Week 6

Picture a day of Lateral Thinking 

                                Luminous Callidus Spiritus

This piece of work has an interesting of philosophical concept of Emergentism, which explores the emergence of the new and unexpected properties irreducible to interactions and between parts of a system. The flowers has an translucent shells, as the lights of the pulsating clusters can shine through them causing a radiation of shadows and brightness. The wires are connected to flowers to flowers that lead me to think of it gives a sense of calmness and rising from a dark place to a beauty. I wonder if the flowers can be opened and closed automatically and how the names came about.

                               Ultima Mudfox

This work comes from an inspiration of a dolphin, that glides unencumbered through the mud. The first time I saw this, I thought it was a fish called the "white sturgeon" because of its fin. The blue led light generates the flow of movement and the fin switch its position very slowly. I think this art work is to deliver a message to plausibility of the existence of these wondrous creatures.

                                            Alfredo & Isabel Aquilizan: Passage III; Project Another Country

I think it resembles a shanty town perched unsteadily on a wooden boat, suggesting the precocity of homes and of ''home''. Which it consist small houses overcrowding on a boat. I think it resembles new beginning to a new journey in our life. I wonder if it does have other meanings like the boat to a specific place to a complex emotions arising from social dislocation.

                                Algahest

This artwork emphasis the Kepler-22b, a planet some 600 light years from Earth, which has an mirror image of earth in an crucial way. As the window is rotated with each viewing, these liquid substances reform the landscape within the frame. The sand in the water looks like mountains of a portrait drawing. 

This table has a contour line under a sheet of glass, in the middle of the table with sands on the bottom. That lead me to think of  walking among the rocks of cliff in the dessert. Thus giving a sense of dry and humid atmosphere. I wonder how this table are made.  

                                   

During the communication workshop I had learnt about the communication skills of art that how me present it in the way to express ourselves and deliver the message or knowledge to the people. This is one of the mind map that our group did. That is about the causes of unsuccessful presentation. So to me, to specify a clearer explanation about the lesson, I feel the same thing that communication is a form of art as we have to perform on stage by using our body language, communication and fecal  expression that catch the attention to the listeners. it is important to apply these skills to anywhere we go. I wonder if  it can change a persons thoughts and creativity in arts or maybe able to speak fluently and confident in anything we want to accomplish.

                                               

On my trip to shopping mall, I came across the lobby and saw this dream world classic design filled with lots of reflective accessories and fixture. The first that caught my eyes is the pool and the fountain of glass cup, lady in blue dressers (mannequin) in the boat then followed by the hanging lights that looks like jellyfishes swimming in the open sea. That lead me to think of a amusement park that are filled with many facilities that you can play. Especially the pool that looks a merry-go-round from its shimmered colors and display of  the boat. The boat looks like an banana and a smile by its shape of the pointed tip. That leads me to wonder  why is it not other themes that u can think of , like Charlie and the Chocolate  Factories theme as the design which also can produce a similar feel.

Mind map on " How education leads to a happy life"

This is our second project that we need to find out ''how education leads to a happy life.'' When I think of the question, the first thoughts that comes in mind is ''health'' because a health lifestyle helps you to perform to your best of your ability whether is in school or working. You don't have to worry about unafford to pay your school fees as medicals fees cost a bomb in Singapore. As for me, I wrote it down in my sketch in point form so that its well organised and easier to read. 

The bee quiz

Imagine this room, the window on the at the back is open. In front of the window there is a table with a vase, in which a fresh rose stands. A painting of flowers hangs on the opposite wall (at the whiteboard area) A bee flies into the room through the open window, straight to the painting and not the rose. WHY?!?

My Answers are:

• There are more flowers on the painting compared to the one on the table.
• Honey spilled onto the painting that attract the bee.
• The bee is cant differentiate the painting and the real one.  
• The painting are too realistic
• The flowers in the paintings have more vibrant colors that makes it look tasty. 

Reflection

 I have learn that it is important to think broader will help us to make thing more specific instead of one route. 

Activities In Class 

On Friday, our class gets to try out, to solve the problems of using four straight lines to connect the nine dots without overlapping the line on the same line. It was hard as I need to think out of the box.

Boxing up to the jointing dots, criss-cross, zig-zag... I tried hard using many ways to solve it, after trying the several time, I still can't get the answers.

Answers

 These are the two examples

Reflection

I finally understand, I start the first line out of the nine dots to connect them together using the criteria given.  The most important tricks is to think out of the box.

