This sure is ghastly

You can't even make out the words "Hardly normal sale" on their print ads until you hear the words HARDLY NORMAL SALE through their radio ads and their TV ads.

The "fonts" looked like a buncha contortionists dancing to hip-hop music.

I would have preferred it if you guys used the ghastly Comic Sans. At least you could make out the words.

Updates: Blog header!

If you don't know already, the graphics on my blog header are random, powered by Javascript. Some of you might see a new one which I did up early this morning, of an indian man with the most rocking moustache. Fooled around with the Photoshop's Liquify Tool as well to make the retarded twin beside him.

Yes, the boh liao things I do, but it's the first time I'm playing with the Liquify tool. This makes me a little more knowledgeable,I guessed.

Connect the dots: The Bézier curve way

It's a blasphemy for any graphic designer wannabes to not know how to use the Pen Tool in Photoshop/Illustrator/Fireworks!

A recent conversation with the boss:

Me: Well, I haven't completed the logo because I really, really don't know how to use the Pen Tool....

Boss: Then last time you don't know how to walk, then how come you can +walk now? Last time you don't know how to eat, then how come you can eat now?

Me: Learn lah.

Boss: Yah, so how?

Fine. So I learned lah. (I do need my job, you see). And though there are a billion tutorials on how to use the pen tool available online, it's a fecking hassle trying to read instructions off a webpage while practicing Illustrator in another window.



This is almost heaven-sent: Veerle's Blog have this nifty Illustrator Pen Tool Exercise, which you can download and practice your pen-tool, connect-the-dots style with step-by-step instructions. How nifty.

I supposed you can open up the same .ai file in Photoshop/Fireworks as well.

Pen Tool skillz, I haz.

Clever Namecards

I must say, namecards are such a hassle! The ones you've collected take up space in your wallets. The ones you carry around because "you'll never know who you meet" anytime of the day take up space as well; for some, in a separate holder. For me I have that separate holder in the form of a cigarette box, which I'll forget to bring along with me, which then defeats its purpose. Oh well, enough about my tardiness.

Most namecards are so capital B Boring: many a times while clearing my wallet, I would have a little pile of insignificant namecards that I can't actually remember who they came from!

Was researching on creative namecards, when I came across this:

How clever, a play on the word "separation". Pure genius from the creative! A possible ease of tension for the clients of this particular lawyer, whilst dealing with a difficult situation such as divorce.

More striking, original, creative namecards here.

I'm not a graphic designer.

I'm just somebody who knows how to use Photoshop, though it did took me sometime to pick it up. It'll be very much later when I can call myself a graphic designer lah!


Followed this tutorial to create the above graphic. I call it "sperm" becuase I'm an uninspired graphic artist wannabe.

What the Font is this?!

Having trouble detecting the font face or type in the graphic? Don't worry, we've got What The Font, the nifty online application I hunted down sometime ago. Was having trouble finding out what was the font I used to create a company logo: the silly, messy me have misplaced the raw PNG/PSD format of the file.

How What The Font works: they allow you to upload your JPG/GIF/BMP file containing your mystery font type, or link the url of the file. After which they'll list the font types that matches the one you are looking for. It might save your day, but I still highly recommend that do a backup of your fonts and raw files on an external storage: just in case your computer decides to die on you on the wrongest of times.

Radiohead

As you can see, I'm taking things a little bit too literally. Man I'm sooooooo creative huh.

Hokkien Rabbits, again!

Pole Huggers

I don't know what the heck these buggers are doing.

Doraemon and Teddy

These fellas are up to no good... as usual. Morons :P

Chepat lah Pompuan

Playing with the classy font Arial again, this time with a Malay word.



From the Malay friends I was surrounded with in my school days, you'd think that I would have been able to manage some sentences in their language by now. Not the case for me! But some of these munjen Chinese people are able to do so after prolonged periods of time of being exposed to the language, and I'm not one of them.

Perhaps I never really took the effort to learn it(lazy, lazy). But from the smattering of random words, I can remember Pompuan (Woman / Girl), because Adi used to bellow Pompuan! Hurry up lah! at me in the drama clubhouse.

Bunneh and Teddy in School

Yep. I'm developing a new webcomic. :P

Bunnies speak Hokkien

Ah Beng Rabbits

One of my friends enjoy them rabbits, so I did up a few of them for his website. They don't suit his serious, intelligent image as a sound artist, so the design's rejected.

Never mind, now I have a couple of Singlish-sprouting, Ah Beng-sey rabbits :P

P/S: Heh, at least my mom loved it!

Chio looking Chio

Chio means beautiful in Hokkien. Hokkien is a crude sounding dialect that's not very classy. But I made it look pretty classy with Arial. The power of a well chosen font!

The graphic above looks suitable for a woman's magazine. Would you buy a magazine called Chio? Chio can pass off as a Japanese word, you know. Alot of people like Japanese stuff.