There is a programme called "MDen" from Poly U Design, which requires certain research capabilities as similar as the Art Appreciation session from the DSE VA Design Paper. It is not required to know all the design works and designers all over the world. The most important point is to follow the structure required by the HKEAA - Literary Description, Formal Analysis, Interpretation of Meaning, and Value Judgment. For the creative design task, please refine your typography through learning more skills in pen-calligraphy art. An ability in imitating the human compositions of the MTR advertisements is definitely advantageous in getting Grade 5**. The demonstration of essay writing has illustrated two different sorts of design thinkings - whether you are pursuing Chinese obedient culture or Western rebellious culture. Many people comment that my previous experience of helping Rosaryhill School with School Annual editorial tasks and other co-curricular design projects is much more like the Chinese obedient culture. Some geniuses with trendy tastes in design awareness might still remain as a stylish fine-artist level and cannot deserve trusts from publishing firms because they cannot deal with the dogmatic editorial requirements from the clients with weaker executive capabilities.

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Educational Focus:
Examination skills for the Design
Paper of DSE Visual Arts
Atelier de Belas-Artes do Vincent Lee
Many people might have this perception: “Fine Arts requires certain capabilities in doing
researches because of studying art histories, such as focusing on Chinese art histories once being
admitted to CUHK Fine Arts. But, Design doesn’t require any research capabilities as such writing
tasks are irrelevant to the software tasks within the industrial field.” To a very large extent, this
perception is quite correct. But, for some very exceptional case, some BA Design graduates from
Poly U Design might be acknowledged by their Design professors: “I can see that your
performance in Art Histories, Art Theories, Aesthetic Studies, Design Histories and Design
Theories subjects are quite distinguished. Can you choose not to apply for designer jobs outside
the campus after graduation? Stay behind in our university, and get promoted to be a
postgraduate for doing design researches and serving as a tutor then!” This slight portion of
lucky undergraduates might consider a unique path of stable careerdevelopment instead of
ambitious entrepreneurship, but our scholastic mechanism also badly needs certain experts like
this.
Indeed, there is a programme from Poly U Design called “MDen” (Master of Design). It is taught
by renowned foreign professors. If you have such chance of studying this taught-based MDen,

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your previous skills in Art Appreciation during your DSE VA Design exam would then be
applicable!
I did have a 90s-born friend called Dixon Ngai Tak-lung who is an expert in porcelain painting,
and he graduated from Poly U Design in “Interior Design” stream. Baby Tak Lung told me that, he
was required to study a compulsory course called “Concepts of Contemporary Chinese and
Western Art”. He decided to write about the Neo-Ink Painting of Lu Shoukun and Kan Tai-keung.
Thus he obtained a very good result. Of course, he also needed to study certain Design Histories
and Design Theories courses. There arefive concentrations from Poly U Design, namely “Visual
Communication”, “Interior Design”, “Advertising Design”, “Product Design & Innovations” and
“Fashion Design & Textile Studies”. No matter for which stream, it is definitely impossible that all
the courses a student takes within his three to four years of undergraduate studies are purely
about “software trainings”. There must be 30% courses being reserved for other kinds of
liberal-arts learning within the mechanism of Poly U Design’s curriculum planning. Some might
take drawing and 3D-making courses as free electives of “Applied Arts”, whereas all students
must take a sufficient amount of compulsory theory subjects. So, this arrangement provides an
alternative room for some persons who are good at fine arts and not too good at software but
do not know why he would get a Poly U Design offer to get a passing Cumulative GPA before the
Commencement, as this type of extraordinary persons can get a Second-Up or Second-Low
Honour through just obtaining Distinctions from “Applied Arts” and “Theories” subjects but
perform poor in “Software” subjects. So, do not underestimate the effectiveness of Art
Appreciation from DSE VA Design exam!
The Aptitude Test before the Second-Round Portfolio Interview of Poly U Design admission also
badly requires potential candidates with solid capabilities in “DSE VA Design Appreciation &
Criticism”. For the exam paper of Aptitude Test, there are questions like “logo design”, “event
management”, “design knowledge” and even “political studies & social sciences”. For the “event
management”, I did encounter a request which was to draw a storyboard-liked diagramfor
illustrating how I would plan for a wedding banquet, with an addition of writing certain
idea-descriptions. For the “political studies & social sciences” evaluation, there was a question
called “Which political party will you votefor during the upcoming LegCo Election? Explain
why.” My classmate answered in a legitimately pro-Beijing manner: “To me, I am not interested
in politics. But if you ask me to vote, I will definitely not vote for Democratic Party because it
only creates lots of chaos in our society”. Finally, my classmate was disqualified from entering
the Second-Round Portfolio Interview even though her works were usually acknowledged as very
trendy in design awareness. For me, even though I am currently a “non-anti-Extradition” and a
“light blue ribbon”, I pretended to be very critical to Tung Chee-hwa and Jiang Zemin’s

