Think and Plan

In order to fulfill the requirement of Phase 1 Exhibition Design, we have to come out one layout plan, facade elevation and also the side elevation. Since I'm using part of the Diamond as my design metaphor, so i have to deal with the shape of the diamond which is quite hard for me to imagine how it looks like for front and side view. After trying several times on technical drawing of my design, even with some references from internet, i failed to draw exactly to what it should looks like in my mind. So, I start to work in other ways. I try to model the diamond out using some cardboard, and then follow the shape and outline. This help me a lot faster on technical drawing. But then..."Why don't I use the Maya software?" I can easily get the 3 sides view done by just doing a simple diamond model in Maya...how silly...well...just a reminder...think and plan well before you work! haha

Exhibition Design Phase 1

I'm doing exhibition design for focus point, I choose diamond as my design metaphor as it's the representative of clear(function) and fashionable(style) which I think are most suitable with the concept of Focus Point in their products.

In stead of using the whole diamond, I use only part of it in my exhibition design. I want my exhibition looks with elegant mood/feel, I also plan to have some specialty lighting and also the abstract shapes on my design.

 

Concept Board

  

Layout Plan

 

Facade and Side Elevation

 

Exhibition Profile

 

Graphics board

I'm not satisfy with the outcome of Graphics board, poor composition.

Resume

Ya, everyone is cracking their head to think of something really creative in order to impress the
company they are going to apply for internship. As we know, we have to prepare a Portfolio, cover letter
and Resume, so this is what i got when i search for the creatively done resume CLICK ME

It's good to look at these fantastic examples, but of course this is only for the inspiration, you can insert
your personality in the way of design, and make it with your own styles which actually can tell your attitude and characteristic.

Container as Content

"Content is the king!" This sentence can be heard frequently many years ago, this is to emphasis how important the content is as the main subject of the overall. But then, with the technologies growth, this sentence become less and less correct, the containers now are as important as the content. Our generation are flooded by numerous information no matter which industry your in, we can easily get any specific information according to our will by just searching through internet, so peoples are no more focus on the content as everyone can get the same info from the internet. Then, the containers, are the one most important roles in making a successful campaign, let's say in advertising industry. The choice or decision on choosing the right media(container) in order to advertise your campaign successfully is very important, the media that suitable and appropriate will bring you unexpected results on the other hand,  a wrong one will bring you down of course.

I'm not saying the content is not important at all, but both of them share the same weight on making a successful campaign. A not so good idea/content with a good choice of media/container definitely better than a good idea with a wrong choice of media. This is about your target audience as well. No adults will be attracted by if your campaign is about babies toy but in adult's channel.

Murphy's Law in Design

This is definitely a new term to me, Murphy's Law. "Anything  that can go wrong, will go wrong" is the basic definition that i got from internet. For examples, bread will always fall jelly side down, you are late and your boss shown up, your computer crash before you saved your works, and when you  stuck in traffic, the other lanes will move faster.

If we apply the Murphy's Law in Design, the result will probably like this, you rushed your design works day and night and it ends up postponed, your clients will always NOT pick the design that you love, your printer will run out ink when you need it.

Well, this is just too pessimistic to me, i rather explain all these situations with unlucky, bad day or coincidence. I did experienced one or two of the situation but it's about my attitude and discipline problem, why the law doesn't apply on others peoples? For example the traffic situation.

I believe if you planned your schedule nicely, and complete all the task given and planned then things will be fine and it should be. It's about how you think, so think positively and be optimistic, what's the point of being pessimistic since the life is filled up with so many unexpected.

There are so many examples here, look at these and have a good laugh
http://www.ashok88.com/2010/02/murphys-laws-very-funny-true.html
 

Ideas?

It's time to start doing some research and choose the company you prefer for project 2, exhibition design.
Exhibitor Online a website which organize an exhibit design awards annually, the point is they provide the examples of exhibition design of past year winners. You can go through of it and take them as precedent studies as well. Winners of 2007 2008 2009 2010. All of the examples are very inspiring, good use of the materials, the space in order to create the atmosphere and design which are suitable for the brand's concept.



Beside of the inspiring examples, you can also find some useful tips about exhibition design here. Planning, budgeting, graphics and even tips for promotion and tricks to make a small exhibit stands out.
This website really save you a lots of time on searching for good examples/precedent studies, the only bad is you have to pay for certain articles.

But what i have mentioned above is totally free! I guess it's much more enough for our current project.

 

 *all the images taken from http://www.exhibitoronline.com/index.asp