Preserved Topic: new i-face "DAO" from traditional china style

its unfinished version of "DAO" of which inspiraion came from traditional chinese style combined with some mechenical style which is my favorite. "DAO" is a pronauciation of a chinese character, see the black-white spinning like symbol in round shape on pic? that's a symbol of DAO, its really hard make u guys understand it. the white part in symbol means "Yang", that is equal to Positive, and black means "Yin" which represents Negative. and in Positive borned Negative, Negative again gives birth to Positive... an infinite loop.Oh, a chinses philosophy lesson... mmmmm... OK guys neglect it, just gimme ur comment on design plz, thx in advance

LINK-> http://go.163.com/~maxspace/show/dao.jpg

(Sorry! Changed the inserted image to a link, I can't even view this post, it's too big for my screen!)

[This message has been edited by DocOzone (edited 04-09-2000).]

Interesting iFace avatar. Although the celtic knot in the lower left hand corner is interesting, at least from a Sino-Celtic myth / belief system. I really wonder how you can merge these when the Chinese and Celts don't have any shared history. They are unique to each other. Although I will grant you the fact that they both used metal.

Will you be responding to your post this time, or are you going to post and run again like you did here last time, (and at Topaz, and DBM)?

whew, pretty harsh comments F1. I dont understand when he ran, didnt he respond in his last thread? Anyway Im sure he just used the Celtic knot because it looks cool. I doubt he was thinking about sino-celtic relations when he made it. Anyway, the i-face looks alright. I see you brought back those dentist looking things ... two of them this time. I hope your not planning on using those chinese symbols as your navigations buttons. I dont know if they mean anything but its like blind links. Where will they take you? Nobody knows...

BTW Im sure most of us know about the Yin Yang.

Jestah
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[This message has been edited by Jestah (edited 03-09-2000).]

Although I do like the treatment of the image (kinda reminds of 19th century new york city plumbing....) it is far to similar to you last posted interface in my opinion.

It shows some definate skill with photoshop (the level of detail is phenominal), bit the repetition of style leaves a bit to be desired.

I have to agree with F1 on the celtic style design on the lower left -- even disregarding history and religion, it just doesn't fit with the rest of the style.


oh yeah -- just a suggestion: with images that big, it would be much nicer to get a link in the post rather than the actual image. It gives me a horizontal scroll bar which I absolutely hate <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/biggrin.gif"> makes all the text from the posts run off the page <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/frown.gif">




[This message has been edited by DL-44 (edited 03-09-2000).]

it's pretty and all...

but what's the purpose? does it even look like it has a flow to it? or are they more so just random elements thrown together?

i have my doubts... 2/5 stars.

cheers.mikey.milker

BTW, I just thought Id add that will your designs seem *alright* if anything. I would say there a little too unconventional even for me and don't seem to server a real puprpose. Id be something fun to play around with I guess if its for a personal site, I hope your not planning on selling it or using it for a business site. Like DL said its too similar to your last design. Nothings really changed ...

Jestah
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ICQ - 77252449

if your going for realism, rotate the screws, not all the screwa on a plate are gonna be the extact same

TAO (the WAY of Life) from the Chinese Culture.The search for truth as attributed to Lao Tzu, 7th century before Christ. The TAO, a Philosophy; and Yin/Yang, the prehistoric symbol of dualism which denotes the force of balance in creation. Is a design good or bad? Why choose? when the Way appreciates form by looking and utilizes function in usage.

Yin being the male, powerful, domineering, violent, and Yang being the female, gentle, kind, conciliatory and the perfect balance to the violent Yin.

That's your Chinese Philosophy for today.




Don't make me come down there! - God

My opinion is basically the same as the others. It's very similar to your other interface. The chinese "dao" elements don't really fit with the bulk of the interface. The desaturated color scheme makes the interface even less attractive.

umm...the five characters on the right side...aren't those Japanese, not Chinese? Ichi, ni, san, shi, go & roku, being 1-5?

Maybe they're also Chinese.

Just a comment...

I was under the impression that those were the mandarin characters gohu, mon, jin, lau, and tiki.


If anyone actually thought I was serious, hit control alt delete repeatedly. <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/rolleyes.gif">

He kinda mixed history up a bit on this one, used far to many old school tricks. Not bad though.

the goal of multi-posts on DBM, Topaz and here was for comments. and this i-face was just showing the techique to creat some 3D effect using PS. anyone wanna buy it? i wonder. for me, its a experimental combination of several styles. some strange feeling about that, even i looked at it for a while as author.
and the characters upper right were all from chinese, means one two three four and five. the same character with same meaning in japanese were all from chinses originally. if this i-face was for latin-language guys, i would have changed it for Roman numbers, but wont fit the rest, right?

I dont see anything. The link is coming up dead. <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/frown.gif">

Likewise.... <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/frown.gif">

Is the layout supposed to look like the Cannot Find Server window? If you were going for realism you got that down perfect. Although I dont remember a DNS Error in any traditional Chinese style that Ive seen ...

you crack me up jestah....I can see you saying that with a straight face too <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/biggrin.gif">

Wow! have a look...i never new that the ancient chinese wrote in terms of files, let alone Jpegs!

That's sopme great work Avatar!
http://www.geocities.com/freizah/error.jpg


Don't make me come down there! - God

Edited to fix URL

[This message has been edited by Skaarjj (edited 07-09-2000).]