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administration once encountering my “Aptitude Test” exam paper. I answered this political
question in this way: “I will definitely vote for Democratic Party and Civic Party. First, the June 4
Massacre must be vindicated. Second, the SARS outbreak was the fault of Beijing due to Jiang
Zemin’s refusal in condemning Huang Huahua’s connivance on Guangdong citizens’ spreading
of viruses to Hong Kong and resigning Huang Huahua. Third, it is dangerous for Hong Kong to
get the Article 23 implemented. Thus, we must rely on the pan-democratic legislators to
restrain the dictatorship of Communist China.” Finally, Poly U Design gave me a pass in this
Aptitude Test, and let me enter the Second-Round Portfolio Interview even though I was just
carrying my SBA oil paintings from Rosaryhill School to the Poly U lecture room. Here I deeply
thanked Poly U Design and Prof. Jin-Guang TENG for appreciating my creativetalents during this
JUPAS admission experience in 2006 despite of Prof. Jenny SO Fong-suk’s brutal neglect on my
eagerness in entering CUHK Fine Arts.
So, this experience from “Aptitude Test” in “Visual Communication” concentration proves that, if
you manage to write Design Appreciation essays pretty well during your DSE VA exam, your
intellectual mind will be greatly broadened that you can render diversified tricky liberal-arts
questions in the Poly U Design admission process.
Talking about the matter of the creativedesign task in DSE VA Design exam, it requires a solid
level of traditional craftsmanship in typographies, layout editorial and chrominance keying.
Those who are very good at digital-image pasting and can brainstorm lots of creativegimmicks
but with very weak skills of refining the hand-drawn graphics cannot get good marks in DSE VA
Design exam. Moreover, it will definitely be advantageous for those persons who often pay
attentions to the commercial advertisements inside the MTR train platforms. Most of the Design
questions from HKEAA areabout graphic design, in which it must be equivalent to advertising
design. This aforesaid type of persons paying attention to MTR advertisements has the talents in
imitating the compositions and human structures of the MTR advertisements even just using
markers and watercolours as drawing tools. At HKBU School of Communication, there is an
academic department called “Public Relations & Advertising” (PRA), and students from there
often do analyzes on the photographic effects of employed ambassador models, together with
the brainstorming of remarkable slogans/messages showing remarkable typographic effects.
Drawing logos are so easy, but drawing an MTR advertisement is difficult. If you can handle the
latter task, you will feel confident in obtaining Grade 5** from the DSE VA Design exam.

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Here are some successful examples for the “narrative” realm of “Design” exam with
Distinction grades guaranteed, which are as creative as the effects of MTR
advertisements:
Title: Chateau de Bordeaux – a menu design for a French restaurant
Title of left piece: The Wetland Park Phase 2 – advertisement design for a park
Title of right piece: Be a Law-Abiding Citizen – poster design for an art competition

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Title: First Day Cover for the Year of Dog – product designs by Hong Kong Post
Office