Puzzle 2

Forming an triangle that can be rearranged up and down to form a triangle. After trying all the methods I finally got it. 

Puzzle 3

Continuous lines without breaking it or overlapping the line. 

After trying many time , the lines still overlap many times. Which I can't still find an answer.

Reflection

I have learn that anything is possible we need to think out of the box without setting an limits to our work. So that this is how creativity comes in.

Week 5

Mind map on Punks

On Friday, we have a presentation to do in class for our project. It was atrocious as we did not plan and discuss properly as a group. Because we are unsure of the instructions given and no one stand up to ask. I felt ashamed and disappointed of myself, so decided to make a first step to ask and to write down the information of the research on a piece of paper. As the result, things becomes better. So we split the jobs to my teammates. In doing a research it helped on mind mapping and understand the topic better on how punks came about, from US spread to UK and Australia since 1970, and how it affect the society. How's the impression given by the people, those are the important parts to consider too.  

 Mind map on picture a day

                                

The Marina Bay Sands building resemble the ship that was placed on the three rows of racks.The three hotels has the shapes of the Chinese word " 人" from the side view. That lead me to wonder of three man carrying the boat. I am also curious of how it was built since tower is not straight.

                                 

Garden by the Bay is the tropical garden in Singapore which is on of the enormous garden in Singapore. On its outer shape of the sea shell looking shape that have repetition of progressive curved lines surrounding it, that resemble a current waves. That lead me to think of  the fast moving waves that are coming continuously. I wonder how much capacity of the illumine can hold that are filled with tropical plantations.  

                                     

Some people say it looks like a hand but I have a different thoughts of it as its more to a lotus that symbolizes hope, beauty and rebirth. The petal form with layers that superposition to each other in an progressive manner, that forms in a round quantity.

It lead me to think of how is it able to stand stably with a small proportion, on a rounded surface with only a few beans and lobby to support the upper part. I wonder if the anchors would have more petals that enhance a more blossomy and massive look, around the middle base that stimulates people attentions and becomes a focal point of the buildings. 

                                  

The National Stadium looks like a turtle shell that has an semi-circle of its shape. The stadium features a domed roof structure with a retractable roof .The lowest tier has mechanized and automated retractable seating configurations.I think if its possible that the top layer of the two panel would automatically open up when the sports or events are held. That lead me to wonder of a turtle herniating inside its shell for many years.

                             

                                                                       Indoor Stadium

The first time I saw this building, it looks like a volcano, mountain and barnacles. This building was right beside the National Stadium. It is design by a Japanese architecture named Kenzo Tange. It has an four triangular shape ceiling with a long strip of rectangles at the edge that comes in an unity, to form a square. I wonder if this architect building design is inspired from the nature.

Every year during the hungry ghost festival, lots of joss paper will be burned inside the burning bin on on the floor that causes lots of ashed floating around and causing the air pollution. That lead me to think if there is a way to prevent this from happening. 

I wonder I there is a machine, like a vacuum machine that can suck up all the ash ,dust and smoke that are placed on the burning bin that reduce less pollution. 

                                                   

Finally, I am back home. I saw this beautiful sunset where the some clouds blocked the sun but I can still see yellow and orange light coming through the clouds.That looks like a lava and scattering violet and blue clouds that looks like piles and piles of wet sand. That lead me to wonder walking on a sandy beach. In my opinion, I never thought of the skies changes that fast everyday, that why time fly's.

Amy Tan- TED Talk

Reflection

I have learnt that small things can give us the inspiration through our daily lives and how we modify the things to become a more functional product that makes our life easier, by not setting our limits that lead us to think over head of impossible things to possible. To upgrade our thoughts and ideas while we are doing it, at the same new things will come up to our mind.

Week 4

STW-Picture a day

Top Interior by Taiwan Interior and Architect Company. Ltd. Ptd

I found a book on top interior and saw this interesting design of the hanging fixtures cluttering thin and fine metal strip that looks like the a bunch of hair that has tangled up. I wonder it resemble the smoke or a dark cloud.

This is another interesting design from the book it has a wave looking of the ceiling with many layers coming down to the wall. I wonder if the shapes of the ceiling resembles wall resembles the surface of a rock.

  

It's my first time to Bedok reservoir and I didn't notice it is such an wonderful place filled with lively atmosphere. The water is clean and clear and I can hear birds cheeping in the sky. There is lots of trees along the sides of the sandy path way. It was a 15 minutes walk from my home to there and I didn't released it was that near from home.

