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Butterfly Collage

Design Basics (DB)

DB was comprised of 4 main projects:

  TASK 1  

Design Principles: Patterns

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One of my favourite projects i've done was the hand-drawn 'Pattern-making' assignment in Design Basics module in semester 1. 

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In this first DB assignment, we were first introduced to the principles and elements of design such as: points, lines, textures, repetition, movement, unity, rhythm, balance, and much more...

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Each of us had to snap 2 black & white pictures: One man-made and another one Natural objects which contains pattern in them. Then, we had to identify, annotate and extract patterns, elements and principles from both images.  

Natural Pattern

This was a closeup picture of an owl I took outside. I then extracted the shapes, textures, lines, and points I see on the owl's body. We all had to manually annotate it using arrows and sketches on an A4 paper using pen.

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From my extractions, I then chose 4 design principles, which for each 4 of them we had to come up with one pattern in a square box, containing elements extracted from step 1. After making 4 of the patterns, we needed to write descriptions under each one to show how the pattern relate with the chosen design principle.

Man-made Pattern

This second pattern is based on my picture I took of the roof of KLCC mall. Afterwards I extracted the elements similar like how I did for the previous natural pattern.

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Finally, for each Natural and Man-made,  I combined all the 4 small patterns to create the final pattern design....

  FINAL PATTERNS  

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  TASK 2  

Self-Portrait Collage

In our 2nd task, I had to take 4 different pictures of my face with different expressions. Then we had to extract elements and do a facial analysis.

 

Afterwards we had to do 2 physical collage and 2 digital collage using our face cutouts and elements, showing a concept or meaning to each collage. We had to use design principles in all the collages to describe it. 

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Lastly, we had to combine elements/techniques from all the 4 collages to produce one final physical collage with a narrative.

 final slides:  

  TASK 3a and 3b  

Designer's DNA: Groupwork 

In a group of 6 (me as the leader), in Task 3a we had to study on 1 Malaysian artist, ours was 'Rafiee Ghani'. We had to do researches on his art styles, principles/elements, and techniques he used in his artworks and later on make a tactile abstract on canvas art piece, implementing Rafiee Ghani's design language.

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For the last project in DB (Task 3b), we had to do an individual work based on the previous grouop work. Each of us had to make a vertical sculpture using elements, principles and techniques/styles we used in our canvas. Adding to that, we must have a narrative and concept to our sculptures.

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   Task 3a group final slides:  

  Task 3b final sculpture:  

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