The future

Tuesday, 29 September 2015

maybe we think we still live in the old world, nothing new, nothing special. but, if you look closely, and read the news more closely, you can see a lot of new tech that people think won't exist but amazingly exist now. this is some of them:

Dazzling Cafe

Located in CAPITOL, City Hall, the cafe is quite famous as a lot of people queuing to eat there. I was also queuing, even when the cafe was still closed in the morning. When we got in, the decorations were really awesome and also eye-catching.

1, The Seats


The furnitures or seating here are using Alice tea party theme, where you can see from the picture the chair has bunny ears on it. This is really creative as it combines two things, bunny and chair into one and the result is very cute!

2. The Decorations

One of the most eye-catching decoration is this little merry go round near the entrance. It is really a rare thing for a cafe to have this kind of decorations, but I think it is really a good job as this decoration can enhance the fairytale like or alice tea party theme of the cafe.

3. The Eating Stuffs


As you can see from the coffee cup, it is really creative yet beautiful as you can put the cup together with the cookies. Unlike when the old times, the coffee cup and also cookies were put separately and it takes more space. This coffee up also use a lot of curves like in the plate or hand rail so that it increase the aesthetic value.

4. The Food

Well, as it is a creative thinking blog, I will not comment the taste LOL. The decoration of the food is really good, as the bread are piled up and on the top of it there is the whipped cream. Very good looking and nice food setting that it looks good in the photo, LOL. 

After I went there, I learned that the design and creative field is improving a lot, as there are more creative design cafes or restaurants opened. The more uncommon design or things inside there, people will more interested on it.

Must Watch Cartoon / Animation of 2015

As I am from animation and illustration courses, well I will talk about cartoon or animation of 2015.
These cartoons may have connection to the analogical thinking, because all of them actually non-human characters that live 'like' human; they talk, eat, sleep, socialize, and others. So, I will explain further!

1. We Bare Bears

The newest cartoon in Cartoon Network, it has already stolen many attention of viewers with all ages. The animation and drawing is simple yet really nice, and I think the cartoonist depict each characters really well. Besides, funny story line really help them to get their fame. Telling story between three bears, they try to live and blend together with human lifestyle and live like human. 

2. Minions

With a very clear and cute animation drawing, this animation movie can be nominated as the best one with their hilarious story line. Minion is an fictional character or species that had lived for thousands of years, and they can communicate, wear clothes, and catch villain just like human. So that's why it can be connected to analogical thinking. 

3. Inside Out

This animation is very famous this year and catch many hearts of youngsters. I personally like the character drawing, as it is suits their feeling or actually their character well. Besides, this is a uncommon story as it tells about the life of human's feeling. Once again, they communicate and act 'like' how human do. LOL.

4. Hotel Transylvania 2

This movie is the most hilarious animation that I've ever seen this year, and the story from the start until the end is really entertaining. Everything is perfect, the character, animation, setting, even story line is very good. It tells about all monster character we know like vampire, Frankenstein, mummies, wolverine, etc live in harmony with human and even start to live in human way.

5. Peanuts

Well, this movie is still 'coming soon'. From the trailer, I can say this movie also will be hilarious like the other. Actually, 'Peanuts' or people may know as 'Snoopy (the dog)' is a legendary cartoon that already famous from the generation above us ( I mean our parents may know this LOL), and because of that, I really admire this cartoon and wait for the movie. Well, the movie also telling about animal which is 'Snoopy' is acting, thinking, or even talking 'like' human.

What I can get from those well known cartoon or animation is that to make a good animation, we cannot just think about the drawing for the characters itself or only the story line, but we should balance it together in order to make a great movie. Besides, the more creative and 'out of the box' the story line, the more famous the cartoon will be. Like all those 5, they are all very creative as they use animal, monsters, or may newly invented characters to make story about them and adjust it towards the human lifestyle, so that people can understand and interested in it better.



Random Pick - Sentosa

Saturday, 19 September 2015

When I walked around to Sentosa before, I found this two photos that I think it is very interesting.

1. The Entrance


Well, it is very suitable with the beach vibes around there as it used tree roots and formed into and entrance. Very creative as it can be formed beautifully and look like fort.

