Tuesday, July 26, 2011

THE MEANING OF COLORS IN CHINA

Color symbolism can vary between various cultures around the world, and the way people perceive colors are completly different. In China, for example, unlike western cultures white represents death and chinese people use white instead of black during funerals. This is due to the fact that they associate white with the winter time in which nature is dead.



Figure 1. White representing death.



Red symbolizing celebration and luck is used in many cultural cerimonies such as weddings.


Figure 2. Red is used in many cultural cerimonies such as weddings.

Green means vigor and energy. Another thing related to this color is that a green hat indicates a man's wife is cheating on him.

Figure 3. Green means vigor and energy.

Yellow is associate with pornography, and also with the royalty, because in ancient China Huang Di was known as the Yellow Emperor because his army tribe honored the value of the yellow earth, which is a symbol of farming.



Figure 4. When a men wears a green hat also means that his wife is cheating on him.

Figure 5. Yellow earth, which is a symbol of farming is a color related to the royalty because of the Yellow Emperor .

The meanig of colors in colombia

The first color is about cold. It is yellow.
Colombia people think yellow means gold.
In my think, most important and precious
thing is knowledge. So, knowledge is regarded
as gold because both are precious in terms of this.
















The blue is about water. I chosed water bottle
to represent water because water bottle contains
water.
















The red is about blood of patroit. I chosed this picture
to represent this bacause I weared red clothe and
my emotion was pain which people have when they
bleed.

Meaning of colors in Venezuela



I tried to show the meaning of red color which is a negative idea, same as communism. Cutting paper money represents a denial about the private property, so it symbolizes the communism. Venezuelan people, however, don't want to live in commusim.


Orange color means hope in Venezuela. So I drew this small character who wants to grab something like a hope. It represents that he will not give up, even if he is in big trouble.

Yellow means wealth, riches, or money. In order to express these, I made the first letter of the word gold, "G", using coins in front of paper money.

My handamde book



MY SPECIAL HANDMADE BOOK

A single signature pamphlet bound book in pictures.



Figure 1:Double sheet front cover labelled "Welcome to my world" with joy





Figure 2: Multi-coloured pages for each stage of my life






Figure 3: The middle page showing a very neat bind





Figure 4: Double sheet back cover of my book with the inscription "Simple Pleasures"






Figure 5: The bind on the reverse side of the book

Lucky & Wonderful Moments in Germany by Oriol Jiménez






Memory Books for Our Fulbright Family





My handmade book

My book is concise

Do you see the "you"&"me"?

Every sheet has rough edges.Do you see the hole on the sheet?Check the second picture you will know why.There is no block between you and me.

My book


The war between dogs and cats




There was dog's kingdom near cat's kingdom. They had not known

each other for a long time. But things changed when the famine

arrived because of famine of at dog's kingdom. Because of a lack of food

in their kingdom, dogs needed to ask help from cats.



To gain as much food as they can, the king of dogs ordered his ambassador

to be polite in front of the king of cats when he get it the meeting with the

king of cats. The ambassador did as the king ordered.

He raised his tail in front of the the king of cats, and wagged his tail

as politely as he could. After the ambassador's wagging, cats including

the king of cats became angry very much. Unfortunately, the ambassador

didn't stop wagging. And then, the king of cats ordered his guards to cut

the ambassador's neck and declare the war against dogs.

The bloody war began at that time. During the war, many dogs and cats

died for victory. After all, a victory was dog's because dogs had more

royalty than cats. All cats were eradicated clearly by dog except the young

prince of cats. Although, he was almost death.



Then, the king of dogs questioned to him. "Why did the cats attack

my kingdom? We wanted to ask some help and showed our best hospitality.

No other dogs couldn't wag their tail as politely as my ambassador who died

by your king did!"


After these words, the prince of cats died.

"Wagging tail is a most aggressive sign to cats."

Monday, July 25, 2011

Unique and Special



Photo 1: The first steps in designing a book.



Photo 2:  It requires concentration



 Photo 3: The book!... My dairy sweet memories


 Photo 4: My dairy is unique and special because it will keep my stories and my photos about these stories. That's why in the picture you can see a pencil and a pen as an important  elements to write the stories and the camera to show my sweet memories (people, places and experiences).  



 Photo 5: My diary is unique and special because it will keep my life :)



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Photo 6: All the decoration is about feelings. My diary has two different sheets (yellow and green) to make the difference between my stories and the pic about these stories






Photos 7,8,9: You can see the decoration and the visual messages about family and the VIP people.




Photo 10: My unique and special diary,

Books of Chinese Elements and Environmental Protection


I used some Chinese elements in my first book. The design of appearance is based on Chinese ink and wash painting(the small picture). The main colors that I chose were black and gray which are the most important colors in Chinese ink and wash painting. And on the left of this book is my Chinese name, Han Yuyun.



The cover and paper that I made my second book are materials that were left by other people. So this book is small, but I take efforts to make useless paper be a small book. As we know, paper was made by trees. I think we should try our best to save the resource in our daily life. So I call my second book is environmental protection book.

My American Culture Books

Image 1: Presentation

Image 2: Front of the books

Image 3: Back of the books

Image 4: Inside of the books

Image 5: Using the books