Facebook Cover Photo For CNY 2015

Chinese New Year is just few days away, just wanna share some screenshot and compilation of all the fan page in facebook that promote this auspicious festive year.

Here's some screenshot for now, will continuos add on:

Responsive Website Update Work In Progress

It's tough when you want to do something new, especially something you need to learn first before you can create. Responsive website is getting more and more adapted, and popular trend for website.
Thats why I thinking of updating my ahmingyaa.com . But before i can really launch it. It still need a lot of refining and retouching on the layout and migrate all the contents last time.

Here some sneak preview of my work in progress = )

How Much Should A Creative Design Worth

Quite Often I got lot of enquiry asking for design job. But usually before client haven start let me know the details and job requirement. They just want to know the price.

This is quite hard to determine, because if not everyone or 95% of any designer can give you an accurate cost of a design job price. Experience designer can only give you a correct estimation base on the time and effort they can do in a day. then times back the amount of days need to spend on doing each job or project. That is why we say time is money.

So before you have any design work in your mind or need some graphic design work. but sure to gather as much info you have.

A Chinese New Year Contest

This Idea of playing this game is to link all 4 different brands of Facebook fan page, to play this contest. How to play this ?

We come up a same design photo and contest look and feel. Each of the Facebook fan page will select a finalist that has the best wishes as comment. After that, we will gather them & use their (wishes) to collects the most likes from all their friends or fans.

 The finalist who get the most likes will take away all the prize below for this Chinese New Year. Don't hesitate, just type in any auspicious wishes you can think of and get our attention.

We also create a special template for you to make it more interesting. You can change your profile picture to any horse picture we provide, so after you commented below the picture. You can see a lot of horse racing at your profile picture box. Its like a horse racing, whoever gets to the finish line~ get the prize =).

HOW TO PARTICIPATE?

1.) Post an auspicious comment below this photo.

2.) 1 Lucky finalist will be notified from each Facebook page below to compete at the final stage.

3.) Winner among finalists will stand a chance to win our Grand prize total worth of RM2,888.

Start posting now!

( Grand Prize include: All Original Burberry pale blue long sleeve shirt ( male ), Longchamp Le Pliage Short handle Handbag , Coach Wristlet & High quality imported fish net office chair )

***** Game Tips 1 *****

* Be Active & Attract us with your best Chinese New Year wish in our comment box !

* Increase your chances of winning by participating on other sponsor Facebook page below:
A) Aidvertising Plus B) LuxOnU C) Luxurious Craving D)Kinsha Ideal

Miss Petite SEA 2013 event

After been involve designing for Miss Petite SEA 2013 events, So glad I have some opportunity to enjoy the night show and take photo with the winners. Cheers to the winners again ~ =)

A SSSssspectacular year a head

Year 2013

Starting out another Chinese New Year , with this wonderful chalkboard sketch... even since there is a board around the corner, part of my routine to have some sketch when there's a spark of inspiration in my mind... After some compilation of the 2 years stay in current working environment. I was surprises that there are a few pieces of chalk art in my photo album.

Early Xmas

End of the world is here, So before that, just develop a special AR wishes for everyone. Visit my facebook page for hidden secret message from my cover page!

But before you proceed to find out more, there is actually a catch for it! follow the steps below

1. You will need to download "AURASMA" app from any apps store on your mobile device
2. Once you have the app, then you need to register a free account.
3. Search for "ahmingyaa" Aura's then follow me.
4. after all the step above, then you can shine your mobile camera to this picture
5. Merry Xmas =)

The Design Work Flow

*A collaboration work with Szuey

How does every project started for a graphic designer? I'm sure for those that is not in this industry will probably don't know and doesn't realize how a design project start. below is a short description work flow for the above design project.

The Design Work Flow: Fun新Fun心~喜迎春

The first perception after we are on with this project, is to create a look and feel for this CD album design to its targeted market group.At first we try to combine photo by explore various styles, just to make sure we are on the right path before we start with any design rationale.

*Design proposal screen shot.

With various of style been consider, we know that which one our design should focus on and just to have a solid definition, a mood board is created to showcase what we target to archive for the design outcome. This is for both client and us to have a clear vision on what we are to strategize with a design style.

*Design proposal screen shot.

We've come out with some design directions for clients to have a clear decision of which concept are to be finalize or to further improvise from the design proposed.

Thats how the above concept (A prosperity moment of outdoor scene, with cute & doodles’ element & graphical scene environment. Using colourful & simple graphic to bring out the festive yet modern design & Chinese New year Moment. ) was agreeable by everyone and to proceed on to adapting to all the necessary promotional material, such as cd album, poster & banner...

