Week 12

The picture above is about a great designer, giving advises to the young designers

although i don't know who is this guy, i'm totally agreed with what he had said to us

im not going to elaborate 1 by 1, but just focusing on 1 of the lesson

"3.Get off the computer and connect with real people and culture"

"life is viceral"

in this generation, people are carrying electronic devices like smart phone tablet laptop everywhere...
even when we are having meal together, it is easy for us to notice that there will be atleast 1 of the gang will stare at the phone...
it breaks the connection between them and the world...

to be able to do good designs, we need to learn more, see more, and to adapt it without stereotyping

week 11

This is a graphic about a character from a Japanese Manga called Naruto
i started to read this manga since when i was in primary school...almost 9 years i've read...
at 1st i was reading it just for entertaining...as i grow older, i read it for learning...
learn something that parents, and teachers don't teach...

i witness the growth of the Naruto
since when he was a young naughty, but ambitious kid
growing up to be a responsible, helpful youth
that willing to sacrifice himself for the peacefulness and justice, for his country, for the world...

from the picture above you can see from left to right
he is growing up, obtaining new ability and using it in a correct way...
the process of life is strange, as day goes on, we have to grow, to be much mature than the old us...

the main key of growing, is to be able to accept challenges
have aim, and trying our best to achieve it...

Week 10

There is a game on facebook call Tetris Battle.
quite a number of my friends are playing this game, this is a nice and excited game i would say
this is the interface of the game.
and just before a couple minutes, i have arrived God of Tetris in both 2P and 6P

what im trying to say here isn't about how good i can play
i bet there will be a lot more people outside that are above me...
in fact, i actually learn something from this game.

for those who played this game before they should know, if 1 of ur piece placed wrongly
this game would be difficult to continue...needless to say defeating the opponent.
what i can say is, always place faith in ourselves, think positive when we are facing difficulties...
life is tough like tetris, as when we place the piece wrongly, it would be a disaster...
but if such accident exist, don't be tention and don't know what to do..
in fact we should stay calm and try our best to solve the problems before we lose the game...

if we are lost without trying to win, thats the disaster...

Week 9

I always stare at the night sky when im lost of motivations and directions, not only in the path to be a designer, but my life...
Suddenly recalled a memory from previous semester
"We can see there are many designers out there who are breaking the rules to find creativity, but rules are meant to follow, not to break"
"Before u breaking the rules, u must understand, obey and digest the rules"

it inspres me, not only on my way to be a designer but also my life...
but im not going to talk about my personal stuff here, i know it isn't proper to discuss about personal stuff here...

Rules are meant to follow, to guide us whether what is right, proper, and what is something that we should avoid to do...
before we approach to be a Great designer in future, we have to 1st understand all the principles and theories in design, breaking rules without understanding it, its like taking the risk to create bad design...

there must be a reason why rules exist...so...if it is not harmful to us, why not we just try to understand and follow it??
that's all for today...thanks...

week 8

i got this picture from a facebook that shares funny photos.

what it inspires me on designing is
things around us, are ordinary, normal, yet BORING...
to achieve something creative, 1 of the way is to combine these boring stuff into 1.
like what we see from here.
2 completely different things, people will never link it together but with creativity and nice observation, they achieved it.

week 7

this particular photograph was taken by me at Melaka.

i'm not good in photography class seriously, even though how hard i try to learn and practice, im still in the below average level. and i was there in melaka for a photoshooting trip under UTAR, i was stress because i dunkno what to take for assignments. but then suddenly there is a guy, holding his guitar and started to sing. i could feel his effort, his emotion, his feeling from his voice. i was kind of touched, so i stood there and watched his performence. after a few minits pass, i slowly realise, he was totally ingored by people around us, non of the people listen to him, his performence. suddenly, i felt the loneliness as i believe he might felt that too. But the loneliness doesn't stop him from playing his music, i seriously being touched by him, and i've learn something from him also.

i learn that no matter how people look down at our design or artwork, we as the creator, shall never abandon them. it's like how our parents treat us, never abandon us no matter what we've done.
we should treat our design as our kid, something that we put a lot of effort in. no matter how bad they look, just never abandon it, or insult it by saying "OMG its ugly and its from myself"

week 6

Look at this gate
this is what we call  CREATIVE design!!!

the 1st thing come to our mind towards the idea of gate is plane...made by wood or steel...and for sure the shapes or outline are almost similar...

there are many ways to achieve a good and creative design...but i realized only 1 would be the most effective way.

1. Forget the original layout or the stereotype of the particular things that we are going to work on.
2. Look around you, what you have beside you, or infront of you, anything could be the inspiration for your design

like for examples (im just guessing but there is a possibility), the designers of this gate might just probably playing a game about dragon, or walking on the streets and got inspired by a dragon poster...

i believe creativities can be inspired by something from our daily life.
the creativeness of the design is not that necessary to be beautiful than others, but special than others, in a way that people don't expect to see in their daily life.