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	<title>visual rants for NM2208 &#187; Assignment 1</title>
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		<title>Assignment 1 Revised &#8211; Final</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
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Here&#8217;s the final amended version for Me, Myself and I. Based on the comments in class, I delete the roads that go into the background, increased the signs of all the buildings, and tilted the guitar building. I also changed the &#8216;O&#8217; to a Singapore-Flyer-like structure, to accompany the Marina-Bay-Sands-inspired &#8216;N&#8217;, which is now made [...]]]></description>
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<p>Here&#8217;s the final amended version for Me, Myself and I. Based on the comments in class, I delete the roads that go into the background, increased the signs of all the buildings, and tilted the guitar building. I also changed the &#8216;O&#8217; to a Singapore-Flyer-like structure, to accompany the Marina-Bay-Sands-inspired &#8216;N&#8217;, which is now made more obvious by joining the two buildings closer together and adding gray windows to the first one. I also added a sun and shifted the rays slightly to follow the rule of thirds. The car has also been shifted, and I decided to add a road sign. Colination indeed.</p>
<p>While creating the flyer, it somewhat looked like a bicycle wheel. Haha. I guess this graphic truly depicts the <em>nation</em> in coli<strong>nation </strong>with all the buildings and also my love for music and Singapore architecture.</p>
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		<title>Me, Myself &amp; I &#8211; Final Draft for Tutorial</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
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Here&#8217;s my final draft. I decided to stick to the 3D idea as I thought it is more aesthetically pleasing. I challenged myself and learnt how to draw in perspective from a tutorial online. The C and O are quite obvious, while the L is the Hard Rock Cafe guitar building (with a little extension [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Here&#8217;s my final draft. I decided to stick to the 3D idea as I thought it is more aesthetically pleasing. I challenged myself and learnt how to draw in perspective from a tutorial online. The C and O are quite obvious, while the L is the Hard Rock Cafe guitar building (with a little extension to make it more obvious) and the I is the airport-like tower. The N is inspired by the Marina Bay Sands IR. Personally I think it is quite okay except the background looks a bit weird.</p>
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		<title>2 (or 3) Roughs</title>
		<link>http://colin.rantx.com/viz/2009/06/30/2-or-3-roughs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
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I thought the map idea was not bad and decided to play with Illustrator and created this map. Looks pretty good, but my name isn&#8217;t that really well brought across.

I then tried to do the other idea &#8211; the street buildings one &#8211; in Illustrator. The idea is good, but I can&#8217;t really draw in [...]]]></description>
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<p>I thought the map idea was not bad and decided to play with Illustrator and created this map. Looks pretty good, but my name isn&#8217;t that really well brought across.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://colin.rantx.com/viz/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/assignment1a-rough-2.gif"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-30" title="assignment1a-rough-2" src="http://colin.rantx.com/viz/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/assignment1a-rough-2.gif" alt="assignment1a-rough-2" width="602" height="415" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">I then tried to do the other idea &#8211; the street buildings one &#8211; in Illustrator. The idea is good, but I can&#8217;t really draw in 3D, so it turned out pretty weird. Definitely needs more work. Someone mentioned during tutorial that it has the &#8216;Orchard Road&#8217; kind of feel and with some refinement it should look good.<a href="http://colin.rantx.com/viz/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/assignment1a-rough-3.gif"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-31" title="assignment1a-rough-3" src="http://colin.rantx.com/viz/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/assignment1a-rough-3.gif" alt="assignment1a-rough-3" width="574" height="349" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">I decided to sketch out another rough of the street idea, but this time in 2D look. Looks fine, perhaps I would go with this since it is easier to draw in 2D, vector style in Illustrator.</p>
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		<title>4 Preliminary Sketches</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After some thought and elimination, I came up with 4 preliminary sketches:

This one is based on the street directory idea. Since I love maps and streets, why not create my name out of them?

This is expanding upon the street idea but more of a &#8220;zoomed-in&#8221; level where you can see buildings etc. The buildings then [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After some thought and elimination, I came up with 4 preliminary sketches:</p>
<p><a href="http://colin.rantx.com/viz/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/pre-sketch-1.gif"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20" title="pre sketch 1" src="http://colin.rantx.com/viz/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/pre-sketch-1.gif" alt="pre sketch 1" width="358" height="264" /></a></p>
<p>This one is based on the street directory idea. Since I love maps and streets, why not create my name out of them?</p>
<p><a href="http://colin.rantx.com/viz/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/pre-sketch-2.gif"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-21" title="pre sketch 2" src="http://colin.rantx.com/viz/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/pre-sketch-2.gif" alt="pre sketch 2" width="519" height="429" /></a></p>
<p>This is expanding upon the street idea but more of a &#8220;zoomed-in&#8221; level where you can see buildings etc. The buildings then form the letters of my name. I also included a Hard Rock Cafe-style guitar building for the &#8216;L&#8217;.</p>
<p><a href="http://colin.rantx.com/viz/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/pre-sketch-3.gif"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-22" title="pre sketch 3" src="http://colin.rantx.com/viz/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/pre-sketch-3.gif" alt="pre sketch 3" width="370" height="198" /></a></p>
<p>This one is based on the MRT map. I love trains too. So here&#8217;s an MRT map of my name. Haha.</p>
<p><a href="http://colin.rantx.com/viz/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/pre-sketch-4.gif"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23" title="pre sketch 4" src="http://colin.rantx.com/viz/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/pre-sketch-4.gif" alt="pre sketch 4" width="461" height="209" /></a>And of course, I love films. So here&#8217;s some film strips rolled to the shape of the alphabets.</p>
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		<title>Class Exercise B &#8211; Thumbnail Sketches for Assignment 1a</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
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I thought of some keywords such as Film, Trains, Maps, Computers, Internet, Graphics, Music, Piano, Guitar, Cycling, Blading and then came up with these thumnail sketches. I was trying to integrate letters into the elements which I thought of. Some of them were not very easy or good looking.
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<p style="text-align: left;">I thought of some keywords such as Film, Trains, Maps, Computers, Internet, Graphics, Music, Piano, Guitar, Cycling, Blading and then came up with these thumnail sketches. I was trying to integrate letters into the elements which I thought of. Some of them were not very easy or good looking.</p>
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