Magazine Layout Design – “ChungWah Magazine” Vol.4 & 5, Jan & March 2012

  

It had been another two issue of ChungWah Magazine being published during this period of time. These two issue heavily loaded with information related to the Chinese New Year 2012 and the Perth’s Celebration of this occasion.

The slight change on the content direction and packed with more goodies in the magazine had been a great challenge for my design works. Further more the lack of design times (the two magazine had back to back falls on before and after my 1 month holiday aboard) had squeeze me a fair bit, although the quality is maintained and not compromised.

If you wish to take a peep of my work, you may download the copy of the magazine in PDF from the link below.

http://chungwah.org.au/documents/magazine_1201.pdf
http://chungwah.org.au/documents/magazine_1203.pdf

The next issue will be release in May, packed with more information and visual design challenge that had been accomplished, so stay tuned.

Magazine Layout Design – “ChungWah Magazine” Vol3, Nov 2011

Another issue of ChungWah Magazine that got done under my wings. This issue had been a success to promote the core service of ChungWah association – Age Care and Community Service.

Many more new sections and columns were introduced in this issue, which had given me more areas to explore the layout variation. It is proven the quality of this magazine from the respond received from the readers, in terms of content and the quality of the magazine.

There had been plans made to put forward this magazine from a members only subscription, to the general public whom can now purchase the next issue on news stand. This had been a great leap forward in terms of editorial and of course, more challenge for me to improve the visual design of the magazine.

If you wish to take a peep of my work, you may download the copy of the magazine in PDF from here.

The next issue will be release in January, packed with more information and visual design challenge that had been accomplished, so stay tuned.

 

Check out my work too on previous issue of
ChungWah Magazine – Vol 2, September 2011.

 

 

    

Magazine Layout Design – “ChungWah Magazine” Vol2, Sept 2011

I had been lucky enough being appointed as the Visual Designer and translator of this magazine, working closely with the Chief Editor on this 80+ pages magazine for ChungWah Association of Western Australia. Of the leading ethnic based society that just had their centennial celebration last year. Potentially this magazine would reach to their members and general public of Perth, especially the Chinese community.

It's indeed a challenging works to race with time, tasting the quick pace of a magazine production. Looking forward to the next issue with more challenging content to work on.

 

     

 

The magazine is now available online in PDF form for download, please click here to view it.

Catalogue Design - "WineX", 2011-2012

This is a 28 pages catalogue design for a local company “WineX” – wholesaler for bar and wine accessories.
The catalogue features a range of products that being categorised in various sections for ease of reading. The feature pages incorporated to demonstrate how a product function to engage more attention from its readers. Providing a break on its standard stock-list layout.

The overall layout designed were given a lift from the earlier years work, and still in beat with the company's corporate style. The new product layout also in aim to engage attentions, not just only a ordering-list.

You may have a quick peep of it’s PDF form from here.

  

     

Magazine Layout, 2011

I guess for most print designer, there’s an irresistible desire to design a magazine cover. My dream job would be working for a well-known magazine publisher as their layout designer, but as said… it’s only a dream. The enormous stress that a designer in a publish-house having to bear is unbelievable.

These is just a tryout that I did as part of my design-practice (having to sharpen your tools sometime), trying to design a cover and a internal spread for a magazine. It is based on one of the oldest Malaysia base Man’s Fashion Magazine that I like, and recently it had seem to be decline in its design flair and content that thus attract subscribers.

iiCommunicate

iiCommunicate is a monthly internal newsletter for iiNet, highlighting the news and events of the business to it’s 2000 stuff around 5 locations.

The content of this publication were contribution from various departments ranging from engineerinng, marketing, customer service front, as well as contribution from individual staff on light-reading material (such as recipe and travel journal). It was a 15-page PDFs that evolved to a 40-60 pages eletronic publication.

The pages are mostly individually designed, apart from themed sections that highlight the relevency of the contents. This project had been constantly a challenge due to the short turn around time to produce a ‘full-volume’ electronic magazine as such.

Product Catalogue - "Acerack", 2006

This was a layout task to produce a product catalog for Ace Rack for it’s Australia & New Zealand market. It was a project start from scratch, involve working closely with copy writer and photographer, also other designers for this 31-pages brochure. Heavy photoshop works thus involved in this project to eitch the product image, as well as touching up on the product images.
The cover concept was based on the geometric shapes derived from it’s corporate logo. Spot varnish is introduced on the cover for a professional finish. This had full filled the intital requirement of this task to be product focus, with a clean and easy to read layout.
 

iiNet BoB Packaging

Packing design for BoB^TM, a wireless modem with VoIP design exclusively for iiNet. I was involved in the design of the packaging, but resulted in the simplest form of plain black packaging with ‘BoB’ mentioned in the centre. The packaging include the box for the modem and the VoIP handset, together with a cardboard sleeve with gross finish to enclose both items. This is also part of the branding exercise for ‘BoB’ for it’s marketing campaign, portraying it as a desirable items (black is elegance).

BoB^TM User Manual

As part of the BoB^TM Branding, the user manual of BoB^TM is also done within the same design style. It was one of my challenging task to create a better PDF browsing experience for a manual, that allowed both on-screen and print-out conveniences. The PDF created is pressed onto the start-up-disc, with interactive links to all relevant pages / site.

The following are the screen shot from the PDF, (From Top Left: Front Cover, Content Page, Leader Page, Glossary Page, Back Cover)

       

An online copy of the PDFs can be found here (approx. 15.5MB), please feel free to experience the browsing conveniences made available on this PDF.

iiSeek

iiSeek is a single page newsletter that published fortnightly to highlight the HR events, include internal vacancies information or staff promotion.

It is published as a hyperlinked PDF document and emailed out to the staff base, hence the design mimics a website layout with tab to be clicked on.

Westnet Newsletter

This is a monthly regular job for me for the past 3 years, creating newsletter for Westnet customers. I work closely with an editor and partially contribute to the content.

The image shown here is the December 2010 version, which include a paper-craft project by me in conjunction with the festive season.

You may visit the archived of this newsletter here.

Slatter Constructions Tender Submission–Tender Folder & CD Label

This is a cover design in A4 size together with the matching CD lable for a tender submission. This had been one of the regular jobs that comes along with a quick turn around time.

Western Australian Transport and Logistic Awards 2009–Application Brochure

This was a job done a while ago, preparing a brochure for the “Western Australian Transport and Logistic Awards 2009“. It is more of a layout design job, with placement of logos.

This job involves a quick layout design, image montage (logo etching), typeset for the content. This had been a typical design piece to demonstrate my skill in a short turn-around design job.

Buddha Birthday Festival Poster, 2007

A poster design for an annual event took place every April, by a local religious organisation. It’s a community fair alike event, to celebrate the birth of Buddha (Vesak).

The design of this poster were based on a given colour theme, and Buddha image had been the focal point of design. It’s required to show as much activities took place on the event as possible, hence a montage of activity image had been used.

A poster is always a challenging design task, as a designer are required to incorporate logos and sign from various parties, together with placement of texts and imagery, leaving no rooms for breathing space.