April 30, 2009

Textile Pattern Design


This textile pattern is designed in order to represent my personal ethic background, Korea. Overall, I wanted to emphasize Korean traditional art which consists of continuous repetition of arrangement with delineation. All the elements in this pattern contain a specific meaning. For example, the circle in the middle of the textile is from the Korean flag, symbolizing the tradition and history of Korea. In this design, I can observe the texture of the blue part. However, the texture of red part does not look as tough as I intended to.

In order to create this design, I worked on Auto Cad to outline the design. While I was working on Auto Cad, I did not expect to create curve lines for the flower design however, with many trials with tools (polyline, trim) I eventually created the outline of the flower. Then, I imported it into Photoshop (c3) for color rendering and added a texture into the design.

This design is aesthetically pleasing; however, the vivid colors of the pattern become a distraction of the design of the pattern. It shows that I need to study more about color because for my future design projects, I want to use bold colors yet, aesthetically pleasing for clients.

Sketch on Black Film Paper



I was wandering around my room thinking what should I draw for this assignment, but nothing looked appealing to me. For refreshment, I washed my face in the restroom and all of sudden; I decided to draw the doorknob of the toilet. Weird yet, interesting. Isn’t it? I started to draw the doorknob lightly with graphite on the black film paper, then applied color pencil focusing on texture. The door knob was in silver due to its material but, I added more color to add visual interest in the drawing. Only thing I would change here would be to erase some parts of the door knob, adding the reflection of light. This drawing contains enough detail, yet with more delineation on the doorknob, would make this drawing astonishing!



Courtyard Design in Color

Plan view of a courtyard

Park Design


This is a plan view of a park in black and white.
This park contains two entrances, a water feature and a secret garden.

Courtyard Design


This is courtyard design done in one point perspective in black and white.

April 29, 2009

Business Card








2009 Resume

Resune of Moah S.


Since I am an interior design undergraduate student in WSU, my resume heavily focuses on appearance. I added the personal logo on the top of the page to make the resume more appealing and show my graphic skills. The black outline is added in each page to provide an emphasis on the white area that contains the information. I edited my phrase ‘the key to your house’ to ‘the key for your firm’ to show one of my characteristics; playful and sociable. The images of the lock and the key are added in the background to make a connection with the logo in the resume.

The layout of the resume is interesting, yet, it is not fully pleasing to some viewers because of the huge contrast between the red and black. I may change the color black to blue, which will have less contrast of color and identification of my ethic background by utilizing the color of Korea’s national flag; red and blue.

Most people usually create their resume by using Photoshop. But, it is a privilege to use Adobe InDesign because it provides more options for a better layout of the resume, such as Pages. Due to tons of idea sketches, I do not have a problem with designing the layout. However, I need to understand the color in order to make the design that will please most of people.