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.

Tutorial

Today I have a tutorial again and my supervisor needs me to do more research about mobile applications and show the storyboard at my next tutorial.

Design app

After the tutorial last week, I have explored some mobile applications such as Instagram, Facebook, Tripadvisor and so on. I use the information and knowledge that I got from all of the mobile applications to inspire and develop my project. I found that when people go travelling, they want to share their experiences with others as you can see from social media Instagram and Facebook. People love to share their pictures.

Here is my design for a mobile application.

Colour for content

Here is the content of Bangkok attractions.

Colour palettes

Here are the colours that I will use in my project. I use colours because it can effect my audience and the green is the colour of Bangkok.

The meaning of colour

Colours
Another important thing of design is colours. We need to be conscious of what meaning we are conveying when we choose to use one colour over another. It’s important to understand who your target audience is and how your audience responds to colour. (allan-zhang)

My target audience is young people between 18-28 years old so the mood & tone of my project is colourful, vivid and free.

INSTAGRAM

 

 

What Is Instagram?

If you're involved on social networks like Facebook or Twitter, you may have come across a photo or two that looks like it had a very elegant vintage filter applied to it. In fact, you may have come across more than just one or two considering the fact that Instagram is one of the most popular mobile photo apps to download.
If you own an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, Instagram could be a great tool to help uncover your inner photography skills.

Instagram as a Social Network
On Instagram, you can follow other users' photo streams as they post them and you can be followed back by those users (or other users) as well. Using the "Profile" icon located on the lower menu of the Instagram screen, you can search for friends by name or find friends that are already connected to you on other social networks like Facebook or Twitter.
When you decide to follow a user, that user's Instagram photos will appear in your feed, which can be found under the "Feed" icon on the lower menu. You can press "Like" on any photo to let someone know that you admire their photography, or you can leave a comment.
When you take photos using the Instagram app, they will always appear in the feeds of the users who are following you. You can browse through the "Explore" tab to find new users to follow and creative photos to look at.

Taking Photos and Applying Photo Filters
After downloading the app from the App Store and creating an account, you can open the app up and snap a picture through your camera, using either the back or front camera. There is a menu at the bottom of the screen, and you can snap a photo by pressing the camera icon in the middle of the menu, labeled "Share."

http://webtrends.about.com/od/prof4/a/What-Is-Instagram-Wiki.htm

 

Tutorial

Today I had a tutorial again and we discussed my project. I showed my postcards and illustrate of my project. In the end of tutorial, we think the postcard size maybe bigger than this and the colour could be brighter. One more thing, I should think about the mobile application as well. Here are some of my work that shown today. :)

Postcard size

Today I discussed with my friends about the size of my postcard book. In the market, you can obviously see that the size of the postcards, are A6 or 4 x 6".

CR: happygaraje.com

 

Postcard book

Here are the postcard books in the market. There are so cute and convenient to keep. 

Talingchan Floating Market with colour added

Today I added colour. I used bright colours to be attractive to young people

SKETCH OF TALINGCHAN FLOATING MARKET

Here is my sketch of Talingchan floating market. The first attempt was like a pattern and another one I tried to compose it in different scale. Everything that I drew is provided in the market.

Talingchan Floating Market

This market is located on the canal Khlong Chak Phra in Bangkok in front of the district office. It is open only on weekends from about 8:30 to 16:00. Orchard produce such as fruits, and vegetables, as well as fish are sold from boats. There is a live traditional Thai music performance from 11:00 to 14:00. The idea for the floating market here was initiated by Chamlong Srimuang in 1987 to honor King Bhumibol's 60th birthday. This is a new attraction since floating markets, an old way of life of the Thai people, had vanished entirely from Bangkok for quite a long time.

The Taling Chan Floating Market takes place at the weekends in front of Taling Chan District Office. Only recently discovered by tourists, the market is entirely authentic and frequented by locals. Fruit, vegetables, flowers, plants and trinkets are on offer, and a market a boat trip along the canal will reveal a host of small gardens and villages that are worth seeing.

 

TIMETABLE

Here is my timetable for my project between June and August 2013.