Selamat Tahun Baru 2015

Assalamualaikum


Kepada semua penduduk 360 se-Malaysia amnya, saya (Syam "Shinchan" Chumil) ingin mengucapkan Selamat Menyambut Maulidur Rasullullah S.A.W dan Selamat Menyambut Tahun Baru 2016. Kepada yang mengenali diri saya; saya bersyukur akan kehadrat illahi dengan kurnianNya maka hubungan kita semoga dapat di kukuhkan dengan ukhwah dan agar sentiasa kekal abadi selamanya In Shaa Allah. Amin Ya Rabbal Alamin.

Mohon kepada pembaca di luar sana yang mungkin bukan penduduk Kampung 360, kami turut berterima kasih kepada anda kerana anda menyokong kami selama ini dan tanpa anda semua kami tidak dapat meneruskan perjuangan selama ini. Terima kasih.

Bagi penduduk Kampung 360, di harap pada tahun hadapan 2016 semoga kita dapat memeriahkan lagi kampung 360 ini dengan lebih banyak aktiviti mahupun makan-makan (i know right!). Jadi untuk tidak membuang masa dengan ini saya mengakhiri ucapan saya wabilahitaufikwalhidayah assalamualaikum.

Adobe Illustrator tutorial

Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Create repeating patterns for skate deck art

Intro

Skate decks are a mini art canvas on wheels – and some of the hottest designers around have honed their talents in pursuit of the status of design legend in the half-pipe circuit. Yet creating deck art is more than recreating yet another urban art scene and slapping it onto a strip of maple. This speedy canvas should be home to more imaginative renderings,.

This masterclass shows you how to use repeating, tiled patterns based on vector workings of real-world objects. By taking the everyday, such as vegetables and kitchen utensils in this case, and reworking them as stylized vector art, you can add a real twist and create some thought-provoking art.

After designing the objects, next comes the part that, while requiring patience, is like working with a digital jigsaw puzzle. Thanks to some clever tiling techniques and tricks, you be able to turn a few vector objects into a multi-layered, highly complex design that will have some people scratching their heads.

Some advice – stick to bright, contrasting colour palettes for maximum impact, and ensure that objects are a mix of short and long – adding pace to the composition.

Once done, head to your nearest skate emporium and prepare to dazzle with your astounding deck.

MOCAfest Masterclass Series, Sarawak

OVERVIEW

The program is designed to teach and instill the ability to tell a story through pictures. The best way to learn is from people who have mastered their craft. Peter Sanders is an internationally acclaimed photographer renowned for his documentation of the Islamic World. We want to create such an environment in different places in the world where everyone, from the beginner to the expert, may benefit from Peter Sanders’s vast knowledge and experience of photography and storytelling. The programs consist of four master classes, which form the core of the program, covering various topics. Sidi Peter shares his experiences and stories and then demonstrates. This is followed by opportunities for each participant to shoot pictures at various locations in the area.



SPEAKERS

Peter Sanders is an internationally award winning photographer who began his career in the 1960s as one of London’s leading photographers of rock musicians, photographing Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, The Who and many more.

In 1971 Peter travelled on a spiritual quest to India, afterwards to Morocco, then to the Holy Cities of Makkah and Madinah.  From his ongoing travels, he has built up a huge photographic archive of over a quarter of a million photographs of the Islamic World, its people, architecture and cultures. His work is shown internationally in exhibitions, presentations and books. Recently, Peter created the ‘art of seeing’ photographic workshops to encourage young people into the creative arts.

His empathy with both spiritual masters and ordinary people has opened many doors and allowed him to photograph many ofwhom have never been photographed before.

Peter continues to travel worldwide on a number of commissions for a variety of international clients.

For More information, please visit:

http://petersanders.com/

http://artofseeing.org/

REGISTRATION

GUIDELINES:

- Registration Fee: RM1060 per participant.
- Registration fee includes:

• Program fee
• Accommodation based on shared rooms (6D5N) Arrival to Kuching: Check-in: 31 Aug, Check-out: 5 Nov. 2015
• Daily meals
• Ground transportation.

- All participants coming from outside of Kuching must cover their own flight/ transport to  Kuching, Sarawak.

Freebies Of The Month mostly year 2014 the month of Disember [sorry for long title]

When mass printing dominated the mid-twentieth century, the number of colors in an image was reduced by replacing gradients with dots. The technique was seized upon by pop artists, like Lichtenstein and Warhol, to such an extent that it’s entered our visual language.

However, despite it being one of the simplest ways to evoke retro printing, it’s not that easy a technique to produce in Photoshop.

Happily designer Matt Borchert has fixed the problem for us by providing Halftone Automater, a great set of Photoshop actions, free to download for WebdesignerDepot readers.

There are 12 distinct actions: dots, diagonal lines, and horizontal lines; each divided into small, medium, large, huge and gigantic sizes.

Zodiaclaw by Zaher Almajed

Today's typeface of choice, Zodiaclaw, was created by art director Zaher Almajed. Inspired by lions claws, Almajed designed the font for 'those who want to be different'.