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Title: Uniform designs for the waiters and waitresses from a pub – fashion design
Title: Creativity Tour Club 2008-2009 – a T-shirt logo design for a mini registered
student society called “Creativity Tour Club” at Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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Title: Jesus Christ’s Footprints Accompanied by Blessed Grapes – an E-card
design which was a Championship awarded work in a design competition organized
by Chaplain’s Office of Hong Kong Baptist University
Remember,the examtime islimited.Donotmake the compositionstoocomplicated.40
minutesmustbe reservedforansweringthe ArtAppreciationquestion.Itisbettertouse
markersandwatercoloursinsteadof drawingpencilsbecauseyoucancreate trustworthy
solidcolourful effectsforyouriconographies,unlessforthe verysmall characterdetails.
Moreover,practice more pen-calligraphyskill,asthisisuseful fordoingsome classical design
questions.Learnhowtoboldyourfontswithcubistvisual effects,nomatterforEnglish
alphabetsorChinese characters.Eventhoughyouare afraidof beinglaughedasportraying
cartoonisthumanslike myexperience of beinglaughedasdrawing “Mercy BeautyLady”
bakery-packagedesignsatCCGSS,itdoesn’tmatteratall as the HKEAA definitelytestsyou
howto bravelyimitate the humancompositionsof MTR advertisementsasnarrative as
possible tofulfillitsGrade 5** marking-scheme criterion.

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NSS VISUAL ARTS
ART APPRECIATION (DESIGN MEDIUM)
MODEL ANSWERS
中國視覺傳意 CHINESE VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS
Advertising slogans: Utilize ancient calligraphies, such as oracle-bone scripts, semi-cursive
scripts and clerical scripts, as fonts to highlight a visual respectofthat particular productto the
traditions of Confucian / Taoist heritage.
廣告宣傳口號：善用甲骨文、行書、棣書等古代書法字體，來體現產品對傳統儒
道兩家文化的尊重。
Brand-mark: Adoptseal-engraving to highlightthe legitimacy and authority ofthat particular
product  Ensure clients a guaranteed reward
品牌：以篆刻來突顯產品的正統性和權威性，保證客戶使用後有裨益。
Reserve the complicated and decorative patterns from the structures of paper-cutting or
architectural engravings in the design background,which enhanced the level of“empirical
royalty” and attracted the upper class to attempt a purchase
保留源自傳統剪紙或古代建築浮雕內既複雜又裝飾性的紋理，用於背景設計，提
昇產品的皇族氣魄，吸引上流人士採購。
Grandeur but harmonious combination ofsubjectmatters: gave clients a comfortable vision
樸實無華又和諧的物件配搭：給予客戶舒服的印象。
Adopted color with auspicious implications due to the superstitious beliefs of Chinese society,
for example:
因中國社會有著迷信的傳統，設計時多套用具吉祥意念的顏色，譬如說：
 yellow represents Chinese civilization and empirical royalty; 黃色：華夏文明、皇族氣
魄
 red represents heroism, revolution and celebratory events like wedding, lunar new year
and new births; 紅色：英雄、革命、喜慶之事
 green represents purity, retreat, agriculture and natural life; 綠色：純潔、歸真、農業、

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自然生活。
 oceanic blue represents optimism; 海藍色：樂天知命
 dark blue represents death and grievances; 深藍色：死亡、悲哀
 purple represents bourgeoisie flavor; 紫色：貴族、中產品味的追求
 black represents mysterious predications; 黑色：詭祕的預兆
 white represents purity or death; 白色：純潔、白事
 brown represents minimalism and martial-art monasteries. 棕色：淡樸、練武之寺
The idea of “civilian-based and approachable promotion”: honored the practical purpose for the
goodness ofpeople’s livelihood
「以民為本」的宣傳概念：著重改善民生的實用性。
Preserved an admirable sense of craftsmanship
保留一份傳統手藝 / 工藝味道。
Manipulated the similar rhythms or intonations between traditional idioms and contemporary
phrases to deliver some convincing messages
善用古諺和現代慣語之間的押韻字或音節，去道出扣人心弦的訊息。
Harmoniously merged the ancient fairy characters, like the Birthday Gentry and God of Wealth,
with the contemporary secular episodes, regardless of impossible and illogical combinations 
bridged the gap between pastand present
把古代神話人物（如壽星公、財神）與當今現世的處境片段有機地結合，把不合
邏輯的配搭合理化，從而打破過去和現世的鴻溝。
Associate the products with martial arts to boostup the public morale for more purchases
把產品與中國武術扯上關連，提升公眾購買的士氣。
Adoptthe fortune-telling visual elements to persuade clients the emergency for purchase
引用玄學的視覺元素，游說客戶趕緊採購。
Change particular strokes within a Chinese character into some iconographies to deliver

