Design in Spain

In Easter holiday, i went to Barcelona and Madrid, There two cities are quite different from London, no matter the people , buildings, weather or the atmosphere there. I love Barcelona a lot, especially the seafood there :) really fresh and delicious! Below are some interesting design i saw during my trip.

This is an ashtray in my hotel room. Just dont know why they want to put an ashtray in the room but give it a "dont smoke" sign?

A cute sign on the metro train

"Mind the gap" sign. Actually, the gap at Barcelona or Madrid underground are much much better than London. London underground really got impressive gap between the train and the platform!! @@"

Designed couch. Love the simple black and white colours

Illustration on the street

Graffiti

a lovely sign

Metro Poster

Spring atmosphere lamphouse on the whole platform wall and ceilling

pop up book of Expiatory Church of the Holy Family

The bin in my hotel room.

I guess its a poster about preventing breast cancer, quite like the design, so simple and abvious with feminine pink colour.

VCT Timeline Project

This is the VCT timeline project i did for this term. My topic is about Louis Vuitton's patterns. The process was quite struggle but fun! The struggle part in this project for me was the layout things. I was stuck on coming up with an creative and interesting layout for a whole week. Although i shouldnt focus too much on the layout but the research and the essay part, since im a graphic design student, designing a good layout is also what i want to do it well! Before this one as u can see below, I came up with many ideas, but neither of them could satisfy me.  Finally, after discussing about my timeline with classmates and my friends, they did help! So when you are stuck, talk to your friends, ideas always just jump out suddenly! :) Below is how it looks in the final. My Louis Vuitton handbag! :)

Page 1 - the eassay part. I put the timeline on the classic Louis Vuitton Damier canvas. On the handbag, Im gonna cut some holes, so the patterns from page 2 can be seen through the holes. i was thinking about printing page 1 on the tracing paper, but consider about those texts mixing with the patterns, probably difficult to read, so i gave up the idea.

page 2 - the Louis Vuitton patterns. What a colourful handbag!!!

The Animation - Simon's cat

This series of animation is just too cute!
it's so simple but make people laugh if u ever had a cat!
And i alos like its handdrawing and in just black and white!
enjoy it! :)

Graphic Design Exhibition @ Somerset House Part four

Finally, these art works are my most favorite in this exhibition. They are also created by Japanese. The illustrator is Takeru Toyokura. His art works are filled with surreal stories. At the beginning you glace at his works, you will think they are lovely works filled with children, but as you look carefully, you will realize the stories in his works are quite dark.

I found that Japanese artists are really good at detailed art works, no matter cutting or illustration, they can spend time and make them so fine and delicate!

i love his surreal stories. And look at those houses behind the children, so detailed!

He is so good at using different texture of paper, cloth, and material to create his works.

Can't believe its all made by cutting and paste skill.

The characters in his stories are all children.

This is kind of interested but dark! :)

Differnt texture of papers he uses.

Love those buildings he creates! really vivid!

Graphic Design Exhibition @ Somerset House Part III

After this exhibition, I found that I quite like this kind of illustration that is really detailed and fine. This illustrator use different points and line to creates different texture. This is where inspired me in this exhibition the most. I will definitely use this kind of skill in my illustration next.

Graphic Design Exhibition @ Somerset House Part II

This is one of my favorite art work by a Japanese designer - Seiko Kato

Every Piece of her art works is so fine and detailed. As you can see below, she cut many small piece of illustration and combine them into a bigger illustration. You cant imagine how much time she spends on her works.

Some of her works are for sell, but some of them are priceless.

Green

Flower

Graphic Design Exhibition @ Somerset House Part I

Belows are some art works all made by grid paper. Its quite impressive that these designers are so creative to turn grid papers into various shapes and forms. Here are some of my favorite works.

I realize that repetition is quite attractive thing to catch my eyes. There's a saying in chinese that "Plenty is beautiful". Even something is just simple shape, plenty of them will become beautiful.

This is really creative. The designer is simply cut the grid paper into many pieces and crosses them, but has already sussessfully catch people's eyes.

This one is interested as well. There are lots of designer participated in this "grid paper" project, but some of them made the similar works by chance. The colour and shape in this one is similar like the first one.

So creative! how can they came up with this ideas?

This is my favorite! so simple but so attractive! It's 2D paper but it's 3D!

Grid paper can also become like this! there's no limited! :)