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Work Placement [Week 2 to 5] - Brand Identity Design

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Week 2 As a freelance designer I have recevied a request from a hearing aid manufacturer in Singapore for rebraning and identity design. The company is called "My Ear" is producing hearing aid devices and selling their products in Singapore and New Zealand. Their target audience is people with hearing problems - mostly age range of 55+, but they want their logo to be simple and modern. Color Theme The color theme I chose for this brand is in a range of orange and yellowish. The reason for choosing such a color swatch is to represent enthusiasm, happines, success and encouragement - especially for old people. Ideas The idea for designing a logo for this brand is to make the logo representing the nature of their products which is hearinf aid and making your ear (hearing ability) stronger. To emphsize this concept, the logo should visualize the ear and the funtionality of the brand. So, the symbols of ear and waves should be used in the logo mark. Sk

CV and Cover Letter

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To identify my strengths and weaknesses in order to plan my professional development, I have done a self analysis in the week 1 and spotted some of my strengths and weaknesses by doing a Big 5 and a 16 personalities test. Additionally, I have listed down my strenghts and weaknesses based on my personal knowledge and my past experience. Here are my weaknesses I have spotted based on the facts above. Being Impatient Being Lazy Being Slow Overthinking Looking for shortcuts rather than finding a proper way Documentation Writing and research Lack of skills in some areas such as drawing, animation (motion graphic) and 3d modelling and design Test anxiety As for my strengths, I have listed down the following points which are mostly based on my self knowledge and my past expeirence. UX design / web design Coding skills (HTML5/CSS, JS and PHP) Looking for shortcuts Playing games Time management Passion for learning Always looking for

Work Placement [Week 1] - Graphic Design for EA FIFA Game

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FIFA franchise game, developed by Electronic Art (EA) sis the most famous football video-game in the market. EA offers some jobs as part-time / freelance for developing the FIFA game. One of these freelance jobs are graphic design jobs for preparing the images and graphics for in-game contents. This job is usually offered on their microsite called EA Talent Scout. By applying the job you will need to pass a test and get qualified for the job which is done online. The test will assign you some graphic design and image editing tasks. After applying and passing the test I got qualified for the job and received the contract to sign. Then the first batch of the job was arrived for graphic editing. The first batch contains 60 pictures of football players. I need to crop out images, edit the photo quality, prepare them for in-game 3d object faces and card items. below is the outcome example: Challenges Photo editing and graphic design preparation for a game like

Weekly Journal Blog

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Week 1 [29 July 2020] RKL Digital-Media Professional Experience first class session on Wednesday, 29th July 2020. This class will help students to gain experience professionally during their studying in order to find their career path, handle freelance projects and be able to start their own business in future. As the first step, we as students need to know our personality and be able to spot and list down our weaknesses and strengths. I did a Big 5 and (Truity 2020) a 16 personalities test (16 Personalities) online and here are the results: Big 5 Test 16 Personalities Test Weaknesses: As for my weaknesses and my strenghts I have done a quick study and reading on how to spot your weaknesses and managed to spot some of mine: Being Lazy Being Slow Overthinking Looking for shortcuts rather than finding a proper way Doing less documentation No good drawing skills Weakness in animation Weakness in 3D modelling and design Test anxiety Sterngths UX desig