  View from high ground

   

 The vast pond from this view resemble a scene of a mangrove swamp.I wonder what is that pile of sands doing there and it has left there for decades of years. It lead me to think if there a cement factory nearby.

I realized the security camera with a solar panel on top of the post. I never seen this kind of design before as we usually see the solar system placed on the rooftop. The security camera looks a Venus fly trap ( a plant that capture insects). It lead me to wonder if it's located here as this spot has direct sunlight.

On the jetty bridge I saw there is a row of seats and plantation at the back of it in the middle of the open space.That lead me to think if who would want to seat under the hot sun during the day. I wonder if the shelters can be built on that area to keep away from direct sunlight.

On the log, I saw a trail of ants crawling back to its nest they seems to be cooperative and orderly back to their nest that lead me to think of watermelon seeds as its black and small. It also looks like a group of army launching off for battle. That makes me wonder if humans were to be like ants, cooperative and helpful.

Tony Fadell Secret of Great Design 

Summary

Tony Fadell talks about the first secret of great design of why do we get used to everyday things. Human beings have limited brain power and it encode the everyday things we do in to habitats in order to free up space to learn new things.The process is called habituation and it's the most basic ways, as humans , we learn. Habituation is not always bad because we can adapt to the environment or the things we do, as the day goes by. If we our drains don't get habituated, we would noticed  every little details that would be exhausting and no time to learn about new things. But sometimes habituation can be bad, if we stop noticing the problems around us. 

Which stops us from noticing and fixing those problems. It is easier to solve problems that almost everyone sees rather then solving problems that almost no one sees. We see the invisible problems not just obvious problems that's important. 

Before we can solve invisible problems, we need to feel and see them and it's basically about neuroscience or psychology. To fight habituation we need to look broader, when we're tackling a problem, sometimes, there are lot of steps that lead up to that problem or a lot of steps after it. If we can take a step back and look broader, maybe we can change some of those boxes, before the problems to combine them or remove them together to achieve better solutions. 

Secondly it's to look closer that focus on those tiny details the one we may not see to improvise on our thinking and ideas last but not least, we have to think younger is to expose  to something, the more we get used to it, As for kids run into problems, they immediately try to solve them and sometimes they find a better solutions. And that solutions really is better. 

We need young people in our teams or people with young minds because they cause everyone to think younger. We see the world clearly for the first time, before our lifetime of habits got in the way. It is important to get back there to feel that frustration to look in  little details, to look broader, closer and to think younger to stay as a beginners.It's difficult, as it requires us pushing back against one of the most basic ways we make sense of the world.

Reflection

It is important to think broader, younger and to look closer as these three main topics lead us to become a more detailed person and think wider to make life interesting and easier for us to do things. As a designer or creator, they have to look into small details and comes out with an solutions when problems are highlighted, to produce an faster, easier products for us.

Week 3

Brainstorming on mind mapping-durian

On Friday, our group did on the mind mapping on what we can see, think and wonder. When we started on this project, the first thing that comes to my mind is the odor of the durian. Followed by it's shape reminds me of the Esplanade because it has the exact shape and texture of  a durian. As

most people, are afraid of the smell and taste of durian as it have very strong odor and taste creamy which might stain in the mouth for a period of time which most people cannot accept it. 

On my view of point, durian can be made into many products and inspirations that are useful to our daily life. The durian has many variety of uses that we can think of and reusing the nature resources helps to save the environment.   

 Brainstorming of pictures a day

                                                  

                                                  

The Bras Basah CC1 train station has an interesting design of the interior, that has the repetition of black steel columns which consist a built-in speakers and lighting in it. I think it looks likes a pipe or a log by it's color and shape. That lead me to wonder of a log that is stuck in between the two walls.


                              

                                 You can see repetition of columns, when going down the escalator.


                                  

The open glass ceiling with dazzling water on the glasses sheets. It enhance a feeling of swimming in a open ocean.The sunlight hits on the water surface that causes the dazzling shadow and reflections of the water, on the wall. That lead me to wonder of a complex place underwater.


                                   

On my way home, I noticed there are lots of  Mimosa plants on the grass field. It has small fluffy, rounded and pinkish flower that looks like a fire works and a sea urchin. I wonder if there are thousands and hundreds of tabloid and infertile flower petals. 

                                   

A group of pigeons is always at this pond side, I wonder if they are thirsty. The body of the pigeons looks like a teapot from the side view.

          Explain of  pigeon 

• Mouth- Teapot's mouth

• Neck- Spout

• Body- Teapot's belly

• Tail- Handle

      

                                                            

This a fan can multi-task to save files and use it as a fan. I wonder how strong can the wind goes.




