Friday, May 19, 2006

NDP Lamppost Design...

Happy Birthday To U,
Happy Birthday To U,
Happy Birthday To SINGAPORE,
Happy Birthday To U...

Veri soon, we will be singing tis song to ur belover country... However, i must say, NDP these 3 initials, did indeed make mi feel headache now... YES, i mean now... Not juz a normal headache, but a fatal one... Coz the drawing near of NDP date means tat its time for my company to submit NDP lamppost banner proposal to tender, which means my department need to come up wif NDP Banner designs, to propose to tenders(Still dunno these tenders belong to which zone district yet)...

Why do i say, coming out the design for NDP banners is a fatal headache to mi...??? Coz i had bad experiences doing these designing for last year NDP... Last yr, my department still dun hve the luxury of hving a single iMac G5 work-station yet, so wat we r using r all iMac G4 PowerStation... The NDP tender proposal tat we got, is from tis "???" zone, and they r veri hard-to-entertain clients... Making changes, n changes, n changes... I strongly dislike their concept, of squeezing so many faces into the size of one lamppost banner... Imagine, if u need to insert 20-30 overs of faces into one lamppost banner, yikes, the design simply look disgust to mi... Yet the client wan such design... I couldn't help wondering why r they asking for such "dirty" design look...??? I still remember the design of the NDP lamppost banner, tat were hanging at my neighbour last year... The most, they onli hve 4 faces in the whole banner, and their design, looks so neat n clean to mi...

I remember for last year, all the NDP design tat we did, r all done in Photoshop file... To do a huge digital print, the resolution of ur artwork muz be high, so tat the quality of ur print will look good... However, increasing the resolution of ur artwork, meaning it will take longer time to open file, longer time to save file n the longer refresh-time for refreshing the screen, after every single chances u made to the artwork... I can hve file tat is as big as 1GB size... Imagine trying to open/save the file using iMac G4, is such a nightmare to mi tat i will not forget... Tat is y, i decide to opt a different way to create my NDP design...

Of coz there r tricks to do things, tat u wan ur printing quality to be extreme good, yet u oso wan to reduce file size... For tis, i shall not be discussing here... At least, i noe, for tis year tender proposal... I did a better job from myself... And i am veri satisfied wif it... I do reali hope tat ur client will select my design...

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NDP Tender Proposal Design

The logo tat u see here, belongs to last year 2005, 40th NDP logo... The NDP logo for tis year, is not yet offical release to the public... Tat y i use last year logo as a logo substitute, to show the client, how big n where the logo should be at...!!!

The concept of my design is veri simple... The curve tat u see at the center, stretching n ending at the top part of the banner, shows the inclining success of we singaporeans r holding onto... The "handsome/pretty" faces tat u see den, r the MP's faces of the zones tat we r proposing...

The background, shall onli consist of one n single picture onli... Which wat i propose, muz be the picture of a distintive element, which can onli be found in tat zone... For example an enormous dragon-structure waterfall (Esp unusual elements...) By placing such pictures, the residents living in tat zone, upon looking at the lamppost banner, will be able to recognize tat element instantly, and will hve the feeling tat, the lamppost banner is indeed belonging to their zone onli...

The background, secondly can oso be pictures tat representing Singapore significantly... Like orchid flowers, or Merlion statues... etc...

Lastly, u can see a crowd of silhouette plp, juz ontop of the center curve... Tat represent the residents living in tat zone, r oso celebrating for the arrival of the Singapore Birthday...








Tis is my design for a huge billboard... However, i dun like tis design veri much... The original design, tat i hve in mind... Dunno y, yesterday got no inspirations/mood to create my desired design... Haiz...

To everyone, if u happen to hve any suggest or interesting layout which u can inspire mi... Pls let mi noe... Thx!
(I still got one job which i need to submit tender design next Monday... Sianz... Look like i need to drop by to library tis weekend to look for materials liao...)

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