008-11-01T21:41:00.012+07:00

choose. CD packaging or Chocolate packaging?
CD, of course, mam...,said I

This project was like a hell(hell yes I always said that). I thought I'm not gonna make it on time. But thanks to my friends, Cheta and Dhejih, GOD sent them to my house on a Tuesday to help me...;D

This is an easy listening compilation, BEST SONGS WHEN RAIN. A compilation that really nice to be heard when rain comes. Contain 4cds, oldies, now, asian, and instrument. Target marketing are teenagers and old people.

I bought a new umbrella. And cut the stem with an insult... stab it onto the box...just because I used the rain theme…
I used a black linen, carton, artpaper, transparent sticker, silver paper, and mika.

Re-Package it !

2008-09-22T04:37:00.019+07:00

The question is ‘Do you like sunflower seed?’. No, let’s change the question. Well..’Do you ever eat sunflower seed?’. Many people don’t even know what is that…(I’m hyperbolized it, of course). Sunflower seed is delicious. But most people will buy it because they already like it. They just see the sunflower seeds, not the packaging(sure, they don’t eat the packaging). But guess what? Packaging is like an SPG, beautiful SPG will get many customer. Time to re-design packaging…

TJHIA TJHIA Sunflower seeds is one of the sunflower seeds product. Actually, I like the packaging(so why I re-packaged it???). The sunflower seeds are big and sweet...but I'm not gonna talking about that. The packaging was a pillow shape with a recycle paper. Though it has too many words(because the information are in 3 langusnges), but the layout is nice.

So. This is the re-design... I made it from artpaper with a picture of old paper texture and red sticker glossy lamination. I had searching for it in manywhere, but I just found it in Angkasa Putra Digital Offset. 'Miss...we just have A2 sticker for printing...and it cost Rp70.000,00. with a lamination glossy Rp15.000,00...', said the man. I'm broke. I just want A5 and I must print it in A2...

Perfect.

In the next day, I go to Print+, which near from my campus, and I was shocked... 'Yes, we can print it in A5 sticker paper...', said the woman.

Life is cruel, friend...

New iPod Touch Limited Edition???

2008-09-22T02:29:00.011+07:00

It's New iPod Touch Limited Edition! Just a hope... DKV mayor 3 project 2 was making casing and layout advertising in magazine(am I right?Looks like I wrong.hahah, never mind). So I choose iPod Touch's casing, so I just have to make the back side of it(cheating).

The Theme was DigiTree(again). It's technology for black casing and natural for red casing. The black one is for men, and the other one is for female.

I used corel draw 5%, blender 3D 10%, and photoshop 85%... I just used Context family for fonts and minimalized the layout..

10 Pills of Life

2008-09-11T16:07:00.013+07:00

10 Pills of Life was a Final project of Book Design. The project was making a new book. Because it was a final deadline time for every subject, I did it in a rush, and it had a lot of mistakes in here and there. But it finished in time…

Actually, I don’t really know what kind of book I had made. It’s kind of prescription for heart medicine. I don’t talk about the liver, definitely. I share some of my experience in this book. Just a simple way to make us feel happy. It is how you realize that you are a happy person.

enjoy and be happy :)

First Impression about Blender?

2008-09-11T15:36:00.005+07:00

First project in Blender 3D was like a hell. It seems like everyone in my class understand easily while I just sitting with a 'blank mode'. Lucky, my class was full of angels(hahaha). I doubt I could finished this subject without them... :D

So. If you are freshmen in Blender, don't be shy to ask some friends or teachers(don't be shy if you looked like a dumb...). Studying together is always better than studying alone if you really don't have a clue about what you have to do. It makes you smarter, it makes you have a lot of friends...

The Tree's Untold Story

2008-08-26T19:43:00.008+07:00

It’s not a DigiTree, but I still use tree for my identity. The final project of Typography2 was a story about the positive and negative things of us. So I named it ‘The Tree’s Untold Story’. It’s the best and the worst me ;D and because I’m just like a two eyed sword it make me easier to described myself (too simple to live, said my friend).

