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This is my third Digital Storytelling Assignment. This time I picked up the assignment from the design category. What I had to do was just making a postcard of my home town. Yoyogi is the place where I live now, which is located in the central Tokyo. I love this town for several reasons: It's next to Shinjuku, the largest station in Tokyo and really convenient to go everywhere in Tokyo (Many train lines come in). There are a huge number of restaurants around the station which keep me exploring one after another (and it doesn't seem to end.) On the other hand, the town is also surrounded by the natural environment. You can walk to Meijijingu, the largest shrine in Japan, and Yoyogi Park, which is also the largest in the central Tokyo. I put all these factors into the postcard so that the viewer would recognize the diversity of the town.
For making this postcard, I used Picasa for the first time. It's very useful especially for this assignment since it has the feature to make a photo collage automatically from several photos. You can also retouch and adjust the photo image without knowing how to use it in detail. (It's very simple!)
I hope you can also feel the atmosphere of my home town a bit from this postcard.
Edited by Picasa
All the photos used above are taken from Flickr via CC licensing.
Yoyogi Park by Vic Paredes
yoyogi st by TitoRo
Yoyogi-Park ''a Brushed Gold Saxophone Player''_061206_003 by haribote
Yoyogi Park in Spring by micah.e
Yamanote night train by sinkdd
6-13-07 Yoyogi-1.jpg by abuckingham
At the North End of Yoyogi Station by ykanazawa1999
@yoyogi by saotin
For more detail of the assignment: Greetings From DS106
This is pretty cool and amazing, not only for the spread of pictures, but also because you went about it by utilising the function of an existing site and appropritaing it to this assignment. Very cool.
返信削除When I saw this image from the master-blog, I was like crazily looking for where to get to the actual creator of this image ... so, it was YOU!! GLAD that I was subscribing your blog on GoogleReader! lol
返信削除I think I'll totally believe it if I was told that this image is the one which was used in some adds of traveling-companies!
BIG thumbs-up!! :Db
I agree, it definitely looks "professional" and I wonder if the Picasa collage function is just a button-click process or if you actually went in and tweaked some settings or something to have it come out like this?
返信削除Also really cool that you credited all the photo sources individually
Thank you so much for your comments! They encouraged me a lot. Probably some of you who are an art major student could have made the piece much faster and better I guess (I cannot even draw a picture of a thing...), but it was good if any pieces of my works might have inspired other students in the class today in somehow to start working on the assignments. (Since professor Lockman seemed to worry about that.)
返信削除As for the Picasa, all you have to do is just drop the photos into the column next to them and click the button. You can also tweak the image as you like, but believe me it's far easier than that of Photoshop. You can just do it by instinct.
This is beautiful. I like a lot about this. Most of all I think I like how you managed to create this amazing poster card using only Creative Commons images from Flickr, linked to each of the images and then thanked the photographers on their Flickr pages.
返信削除That is bringing the 'A' game. You are on a roll with the ds106 stuff.
This is an intriguing view into Japanese life and culture! You also taught me something new about Picasa that I can hardly wait to try!
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See you said "you can just do it by instinct" but the thing is that all of the photos are really good (sharp, good composition etc.), and if they're creative commons photos I'm assuming they're also mostly if not all taken by amateurs.
返信削除The other thing is that the layout of the postcard has very good colour balance (blue colour on left balances blue on right etc.) so the fact that you can come up with something like this I think is proof that you don't have to be an art major to know when something looks good, which only makes sense because if only art majors know what looks good then who do we make works for? So I guess this is a roundabout way of saying it but good job. And this is coming from an art major :P
There's a lot to be said for instincts.
返信削除I love this design of your postcard and how your blog post is well-organized! I looked into Picasa! I am sure this will help everybody making christmas cards or nengazyou! Thank you for sharing tool as well as your nice explanation:)
返信削除You found some really beautiful pictures to use here! Yoyogi is a really fantastic place & I love walking around there (and just about anywhere else) on nice days! Nice job!
返信削除It is very very beautiful card! wonderful!!
返信削除Thank you all! I'm glad you like it!
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