Verse 22. Courage, Growth and You
It takes an incredible amount of Courage to Be who YOU are, and what you want to achieve.
Design, Art direction, Post By Philip Abang
Tag: Creativity
Limits
Verse 20. Limits
“One finds limits by pushing them.” Herbert Simon
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Creativity 2
Design. Creativity 2
Creativity is the ability to see things others don’t see; see things from a different perspective. I am paraphrasing from Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi‘s thought on creativity.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is renown for the concept of Flow, and the study in the aspects of happiness and creativity.
Creativity comes through the different disciplinary ways of seeing things.
My faulty scanned piece of work has served as an abstract design piece to allow the viewer to associate different meanings to the image.
Design, Creative/Art direction, Post By Philip Abang
Learning
Verse 19. Learning
“Knowledge is power and learning is super power” _ Jim Kwik
I worked previously on a project themed on ‘Learning’. It is common sense that knowledge is power, but knowledge is acquired via learning and discovery.
As a graphic designer, one constantly seeks knowledge in order to solve problems and to bring ideas to life. Designers are visual detectives and visual communicators. When creating work or responding to a clients brief, research is key and in the process more is learned.
The counter or negative space in the letter ‘W’ from the word ‘POWER’ are two inward pointing arrows symbolizing ‘knowledge’ and ‘super power’ you acquire or gain when you learn or discover new things. Take away the ‘P’ and ‘R’ from the word ‘POWER’ and you are left with the word ‘OWE’.
Learning is what you OWE yourself.
Keep learning.
Learning is never too much, rather, it is insufficient.
Design, Creative/Art direction, Post By Philip Abang
Be Yourself Pt 2
Be yourself
Storybook
Verse 18. Storybook
Life is like a storybook; we go from one chapter to another flicking through one page and the next. Occasionally, we go back a few pages.
Some chapters are incredibly captivating, some are filled with tales of good tidings, smiles and laughter; some are a reflection of a horror movie while some are like a psychological thriller. Some are just too good to be true; fairy tales of a never ending story, and some are er… a head scratch!
Whatever the story, there are parallels to be drawn. Positive and negative are relatives. Making a summation on all chapters and turning it to a bestseller is an ultimate achievement.
Let’s make our stories bestsellers!
Design, Creative/Art direction, Post By Philip Abang
Diversity =
Dear ZedTears. Diversity = [What it means to me]
I was asked what diversity meant to me, so I thought I’d put this 0.17 second clip together.
Diversity to me is about embrace, the embrace of different race, ethnic backgrounds, gender or culture.
I have represented this by putting together different coloured pencils as a visual representation of different backgrounds from race, gender, culture or ethnicity, and certain keywords that reflect diversity from varied context.
I was thought to flip the word ‘Me’ to ‘We’ in design practice as collaboration, communication, working together as a team takes us farther than in isolation. Similar can be applied to diversity and other areas of life.
Diversity = Embrace. Diversity = We.
Design, Art direction, Post By Philip Abang Song credit: Keith Kenniff - Receives
TORA
Design. Tora
Poster design for a fictional documentary featuring the life of ‘Tora’ the Siberian tiger. This self initiated project is inspired by Tigers in Crisis: Promoting the Plight of Endangered Tigers and the Efforts to Save Them.
Design Process_
Initial design started as a sketch from an image.
Second stage_ Screenprint
Final poster designed in InDesign.
Design, Art direction, Post By Philip Abang Mock up credit: GraphicBurger
Less is MORE
Design. Less is MORE
Simples!!
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