Feisty November!

My friends and I managed a booth for a bazaar at SDH Cikarang last week. We want to start a party organiser service for sweet seventeen or wedding occasion.  The preparation was not really good because we were being busy with each other job. But, we are quite satisfied with the result. (After borrowing and making some stuffs).

Nautical and vintage stuffs being together on the same table. The garland was made by me :)

   

The cupcake was made by Ovi :)

My pals! Katherin and Elica :D

The Nautical Cake by Ovi *cute sailor*

The whole booth

Elica's dad has sooo many lovely birds in his big cage. This is a couple of love birds!

This one is the prettiest one

This is the oldest bird but he's really talkative and love to dance, (jumping with one foot) haha

Taking a bath :3

It's quite a great weekend, sharing stories with our friend's family... Looking at our friend's childhood photos (and then make it as a joke :p). And it's always feel like home when we are surrounded by nice and warm people.

I wish you guys a great weekend too! :D

Craving for Traditional Way

I'm struggling with my thoughts lately. I always peeking for the newest illustration project on behance.com and instantly amused with Steve Simpson works. Since I've been working with Adobe Illustrator for almost 4 months, I found Steve's work is passing my expectation in digital illustration. I want to explore more but it's hard too keep up with my mood-swing. So when I start to give up in my work, I take a deep breath, close my eyes, have a short daydreaming, take a long stare at incredible illustration in behance.com and deviantart. Then, I get my mood back and start to work again.

But then, I found this great manual illustration by Tetiana Kartasheva and I took a really long time to adore her illustration mood. It's very clean but fully beautiful at a same time. When I found out that she made an illustration book for her graduation project, I just very disappointed with myself. I made my own for graduation project too but how it came out in very rough shape was below my expectation. I know that I never want to give more although all of the plan was already in my head. So, what I need more right now is courage and an 'iron will'. And yeah, right until now, I still want to and crave to draw manually. I feel more close and intimate with my works when I did it manually so I really appreciate artists that still do their artworks in traditional way. But, many artists that could translate their skill in digital form better than in the manual way, Kali Ciesemier for example. So, whatever the medium, as long as the artists could translate what they want to create visually, it will turn out as a great artwork.

And I believe that I love drawing. I've tried to do something else, reading, make a craft stuff, writing, taking photos, and creating video, but still I can left drawing behind everything else :')

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A calm song also really helps a lot. I personally like a song with dreamy tunes and not really attached to the lyrics, since most of them are about love . But a dreamy love song is quite helping to make my mind relaxed for a while. My favourite lately is Landon Pigg's Falling in Love at Coffee Shop. Never fails to make me smile when hearing this song. When I want to get a mood booster, FUN.'s Some Nights (although it's a song about war, but the melody is very catchy) or Carry On is really cheered me up :D

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I wish you all could pass your hard times when struggling with your life choices... And whatever your choice is, never leave your dreams, never leave what you love to do, because that's the reason why you have a meaningful life.

Logoworks

I want to share about all logo projects that I've made for these three years since I learned Visual Communication Design major at university. Logo is an important part to make a branding works. In my opinion, logo is also a conclusion of the branding itself. It gives people an image (both visually and emotionally) to a product. Several of these logos are being made for my friends and my study projects. But, some of them were actually made for the real projects.

So, these are all of them :)

1. SATRIA - 2012 | Satria is a supply shop for textile industry located in Bali. Their business is growing bigger but they never have any logo before. After doing a research with the target market and discussing with the client, this logo was born.

2. FRUITCY DELIGHT - 2010 | I had a great time when making this logo. It was for my friend marketing projects for a yogurt shop, so she gave me freedom for everything. It's rare chance for a designer to get a total freedom in making a project. I also made 3D dummy for the yogurt shop. Yum!

3. PERANTARA - 2011 | Another logo for my friend school projects. I didn't get a clear brief about the project, they were creating a national shipping service business plan and it needed a logo.