It contained each six characteristic, so I had to make 12 characteristic. The media was a 27x13.5 cm matte paper printed in PrintPlus, I folded it into two so I can have a little book of typography about myself.

First and second page are about myself universally. I made a contrast between left page and right page as for the good side and the bad side. In left, I used a soft color for describing my feminine side. In right, I used a strong color for describing my masculine ways.

I'm a cheerful person and always tried to make anybody I cared smiles. There's a self pleasure and joy for me by doing that. So don't get mistaken me as an angel ;D. When I'm in a bad day, I prefer to be alone. Showing my ugly bad mood face is not my hobby, precisely.

I'm an easy-going type. Never take a problems too much to my life. I don't like confrontation. I don't like to get angry. So better don't make me. Really hate the one who did it.

I'm an honest person. Is that a good thing? Well, in my experience, I think it's not.

I'm a hardworking, almost workaholic. Especially when I doing my interest subject. Prefer to be alone in front of my computer than to eat with my family (pardon me). But when I'm in my laziness mode, I locks my room and hibernate.

I'll be happy to try my best to give anything to my beloved ones. It's because they have my trust. If they lose it, doubt they'll have it back.

Blender Short Advertisement

2008-08-20T00:53:00.009+07:00

On the fourth semester I took a 3D subject. With my error brain, it’s a gambling because actually 3D subject is on the fifth semester, and I didn’t know if I could handled it or not. Thanks to my teacher who always have a patience for the student like me :D.

3D is very interesting. The class was so exciting. For the friendship of hardships…tears some blood…

One semester, and without an invitation (surely we don’t have to take it home too), the final project came. It’s a 20minutes animation. I’m dead. No, I’m not really dead. Though I had turned like a zombie, I’m still alive, and definitely there’s no time to die that time.

My teacher told me not to take it as a burden. So I think I’ll just make something I like. It’s a short advertisement of self promotion. Of course with the same theme as before. So I started to search a tutorials ‘how to grow the tree’ in Blender, which we used for make a 3D.

I’m finished the Blender at 2.00AM. Gone to bed while waiting for the rendering and woke up at 7.00 AM and it STILL not done, not even a half-done. I had to give the files at 3.00 PM. So I tried to rendering it again in the other computer without an ambient occlusion. It turned darker, but it done.

DigiTree Portfolio

2008-08-19T20:39:00.006+07:00

This is my final computer project on my third semester. By using Flash program it’s kind of self promotion. Not really to ‘sell’ myself as a designer tough it’s simpler than that. But it contains my projects on my 3 semesters in Maranatha. So I better called it Portfolio.

I chose the ‘DigiTree’ for my theme. ‘Digi’ is from ‘digital’ and ‘Tree’ is from the spell of my name. A little narcist. Actually as a designer, I want to be known as a designer who can use whether it’s by a media digital helping or manual work. So I chose a digital to describe the modern designer and I chose the tree as a natural word for manual because all tools we use in manual work is came from nature.

Programming by Flash is quiet simple if we know the design, though it really turned me into the madness. I starred the timeline that had to be more than a hundred if I’m not wrong, just to make the ‘sparkle things’. And I made a mistakes so the program wont worked (definitely my mistakes). The presentation was tomorrow and I decided to commit a suicide until my mother came home and said that there was an ice cream for me. Sure, why not?

So. It was the day. I didn’t rest. I didn’t eat. But for God’s sake, I took a bath. I’m the last person to presentating my project and thank God there was no question (still don’t know if it’s because they really don’t have an idea about what I’m presentating about or it’s because they’re to be about to die in cause of hunger or sleepy). Miserable. My teacher and his friend (who is a teacher too) gave me some advice. Wow cool, they can see all my mistakes ('all' means 'all my presentation' -_-). But after that, it was a relieved thing. Gotta fix it first, actually…