This time round i hope to do a comparison of immigrants coming over to Singapore over the years. However i had problem to get specific statistic of where the immigrant are from or correct number of immigrant from past years.

Therefore i decided to do on info-graphic of low fertility rate that lead to more stock of immigrants (however i manage to get stock of immigrant percentage as of 2010 only) as these immigrant are needed to build the economy of Singapore. 

This project is for people who always just think of "getting rid" the immigrants. This is to change their perspective of why would the government head to welcome foreign talent approach.

2010 Singapore population statistic (singstast.gov)

Singapore birthrate 1950 - 2010

Singapore stock of immigrants fact from Migration and Remittances Factbook 2011

Singapore economy 1999 - 2010 ( www.indexmundi.com

compiling the datas i came up with this.

How did this project impact my life.

For this assignment is decided to do a video resume. What is a video resume? Below is from my research.

Mine perspective.

mine perspective. 

Even thought this is a guide to video 

resume but to me it's just another person yanking non stop

about what's his achievement and qualification.

These content are already documented in

the resume but way take a extra mile to do it again 

it's kind of redundant.

After much research, it's often advice not to 

submit a video resume as people tends to judge by look.

Thus in a designer's view if they are going to judge,

why not let them judge my work?

Thus i decide to come up with kind of video resume.

• less or no talking.

• straight forward illustration.

• speaks more about what's my journey that make me

who am i, worthy to be hired.

One of my Final Year Project 2 i did the Publicity prints for  Nanyang Polytechnic Symphony Orchestra. Client :  Student Development Assistant Manager. Project period: 24 April 2011 - 20 May 2011 

Initially the objective of the concert was about  reaching out to high school musicians and raising fund for the Tsunami disaster that happened to Japan early this year.

Thus i proposed some designs below

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  However after the student  Assistant Manager had a meeting with the board. They feel that the main objective of the concert shall be a out reach concert to high school. However me understanding the performing pieces consist mostly of Japanese songs and some song like An American Elegy that's about columbine massacre and encouraging people to move on. Thus taking into consideration of the  admin and musicality side i proposed my second set of design. After research, these are what i think what japan is about graphically.

Shrine, flower and serenity however... all was destroyed by the cruel tsunami.  After taking into consideration of my findings, i decided on  minimalist style. As definitely taking the disaster into consideration, it's not a event to celebrate but yet we want to bring out the beauty of the night NYPSO gonna present. Thus i did my first draft for approval. 

the "client" is very happy with the overall style.  And specifically loves how i wanted to bring out the message. However She hopes that the Schools Name Will Be BIG.

Thus i did some refinement.

  This time round i added the logos, as previously the client hope that the logo will be BIG and highly visible thus i placed them at the top and relatively big. secondly i added musical notes into the art work as reviewing on my findings, event thought it wasn't a event for celebration but the event is about healing the hearts with music.... so there should be some movement in the art work. Even though this design is approved but i  that the typography is a huge disaster thus i tried to the client wants and made some changes.

After this style is approved, i created the publicity/ stage banner, ticket and pamphlet for the event.

Ticket Design: 15.5cm X 5.5 cm

Banner design: 6m X 1.2m

Pamphlet Front: 21cm x 10cm

Pamphlet Back: 21cm x 10cm

test prints. art work color off, resend printer a more orange sun ray. from printer : Logos Pixalate 

As the respective school are only able to provide small resolution logo to me and the NYPSO wanted all prints to send in by the noon thus i have only 3 hours to vector each logo.

These are the approved designs. However Due to budget constrain, the client hope that i could Re-design a  one sided a5 pamphlet.

First i gave a try on landscape orientation by "throwing" the front and back of the original pamphlet into one. However everything seems so cramp up, and i have no idea what to focus on. Thus i took reference on post card design. A small card allow a lot of information to be contain within at ease.  Thus the final designed for the client.  

  Mind map

After reading the brief, this mind map is create form the requirement of programming the cube.

Choosing Material

Bubble wrap- Characteristic

Plastic, round smooth texture, light weight transparent.

Material not chosen: structure easily damage,

inner circuit will be easily in view not visually appealing.

Jelly/Gel-Candle

Transparent, vanilla scent, squishy, sticky

Material not used- to built a (6x6x6)cm cube,

a container must be used to hold the material, this

defeats the purpose of using Jelly/Gel-Candle.

Perler(hama) beads

This is used as final material:

comes with texture,builds up a firm structure,

visually appealing with the variety of vibrant color it will look

better after the installing of the ultra bright white LEDs.

Problems When building the Structure

having the thoughts that light will be able to pass through via the gaps in between the beads but thats not the ideal amount of light passing through as the different spacing between beads made the light emitted uneven.

 Solution : every "2nd" bead will be removed.Thus this ensure the equality of light that will pass out from the cube and the bonus of this is that nice repeating pattern of shadow will be casted.

however solving the light problem another occurred. Dimension of the cube i tried to flatten the side assuming that everything will be in right dimension. However i was wrong not only that the dimension was wrong, the structure itself ain't sturdy.

Solution: "inter-beads"

  (top and bottom)                               (sides)                            (example)

using this method, beads can "interlock" and firm support given.

Circuit building

first did a sketch after the circuit layout is taught.

After that used fritzing sofware to double confirm the connections

Laying out the physical structure

(top view)

instead of soldering the wires directly to the board, a (plug?) is used this allows me to have a cleaner circuit layout.

 (sideview)

Structuring LEDs

orange, green, white wires(+)-->pwn 9,10,11

the negative points are merged using a metal wire connected with a grey wire . This grey wire will bring the ground point to the layout above so that it can be connected to the arduino.

Problems faced: LED break before i can solder and light "spoiled"  that i have to  replace it.

Positive point contact with metal wire, short circuit. Solution: coated the positive sides of LEDs with a layer of nail polish.

Coding