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Design is for the Soul

The soul needs art, and the beauty of it.

Ever stood in front of a sunset and felt comforted by the magnificence of it?

Ever had your heart beat faster at the sight of a bloom of a beautiful flower?

Personally, I always have the urge to create something beautiful after that. To keep that feeling of awe & happiness inside me for as long as possible. Like a DRUG!

I love that I have the ability to actually make those creation! Whether it is photography, digital art or video graphics.

Right now I am doing mostly digital art (vector art) and photography. You can see in my “online art gallery” aka blog www.i-cant-sew.com

However, I also have a passion for motion graphics & love the way it can capture & mesmerize the attention of the now dulled senses.

A beautifully crafted video could show love, pain & create laughter.

I am now going to create some videos for the souls of the world and everyone who loves beautiful things.

Check out www.cherishmevideos.com for my latest video creations.

Want to create your own videos? Learn how at After Effects Classes
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UPDATE: I will be working together with Tan Electronics from Sony Center (Jusco, Cheras Selatan) to bring you FREE photography classes, sometime in MAY 2010.
Stay tuned for more information regarding this totally FREE PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP. Limited registrations.

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Train your creativity. Be a DESIGN CRITIC

Something wonderful about art. You can HATE it and it is ok.

A good designer would want his work to be hated or loved as long as you do not feel indifferent about it. Once you feel nothing for a design, it is considered mediocre. It is a failure.

Passion is the key. Enhance your self-awareness & awareness to your surroundings!

So go ahead ahead and criticize. You are also giving the designer a compliment by taking notice of their work. All said, there is not need to be rude and self-righteous about your comments.

Kindness & professionalism is still important, else it is just childish tantrums.

Most of the time we allow ourselves to be dulled by bad ideas & horrible executions.

How many times we allow ourselves to sit through a terrible TV ad without having the urge to change the channel cos it has become “ok”? Malaysian TV ma.

Have you ever bought a painting or drawing you do not feel passionate about, just because you needed to fill up a wall in the living room? Feeling no love or hate for it. Everyone has this painting, so it must be good.

Ever walked into the shop pointed at the cheapest vase you see, and bought it? Regardless that it would make your room look like a “Made in China” store. Just because you do not care about “such things”.

You’ll be amaze at what you can observe and learn when you are actually looking at something with passion instead of just being obliging.

Allow yourself to be pulled into a debate, and enjoy it.

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We Are All DESIGNERS

We are all designers in this world.

We all have the power to influence the space we occupy. Draw & innovate ideas to improve our lifestyle. We all LOVE and HATE with the passion of a human.

Know that you are a designer and know that you can evolve and improve. That may be the most powerful knowledge you will get for self improvement!

As the lifestyle we live in improves, so does our need for culture, art and design. We are evolving into a new breed of designers.

We now need creativity in everything we do, whether it is to COMMUNICATE, to ATTRACT, CREATE or even to ORGANIZE. We need creativity. Thus, design.

Design is the process of creativity. Creativity gives birth to design. You need both to achieve a masterpiece.

Would you be surprised if I told you a delivery system would work better if it were designed?

Would you think it wrong if I told you a marketing event would be more of a success if creativity were added into the preparations?

Could your résumé get you the job if you had spend more time DESIGNING it?

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A Man CANNOT Design… For a Woman’s Need

Ok.
Don’t get angry at me for putting this up.

I know this statement will set fire in many people, especially male designers.

But it is the truth.

I am not saying that a man cannot design for a woman’s desire (clothes, shoes & such) but a woman’s need. That,  is a different matter.

Imagine a guy designing sanitary pads or tampons.
I think that thought even freaks the men out.

And if anyone is going to bring up the subject of the creator of vibrators, Kelsey Stinner. He actually created the device to treat illnesses. So, no. That does not count.

The point of my subject is that, we are all designers in our own way. But we all have our own skills. Though designing & creativity has no limitations, we are still shaped by our upbringing, our culture & our own knowledge of how the world works.

Impaired by this restriction, we can only seek to improve ourselves by increasing our exposure & experience.

Traveling is a great way to do that. Imagine being in a different world of sound, sights and smell. How that would instantly heighten our senses and creativity!
Reading is another. Observing and absorbing another’s creativity is also a great way to improve your own. Much cheaper too. (Though Art magazines cost like a filthy bomb. RM50-60 per magazine!) Design books are quite affordable.
Surfing the internet, the wonderful tool that seem to be able to provide ANY knowledge to anyone seeking it. Allowing designers to broaden not only their skills, knowledge but also their expression methods.

There are of course many other ways we can improve ourselves. And that is what I tell myself, each time I go to an art gallery, a local play or just travel 200km to see a sunset, but truthfully, I think I just enjoy the beauty all these experiences hold.

I did not have an outlet for my own creativity before this, thinking that skill & career was all I needed. Until I started a blog of my own. I Can’t Sew.com

I have been pouring into my old sketches & realizing how I have been suppressing myself all these while.

With the existence of the internet, it is really not so hard.

So I have decided to help those people who want to be a designer.
Want to express themselves.
Want to make something the world can view & enjoy.

I am giving Photoshop Classes to the digital painters of today.
I am also giving Webmaster Courses to those who wants to create their own Digital Art Gallery.
All in affordable & promotion prices now.

Contact me, Cheryn at cheryn@mywebweaver.com if you are interested.

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