Almajed comments on Behance: "With some old classic European touches, Zodiaclaw is a humanist typeface that's based on traditional calligraphic forms, but with some new features in its shapes and strokes that provide a more open, elegant look."

Zodiaclaw is available to download for free over on Behance.

Words: Kerrie Hughes

Kerrie Hughes is content manager at Creative Bloq.

Typeface Memory Game

Typeface Memory Game


Brazilian studio PS2 designed a typeface memory game called "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog," which offers 25 variations of the letter "a." Great practice for children and adults alike, the game is one of those rare products that succeeds in a trifecta of aesthetics, education and entertainment.

After playing the game, which asks players to match corresponding letterforms, players will increasingly recognize the subtle differences between the letters. Some of the letter types included in the game: Akzidenz Grotesk, Baskerville, Centaur, Garamond, Helvetica, Rockwell, Times New Roman, and Univers. A classy bunch, to be sure.

It is currently being printed and distributed by BIS Publishers and can be yours for just € 19,90 ($27.00 US) Buy it now from BIS or Amazon.

Designing book covers ( kopipesediseng )

A quick bit of book cover inspiration.

The advantage of designing covers for a series/collection of books is that you can approach it like so…

Designed by New-York based Cardon Webb for Oliver Sacks. Via Design Milk.

Like so…

Designed by Angus Hyland of Pentagram for a series of Laurence King books.

So, and like so…

Designed by London-based YES Studio for Penguin.

In addition, here’s an excellent cover design resource: The Book Cover Archive, “for the appreciation and categorization of excellence in book cover design,” edited and maintained by Ben Pieratt of General Projects and Eric Jacobsen of Whisky Van Gogh Go.

More than 1,300 covers can be searched by designer, title, author, publisher, publication date, art director, photographer, illustrator, typeface, and genre.

Source : http://www.davidairey.com/designing-book-covers/

Dave Hill (photographer that makes photos awesome)

Biography

Born 1979 - Orange, CA. I grew up in Carlsbad, CA. Went to school at UCLA and studied history. Was photo editor for the Daily Bruin my senior year. Graduated 2001. Then got a job at Loyola Marymount University as the campus photographer. Then moved to Nashville in 2003 and started shooting music. Then met my wife, married her, and moved back to Los Angeles in 2008.

His Website - Dave Hill Online

Peter Sanders [ Photographer ]

Peter Sanders began his career in the mid 1960s as one of London's key photographers of rock musicians. His pictures of Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, The Rolling Stones, The Who and many others performing are classics of the genre.

In 1970, he set off for India, cameras in hand. He travelled for seven months. This trip became a spiritual odyssey that led him onto Morocco and thereafter to the Holy cities of Makkah and Madinah, where he photographed the hajj, at a time when few professional photographers had access to Islam's holiest sanctuaries.

For the last two years, Peter Sanders Photography began the immense task of scanning and thus digitalizing his vast collection of over a quarter of a million transparencies to create islamicimages.com which will be the first on-line website dedicated to the Islamic world. Once it is launched, historical and other important collections will be added. Estimated launch date  2013.

http://www.petersanders.co.uk/ (for his work / online portfolios)

Vassilis Tangoulis - an art photographer (black and white)

Vassilis Tangoulis leads a double carrier as an academic teacher-Lecturer  and a fine art photographer. He is a physicist working in the Chemistry department in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and  despite his full time carrier has also found success following his lifetime passion of photography. He has been a recipient of international award for his Black and White long exposure work.

Photography is a 4D object leaving its footprint, its “trace,” in a 2D layer. When this happens for a 3D object, it is easy for a mind to visualize its 3D morphology. In order to envision a 4D object, however, one needs the power of Fine Art photography.

Mediterranean sky

He was born in a small Greek town –Karpenisi surrounded by mountains and was really lucky to be a “village” boy. He had the opportunity to see sceneries that influenced his viewpoint and perspective and maybe unconsciously defined the absolute meanings of words like “sunset”, “snow”, and many others; all important ingredients of a landscape photographer. He left Karpenisi at the age of 11 and spent some 20 years in different towns and the last 10 years Vassilis lives in Patras, a beautiful town near the sea. Neutral density filters came into his life and a new surrealistic world has been revealed…From that moment he gives all his creativity to elaborate and explore this new world.

For him Fine Art photography is an alternative way to express a common subject so that each individual artist can reveal secret aspects about it. In order to do this, each artist experiments with light, time, and spatial coordinates– and then through one’s processing, one reveals a subject framed in a transformed world in which its dimensions can be easily described and visualized.
He always try to leave a message behind his photos. For him every photo has symbolic meanings and sometimes he leaves the symbols to speak for themselves but there are times he has to give a guidance and this is usually the title he chooses for a collection. He works with collections of photos (sets of 5 or more) and this because he always needs a concept when he takes photographs. Taking a photo is always a serious matter for him and if there is no concept or no message prefers to stay silent. After all Ansel Adams said it much better : “When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”