                                     

I noticed a bright yellow iron container with a black words on it. That lead me to think of a bee by it's color in black and yellow contrast. Unfortunately, the door is locked, that lead me to wonder what is inside this iron container.

                                                       

There are sections of overlapping containers that are use as a individual rooms for gallery. That lead me to wonder if these containers can be used as an apartment or houses from the residents to live in. That would actually save the cost of construction and reuse the resources to help to save the environment. 

Steven Johnson Brainstorming-TED Talk

Summary

Steven Johnson shares how history tells a different story. His fascinating experiences from the ''liquid networks'' of London's coffee houses to Charles Darwin's long, slow hunch to today's high-velocity web. The talk summaries an idea is not a single item; its a network the most elemental level that firing in sync with each other inside our brain. It's a new configuration that never formed before. Ideas are the combination of two or more 'plain old things' that we stitch them together into a new form and create something new. If we were trying to build organizations that are more innovative, it's going to be chaotic. 

In my opinion, ideas come together in chaotic environments where people from diverse backgrounds come together. Thus your work place should be just a little chaotic, with people sitting close to each other. From this part of the message, when people start to research in field, they start to get notoriously unreliable, when they actually kind of self-report on their own good ideas or their history of their best ideas. 

Most of the ideas comes from people sharing mistakes and thoughts with others which likely to generate more ideas. While great ideas might seems to come in this one magical moment, they have long incubation periods. They have been there in your mind: you just realize it around that one moment you might think of as the 'Eureka' moment. Last but not least, it allow your hunches to connect with other people's hunches. The value of protecting Intellectual Property is overrated. We should spend more time sharing ideas than protecting them.

Reflections

Brainstorming help us to think broader and wider, to help us to put things well organised,

step by step in an clear process or procedure that help us to complete our task. It also benefits to reflect on the things that needs to be improved. 

Week 2

                                   

Picture a Day - Designers Breaking The Rules

The images below where from a visit to NTU graduation fare

                             

This picture shows a hanging light design which has a form of twisted lines with connection to the LED tubes. It gives an image an spectacle viewing from this point of view but also a symbolizing DNA from horizontal angle.This makes me wonder how creative the creator is. It also enhance modern,futuristic atmosphere that I think majority of the people would like this design. It lead me to think where does the wire connect to. That makes me wonder of the lights placing in this position makes the room larger.



                                                     

The interesting shapes of paper crafting with built in LED lights. It has variety of  shapes and forms that gives an different illuminations inside the paper lamp shade. I wonder how it looks like from inside.



                             

This interesting twisted look table lights enhance a futuristic atmosphere which are in different colors of lights. The table lamp on the left indicate a form of a worm coming out from the underground. To me the light next to it looks like an futuristic towel. This lead me to think why its created in this unique form but not in the usual style.

                         

                                                 

This piece of furniture has it's multi-purpose usage of relocating the backrest, padded seat and you can place anything under the chair with an built-in shelves. On the color of the itself gives an soothing feel that makes you want to rest on the sofa. I think it is sufficient as you are able to position the siting you are comfortable to. I wonder what motivated the designer to come out with this design and inspiration.


                                        

The hanging lights above are made up of rattan and fabrics that has a shape of a jellyfish. I wonder what inspire the designer to have these thoughts.



                                             
                                             

From the picture above shows an image of a rug that was made up of thousands of recycled fabric rolled into a balled shape.This lead me to think of what the designer want to produce. 

A work to reduce and reuse items to save earth? It looks like a string together flowers as the fabric colors are intensives. I wonder how long would it took to complete one of this projects. 

Reflection

I realize that the furniture can be in different forms of shape and design. The most attractive design is the light made of paper.

                                               Research on Designers who Break the rules 

                                

Bed & Study

The designer want to create a debate about lack of student housing. Therefore, he constructed a house-shaped structure offer just enough space for a collapsible desk and seat. The back wall can be placed down as the bed. What an good multi-functional workplace for the student and it's so convenient and simple to use that they don't have to find a place just for work.

Reflection

In my opinion I think its a very creative design for student who need an quiet and comfortable environment for them to study, that might help them to concentrate on their work. 

                                 

                        

 Whatshisname???

 (nickname)

This designer whatshisname created a Good Boy lamp that his aim is to encourage the public to look at surrounding world and question in derisive, jeering way. This interesting design of a dog carrying a lamp on its head and it's poop is the switch. 

