Chopping bamboo to make floors
A kid with her grandmother
A housewife
A young mother with 2 children
Their house
A kid eating candy
Kid eating candy with his mother
The village
A view from the hut
Pulau Tali Kail
Monday, August 23, 2010
Photos From Royal Belum
Chopping bamboo to make floors
A kid with her grandmother
A housewife
A young mother with 2 children
Their house
A kid eating candy
Kid eating candy with his mother
The village
A view from the hut
Pulau Tali Kail
Monday, August 16, 2010
New Proposal for Interactive Information Design Application
After a lot of thinking, I've decided to change my topic from Orang Asli Settlement to Discover Belum. Due to lack of materials from the trip to Belum, it is better to change it to Discover Belum.
Design Issues :
People who love to travel are always looking for new places to explore. They would either buy magazines or books or search on the internet for interesting places to explore. But, Royal Belum is not as famous as any other tourist places in Malaysia. So, I've decided to create an application to help promote Royal Belum.
Treatment :
This application will be about Belum. Photos and lots of useful information will be included and divided into categories in the Main Menu of the application.
Title : Royal Belum
Objective :
To create an application that promotes Royal Belum.
Target Audience :
Local and oversea tourists who wants to visit Belum and Orang Asli.
Research :
The Royal Belum is located in Perak and is composed mainly of pristine tropical rainforest, with many river systems, and small grassland areas, some abandoned agricultural plots, and Tasik Temengor, a large man-made lake. Forests found here include lowland dipterocarp, hill dipterocarp and lower montane types with a distinctive northern element as the area borders Thailand. The Royal Belum is part of the larger Belum-Temengor forest landscape, one of the largest blocks of forest in Peninsular Malaysia.
Wildlife surveys show that Royal Belum is an important habitat for large mammals like the seladang (Bos gaurus), Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) and Malayan tiger (Panthera tigris jacksoni). The area is also home to the endangered Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis), one of very few left in Peninsular Malaysia. Belum-Temengor is the only forest in Malaysia with all 10 species of Malaysian hornbills including large flocks of the plain-pouched hornbill (Rhyticeros subruficollis).
The Belum area’s natural attractions and rich flora and fauna ensured that it was identified in the National Ecotourism Plan as a priority site for ecotourism.
The State Government‘s efforts to gazette, plan and manage Royal Belum is supported by WWF-Malaysia through our “Strengthening the Protected Areas System of Peninsular Malaysia” project which provides technical support to the Park. Additional work in the area is also carried through the Honda Rhino project to conserve endangered Sumatran Rhinoceros. Part of this project is to develop a tourism management plan which forms part of Royal Belum’s management plan. This will help guide the Perak State Parks Corporation in planning and implementing development projects in Royal Belum.
Besides that, there are quite a number of Orang Asli tribes there. Some of the tribes are friendly and very welcoming. You can take pictures and interview them but with permission of course.
Precedent Studies :
A view of Royal Belum from the watch tower.
A view from the Royal Belum Rainforest.
A view of the Royal Belum lake
The landmark bridge at Tasik Banding
Flowchart :
Icons :
History icon
Gallery Icon
Home Icon
Quit Icon
Screen Design :
Main Menu page
- the lake will be animated
- water waves and birds chirping sound effects
- 4 icons(Royal Belum, History, Gallery, Quit)
- when mouse over to any icon, the title appears
Royal Belum page
-The signboard will be animated
- wind blowing sound effects
- A scroll - able description of Royal Belum and some pictures at the left side
- Main Menu Button
History page
- A description of the history of Royal Belum
- Main Menu Button
Gallery page
- Pictures of Royal Belum with captions
- Main Menu Button
Design Issues :
People who love to travel are always looking for new places to explore. They would either buy magazines or books or search on the internet for interesting places to explore. But, Royal Belum is not as famous as any other tourist places in Malaysia. So, I've decided to create an application to help promote Royal Belum.
Treatment :
This application will be about Belum. Photos and lots of useful information will be included and divided into categories in the Main Menu of the application.
Title : Royal Belum
Objective :
To create an application that promotes Royal Belum.
Target Audience :
Local and oversea tourists who wants to visit Belum and Orang Asli.
Research :
The Royal Belum is located in Perak and is composed mainly of pristine tropical rainforest, with many river systems, and small grassland areas, some abandoned agricultural plots, and Tasik Temengor, a large man-made lake. Forests found here include lowland dipterocarp, hill dipterocarp and lower montane types with a distinctive northern element as the area borders Thailand. The Royal Belum is part of the larger Belum-Temengor forest landscape, one of the largest blocks of forest in Peninsular Malaysia.
Wildlife surveys show that Royal Belum is an important habitat for large mammals like the seladang (Bos gaurus), Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) and Malayan tiger (Panthera tigris jacksoni). The area is also home to the endangered Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis), one of very few left in Peninsular Malaysia. Belum-Temengor is the only forest in Malaysia with all 10 species of Malaysian hornbills including large flocks of the plain-pouched hornbill (Rhyticeros subruficollis).
The Belum area’s natural attractions and rich flora and fauna ensured that it was identified in the National Ecotourism Plan as a priority site for ecotourism.
