Sketcha Day - Exploring Modem Forms

Form factor

Quick Sketch looking at form factors for modems. As much as people want to hide their modems behind shelves, TVs or in the garage, it actually does affect the wifi strength in home.

The challenge is to make the Industrial Design of modems take on a neurtral form to compliment people's home decor

Honest Design - Huxtaburger

I've finally been able to give Huxtaburger a go but before deciding to go, I had gone to their website to check out their menu.

I was very impressed by their website. Very simple and a pleasure to navigate. A great example of honest design. 

As a customer I want to know two things.

1. What's on the menu 

2. Where do I get it?

The site does well to play like a mobile app and the interaction is quite nice. Kudos to the Huxtaburger Design team.

Sketcha Day - No Guts No Glory!

Defqon.1! No Guts No Glory!

I'm an avid fan of the Hard Style Culture particularly into Q Dance events and music. With inspiration from Pinterest, I thought I'd channel my excitement in some sketches. 

Sketcha Day - Unboxing Experiences

A thought on unboxing experiences. What makes a great unboxing experience?

When you open up that new contraption for the first time. What do you expect to see? Is it the device that you've longed to see in the flesh? Is it a guide? 

A great unboxing experience helps you use your device as quick and easy as possible without having you to think so hard. 

If you've ever unboxed an apple or Samsung product, take note of the experience. How quickly were you able to start using the device?

Blast from the Past

Found this cleaning out the garage. My folio piece from final year Visual Communication Design in high school. 

As far as u boxing experiences and a premium feel goes, I think I did alright. Awesome stuff past self! 

During the time before the iPhone, there was a lot more to design on a device. 

This was titled entity because it could be customised to suit your personal style. Following the custom Nokia case trend or a recent example, the Moto X, the shell was interchangeable and the LED lights could also change making for many combinations. This the tag line 'Entity, it's what you make of it...'

The feature here was that there was a music player mode (iPod style) and a multimedia mode in which the panels slide out revealing a bigger screen. 

The screen and wheel controls will then notice this change and the control would update accordingly (think adaptive LED on the Samsung u900 which was my phone at the time)

More photos to come...

Poke Baubles

A little Christmas Challenge once again between Lai and I and we had to make each other Christmas baubles. Going for the simple design I went for something we both share even in our childhood. Pokemon!!

Using the Simple technique of sequins to foam ball I made a very time consuming but lovely set of poke, master and ultra balls that though not clear in this picture said 'I', 'Heart', 'U'.

Until next time something creative and awesome happens in my life! This is Garry from Studio Garthabarny!

Breaking the Dry Spell

Well an utter fail at the moment obviously with the sketch a day commitment and I seriously had not drawn until now. I guess my brother drawing as well as Lai helped me break the dry spell finally for drawings.

This drawing. Good intentions but failed execution. I had crated out all the parts but just failed on... Well you can tell.

I won't attempt the sketch a day program as right now, my lifestyle will change as I take up the next step that is full time work. So I will calibrate my time after a couple of weeks. For now I hope I've started my drawing juices again and upload any other pictures I happen to do.