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exceptional implications
把一個中國字內的某些筆劃轉化為圖像來表達其蘊含意義。
Greater focus on the distribution of detailed typographies
較質重字體排版的細節。
Distorted typographies to deliver a sense ofcomedy and fantasy
略為扭曲字體本質來展現一種喜劇性和跳脫的感覺。
Exaggerate a particular iconography with a convincing slogan, but reserves a great extent of
emptiness in the background, to highlight the significance of that particular product in the
enhancementof people’s livelihood.
把某一圖像誇大，添上說服力強的口號，但背景保留大片的空間，以突出該產品
對提昇人民生活素質的重要性。
Government advertisements in Mainland: Using a large quantity of humans and metropolitan
architectures, who consistently follow PRC leaders’ ideal, to convince a sense of social
prosperity and unity
中國內地的官方廣告：用大量一致性地以中共領導人理念為本的人群和都市建築
為視覺元素，塑造出社會繁榮、人民團結、國泰民安的訊息。
Government advertisements in Hong Kong or Macao: Using the wholesome behavioral
interactions from middle-class families for educating citizens’ obedience to “civic responsibility”
 to ensure an international image of a civilized, transparent, just, uncorrupted, literate and
democratic bureaucracy
香港和澳門的官方廣告：多以中產家庭人物的良好健康行為，來教育市民履行公
民責任，及確保香港 / 澳門在海外樹立文明、高透明度、公義、廉潔、有文化
和民主的官僚形象。
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Electric-based fonts and playful icons to promote animations, digital products, pop music and
playful appliances
以電子化和玩世性的字體，宣傳動漫、電子產品、流行音樂和玩樂用品。
Advertisement on jewellery, fashions and facial-treatments: Elegant cosmetics on models’
appearance to highlighta sense ofroyal feminism
珠寶手飾、時裝及美容廣告：典雅的梳妝來展現女性主義的瑰麗氣魄。
Spacious composition that reserves room for mysterious imagination
有空間感的佈局：預留詭祕性的想像空間。
Manipulation between monochromes and contrasting color combinations
純黑白色和對比色配搭次間的互動。
Apply the concept of “virtual interface” to forecast the significance of that particular product to
the social livelihood
套用「虛擬界面」的概念，預知該產品對社會民生的重要性。
Typographies with graffiti flavor – youthful and energetic spirits
以具塗鴉味道的字體，表達年青人的活力精神。
Geometric patterns of layout graphics – simplicity implies a sense ofbeauty which reflects
Caucasians’ pleasurable mood to all kinds ofaesthetic leisure
幾何樣式的排版設計 — 「簡約美」反映歐美人對美感消閒有所愉悅。
Use astronomical episodes to uphold the legitimacy ofthat particular productin human lives
以富比例的人體肌理來突顯該產品對人類養生的正統性。
Proper spatial distribution to highlight the main focus

