Submission of Assignment 3 deadline

As mentioned in class, all assignment 3 submissions will be as follows:

Tuesday 5th May 2009 from 10:00 am - 12 pm in Lab2005. No late submissions will be entertained.

Also, I would like to see these two students in class on Monday 4th May during lectures:
(1) Muhammad Abdul Muhaimin – 1071116960

(2) Raja Mohd Taqiyudeen -1081108671

Thank you.

Dr, Neo

Online course

As mentioned in the last class, there is a talk being held this Monday (20/04/09) from 130 pm to 530pm. All students are encouraged to come and attend.

As such, class will be transferred to an online module. Please go to this site:

http://pesona.mmu.edu.my/~tkneo/digital_images/

The course is about vector graphics and bitmap images as well as colour. Please go through the whole course as it will be part of your final exam.

You will also be tested next week Monday (27/04/09).

Thanks and best of luck. If you have any questions, please email me.

Dr. Neo

Mid-term exam schedule

Students in Group 1 come to class at 400. Exam starts at 415 – 445

Students in Group 2 come to class at 445. Exam starts at 445 – 515.


If you do not show up after 5 minutes of the start of the quiz, you will not be able to take the mid-term exam.

If you missed the quiz, you will get a 0 for mid-term unless you have an MC in accordance with university regulations.

Thank you.
Dr. Neo

Assignment 3 - Birthday Card

Assignment 3 – BIRTHDAY CARD (20%)

From the list of birthday cards list in the blog, you are required to re-design the card and to add elements of local culture into the cards. The cards shall depict how birthdays are celebrated in your culture.


Requirements

(1) Select one of the cards in the blog you like (see MMLS).

You are to re create them using local culture elements BUT maintain the layout structure. In other words, if on the birthday card, you see a girl standing on a chair, you may change the elements (from a girl to a malay/Chinese/Indian/boy or girl, from a chair to a rotan chair or a rose wood chair etc) but the layout must be the same, meaning the girl or boy must be standing on the chair.

(2) You should also change the background setting, colour to bring out the local culture. However, the greeting text on the card must stay the same.

(3) The overall message from the card must also stay the same. In other words, if the card is about having a joyful birthday, the local elements, settings and colour must also depict a joyful birthday but in a local culture settings.

(4) Size of the illustration – Overall A3 size but one side will be the image or illustration and the other will be the greeting message. Just like a real card.

(5) Printout the illustration and present it like a real greeting card. Please make sure the printout is a professionally done as possible. You can use thicker paper to depict a real greeting card. It can be portrait or landscape.

(6) Include your name, ID and group at the back of the card.

Documentation to be done on the BLOG (10%)

(1) Include the RESEARCH you have done on the local elements of how birthdays are celebrated (add the web links).

(2) Write a short description of your idea of how birthdays are celebrated in your culture and how you are going to modify the original birthday card that you have chosen from those provided in the blog.

(3) Include designs, sketches, references or images that you use to create your new culturally correct birthday cards, tools that you used and the final output.

(4) Tools used. You are to EXPLAIN the tools that you used and learnt from the tutorials and those that you have EXPLORED on your own.

Submission:

(1) Students must submit the Illustrator file and title it studID_bday.ai. Date of Submission: Week 12 (Week of the 27th April, 2009) in tutorials to tutorial Group Leader.

(2) The student name, ID and Group must also appear inside the document. Marks will be deducted if you do not enter your name, group and ID properly. Marks will also be deducted if there are no name, ID and group.

(3) All class submission guidelines must be followed. Not following these requirements will mean a reduction in your marks in this exercise.

(4) Any copying or similar illustration may result in the students getting an automatic "0" mark. NO PLAGERISM

(5) No blog entries or limited blog entries may result in deduction of marks or may result in an overall mark of 0 for the assignment. So please follow the requirements listed above.

Criteria for marking:

(1) The concept itself and the proof of concept which are the sketches, references and research.

(2) Use of the tools - the proper and creative use of the tools

(3) Design of the illustration and the story it tells.

(4) Write-up and documentation must be in proper English.

(5) Detail description of the process.

(6) Quality of the printing and display.

Designs for Assignment 2

Below are the designs for you to choose from. Only choose one design and for one month only.

(a)
(b)
http://papercrave.com/category/calendars/

(c)

http://papercrave.com/category/calendars/

(d)

(http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=17337873)

Designs for Assignment 2

Assignment 2

Assignment 2 -Festive Calendar (20%)

In this assignment, your task is to create a calendar based on a festive season like Christmas, Chinese New Year, Hari Raya, Deepavali and so on. In other words, you are to create a calendar based on the month the festival fall into.

For example, Christmas will be in the month of December, Chinese New Year will be in the month of Feb (in 2010), Hari Raya will be in the month of September.

Students are to incorporate the design principles that were learnt in MDP class.

ONLY USE ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR SOFTWARE!!!

Requirements:
(1) Each student is to come up with a statement and a description about the festival for 2009 (except for New Year and Chinese New Year which will be in 2010).

For example: "Hari Raya is fun". A short description on how or why Hari Raya is fun should be written.

Based on that statement and description, you are to design an illustration to depict that statement, using shapes, drawings, basic colours and so on.

Other holidays allowed will be Merdeka Day (August 31st 2009) and national day of other nationals (once approved by Ms. Edina).

(2) Students are to use one of the of calendars provided and to follow the design as well as the layout. The objects can be changed but the positioning as well as the layout design must remain the same.

The initial design should be drawn on paper and later incorporate into the Illustrator software.

(3) The calendar shall consist of two parts - the illustration depicting the festival based on the statement and the other is the days of in the month. Be creative.

(4) Any references that you used to create this calendar should also be stated in the documentation.

(5) Size of the calendar (31 X 52cm) should be printed in A3 size paper (to include both image and dates), (portrait or landscape) mounted on to an appropriate mounting board.

You may also decide to use two A3 size boards, one for the image and the other for the dates. However, the size of the assignment should fit on to a A3 mounting board.

(6) You are to use the tools in Illustrator like the pen tool, basic colours, shapes to draw and create this calendar and the text and numbers that go with a calendar. Only create for one month, the month the festival is celebrated.

(7) No late submissions. Submission to your Group leader on week 9 (Week of April 6th, 2009) in tutorials.

(8) Class rules apply.

Criteria of marking:
(1) Use of the tools - proper use of the tools (2) Idea and design of the calendar (3) Quality of printout

Blog Documentation (also known as the Making of)

To document the process, continue building on your blog. The documentation should be as detailed as possible. This site will be the continuation of Assignment 1 blog will be used to document all the:

(a) Ideation of your design - What is the idea behind your design? In this link, students are to describe the details of their design including the purpose, inspiration, objects or symbols used, the background used and other relevant information.

(b) Design of the picture - In this link, students are to illustrate their sketches or work-in progress designs and their final designs.

(c) Tools used in Illustrator - What techniques in Illustrator did you use to create your image? Use screen shots with detailed explanations of how the cards were created using the tools in Illustrator.

There are two subsections, one on tools that were taught in class, and the other will be tools that were not taught in class. You need to describe the tool that was used, the settings, and how it was used in your design. Be detailed and use proper English.

(d) References - What images or references did you use to create your calendar? In this link, students are to place the different images or links that were used references that they used in creating the calendar.

(e) Final outcome

(f) Submission guidelines apply (i) Submit to Group Leaders in tutorials in Week 9 (Week of 6/04/09 in tutorial classes)

Criteria of marking:

(1) Detail description of the process. (2) Overall design of the site (3) Quality of images/text.