Thursday, January 27, 2011

Do U truthly understand what is facebook?


Facebook is a social network service and website launched in February 2004 that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. As of January 2011[update], Facebook has more than 600 million active users. Users may create a personal profile, add other users as friends and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile. Additionally, users may join common interest user groups, organized by workplace, school, or college, or other characteristics. The name of the service stems from the colloquial name for the book given to students at the start of the academic year by university administrations in the US with the intention of helping students to get to know each other better. Facebook allows anyone who declares themselves to be at least 13 years old to become a registered user of the website.

Disadvantages

Affecting Relationships
Talk about long distance relationships, Facebook would be the one answer friends, family and lovers can count on. Though conducted on a distance, the system can still connect relationships right that very moment. But because relationships are built and strengthened just because of an Internet site, it tends to become weaker and it supports less emotional and most especially physical contact. Some relationships tumble down due to facts like these.

Affecting Emotions
Because Facebook adapts a free-flowing information environment, some uses it to target on other's emotional depression. Others send out procrastination just to bring down a specific person or even bully a student in the lower years. Targeting the emotions may cause a negative attitude towards a person's social relationship, physical activity, and academic issues.

Affecting Industry
Even if the system overflows with so much advantages that one can be joyful of, there are still numbers of flaws that one can pinpoint. Internet industry is greatly affected by sites popping out to render a technical community. This is where the rivalry starts. The crowding is also becoming an issue. The program is considered as a negative diversion especially to the schooling industry, affecting students to divert their attention.

Affecting Privacy
Cyber stalking is one thing. Barging into someone's privacy is another. Come to think about it, cyber stalking and invading one's privacy goes hand in hand. A person who is engaged in cyber stalking tends to know everything about a person and uses it first hand. A lot of a user's personal information is so accessible that almost everyone, even those who know you but you don't know of, can view it.

Superficiality
There are those who would want to be recognized as someone even in the Internet society. But thanks to sites like Facebook, some are already being characterized superficially because of the user's identification of their personal favorites. It's like being one with the world and being one with the trend without forming any kind of identity that one can point out to be unique.

The important thing about having Facebook is that a person be discreet in the information that is given out. Privacy and other things stated above can be prevented if the user won't give out any kind of information that he considers private.

My Dream Car


Lamborghini is an italian automaker. The comapny was founded by manufacturing magnete Ferruccio Lamborghini in 1963. Lamborghini Reventon is a midengine sports car that debuted at the 2007 Frankfurt Motor Show. This car cost US$ 1.31 million and the most expensive Lamborghini car to date.
Has a top speed of 250 mph is equal to 117.36 h/s

The Reventón is named for a fighting bull, in line with Lamborghini tradition. The bull, raised by the Don Heriberto Rodríguez family, was best known for killing famed Mexican bullfighter Félix Guzmán in 1943. Reventón means "explosion" or "burst" in Spanish, when used as a noun. In the vernacular, it is also used to define a very large party or a night in town. In automotive terms, it means "blowout, flat tire" when used as a noun. When it was used as the name of a bull, however, it was intended to be interpreted as an adjective, a quality or property of that bull in particular. In this last sense, Reventón means "he who seems to be about to burst".


But the sad thing is the world only have 20 of them and they were all sold out before it was made.


Less is more


The picture above says it all. It's also apply on design as well. A good ads design will have less things to show and let people who sees it think more, because the more you reveal on the design, the less meaningful it will be, especially for advertisement. As designers, we all know that a minimalist design can achieve beautiful results.

Minimalist design has been described as design at its most basic, stripped of superfluous elements, colors, shapes and textures.Its purpose is to make the content stand out and be the focal point. From a visual standpoint, minimalist design is meant to be calming and to bring the mind down to the basics.

Minimalist designs should have little texture, color, shape, lines, content or type. Go too bare, though, and the design will be boring. Rather than dumping everything out, give the design appeal by making just one important feature the focal point.

Choose what that focus will be, and keep the tips below in mind as we work through our design

These are some sample of Less is More in design

Forms follows function

After some reading, i realize that a good functional product always has a good form. Like what Sullivan said:

It is the pervading law of all things organic and inorganic,
Of all things physical and metaphysical,
Of all things human and all things super-human,
Of all true manifestations of the head,
Of the heart, of the soul,
That the life is recognizable in its expression,
That form ever follows function. This is the law.

For example,
A car's form-A car's normally have low center point to keep it stable when it is moving, you didn't see a car with 10 meter tall moving, because the center point is too high and can't maintain it's own balance and the car might just "fall" while turning.

Road side ads-Usually road side ads fonts are big to let drivers to able to notice it in short time. the fonts can't be too small because a driver has around 6-10 sec to read whats on the ads.

Here are some examples:


This "pikachu" car can't say is not well function, but when the car is going through a tunnel or passing through toll, the "ear" might collide with the walls or the pole. but somehow it still looks cute for a car.



The design of this apartment
is actually a funny type one. they try to make this small apartment invert but it's still actually normal house inside.The only problem is that the design of the house will collide with the wire and it is very dangerous to the people who live inside the aparment.

Concept store

This is a Padini concept store. I believe that every knows about Padini concept store. Padini is made of not just 1 brand, it is a combination of several brans like PADINI,SEED,PADINI AUTHENTICS,PDI,VINCCI.



We also know that Padini concept store doesn't sell only shoes and clothing, they also sell accessories , for example, Vincci not just sell shoes to the customers, they also sell watches, sunglasses, PVC handbags and bead accessories.

I once work there, they let me know that Padini's concept is to achieving this goal through hard work, discipline and creative endeavour and the vision shared by everyone in Padini is to be the market leader in the retail industry.

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Analog juxtaposition





Men or women are like mortal and pestle. They can't produce anything if one of them is absent.
Happiness can be present as clock. When we are happy,somehow got the feeling that the time pass very fast. Another one is happiness is always won't last long.

Like is like a candle. Ever burning yet so easy to snuff out, by accident, by purpose.

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Scary Cat


This is my scary cat, you may find it cute but it's actually very scary, why i say that? The cat uses it's cuteness to deceive people that it is harmless so people dare to approach it, once u get closer, it will attack.