Packaging failures and Pastels!

23 September, I went to hunt for packaging that are a failure. This meant that there is something not right about the way it is being packaged. It is quite hard to find these mistakes in packaging in Singapore but I have managed to find some products that I think could be improved.

 

This chocolate bar which I saw in a mini mart caught my attention. The packaging was too overwhelming and the image is everywhere in the packaging. There is totally no focus and the design is not pleasing to the eye. In my personal opinion this packaging can be improved by having lesser image and a change in the composition into something much simpler. 

Next, I saw this apple juice that was dented. The packaging of the design is alright however, it is the first thing that everyone can see. The seller should not display the apple juice to be sell. It should be discarded no one would want to buy a box of dented apple juice am I right?

This is a microwave egg cooker which packaging isn't proper. Firstly the material of the plastic was too flimsy and it looked really bad in terms of quality. There was no interesting design on the packaging that will capture a buyer's attention. I feel that the packaging could be improve by using a more interesting choice of colour and a better quality of the packaging itself.   

This particular fruit isn't in a package. I took a picture of these pomegranate because they were not in the best condition. As you can see, the pomegranates have scratches and they are not fresh anymore. They should restock those fruits and throw away these ones which look spoiled.  

This is an artwork which I did in NIE whereby we use pastels to create an abstract art piece. The challenge was that our skin could not come in contact with pastel when creating the artwork. I found a technique which I really like which was to shave the pastel and transfer it to the paper to create a dusty effect. I even tried spraying the artwork with water so that the powdery soft pastels becomes more pigmented and thus able to stain the paper more effectively. Doesn't the first abstract pastel work looks like a cloud?

Creating an abstract art work using soft pastels for the first time I think I did a pretty alright job haha!

Faces in everyday object

During Creative thinking we were asked to find faces in daily objects around the school. I managed to find some which I think is quite interesting.Take a look!

As I went out of the class to look for faces in objects I found one on the board which was a timetable. It may not be obvious for everyone but there is a face in the slots of scheduled classes.

Next we went out to the corridor and I see a smiley face on a pole. The two metal sandwiched on the pole looks like eyes to me and the curved metal at the bottom of the pole seems like smile.

Here, we have an emotionless face on a toilet bowl.The lid on the toilet has two dots and a straight line at the bottom which resembles a person with no emotion.

In the lift on the way down, I spot a cheeky face on the buttons of the elevator. The two button at the most bottom represents the eyes of a person and there was a tiny detail just below which is curved like a tongue. This was indeed amusing to me so of course I took a picture.

The telephone holder next to the counter that is made of wood captured my attention. There are two screws which is being pictured as eyes and the telephone itself as a mouth.

At the corner of a room, there was a few electrical appliances and one which I saw caught off guard which was a face made of two tripod side by side and a electrical tube which looks like lips. 

Just beside the cafeteria of our school there is a fountain that looks like a face. As you can see from above, the two fountain makes the eye and the border makes it look like a sad face. 

 On the vending machine as I was about to purchase a drink I spot another face. The 'on sale' and 'sold out' button clearly looks like a pair of eyes to me. Under it looks like a wide mouth, isn't it?

Look! There is a object with a smiling face just in front of me which is a holder.  

 Lastly I spot a mop bucket which looks like it has teeth with the gaps in between the plastic. After the activity I realized that I became more observant and it was fun hunting for faces in objects around us.

Roadtrip

6th September

I went for a short trip to Malacca with my family. From Singapore, it was a 2 hour journey to our destination. After two hours of sitting in the car all cramped up, finally I was able to breathe in fresh air. My grandmother's house is situated in the rural side of Malacca and obviously the sight of chickens and cows running past us was terrifying which I thought would be chaotic if you see those around hdb flats in Singapore. As I looked up to a gigantic tree next to where I was standing, I realized that there's a bunch of rambutan dangling that were mostly unripe. Since there was no internet connection anywhere near my grandmother's house which was extremely miserable, my brother and I decided to roam around the village before it gets dark.

Sadly, these rambutan are not ready to be eaten yet. However they look so beautiful dangling from the branches of the tree. Somehow they remind me of grass that are being clustered together.

These flowers are scattered on the rocky ground which stands out proudly from the background.

There were various types of flowers growing randomly on the rough ground.

As I look down, there were a lot of overripe rambutan that has fallen from the tree.

Apparently this chicken tried to get in our car. Luckily my father chased it off before it could jump in the car and attack me. Overall, the trip back to Malacca was very refreshing!