Hi Girl, don't you cold? I feel freezing cold!

After the review, my tutors gave me some points to modify, one of these is thinking what British thing makes me laugh or makes me feel weird. I was think about the different culture. When I first came, there are too many types of coins that really confused me, I can't remember each one, so I always gave notes when I was paying money but I gathered more coins. After I get used to it, now I can take money very quickly!
The second thing that confused me is the left-hand traffic. I always forgot to look at the right side before cross the street, and I know it's very dangerous. Although I already get used to this, I forgot to look at the left side first when I am in my country.
The third thing is I always wondering why those girls wearing miniskirts on the street seems like they don't feel cold anymore. Maybe they have put something keep them warm under their skirts.

Typography

Hesitated between these two typography of typewriter. After some discussions with my friends I choose the first one.

Story Board

LONDON in Chinese

I was thinking the typography of the tittle, I tried to combine the capital 'L' and lower case 'l' to be LONDON in Chinese words. My book is about how London looks like in Chinese opinion, so I think using Chinese as a tittle is good. My tutor Sue suggests me to draw these two words by myself, I figured out I can use the calligraphy, or a practice notebook of Chinese words. I still keep the first idea to built LONDON by alphabets. Because of this book is talking about London, I put English tittle next to Chinese one. It also can let English readers know how to pronounce these two Chinese word. 

Result:

  

Postcard Research

Minor Project Proposal

In the project, I am going to produce a manual of how to live in London as a student who is studying abroad. How to avoid homesick and how this city looks like in my eyes. Sometimes I feel homesick when I am alone here, I use the communication application in my mobile or Skype to contact with my friends and families. It has shorten the distance between us. I also cook by myself, although I am not pretty good in cooking I still try to cook some Chinese food by myself. I would like to introduce these in the book, it will be a personal manual or a journal about my travel. Although I am now live here for more than one year, I still feel that I am not ‘live’ here but ‘travel’ here. It is hard to get into a totally different culture, even I have already get used here, sometimes it still a stranger to me. I do not know whether I will staying here or go back to my country after I finish my university, therefore I want to record the UK life.

I will use paintings and photographs to present this book. The main idea of this book is about culture shock and homesick, what I met in different culture and how do I stop homesick. And will including four different topics “EAT”, “SPEND”, “CONTACT”, and “PLAY”. I love to exchange postcards with my friends, so the format will be the postcard style, twelve pieces, symbols I have been here for one year. All postcards will be binding to a book by using white glue. The text in the book will be kind of I am writing a postcard to tell my friends what happened around me.  Therefore the book will be very personal.

To make this book, I need to give it a tittle, and design the typography style for it. I will learn the knowledge of typography in English characters. Try to improve my skill in using software like Illustrator and Indesign, and try to painting with graphic tablet. I have never used it before, so it is a new challenge for me. I have researched for many kinds of guide books that introduce London, and I will reading travel journals written by other people as references. I found some books as my references, one is a journal of travel around Taiwan Island, the author traveled alone and painted what he saw or what he ate on a postcard. Readers can follow his route to travel and the size of book is suitable in pocket.

 

Another book is Tired of London Tired of Life. It is a book that gives advices to who has tired of London what they can do everyday in London.

I also get a lot of event information from blog or Facebook, according to the information I can attend different events and exhibitions. I hope I can make a lot of memories here so I try to go many different places.

And the most necessary thing to me is to do a great time management that makes sure I can finish my project on time.