Joget (www.joget.org) has operated smoothly and it has its own plug-ins and packages to be downloaded, some of them were free and some requested small tokens. To reduce time to redesign a new shopping cart or developing new module, team has decided to use Open source platform for E-commerce.
There are many E-commerce platforms to be used for FREE, but Magento (www.magentocommerce.com) was suggested by Tiensoon our technical Jogetian. Since it was recommended and familiar with it, but it was first time for me to understand a totally new E-commerce solution within 2-3 days.
Firstly, found a few free Magento templates. And redesign and try changing colors.
Unfortunately, the coding and some other elements were not fit into the version we have downloaded. I have no choice and using the original template and modified the CSS and images.
Well, surprisingly it turned out quite good with the Joget color schemes. Took around 7-8 days and Joget Marketplace has officially launched.
I had blogged once for logo trends and that was 2008 ago. And what is new trend for year 2010?
Box Up - Box it up with typo
Burst - Don’t look good when scale down
Cubist - One of my favorite and idealistic
Dust - Too 80’s!
Festoon - I’m not so fancy about this effect.
Ghosts - Blur with imagination?
Hexahedron - or Octahedron?
Parts -Cool idea but limited
Shift - Make sure it has to be printed in colors
Spores - It similar to cubist
Batang Trip has become a yearly gathering for TMS and ex-TMSian but it was only available for guys (Batang means “stick“). This year we choose somewhere more interesting where this place named Sungai Lembing, it located opposite of Kuantan’s town; approximately another 30 mins once exit the toll.
Well, 3 interesting attractions we were looking for, “The Fall”, “The View” and “The Food”.
But to reach those 2 places, we had to scarify our sleeps and wake up before sunrise; took a lot of time and energy to reach to the point.
The Fall
Took 75mins on the off road truck. 1 hour of jungle hiking.
Well, I called it “Heavenly Fall”, it was the most beautiful and amazing waterfall I’d never seen in my life. Check out more photos from creadaq.com
The View
Another amazing attraction called Bukit Lembing or Panorama Hill. Above the hill, you will amaze with the view of a small little town below the cloud.
The Food
You got to taste the ordinary food from Sungai Lembing. Tomato source fried with local hand-made noodle.
A trip worth for money, it cost less than MYR200 for each person. Stayed at the guest house with 6 rooms only cost MYR700 for 2 nights. In small town, food is much cheaper. I think all the guys were satisfying with the entire trip.
Photos tell thousand words. More photos from creadaq.com
A office with no partition in between, and a large wall approximate 80 feet from front till back. What to do with that piece of large wall?
It was panted in dark gray and apple green on the other site of the wall. At least something to cheer up the environment with some cool design - wall deco or wall sticker which was the easier way.
Estimate the size around 6 feet height and 13 feet wide, after a though and make the full design using illustrator vector, not a single images.
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After the artwork has completed, I sent it to my favorite supplier Art-co International who did all the instant printing. Reasonable price and took them 4 working days to print and stick.
Here how it looks like on the office wall.
My friend has planned to be main distributor for this needle-free injection from Canada (MiT) (www.mitneedlefree.com) in Malaysia market. It was not a new technology but it was not common used in Asian market. The jet injection system provides less pain and delivered accurate in depth of human tissue and surface.
Alleron (www.alleron-my.com) is a new set-up company, and main core business for the needle-free product. Their target audiences are mainly beauty centre and clinical. Well, this equipment was considering new trend and I was excited to work on the booklet design; in addition, it also requested my input include of product photograph.
A success of promoting a product, we would have models to accomplish it. Since it was low budget project, the only thing I can think of was to find some suitable candidates for the shots, end up I managed to found one young model from my church.
After few selections and make the final choice of it. The picture was nicely position in booklet.
I have designed few concepts and using different patterns for the cover, due to the jet system in white colours and to contrast it, the background has to be dark and strong colors.
Here’s the final piece of booklet printed in matt lamination.
Few months back, my church was organizing an activity for the children before their school holidays. And the title called it “I Have a Dream”, therefore, everyone has planned and had their own roles for just 3 hours included having games with them, present some short drama for the kids.
And I, being a photographer was also part of the enjoyment through the whole things. Click below to see the whole process of these Kids Fun Land.
One of the easy and economical way to promote new brand especially brand that related to Technology. Wearing or giving out T-shirt compare to other collateral items such as notepad. Well, personally T-shirt is most efficiency as marketing collateral.
Team has decided to try out our first Tee shirt design; well, it almost 4-5 years I’d never done any graphics or concepts for Tee shirt design.
Directly to the point that using “open source” as the main selling point for Joget. Well, people all talking about free stuffs, open source = free anyway.
Some people comented the front logo that located right-centered of the T-shirt, it was looked like Ironman’s source of power.
Well, his one look cooler!!
For the white design, Jack suggested to have the Smiley + elements related to process.
Nuthing fancy? Just another WHITE shirt… 
Pastor Julius Suubi was the 3rd pastor came from Uganda to had this Revival Prayer Meeting at our church.
It was posted few on our church website. But recently taken this chances to show how great is Lord’s mercy work among us through his disciple.
See how God touch her, and fill with joy and peace in her…
Please click here to view more photos.
2 weeks time to prepare booth design for Joget roadshow - Open Source Workflow at MyGosscon 2009.
I was given with typical booth size of 3 meter width x 3 meter depth. To save cost and time; planned it and make the idea as “simple” as possible so that it could stand out from the rest; although size of the booth was pretty small, as long the message has to be BOLD.
Few items were in my mind, one huge backdrop and one bunting; eventually there were planned to set up 2 LCD panels as product demo and flash animation.
A quick idea of how the booth designs suppose to look like.
However, asking around my supplier to get some contacts. I have managed to found a company called Artco International (http://www.artco-international.com/) who gave reasonable price.
Based with default sizes and started with some visuals.
Few options for bunting designs - KPIs enabling…
Finally, back drop panel using pop up series and final roll-up bunting design.
A culture for an IT environment, encourage not to use any brochure - so called solution with paperless signage. All materials and information has stored in CD-Rom. Well, total cost of the CD is only less than RM2.00.
On the roadshow, Joget booth with the actual display items. More picture from flickr.
It was more than 5 years never updated much on my website - johncreative.com. Portfolio was outdated, style sheet was old etc. Designer has lot of excuses for some reason, not to work or spend time on their own design; for myself I was too tight up with works.
So what has motivated me to revamp it; surprisingly I was ’stir-up’ by this font type — Harabara (http://www.dafont.com/harabara.font).
First in my though: “Ok, cool… let use it for my site!”
Furthermore, it was quite common to have one page business card as design theme; apparently, quite number of designers had done it such a way especially things were everywhere - Networks of Facebook, Twitter etc. (5 years ago don’t even have twitter!)
Finally, took me one night to put all icons together and fit with the nice background images. Nuthing fancy about, next stage will working on portfolio page…hopefully.