The State Government‘s efforts to gazette, plan and manage Royal Belum is supported by WWF-Malaysia through our “Strengthening the Protected Areas System of Peninsular Malaysia” project which provides technical support to the Park. Additional work in the area is also carried through the Honda Rhino project to conserve endangered Sumatran Rhinoceros. Part of this project is to develop a tourism management plan which forms part of Royal Belum’s management plan. This will help guide the Perak State Parks Corporation in planning and implementing development projects in Royal Belum.
Besides that, there are quite a number of Orang Asli tribes there. Some of the tribes are friendly and very welcoming. You can take pictures and interview them but with permission of course.
Precedent Studies :
A view of Royal Belum from the watch tower.
A view from the Royal Belum Rainforest.
A view of the Royal Belum lake
The landmark bridge at Tasik Banding
Flowchart :
Icons :
History icon
Gallery Icon
Home Icon
Quit Icon
Screen Design :
Main Menu page
- the lake will be animated
- water waves and birds chirping sound effects
- 4 icons(Royal Belum, History, Gallery, Quit)
- when mouse over to any icon, the title appears
Royal Belum page
-The signboard will be animated
- wind blowing sound effects
- A scroll - able description of Royal Belum and some pictures at the left side
- Main Menu Button
History page
- A description of the history of Royal Belum
- Main Menu Button
Gallery page
- Pictures of Royal Belum with captions
- Main Menu Button
Monday, July 5, 2010
Proposal for Interactive Information Design Application
Title : Orang Asli Settlement
Design Issues :
To create an application about how Orang Asli live their life in their settlement.
Treatment :
This application will be about Orang Asli and their settlement. Photos and lots of useful information will be included and divided into categories in the Main Menu of the application.
Target Audience :
Local and oversea tourists who wants to visit Orang Asli settlement.
Research :
The Orang Asli are the indigenous peoples of Malaysia. Orang Asli is a Malay term which transliterates as "original people" (orang meaning people and asli meaning original). The Orang Asli are divided into 3 main tribal groups - Negrito, Senoi and Proto-Malay. They numbered 105,000 in 1997 representing a mere 0.5% of the national population.
The Orang Asli, nevertheless, are not a homogeneous group. Each has their own language and culture, and perceives itself as different from the others. Some of the northern Orang Asli groups (especially the Senoi and Negrito groups) speak languages - now termed Aslian languages - that suggest a historical link with the indigenous peoples in Burma, Thailand and Indo-China.
The members of the Proto-Malay tribes, whose ancestors were believed to have migrated from the Indonesian islands to the south of the peninsula, speak dialects which belong to the same Austronesian family of languages as Malay, with the exceptions of the Semelai and Temoq dialects (which are Austroasiatic).
Precedent Studies :
www.flickr.com/photos/szening/2920212185/
Orang asli kids taken at Kg Chang Lama, Bidor, Perak
http://www.planetware.com/picture/malaysia-orang-asli-village-in-a-jungle-near-cameron-highlands-mal-mal964.htm
Orang asli village near Cameron Highlands
ipohtown.blogspot.com/2008/07/ipoh-or-paloh.html
Orang Asli using a blow pipe
Timeline :
Week 3 - 5
Proposal and Concept Pitch
Week 5 to 7
Project Planning
Week 7
Class trip to Tasik Bera (Field Research and Visual Gathering)
Week 8
Sketching content design
Week 9
Consultation, Content design , filtering, digital screen design
Week 10
Consultation, interaction and navigation design
Week 11 - 12
Consultation, troubleshooting and amendments
Week 13
Submission
Flowchart :
Mindmap :
Design Issues :
To create an application about how Orang Asli live their life in their settlement.
Treatment :
This application will be about Orang Asli and their settlement. Photos and lots of useful information will be included and divided into categories in the Main Menu of the application.
Target Audience :
Local and oversea tourists who wants to visit Orang Asli settlement.
Research :
The Orang Asli are the indigenous peoples of Malaysia. Orang Asli is a Malay term which transliterates as "original people" (orang meaning people and asli meaning original). The Orang Asli are divided into 3 main tribal groups - Negrito, Senoi and Proto-Malay. They numbered 105,000 in 1997 representing a mere 0.5% of the national population.
The Orang Asli, nevertheless, are not a homogeneous group. Each has their own language and culture, and perceives itself as different from the others. Some of the northern Orang Asli groups (especially the Senoi and Negrito groups) speak languages - now termed Aslian languages - that suggest a historical link with the indigenous peoples in Burma, Thailand and Indo-China.
The members of the Proto-Malay tribes, whose ancestors were believed to have migrated from the Indonesian islands to the south of the peninsula, speak dialects which belong to the same Austronesian family of languages as Malay, with the exceptions of the Semelai and Temoq dialects (which are Austroasiatic).
A very small number, especially among the Negrito groups (such as Jahai and Lanoh) are still semi-nomadic, preferring to take advantage of the seasonal bounties of the forest. A fair number also live in urban areas and are engaged in both waged and salaried jobs. There is no doubt, however, that the Orang Asli are the descendants of the earliest inhabitants in the peninsula. It has been suggested that they retained much of their identity to the present day because of their relative isolation from the other communities and the forces of change.