2. The Resting Seat

Opposite to that cafe entrance, I saw this seats and directly took picture of it as it is really creative. Forming like waves and curves, the shape of the seat is really unconventional yet interesting.

Bingsoo Cafe

My friend invite me to eat 'bingsoo' (kind of korean dessert) nearby the school. When I got there,  really interested with the design and I think this place is really exceptional. Here's some of the pictures.

1. The Cafe

As you can see the cafe is using the box that you can usually se it in the harbor. They put it together as floors and this is really creative stuffs. This is one of the recycle example, that we can use not useful things to something.

2. The Seats

There are outdoor seats also. Resemble to the cafe, it also use recycle thing like the oil tubes, as the table. Even the chairs are not fancy or new-looking one, but those combination gives retro vibes and this is really interesting.

What I get from this cafe is that even things that are not useful can be explored to become more attractive and creative artworks.

Exercise 3 - 10 Expressions

Tuesday, 15 September 2015

1. Sleepy face
 2.Serious face
 3. Serious face
 4. Angry face
 5. Mouth Opened
 6. Straight Face
 8. Straight Face
 9. Shock Face
 10. Shock Face

Analogical Thinking - Exercise 2

1. Bottle Lamp

The lamp (right photo) is made from bottle and I think the bottle become more effective as it can be used as lamp.

2. Airplane

Planes and birds have similar physical structures. People's dream about flying can be fulfilled because the help of birds anatomy which all have wings to fly. Now, after the planes invented people can easily fly across the continent and travel around the world.


3. Vacuum Cleaner

 The vacuum cleaner looks like elephant trunk, and even have similar function with it. The vacuum can suck all the dirt or dust, similar with the trunk that suck water or something.

Analogical Thinking - Exercise 1

1.
The bed texture is similar with the wood, and the wood become more effective as it can be used as bed decoration.

2. 
The glue gun and the gun also look a like. However, the gun become more useful as it can be use for everyday life and making craft rather than being a harmful thing that hurt people.

3. 
The hair rolls and the burr have the same structure, as you can see on the tip of the hair there are something like hook to caught anything with a loop. By using the burr structure, the hair rolls can easily attach to the hair.



Stick Man

Monday, 14 September 2015


I found this decoration very interesting because it made of sticks that sticking together and forming a human that sitting on a chair. This is very creative as it looks abstract by putting piles of stick together but it actually can form something like human.
My reflection is I may think out of the box like using a stick to form sitting human, so that I can produce a really valuable work of art.

Visit to SAM - Part 2

Later on I go to the different section of the SAM building, and I found these artwork.

1.
 What make these artworks interesting is the materials. It made of rice seed, organized and colored perfectly to form these important figures' faces.
2.
 This is also an extraordinary artwork because it only use shampoo bottle cap as the materials and there are about hundreds or maybe thousands of it. The tonality is made from opening and closing the bottle cap. The dark part is from opened cap and the bright part is the closed cap. How creative!
3.
 This may seem ordinary or simple, as we often see paper plane. However, these paper planes have deep meaning and value, which a lot of people's wishes are written there.
4.
 From afar, this artwork looks like children crafts from papers. However, if you see from up close actually those flower papers are made from hospital bills and the bomb in the middle is made from used medicine or pills plastic.
5.
Last but not least, the artwork that amazed me the most is this one. As you can see, it formed like outer space with the planes hanging on the ceiling. But the most beautiful part is the glass that are attached on the objects and this make the chapel or the room glowing.

Visit to SAM - Part 1

I visited SAM with my classmates for Introduction to Visual Arts assignment, and of course there are a lot of artistic things there. These are some things that I wanna share with you guys!

1.
 I think this ball is really cool because it used metal as the only material to make it, and there is an important history and deep meaning behind it.
2.
There are about a hundred or maybe some hundreds of this wood crafts and all made by one artist. This artwork have different expressions and reflecting human feelings, and the interesting part is the artist make one artwork every day until it become hundreds.
3.
 This is really fun artwork because you can draw or decorate the photo (the blue door photo above) by yourself and put it on the board (the left photo).
4.
 There are about 4 to 5 monitors or televisions, each of them have their own scenes. The scenes are all connected, setting in a house with the family members are busy doing their own works.