Schah's Professional Experience

I have worked for two different clients throughout this work placement experience practice. Both of these clients are not based in Malaysia (one of them is in Singapore and the other one in Germany) These companies were looking for freelancers to outsource their design jobs. My roles were to design and come up with a solution for their assigned tasks. As for the first client, the Electronic Arts GmbH, my role was to edit, retouch and prepare raw images and photos for their FIFA video-game's in-game graphic data. I found this job online at EA's account on twitter. My skills, the industry knowledge I had from my past experience and the passion I have for gaming (Williams, 2008) have helped me to pass the job application test and get the job. I was working for them as a graphic designer and photo editor within their Data and Graphics team which has over 30 team members. As for the second client, I was in charge of designing and rebranding their company's identity. I got t...

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...

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...