Precedent Studies :
www.flickr.com/photos/
Orang asli kids taken at Kg Chang Lama, Bidor, Perak
http://www.planetware.com/picture/malaysia-orang-asli-village-in-a-jungle-near-cameron-highlands-mal-mal964.htm
Orang asli village near Cameron Highlands
ipohtown.blogspot.com/
Orang Asli using a blow pipe
Timeline :
Week 3 - 5
Proposal and Concept Pitch
Week 5 to 7
Project Planning
Week 7
Class trip to Tasik Bera (Field Research and Visual Gathering)
Week 8
Sketching content design
Week 9
Consultation, Content design , filtering, digital screen design
Week 10
Consultation, interaction and navigation design
Week 11 - 12
Consultation, troubleshooting and amendments
Week 13
Submission
Flowchart :
Mindmap :
Monday, June 28, 2010
Poster Design
Step 1
Picking a picture as the background.
I've decided to use the view of the lake as my background. I edited the brightness, sharpness and the color of the photo above using photoshop.
This is how the photo i picked looks like after editing with photoshop.
Step 2
I've decided to pick 4 pictures I've taken there to just give people a little "sneak peek" of the beautiful flora there. These are the 4 pictures I've chosen.
I edited the sharpness, color intensity and brightness of these photos.
This is how they look like after editing
Step 3
I moved these 4 photos to the first picture, which is the view of the lake and resized them.
Step 4
I blurred the edges of the 4 small photos so that the images do not look like they appear suddenly but rather, they appear like they are fading in.
Step 5
I add text to the photo.
Step 6
I add a bar across the word "Forest Research Institute Malaysia" to sort of highlight the text
Final
Picking a picture as the background.
I've decided to use the view of the lake as my background. I edited the brightness, sharpness and the color of the photo above using photoshop.
This is how the photo i picked looks like after editing with photoshop.
Step 2
I've decided to pick 4 pictures I've taken there to just give people a little "sneak peek" of the beautiful flora there. These are the 4 pictures I've chosen.
I edited the sharpness, color intensity and brightness of these photos.
This is how they look like after editing
Step 3
I moved these 4 photos to the first picture, which is the view of the lake and resized them.
Step 4
I blurred the edges of the 4 small photos so that the images do not look like they appear suddenly but rather, they appear like they are fading in.
Step 5
I add text to the photo.
Step 6
I add a bar across the word "Forest Research Institute Malaysia" to sort of highlight the text
Final
Flora and Fauna in Malaysia
What are flora and fauna? Flora can be described as a group of plant life in a particular region while fauna, can be described as a group of animals in a particular region. In this case, the flora and fauna that we'll be discussing about are in the region of Malaysia.
Malaysia is a tropical country with steady high temperatures, humidity and frequent rainfall that guarantees a green countryside. 75% of Malaysia is covered by tropical rain forest. Malaysia has a stunning variety of flora. There are about 8000 species of flowering plants, including 2000 tree species, 800 different orchids and 200 types of palm trees.
The diverse environment of Malaysia is a habitat to a variety of the world's most remarkable animals such as the Sumatran rhinoceroses, elephants, crocodiles, the clouded leopard and the Malaysian tiger, the sun bear, the monitor lizard, macaques, red and silver leaf monkeys and the orangutan are just a few of them. A good variety of birds can be found in East Malaysia. The lowland forests of Malaysia are important for the survival of wildlife animals.
Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM)
FRIM is an agency under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment. FRIM promotes sustainable management and optimal use of forest resources in Malaysia by generating knowledge and technology through research, development and application in tropical forestry. FRIM is located in Kepong, near Kuala Lumpur.
I went to FRIM on a class trip organized by my lecturers and here are some pictures I've taken.
Malaysia is a tropical country with steady high temperatures, humidity and frequent rainfall that guarantees a green countryside. 75% of Malaysia is covered by tropical rain forest. Malaysia has a stunning variety of flora. There are about 8000 species of flowering plants, including 2000 tree species, 800 different orchids and 200 types of palm trees.
The diverse environment of Malaysia is a habitat to a variety of the world's most remarkable animals such as the Sumatran rhinoceroses, elephants, crocodiles, the clouded leopard and the Malaysian tiger, the sun bear, the monitor lizard, macaques, red and silver leaf monkeys and the orangutan are just a few of them. A good variety of birds can be found in East Malaysia. The lowland forests of Malaysia are important for the survival of wildlife animals.
Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM)
FRIM is an agency under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment. FRIM promotes sustainable management and optimal use of forest resources in Malaysia by generating knowledge and technology through research, development and application in tropical forestry. FRIM is located in Kepong, near Kuala Lumpur.
I went to FRIM on a class trip organized by my lecturers and here are some pictures I've taken.
The "Crown Shyness" Phenomenon
The Elephant Tree
The Giant Bamboo
A view from inside the forest
Rubber Tree
The Elephant Tree
The Giant Bamboo
A view from inside the forest
Rubber Tree
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