Week 1, Exercise 1

Thanks to a course multimedia I have came to learn that some things, you don't get to learn from books. One has to explore the different kinds of ways to express something, whether it is an advertisement, information, a short video or film. Through many assignments and task given in college and university, I was given a chance on how to express my creativity by executing these task. From the very start of pursuing my diploma, I was a student that was very fresh to multimedia, my creativity level was very limited, my first assignment was to design a poster that combines the different races in Malaysia, I did not knew what I was really doing then, my design was distorted, the colors I used for the design was horrible. As time goes by, I learned that research and observing other design are very important as they give inspiration and ideas. 

As for creative style, my older design and works are very dull and the colors are usually darker colors. Font wise, I used to use very fancy design fonts and I find them very cool, but only to realize that they aren't good designs. As I learn and observe other people's design through my diploma, I have learn that designing is very subjective, some people may or may not agree that a design is good and excellent , but we can agree that some designs can be really bad, as in REALLY BAD. Example of one really bad design, figure 1.1, is a poster I did during my early semester in my diploma course.

Figure 1.1

After a couple of semesters, I learn to design better, using simple yet unique fonts. Limit the amount of colors used, neat and tidy content.  Figure 1.2 is a web design for an assignment. 

Figure 1.2

My motive while designing or executing a certain task, I want the viewers to understand what I am trying to portray. I want the content to be understandable yet not too straight forward at the same time. I try to approach more on ways how can I design my content in way that can interact with the user so that it has more impact and the user can always remember what are the content. 

I through multimedia I got many opportunity to express my creativity, whether it is designing an advertisement for poster, a short video, or creating an application for a smart phone. I got to be exposed to many kinds of ways on how to execute a certain task. Coding especially, whether for a website, mobile app or game design, I have learned that those fancy stuff you see on the television or internet do not just pop out like that, it has to go through many stages of planning, research, developing and finally coming out with the final output. Through game design, I learned to explore different ways on how my game design would be played and designed.