Monday, July 21, 2008

meaning of this symbol.

as i told you in previous post my theme of the global warming is deforestation. this symbol represent a person who love nature and against deforenstation. the metaphor for this symbol is love the plant to reduse global warming.

the leaf of the tree i replace with love shape because it represent people who love nature. while the trunk shape is simplified of the real trunk of tree.

i choose the orange colour because is simplified the real colour of tree. Not just that, I used it because in definition of orange colour it said that orange is mentally stimulating as well as sociable. Use it to get people thinking or to get them talking. I want went people look at this symbol they will think the meaning of global warming or deforestation.

If you see closely there are 3 type of red colour. The reason why I use 3 types because not everyone have the same equal of love feeling toward nature. The more dark the colour the more love toward nature.

The reason I used 5 brunch from the trunk it refers to the elusive fifth element that completes the basic five elements (water, fire, air, source of sun, and earth). It means that if one of it unbalance it can effect others. If the nature is destroys because of deforestation it can cause other problem such as less of oxygen (for air element),and flood (for water element).

The relation of this symbol to area of global warming is about deforestation. This symbol represent save the nature to stop the global warming issue.

final step

final step: after all the love shape been paint then colour the trunk. the trunk i used light chocolate, C = 0, Y = 55.69%, M = 81.96%, K = 0. For trunk i used paintbrush tool (N) and the sizes is 3 pt. round and 7 pt. round.

step 3

step 3: then i paint the love shapes by using 3 different rate of colour with paintbrush tool (B) in size 3 pt. flat and 3 pt. round.
types of red colour that i used is:
1) C = 0, M = 91.76%, Y = 82.75%, K = 0
2) C = 0, M = 99%, Y = 78%, K = 0
3) C = 0, M = 85%, Y = 87.5%, K = 0

step 2

step 2: i draw the outline using pencil tool (N) with black colour from swatches box.

step 1


step 1: i placed my skecth on a new file in adobe illustrator. then i streched the image into A3 sizes by using selection tool. next i lock the linked file layer so that the image will stay still.

my sketch


this is my sketches.

my sketches represent save the tree.

the love is the symbol for leaf. the reason why i used love image instead of leaf because by looking at it, it means love the nature and try to save them from deforestation.

there are few leaf i use to show that this is tree of love.


my source of idea






this is where i find my idea to create my theme symbol. i get it from www.istockphoto.com

my research

I started my symbol with some research about global warming and specific my research in deforestation.
DEFINITION OF DEFORESTATION
Deforestation is the permanent destruction of indigenous forests and woodlands. The term does not include the removal of industrial forests such as plantations of gums or pines. Deforestation has resulted in the reduction of indigenous forests to four-fifths of their pre-agricultural area. Indigenous forests now cover 21% of the earth's land surface.
WHAT ARE FORESTS AND WOODLANDS?
In a forest the crowns of individual trees touch to form a single canopy. In a woodland, trees grow far apart, so that the canopy is open.

HOW DOES IT HAPPEN?
Deforestation is brought about by the following:

* conversion of forests and woodlands to agricultural land to feed growing numbers of people;
* development of cash crops and cattle ranching, both of which earn money for tropical countries;
* commercial logging (which supplies the world market with woods such as meranti, teak, mahogany and ebony) destroys trees as well as opening up forests for agriculture;
* felling of trees for firewood and building material; the heavy lopping of foliage for fodder; and heavy browsing of saplings by domestic animals like goats.
To compound the problem, the poor soils of the humid tropics do not support agriculture for long. Thus people are often forced to move on and clear more forests in order to maintain production.

CONSEQUENCES OF DEFORESTATION*
Alteration of local and global climates through disruption of:

a) The carbon cycle. Forests act as a major carbon store because carbon dioxide (CO2) is taken up from the atmosphere and used to produce the carbohydrates, fats, and proteins that make up the tree. When forests are cleared, and the trees are either burnt or rot, this carbon is released as CO2. This leads to an increase in the atmospheric CO2 concentration. CO2 is the major contributor to the greenhouse effect. It is estimated that deforestation contributes one-third of all CO2 releases caused by people.

b) The water cycle. Trees draw ground water up through their roots and release it into the atmosphere (transpiration). In Amazonia over half of all the water circulating through the region's ecosystem remains within the plants. With removal of part of the forest, the region cannot hold as much water. The effect of this could be a drier climate.
* Soil erosion With the loss of a protective cover of vegetation more soil is lost.
* Silting of water courses, lakes and dams This occurs as a result of soil erosion.
* Extinction of species which depend on the forest for survival. Forests contain more than half of all species on our planet - as the habitat of these species is destroyed, so the number of species declines (see Enviro Facts "Biodiversity").
* Desertification The causes of desertification are complex, but deforestation is one of the contributing factors (see Enviro Facts "Desertification")

DID YOU KNOW?*
The World Resources Institute regards deforestation as one of the world's most pressing land-use problems.

* An area of forest equal to 20 football or rugby fields is lost every minute.
* South Africa's climate is such that less than 0,5% of its surface area is covered with indigenous forest - great care should be taken to conserve the little we have.

Thursday, July 17, 2008

thier dramm...

thier dance...

so manyyyyyy...people laaa...

food!!


the most delicious food...inside it is strawbery and chocolate

to buy this food...waaaa....the que...is so so so longggg...
alaa...forgot the name laaaa





waaa..best bon odori...

this is few Japanese food at bon odori...waa...soooo delicious...nyam nyam....next year definitely pegi lagi...waaaa

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

wow harder that i thought....

i thought design fundamental is easy..actually it quite hard laaaa....if you understand it...that okey la...if dont...better go die...so hard to understand but once you get it then it will be just fine...arghhhh..*yawn*...so sleepy....coz sleep at 5 a.m....then my work kene reject...waaaaaaa!!! so sad......