"The Last Lecture" - Dr. Randy Pausch

This lecture is meaningful to many people worldwide.
To who studied and are studying Introduction to Programming at RMIT, it is related somehow.

Now, you may wonder:

What is "The Last Lecture"? The Last Lecture is the name of a book about "importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (because 'time is all you have... and you may find one day that you have less than you think')" - from the book - written by Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow. It titled The Last Lecture because it was inspired from the lecture of Randy Pausch named "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), on 18 September 2007. Randy Pausch delivered the lecture after being told about his terminal pancreas cancer which took him away from his family on 25 July 2008 and he didn't knows it is his last lecture at that moment.

Who is Dr. Randy Pausch? Randy Pausch (October 23, 1960 – July 25, 2008) is a Professor of Computer Science, Human Computer Interaction and Design at Carnegie Mellon University. He received many award of teaching and researching. He worked for Adobe, Google, Electronic Arts and Walt Disney Imagineering. He was a pioner of a project to help young people to learn programming via storytelling and interactive game-playing.

Why does this information somehow relate to IP's students? As I mentioned above, Randy Pausch's project help young people to learn programming via storytelling and interactive game-playing. If I had known about him and had watched The Last Lecture before the last semester, my IP result would have been much better. Because I feel being encouraged after watching it. Yes, Randy Pausch is the father of ALICE PROGRAM.

Hope that you will spend time watching this because it's pretty long. However, believe me, it's worth.

Life

When you were born, smiles are always on your face. You don't have to worry about anything in life.
When you are a child. School, games, nature all become your childhood experiences.
When you are mature, you have to think about your occupation, you career, where you wish to work for, what you do to be successful and many other things.
Then, when you grow old, when you are retired, you may think about what have passed by and look forward to the rest of your life. Thinking.
And what comes will come, you may go to heaven.

Photoshop Blending Exercise

This is a photoshop blending exercise.

Although the result is different from the tutorial, I am very happy when find out how to make the light glow from the eye which I couldn't finish in class.

Use filter Ripple and Radial Blur, you can create this effect easily. The result depends on how you draw the area and how much these filters are applied.

Try it yourself.

Layout Practice

This is my practice of creating name card.

I apply the idea in the book Design Basic Index - Jim Krause to devide the space of image and text.

In the vertical layout, the upper part is smaller than the bigger one used for text information. The same to the horizontal layout. The left space contains the image is smaller than the right space. This make the text information dominant and easier to pay attention.

I like the horizontal layout because the image is tall, it can overwhelm the height of the card but still have more space for text and easier to create the harmony between text and image.

Reference:
Krause, J 2004, 'Composition', Design Basic Index, 1st edn, HOW Design Books, pp. 22-23.

Several Flash Websites

There are several flash websites that I found interesting and creative in design or layout. Because most of them are created in flash, the speed of downloading may be slow. It means that some sites you need to be patient for a masterpiece.

Checked

[1] http://www.guraphic.com



[2] http://www.mudbubble.com



[3] http://okaydave.com/



[4] http://www.allandye.com



[5] http://www.burstlabs.com



[6] http://www.rothaniko.hu



[7] http://calamityphysics.com/main.htm



[8] http://www.lesucre.com/



[9] http://www.enigmind.com/#/NEWS/



[10] http://www.ry-guy.com/



Unchecked
http://www.stephaneguillot.com/index_uk.htm
http://www.dontclick.it
http://www.hyro.com/en/Pages/Hyro.aspx
http://www.homestarrunner.com/main14.html
http://www.typeiswhereitsat.com
http://www.bsouza.com
http://www.oqoqo.com
http://www.hungrysuitcase.com

Gestalt Exercise

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Gestalt theory applied here includes:
- Closure: the text and the lines create the flowerpot.
- Proximity: all the petals of the flower get touch. Grouped petals create the flower.
- Continuance: the title make viewer read from top to bottom and then the main text.

Tools used: AI.

Milton Glaser

Graphic designer I chose for the essay: Milton Glaser.




















Three pieces of Glaser's work to analyze:

Darfur Poster
http://miltonglaserposters.com/pop/new08_darfur.html




















Design and Influence
http://miltonglaserposters.com/pop/poster32.html




















Cooperstown Chamber Music Festival 2003
http://miltonglaserposters.com/pop/poster84.html