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恰當地經營位置來突出主體焦點。
Overwhelm the universal obstacles
征服宇宙物理的障礙。
Uphold a utopian arena that brings hopeful forecasts to the current generation
高舉為下一代帶來盼望的大同（烏托邦）境界。
Use marker-drawn comics to bridge the gap between entrepreneurs and youngsters
以麥克筆插畫打破企業家與年青人的鴻溝。
Stress the modernity ofa particular productand its suitability to the up-to-dated interior
environments
著重產品的時尚性，以及其配合現代室內擺設的特質。
Mechanical counteractions between two contrasting subjectmatters
兩種對比性強的事物形成機械式的相互抗衡。
Spot-color as visual stimulation 螢光色：視覺刺激。
Raise audience’ sensitivity to speeds 提昇觀賞者對速度的敏感度。
Duplicated illusions oftremendous alphabetical typographies in the virtual-interface background
數之不盡的英文字母在虛擬的背景中作幻覺式的重疊。
Precise iconographies  concept-oriented expression
精準的圖像：概念為本的表達。
Honor the idea ofcubism, three-dimensional expression and one-pointperspective  a sense
of visual concreteness
高舉「立體」、「三維空間」和「一點透視」的概念：給人視覺上的實在感。
Intentional spatial distribution – rationale in idea development
著意式的位置經營：以理性思維構思意念。
The episodes ofdiving, flying, polar adventures, tropical adventures, mountainous adventures
and desertadventures – stresses the tightcoherence ofthat particular productwith the
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潛水、飛航、兩極探驗、探索熱帶森林和荒漠的片段：著重刻劃產品與這些極地
的密切關係  驅使人們從不可能中取得突破。
Advertisementon concerts, orchestras or dramas: using black background to highlightthe
solemnity ofachievements from that particular event/ by that particular performer
演唱會、管弦樂團或話劇的廣告：以黑色背景突顯表演者成就的莊嚴感。
Adoption ofcollage  delivering a sense ofvisual variation
引用拼貼效果：帶出視覺傳意的多樣性。
Pop Art stylish  upholding the playful spirit ofconsumerism
普普藝術風格：高舉消費主義的玩世精神。
Emphasize the pace oftrend 著重時代的步伐。
Mathematical order is adopted in the visual expressions related to anatomical proportions
當廣告需要有人體構造比例的視覺元素，數學序目的視覺形式表達則會被引用。
Masculine features  an identity with self-confidence
強悍肌用的特徵：自信心的身份表現。
Fonts with musical rhythms  emphasized a warmhearted welcoming manner for a pragmatic
experience in that particular cultural temperament(e.g. bars, spaghetti banquets, coffee
gathering…)
含有音樂韻律的字體：著重親切的態度，款待客人實質地感受某種文化情操。（如
酒吧、意大利粉店、咖啡廳…）
Designs related to official documents  Idea offormalism and structuralism
與公函有關的設計：形式主義和建構主義
Raising the awareness on public intellectuality
提高公眾對知情權的意識。
Experimentally manipulate the transformational effects of photography to deliver innovative
concepts (mainly rely on Photoshop, Illustrator and In-Design to process the photos into
graphics)
實驗性地運用攝影的影像轉化效果去道出創新的概念（主要依賴 photoshop、
illustrator 和 in-design 把相片處理成平面圖）

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Demonstrationfor writing agood piece of aesthetic comparison:
Part A: Design appreciation and Criticism
1. (A) Compare, contrast and analyze the design concepts, layouts and visual effects
of the two advertising works below. (20 marks)
(a) “Concord Pacific Boat Festival” organized by DRAGONBOATBC.CA in Canada
 Designer: Steve Wong
(b) “NIKE AIR – The Elemental” organized by NIKE in the United States: a logo design
for a sponsorship scheme to Suzuki Lisa, a renowned Japanese athlete, to
participate in the Osaka Marathon 2019
 Designer: Jared Nickerson
How to write a piece of good essay......
Work (a) is a piece of poster design by DRAGONOATBC.CA with formal
digital illustrations, whereas Work (b) is a piece of logo design by a NIKE

