MA EXPO 2013

Today is the deadline of Ma Exposition set up. Finally, I have done for it. Here is my Ma Exposition hope everyone love it!

All in all,It is such a rush hour. I am very lucky that I have a lot of nice friends and classmate in UK. Thank you so much guys for helping me today.

 

First day to set up the Ma Exposition

Today is my first day to set up my Ma Exposition. I have tried to put my poster up and hang the postcards on the wall.

HERE IS MY PLACE!!

This is my shelf!

My postcards

Here are my postcards that I printed in another print shop. The paper and the colour looks better than last time. I am so happy about this. I faced a lot of problem about printing. The colour is not good, print in the up side down. Every problems are out of my control. However, I can pass it. :)

Website for building mobile application

My friend suggest me to build the mobile application by https://moqups.com. It is very easy to make app. However, I decided to build the mobile application by Power point because https://moqups.com cannot make mobile application move like animation. 

Process of printing

Today I have finished all of my illustrate and ready to print. So, I went to the print shop and last time I talked with someone in print shop for printing on my own paper. However, I bring my own paper name Tintoretto Felt which is 250 gsm and have texture on it, but it cannot use. So I decide to use the paper from the print shop. The big problem is the colour is changed from the screen when print it out. One more thing, the price is so expensive because of my cover. The cover have to print on the A2 paper size, that is why it is so expensive.

 

The colour in my computer screen.

The colour when I print at print shop

When I print on the Tintoretto paper by myself

Which one is better?

Which one is better?
I have asked my audience which one is better. Here are the postcards and you can tear it and send the postcard to your friends or family and the head of postcard you can keep. From 50 people, 92 % like the left one.

choosing colour

I tried to use colour and then I ask my audience from 80 people. The result is 80% like the left one and 20% like the right one.

Contact with the postcard company

I found the postcard in the bookstore and I really love the texture on the card. So I contact with the company name nineteenseventythree which is own of this postcard and ask them that what is the paper. They are so kind and give me the name of paper. It is name Brampton Feltmark. After that I trying to find it online and I found that there is only 300 gsm on the Brampton Feltmark. If I print the postcard, the print shop told me that I can use the paper not thick than 250 gsm. So, I cannot use the Brampton Feltmark on my work. But no worry, I found the similar paper which is name Tintoretto Felt, the texture is the same as Brampton Feltmark but it is only 250 gsm. How lucky I am. :)

1973 company

 

 The postcard of 1973.

Using a marker pen

Today I tried to use a marker pen on the illustration but it did not look good because the elements are not clear.

The left is original and the right is from using marker pen.

The sketch of my work before I use marker pen

All of sketch

Here is the sketch of my project. Almost finish the sketch process. :)

LAI THAI

Here is the example of publications in Thailand that use Lai Thai (Thai elements) elements incorporating gold. On my project I want to use gold but it is very special and I have talked with a print company and they said they cannot do it for me. So, I change from gold to yellow because it looks similar.

Start to make a postcard book

I started to sketch all 20 of the postcards. Here are some examples. As you can see that I use some Thai elements called LAI THAI or LAI KRANOK on it. In each place, there are a lot of specific and interesting things. I drew some of the stuff on display

Work in progress

Today I have a class for working in progress. I have shown my project to my all of my classmates. They suggest changing some colours because they like a colourful image but this palette looks old fashioned, and they want me to put some Thai style on it as well.

WORK IN PROGRESS

 Some of my work

Last tutorial

Today is the last tutorial of my final module. Time flies so fast. The style of my project is looking stronger but my supervisor advised me to think about the scale of the illustrations. About the MA Exposition, we discuss that it will be better and more interesting if I can provide something like cards to ask people to comment or share their experiences with my booth. So, I will provide like a luggage tag and people can comment and then hang it on my booth.

Mockup of postcard book

I trying to design the cover of postcard book and then I made a mockup of it. I have inspired by the backpack and travel bag. 

New ma exposition

According to last tutorial, my supervisor advises me to think about the brand name of my project. It should be Ready to go travel and then Ready to go bangkok. Like Ready to go travel is a big campaign and there are variety of big cities such as Ready to go Bangkok, Ready to go London and etc.

And here is my new MA Exposition.

Tutorial

Today we discussed the MA Exposition and my supervisor advised me to improve it. She suggests that I should present my work to impact the audience and make clear what I want to communicate with them.

MA EXPOSITION

MA Exposition

mobile application mockup

This is the story board of my Ready to go Bangkok mobile application. It is in two parts: scan from postcard and choose the contents. Two parts of the mobile application can link together and will end at the same process. You can touch the button BACK or HOME and then you will go back to the home session. One more thing, you can link to share your experiences photo or comment in the program looks like Instagram and after that you can share it in your Facebook as well.

Part 1: Scan illustration from the postcard and then get information.

Part 2: choose from the contents and then get information.

What people want to know when they go travel?

I have designed a questionnaire from 100 people.

What people want to know when they travel? Here is the result.

They also want to share their experiences on social networks.

Flower market with colour

After I sketch Pakkrong Tarad, I tried to use colour in many styles.

Flower market in Bangkok

I started to sketch more and here is an interesting place in Bangkok. It is a big flower market called Pakkrong Tarad. Bangkok Flower Market (Pak Klong Talad) is the biggest wholesale and retail fresh flower market in Bangkok. The market has all kinds of popular flowers and flora-related items, including roses, forget me nots, orchids, lilies and more. Most of them are sold in packs of 50 or 100, and prices are amazingly cheap. Part of the Old City, Bangkok Flower market is located on Chak Phet Road near Saphan Phut or the Memorial Bridge. Shops and vendors are housed inside two to three-storey shop-houses on both sides of the main road. The market lies just south of Wat Pho (Temple of the Reclining Buddha) and has access to a river pier, so it makes for a great one-day trip when combined with other historical attractions in the Old City. http://www.bangkok.com/shopping-market/pak-klong-market.htm

Here is my sketch of Pakkrong Talad, I tried to draw everything that I think when my audience go to the flower market they can see it along the road.