4. SARINANDE - 2010 | Phew, this logo was having a long journey before it got into the final look. My friend has a family bakery business for more than twenty years at my hometown. It is a busy shop and popular in our small city. So, this logo need a approval from her parents and grandmothers which I never been discussed with in the making of these logo. But, finally they took one of several option that I made and it's being used until now :)

5. PT. LAU - 2012 | My cousin and his friends started their own coal mining business. So, they need a logo that symbolize about the mining and also environmental look. They pick orange for the color so I can't do much with the color tone.

6. MISTER BASO - 2010 | It's an assignment to rebrand a restaurant at the shopping center in our city. My friend and me choose the famous meatball restaurant for a rebrand.

7. SILVER TONGUE - 2011 | Another logo project for my friend in management major. He created a vegetarian restaurant for his thesis and it needed a logo. If I'm not mistaken, silver tongue means tasty in Singapore (or Chinese) culture. So I go from the 'tongue' and blend it with the yin and yang concept. The color comes from the silver and pink from tongue original color.

8. IMTI - 2011 | IMTI is a hypnosis institute that just started to grow. Both of my friends started it in 2011 but I don't how the progress until now.

9. HASIL LAUT - 2011 | Another logo for my friend thesis project. He want to create a seafood restaurant in Indonesian style, so here it is.

10. GEDUNG 28 - 2010 | My projects for rebrand a public places in Jakarta. I choose Gedung 28, a museum of east Indonesian culture. It such a fun project and I totally satisfied with the result. The logo comes from a fertility sculpture in one of Irian Jaya's tribe.

11. UBER GAMES - 2012 | My friend started his own business in board games selling. He asked for a cartoon style logo that symbolize his business, so I made a globe that popped out from a box. The globe is a symbol that one day his business will be going international. Box is actually sacred for keeping all those board game safe :p

Well, that's all of my logo works. In the making of a logo, one thing that a designer need to compromise is individual vision. A designer creates a logo for a client and for the public. Taste, vision, opinions are some of many parts that needs to reach the same point of decision. But, a designer also have to convince the clients that what he/she designed is what the client exactly needs. There's always a limit in compromising.

Haha, I wish this post could help you that need some input for logo making. Have a nice day! :)

Well, I don't think all of my logo works is good enough. But the important thing is how your logo works in the right place and for a right needs.

AFA (Anime Festival Asia)

Hold on! It's a long post! :p

AFA ID It's the biggest anime festival in Indonesia that just being held at 1-2, 2012 at Jakarta International Expo. I'm going there with Katherin last Sunday. It was 1 P.M. when we got there and I think we would miss several good shows. But, we were not! We still could enjoy the final cosplay competition with Kaname and Akatsuki Tsukasa joined as the jury team!

These are some picture from the show. The teams that joined the competition, most of them came from Jakarta, Bandung, and Jogjakarta.

Monster Hunter

The Rathalos was defeated!

Kamen Raider (I guess)

Gundam

Digimon

Before the winners being announced, we got entertained by several cosplay teams that come around from Asia.

Digimon from Indonesia

Devil May Cry from Korea

From Thailand

From Japan

Samurai X from Indonesia

The hilariously funny MC, Danny Choo

And these are the jury panel! Kaname and Akatsuki is the third and fourth from left :D

The Award Winner

The 3rd winner

Gundam the 2nd winner

The 1st winner from Jakarta!

Congratulation! :D

AFA 2012 already being held in Malaysia and Indonesia. It will be hold in Singapore at November.

I'm sorry for not being too informative with the cosplayers' name.

If any of you know about it, please let me know so this post will be better! :D

Thank you for reading!

80 Days Around the World!

As what I have promised before, this is my final project book! The redesign of '80 Days Around the World' by Jules Verne in Indonesian language! I only post several illustration that I like because not every page of that book is coming from my maximal effort.

Those two running man is Passepartout and Mr. Fogg, one man that peeking at the left side is Detective Fix. The places is  moving! :D

The opening page.

The Sioux trying to attack the train.

On the journey to save Auoda.

The route.

The steam train.

The opening of chapter six. *my favorite chapter*

If you noticed, I made a decoration on the bottom page, the decoration change if the story being moved to the different place :)

The illustrated book and me :)

I wish you guys good luck for every projects that you are working on. Don't give up!

Happy Sunday! :D