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designer called Jared Nickerson with a digitalized graffiti-liked free
composition. Both pieces consistently adopted light blue as background
for expressing an oceanic effect of optimism, as Steve Wong focused on
the description of waves and Jared Nickerson focused on the plain sea
with clouds and thunders from the logo as decorative elements. For
differences, Work (a) describes a collective watery sport called Dragon
Boat Festival, whereas Work (b) describes an individualistic marathon
pursuit with a prior emphasis on promoting training shoes for potential
runners.
From Work (a), you can see that the dragon boat is in brown yellow which
is the cored focal point, whereas the contesters are in different skin
colours showing a cross-racial harmony. From Work (b), a great portion
of the logo is in wooden brown, whereas a running shoe on the lower left
corner and the rainbow are found of purple. The composition of Work (a)
is quite formal, as Steve Wong had to care for the neat distribution of
competition information as priority so that the iconographies must be
placed in a formal pattern without much dynamic motions. The
composition of Work (b) is quite free-styled. Jared Nickerson never cares
about the layout-editorial norms as serious as Steve Wong from Work (a),
as he treated the NIKE AIR logo as a self-expressive kind of graffiti art
stressing the notion of liberty and freedom. Lots of un-proportional,
illogical, imaginative and creative accessories are found within the logo
such as a rainbow, a cloud with an eye, a finger with a fire, and a pair of
clapping hands from the red running shoe with a sun behind. For the
matter of background, Work (a) is a recreational event in Canada, an
English-speaking nation but is recorded with a large amount of
Overseas-Chinese residents. This Concord Pacific Dragon Boat Festival
is to give comfort to these Chinese residents with homesick sentiments
to their mother-nation, so that they can celebrate the traditional Chinese
festivals even not living in Mainland China or Hong Kong. Work (b) is for
supporting Suzuki Lisa as a pretty Japanese athlete for joining the Osaka
Marathon on behalf of the NIKE Company in order to advertise the brand
and good functions of NIKE’s product. The logo design is solely for the
marketing on Suzuki Lisa’s image because she is the cored and only
ambassador for this running scheme, and so the stylish decorative
elements are only for suiting Suzuki Lisa’s energetic sporty personality.

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Indeed, Work (a) is for encouraging Caucasians, Asians and Blacks to
abandon their cultural and religious differences for jointly pursuing
sportsmanship from the dragon boat race, just like how the Confucian
culture of China stressing the universal idea of utopian harmony. Work (b)
is an American-Japanese cultural collaboration in promoting sport
products with advanced technological elements, and you can see that
both cultures are not that distant in ideological thinkings at all. If we look
at the Second World War histories, we know that both the US and Japan
are keen at naval and air-force conquests. Their personalities get use to
be progressive in exploring adventurous challenges even dealing with
athletic sports like marathons, which can be regarded as legitimately
upholding the Western culture.
Work (a) is a successful piece of digital narrative drawing by using
Adobe Illustrator as software. There are clear human figures, clear
architectures and clear landscape features inside Steve Wong’s poster
design. His neat distribution of formal typographies is in accordance
with the official advertisements from the level of civil-servant sectors
and huge enterprises. Steven Wong accomplishes to serve as a
rule-abiding editor with efficient customer-service and executive ability
as his refined capabilities in ensuring no mistakes from the competition
information can definitely be acknowledged by the employers from the
publishing firms. He can issue newsletters and magazines with proper
propagandistic layout visions. Work (b) reflects that even though Jared
Nickerson claims himself as a prominent designer, he ironically behaves
like a nonchalant fine artist with unrestrained and unplanned character.
Jared Nickerson just treated the NIKE AIR logo as a piece of fine art, only
for the fact that the medium of drawing is “Adobe Illustrator”. Jared
Nickerson can only work as a freelancer to wait for sincere patron’s
adoption on his artistic creations, as publishing firms cannot trust him
by employing him as a full-time designer because he shows no
sensitivity to the formal norms of layout editorials at all and his
over-artistic character will definitely and easily deserve complaints from
the advertisement clients once he cannot strictly fulfill their dogmatic
editorial requirements. To conclude, Work (a) is a piece of design in
Chinese obedient culture, whereas Work (b) is a piece of design in
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Remember, there is no need to know all the design works from the world! Unlike the
Chinese art histories from the “Visual Presentation of a Theme” exampaper which
you can study the masterpieces from Tang to Qing Dynasties, you can no longer tip
which designers’ works will be adopted for question-making. Just remember some
cored aesthetic theories and then you can elaborate. Follow the structures provided
by the HKEAA marking scheme, and make your analysis as precise as possible:
1. Literal description: Commonalities and Differences
2. Formal Analysis: Colours, compositions and backgrounds
3. Interpretation of Meaning
4. Value Judgment
APPENDIX 1
There would be lots of questions about making classical designs, such as wedding
package, menu for Western restaurants, box cover for the Western cake desserts,
brochure for a Catholic Mass and advertisement for lady cosmetics. These tasks of
graphic designs badly request the fonts of classical and feministic Western
pen-calligraphies, but not all the VA teachers manage to teach this field of
hand-drawn typography.
Since June 2019, I serve as a Tutor of Western Calligraphy Course at YWCA Sai Wan
Social Centre for the Elderly. Up to now, my students manage to write the English
messages in Gothic and Italic fonts. Especially for Italic font, it requires the elegant
elongation of particular strokes as highlights. This can be a good reference for the
DSE VA Design examcandidates.
Whenever some important festivals come ahead, I will arrange a collective creative
task for my Western Calligraphy students at YWCA, which is to write greeting cards.
My students are very serious, as they would also add some extra decorative
elements to the card surfaces after writing out the calligraphic greetings. I praise
them that they are actually gifted in graphic designs, and the fonts I have taught
them have greatly enriched their design contexts.
My Western Calligraphy Course at YWCA has reached the fifth new series of
admission, and 15 students are recruited for opening the course in February 2020.
Here you can appreciate their pretty designs:

