Design Contest

Newest design contest. Does this seem unappropriated?
Design message: Safe sex. Stay Safe. Prevent Pregnancy. Protect yourself from AID. HIV.STD

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Website Updated.

Finally I got my website done! yayyyyy mehhh! There will be much more interesting pages coming in the near future. (hopefully.)

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Personal Website

This is currently my temporary website and with my final logo. I tried to keep  my website and my blog  layoyt as consistent as possible.

This is the old website of mine. I'm currently working on updating the layout and adding new stuff to my new one. I will post it up when I get it done.

I have this website up for about two months and I decided to change it.

Business card (old)

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June Mailer

This is copyright to ASI, Yes I designed them and the reason why I posted it up here is just for portfolio purposive.

I've been so busy lately that I didn't have much time to upload my works. But anyway, here is a quick sneak peak of what I have been doing. : )

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Boredom, the desire to be creative

Every improvement in an artist makes the bore more terrific.

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Logo Design

Another project that I had done in the past for my campaign design class.

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Self vector portrait

I try to update my blog as usual as I could. This self portrait was done back when I was still in college.

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Cocoon Illustration

For Illustration Friday. Topic for this week is Cocoon. It took me less then three hours to complete this illustration.

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2008 ADDYs Award Winner

This was one of my school project while in college. I had to pick out a local business and re-design their campaign such as; logo, poster, ads and brochure. Shela  is a women fashion boutique that is target at customers at age 35 and older. Before I came up with this design I'd made a stop at their store and speak to one of Shela's sale associates and asked them to provided me with some information to help me completed my project. Unfortunately they had nothing, no business card, no coupons, no brochures. I was so disappointed and do not know how to begin this project. So I spent about five minutes wandering around the store to get the feeling of their theme color and style. I went back to my class and looked for some for information on the internet. Luckily I found their website at http://www.shopshela.com and came up with the design from there and blah blah...

I submitted my designs in for the 2008 ADDYS competitions through my school, and I won a silver Addys award for this campaign. I did not expected to win at all, so I was pretty amazed with myself when I got this award.


Yes, I'd redesigned their logo as well. (This is not for commercial used, it is for school purposes only.)

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Engagement Layout photos

Happily engaged to this stud in the photo on July 4, 2009. Layout design and Photoshop edited by me.

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Wedding Album Design

I'm going to confess to myself, that I am also a Wedding Album Designer. I picked up this side job last August when an old friend  from high school, Son aimed me up through Facebook and offered me the position as his album designer.(Which I have never thought  of designing something like this before.) Oh and did I mentioned that he is a photographer? Anyway all the images are copyright by sonluan.com and the layouts was designed by me. After the album was fully completed Son sent it in to the printing company and got it printed.  The result was impressive even through I have not have a chance to see it yet.

Layouts overview, I believed the sized was 12in by 12in.

The top three photos were taken by Sonluan.com

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The Turtle and the Rabbit Run a Race

I just joined the website Illustration Friday, is a weekly illustration challenge. A topic is posted every Friday and then participants have all week to come up with their own interpretation.  So I finally completed my first week challenge, and the topic for this week was "Ahead". The folktale of the "Turtle and the Rabbit Run a Race", is the first thought that popped up in my mind.

As many of you probably have heard the story, but I'm going to post a short overview of this story anyway.

"One day a rabbit was boasting about how fast he could run. He was laughing at the turtle for being so slow. Much to the rabbit's surprise, the turtle challenged him to a race. The rabbit thought this was a good joke and accepted the challenge. The fox was to be the umpire of the race. As the race began, the rabbit raced way ahead of the turtle, just like everyone thought. The rabbit got to the halfway point and could not see the turtle anywhere. He was hot and tired and decided to stop and take a short nap. Even if the turtle passed him, he would be able to race to the finish line ahead of him. All this time the turtle kept walking step by step by step. He never quit no matter how hot or tired he got. He just kept going. However, the rabbit slept longer than he had thought and woke up. He could not see the turtle anywhere! He went at full-speed to the finish line but found the turtle there waiting for him."

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Photoshop Technique

It a Saturday night, I have nothing to do beside hanging out with my son and being obsessed with his pictures.  His cuteness is melting my heart and taking my breath away at every moments he looks at me smile and laugh with his "goo goo ga ga" baby's talk.  I felt like my life is no longer about me but him. I'm not a photographer so I have to spend plenty of my time Photoshoping his pictures.  I randomly went through other designer's blog to see what's up and to learn from them as well. One of the blog site that attracted me today was "Photoshop Disaster blog". It's a collection of commercial and awful Photoshop work which is very amazing!. I don't want to say that I have master the photoshop's world but its decent enough, so hopefully my name will not be listing in "Photoshop Disaster" blog.

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Baby photography

"No! you do not need a freaking camera! because you're not going to use it!" My hubby said with an angry face.

Not too long ago, I wanted to buy a camera so bad, and my hubby disagreed! I then went and brought the camera behind his back. I brought the Samsung TL34HD digital camera. The Samsung TL34HD support 14.7-megapixel sensor along with 3.6x optical zoom lens. It equipped with 3-inch touchscreen LCD display as well as 28mm wide angle lens. Anyway I was kind of disappointed of myself because I did not used the camera as much as I thought I would. Beside from that I get a huge yelling speeches from my hubby and so so.

I had my son about four months ago, and I have been using the camera like crazy. The images quality is not that great or may be I'm just a bad photographer. I had the photos imported into Photoshop and did some twist and trick to have that professional look. I don't want to spend 300 dollars to have my son's picture taken by a professional photographer.

I told my husband that I want to invest in a 1k camera, like those that were owned by a professional photographers, and he said "Hell No!"

Here are some of the pictures of my son that were taken by my small pocket camera.

My Samsung TL34HD digital camera. Except it black

   This is my son, and this picture was taken at his three months old.

This is at his four months old.

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