*Poster Design

After the initial concept is define, the next attempt is to add more design enhancement to the packaging structure base on the cost and budget allocate for the project production cost.

*Design proposal screen shot. (Suggested design for packaging structure)

FB Fan Page gets "Timeline"d

Finally I decide to publish the new timeline page... I've been struggling that I should keep the old fan page style or not~ because once get published, theres no way back to old design anymore. Personally I quite like the old style because it look more cluster, but still have to keep update on new stuff that you cannot walk away from....

Fun Fun Magic House

After some time.... finally to review an interesting packaging & education project done previously, the illustration are use as a teaching method for children.

Latest Update for Facebook Fan Page

A cute and attractive welcome page for non fans & fans. Combining HTML & jQuery, with a bit of css 3. A simple animation can be made. Now for non flash user, this animation can be view in any platform. Do like my page = )

P/S: if you ever wonder how it's made, there is a little secret hidden in every page for its tutorial. And.... the secret is.... " you can always view source page, inside the HTML coding, I had attached some notes on how the coding works~ Do check it" out.

Nike Night Run concept art!

Just uploaded a NEW concept art for Nike shoe apparel, click on my works link to check it out = )

Augmented Reality Profile

finally on this special date, the website had launch, here a quick preview of one of the interesting section embed into the new site!

Yes~ Augemented Reality profile, although after some time, this ideas had present in you tube since 2009, developed & enhance by saqoosha & others more.because of the name of augementad reality misleading the original idea of what this programing actually do..

An open source code, so everyone had toy with the idea if you search in you tube. it can be a simple way to using this ideas to show your personal details & also develop into a complicated programing to do a lot of things. True... i find this interesting to show your info rather than using a pixelated QR code =)

Because of the open source rules , so I also need to accept the term & reveal the source code i use to do this programing. I'm a designer & not a programing developer, so there are not rules to follow.. I only write the code to archive the results I wanted.

so be ready for this tutorial & the open source codes for the below video, available in my blog.

Finally Its here!

Finally, after 2 years . Its time to renew my website~ I have set this special date for the launching online. There are lot of interesting stuff inside.

Sneak Preview! New Site is coming

A special announcement, am working on my new website.... hope is will be on soon.

Where Photo + Retouching are applied

when talk about photography~ I find that there are alot of photographer now using facebook as one of their platform to showcase their portfolio, I'm sure when you just search photography and there are hundreds of search results, and all of them are simply amazing. that why I not sure this will have any impact to any of help to my facebook fans pages..

The one that I'm gonna to showcase is some photography skill you can refer as an additional info to you that like photography.Below are a photo I took and the wonders of it is, with some cropping and retouching to the photo~ it simply make a normal picture to look nicer and more amaze.

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for more samples of photo are coming soon, you can refer to my fan pages

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My Photography Hours ™

During this time waiting for my next career journey to start, I've been trying out some of my photography session, meaning going out everywhere to take some photo~ maybe is more better to learn some of the technique & skill to take some good photography. Its also a good way to know about camera & composition. Although I still feel kinda struggling using my camera kit lens to take photo. The lens just cant give me the sharpness & aperture I wanted.

I post some photo that I've been shooting this days, its just a few photo left after selected from bunch that rejected by myself. Even I think that still not that good if compare to others. But just have to keep on learning. Hope that will improve my skill & buying a better lens in the future =)

for more photo you can visit my Facebook link, Just click on the thumbnail picture below:

Condensed Folio 2010 (Download)

After some time doing commercial Graphic Design & Illustration, I compile some of my recent work that been published in the Malaysia for Clients like, Chipsmore, Tiger Biscuits, Dulux, Unilever Sunsilk, Reckitt Benkiser, Dumex. Most of the work feature are for the brand's Marketing Campaign, Retailer Promotions, Advertisement & Collateral , Logoss & Mascot. For more bigger preview picture you can visit my fan pages.

Due to some copyright restriction, I may not publish the full set of work online. therefore please click the below text for downloading the pdf

Please click here to go to download page !

Szuey 's Handmade Doodles

Nice piece of handmade craft, the colour of the works are all caring pastel colour scheme. I think she is really special with all the skills set she had, Could be a Graphic Designer, Bakery , Handcraft Artist.

Some of the photo are all linked withfacebook, so here are some of the works I tag here:

After Facebook, whats NEXT ?

" My inspiration for this piece of visual is to present my thoughts after Facebook, what will be the next popular tools for social media that you cant ignore advertisement ? "