Reflection

In my opinion, I think if this design is for people who wants to keep a dog at home but for some unavailable reasons.

                               

                                                         Book: Furniture Design

60 SERIES

The tables and chairs from Georgian collection XYZ Integrated Architecture's 60 series are all produced with traditional techniques and materials. They share their trait, as well : their supports are uniformly titled 60 degree. In this form of design, it alert peoples a sense of collapsing when things are placed on it. Especially the chair gives the most frightening feel when u are about to sit on it.

Reflection

This furniture has slanted legs that looks like its going to fall. 

                                      

BLIO

What an interesting looking shelves that can deconstruct and rotate a regular bookcase, re-configuring it into a series of smaller units with side access and more storage for the books. I wonder if it can be used as partition walls as one part of the design.

Reflection

I didn't know that the shelves can be rotated in the manner which includes lots of storage space for the client with lots of accessories at home. 

                                 

OBJECT ELEVE 

(Ignore the Growth Table)

The interesting part about this design is there is a break-away from the stairs and without the railings.

It can use it as a shelves at the side which saves lots of spaces.

Reflection

In my opinion, I think that it gives me the nerve ranking feeling of falling,If  I were to walk on the stairs with only thin-steel stand supporting it. Especially without the handles, walking down to the apartment, that makes it more terrifying. But on the other hand, this stairs can be used as shelves to place our things which had more storage place for us.

  

                                         Julie Burstein - Breaking The Rules of Creativity

Summary

Julie Burstein is a radio host that talks about creative people for a living and share about how to create in the face challenge, self-doubt and loss. She mentioned creativity grows out of everyday experience through embrace experience that are hard to do when lighted rectangle in your pockets that takes all of your focus. As in the video she shares about an Indian director named Mira Nair, things that inspired her was traveling folk theater that would come through the town and see these great battles of good and evil by the two people in a field,with no props but filled with passion and hashish that sparked to led her to set her path to become an successful creative artist. Besides that, creativity also grow from the broken places and the best way to learn is through stories, work and play and four other aspects of life that need to embrace in order to have our own creativity to flourish.

Artist also speaks about how some of their powerful work comes out of their parts of their life that are most difficult. Which comes to the part of Richard Ford story about his childhood challenge that continues to be something wrestle with today. He's severely dyslexic that he was slow to learn and read all the way through school. He can read faster as he can read out loud but he came very slowly in reconciling himself and noticed to appreciated all of those qualities of language by doing it very slowly. As he released after linger all the sentences which has helped him to write sentences. That he has to embrace the challengers to overcome his weakness. Creativity is also about pushing yourself to the limits of what they can do, into what they can,t do helps them forces to find their own voice.

The hardest embrace is to embrace of the loss, most constant of human experiences. In order to have creativity is to stand in that space between what we see in the world and hope for looking squarely of rejection, heartbreaking,war, death.That all means, tragic not because it's sad but because it;s inevitable. From the photographer Joel Meyerowitz, said that horrific,tragic,ugliness can be seen in a different way as in nature enormous event that was transformed after the fact into this residue. Last but not least, creativity can inspire you from the inherent beauty of nature, as time,is erasing this world. Time is unstoppable and it transforms an event.

 Reflection

 In my opinion, we can all be creative with the things that we see, feel and touch. And simple ways to make our life easier.

                                      The egg experiment

On the 30th July 2016, our class conducted an experiment of not letting the egg break inside the cup when it is released from high distance and therefore the whole packaging must look presentable if we were to sell this product. So we form in groups of three and discuss on how we can protect the eggs from breaking.

First Examination

First we stuff some tissue in the cup then put in the eggs and stuff it on top of the egg till the brim for testing.Tissue under the egg to stable it from rolling and touching the cup directly.  

The egg is still unstable after trying out. So we proceed to the second examination.

Second Examination

Our group decided to wrap the egg up with a layer of tissues after wrapping it up with another layer of tapes which made the egg looked unpresentable but strong enough to protect the egg. So we conducted the third experiment.

Final Product
























For the final experiment, we decided the egg remain untouched and stuff the cup with tissue and under and on top of the egg. Then wrap the cups with duct tape around it and sealed the openings tight to secure the egg. The cup looks much better compare to the other subjects.

 Experiment Time 

 What a relief, the egg did not break. SUCCEED!!! 

Video: Egg experiment

Reflection

I have learn that teamwork is very important because we can get better ideas through discussion by listening to their ideas and comments. One person take a longer time to the solution than the group of teammates.