I.Design

Designers and artists need inspirations to create more.  Thus, a portable studio is needed for them to move around and get more ideas. Again, this is a project in group of three. We chose Karim Rashid as our design client. He is well-known by his dynamic, human works which he called them as 'sensual minimalism'. Being an industrial designer and interior architect, he is bold in using striking colors in his designs: pink,white, white, green, purple, blue but not black. He thinks colors are able to create a pleasant atmosphere and black color makes him feeling restrained. Karim Rashid often dressed up in pink and white, which he felt angelic and free. The design is inspired by a leaf blowing in a wind. It symbolises free, untrimmed and relax. The shape of the window was taken from one of Karim Rashid's design symbol called 'soul'. This symbol appears in his design very oftenly and we think it would be bringing out the identity of Karim Rashid....

A reception table is the first thing that comes into your eyes when you enter a company, gallery, hotel and etc. It could bring out the identity of the company and give a welcoming sense to the visitor. Therefore, a reception table is very important. For this task, I chose MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) as my design target. I like MoMA very much and it would be my greatest pleasure if I could design a reception table for MoMa. MoMa is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Its collection offers an overview of modern and contemporary art. This inspired me to design a sculptural reception table that suits MoMa's image. The reception table was named as 'Ospiral' which means organic shape of spiral. The design was inspired by an element 'spiral' which is popular in architecture, art and nature.  I could see this element appears in a french curve and nautilus shell. I transformed them into an organic form and this is how 'Ospiral'...

I was quite shock by the first project given in the first day of new semester. The task was to create a poster promoting the old charm of George Town.  Seven heritage buildings in the George Town World Heritage core zone were to be selected to be the main attractions of the poster. The task was a group project of three.  I was not having a really deep exploration to George Town on last semester since I was bombarded by the rushing studio projects. Soon after the morning session of studio, my studio masters allowed us to have a self visit to George Town for collecting information and data. George Town is really a great place to be visited. Filling with heritage buildings of various style from different era, fusion yet harmony. I felt like I was falling into a time machine and back to ancient time. After a lot of discussions and rational thinking, my group had finally come out a concept about the poster design.  We imagined ourselves as the tourists...

It has been a few months since the last post. Final exam and sem break has dragged my attention on revisions and holidays. New semester has just started. After saying goodbye to RUS 104, here comes RUS106. So the blog will be active again with the coming soon exciting projects! [Be strong, be tough]