Month: January 2023

At the beginning of 2019, I and a friend in Vietnam used to have a project together. We plan to open a local brand together in Ho Chi Minh city. We have been planning together since 2018 and started working on it in 2019. He will be responsible for production and sales, and I will be responsible for design and marketing. We spent quite a bit of money on it, I don’t remember exactly, but because of inexperience, many times we ran out of capital, and we had to keep putting more money out of each other’s pockets. But because when I was in Vietnam, I was lucky to play with a group of friends who were rappers and artists in Underground, because they are very close to me, we have saved a lot of money in hiring a model to take pictures with my clothes. We have high hopes for this project, and many of my friends support it and help us spread the word about our brand and products.
We made a plan together, for my part, I need to constantly update the trend and popular product models in the city according to the trends of the youth to design products that are suitable for that time. In addition, in order to save costs, I need to learn more about marketing by myself to make plans to bring products to customers.
Sometime after trying we got our first products and also started taking our first orders. I always remember that feeling of joy, it’s hard to describe, we started making money from our products.
But it wasn’t long before the covid 19 pandemic began to break out in Vietnam, Nationwide must implement home isolation, it also means that we have to stop all our activities, we are very sad and devastated because we know this means that our project 80% will fail because the nationwide quarantine period is very long, and finally we had to accept to close this project of ours. We always comforted each other that, at least we gained a lot of new experience on that project and learned a lot of different skills own that were not in our major. Right now, we’re back on our learning path and still don’t have any next project, but I hope that in the future I will have another project with someone, and I will continue to use to the best of my ability as well as learn many other skills to do them.

This is one of our products because most of the other products have been deleted by us, so there is only one simple model.

Here are my 3 works on food items that I choose. when I created them, I just used my iPhone 10, and then I use lightroom to edit the colors. I initially chose oranges because it is my favorite fruit, and its color is also my favorite color. Since I don’t have a lot of photo props at home, I used the wood color of the floor because I think it also pairs well with orange. I spread out my oranges and tried to arrange the composition according to the law of near and far to make it more eye-catching, then I used my study light to get enough light for me to take a better shot.
the 2nd and the 3rd picture picture are a plate of noodles and a plate of vegetables, actually this is an old picture of me when I had a party with my family, I took them as a souvenir..

In my previous course at the creative academy, there was an incident that confused me quite a bit because I misread the requirements for my project. It was on the second interactive project, and Erik was the one who taught me this class. Briefly about this class of mine, although it is actually quite new and quite difficult for me, but I really like this class even though I am not good at this subject, but I feel Erik is a very good, him cares about my students and always helps me whenever I have problems while working on projects.
it’s a two-person project and i chose the theme of a clothing store, the goal of the project is one person will use figma to create a mobile clothing store website, and one person will use HTML/CSS to create a landing page for the clothing store website. when I read the project goals and I misunderstood what was written in it, I thought I would design a computer version of the clothing store based on the design of my friend mobile session. I’ve been planning and looking at a lot of different clothing sites online, and it seems I’ve taken a day off to start coding. And when I found out what I needed to do was not a clothing store website but just a landing page, I was surprised by this. I had to change all my plans, edit them on figma and start over, because it took me so long at the time i made the wrong request so i feel like my project is not very good, but i really tried to fix them, and fortunately I finally made it and didn’t miss the deadline for this project. I was worried about it, but everything is fine.