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APPENDIX 2
George Au is a contestant in the “KingMaker II” contest of ViuTV channel. He
successfully entered the final round as one of the 10 top-ranked elites. George Au is
given a nickname called “George Wawa”, as his facial appearance is very cute indeed.
The term “Wawa” can be explained as “doll”, in which George’s sparkling eyes are
very beautiful that makes him look teddy. George is a cute “Teddy George”.
After the “KingMaker II” contest, George Au, together with Champion winner
Phoebus Ng and other “KingMaker” twinks, were invited by a secondary school to
conduct performances for her Christmas Ball. George discovered a pretty installation
from the Art Room of that secondary school while the Student Union representatives
from there led him and other “KingMaker” twinks to enjoy a campus visit. This
installation reflects a very inspiring design concept with philosophical virtues. George
took a photo and uploaded this SBA portfolio exhibit to the “Stories” session of his
Instagramaccount.
George is responsible for several important tasks in ViuTV channel. First, he, together
with Phoebus Ng, Oscar Li and JJ, has just engaged in the “KingMaker On-line Game
Contest Pop-Star Singing Show” sponsored by Pok Oi Hospital. This is an innovative
charity show with youthful elements. Second, he and Phoebus Ng, together with two
members of “Error”, were assigned to take part in the hosting for “Fortune-Telling for

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Good Lucks in the Year of Rat” programme on the First Day of the Lunar New Year.
Going back to the installation that George Au appreciated, this piece of art exhibit
can be classified as design as well. Baby Tak Lung’s case of entry to Poly U Design was
due to the appreciation from Kacey Wong, a lecturer from Poly U Design with
academic emphasis on sculpture art. Indeed, sculpture-making can be seen as 3D
design as well. Kacey Wong is a contemporary fine artist with no doubt, but he can
teach 3D design courses at Poly U Design and guide his apprentices to explore the
creation of installation art. For the case of HKBU Academy of Visual Arts, if a Year 2
student has chosen “Design Art” as his professional concentration, he/she can
choose to study Furniture Design and go into the Sculpture Room of Kai Tak Campus
for cutting the wooden boards. Of course, the DSE VA exam only requires candidates
to deal with graphic and advertising designs. But, DSE VA students can actually
explore the creation of a 3D design work as one of their four SBA portfolios. The fruit
of the 3D design can be documented as photographs and frame them onto a black
cardboard. This cardboard presentation must be complemented by a booklet
presentation during the submission to the HKEAA.

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Address of “Atelier de Belas-Artes do Vincent Lee”:
Unit 1208, Flat A, 11th Floor, On Fat Industrial Building,
12-18 Kwai Wing Road, Kwai Hing,
New Territories, Hong Kong
Contact phone number of Vincent LEE Kwun-leung:
852-9404-1516
Email Address of “Atelier de Belas-Artes do Vincent Lee”:
vincentkllee13vangogh@yahoo.com.hk