Design Career

I always have a thing with drawing, my parents collected all my drawings from kindergarten till now, i always hated maths, biology, physic or chemistry. in high school i picked visual art and textile and design, unfortunately they are scale down subjects ,even tho i did good my UAI was bad, but i didnt want to go apply a commerce degree for the sake of it, so i did a year of foundation and had a better uai at the end of the course, so i started looking at my options, i was juggling between industrial design and cofa design, i wanted to learn about technical drawings and how to use computer aided design softwares, i never knew if i can become a designer or not, coming from an Asian family, graduate from university is a necessity, regardless of the future career, my father always said you go to university to learn the way of thinking, logic and sophistication. If i can become a industrial design i would design sportwares, may be specifically for martial arts, because i have a huge passion for it, martial arts carried me through some of my darkest and most miserable times of my life, i could not give them up, so if i can use this passion into my advantage in term of designing, i believe i have a higher chance to succeed in becoming a designer. i haven't been clear about my path of life, for the last three years so i delayed alot in my academic progress, but i believe whatever you do, as long as you put in effort you will get results. 

Product sketch

project 2 - peer comments

commented under name MandaChuva

http://pamablang.blogspot.com/2011/10/upcycling-lamps.html?showComment=1318911753007#c4666720701651647412

http://jacquelinebui3377777.blogspot.com/2011/10/upcycle-rationale.html?showComment=1318911956930#c8744819262252022892

http://lovedbyee.blogspot.com/2011/10/xxx.html?showComment=1318912117042#c2243622442798036678

http://mfredrick.blogspot.com/2011/10/upcycled-utility.html?showComment=1318912279632#c9146371326774628477

http://christine-x.blogspot.com/2011/10/upcycled-utility.html?showComment=1318912465092#c1344221887772722608

project 2 - poster

project 2 - rationale

Rationale

This design idea came from a random browse on the internet about nature, a caterpillar cocoon shown up and I tried to incorporate the shape and curve into my design, however pattern making for the living beings in nature is very difficult, through many trials I almost given up, I was play around with the shape of a fan-like template I cut out and as I spin it diagonally, it creates a beautiful curve similar to a sea shell, although the form is beautiful but it is unrealistic in terms of lighting design, there were many flaws and difficulties I can not overcome, so I have to forfeit this idea as well.

I made a final large template to try out one last time of the sea shell idea, it failed but i discover as it been curled so many time it starts to sustain the curvey shape, and through a few improvisations, I can to this final form.

I choose 3 different gradient from dark blue to light blue and then dim yellow for the inner layer, I thought it might allow more light sources to penetrate through but because there are very little range or bending at the top of the lamp, the stripes do not open up, even through a trial of sanding the inner and middle layer mildly, thinning the layer doesn’t help at all for the brightness, so I decided  to  cut some stripes off from the inner and middle layers, surprising it turns very dynamic, the positive and negative space the light source creates from the extra space on the layer, displays onto the outer layer yet without losing its original form from the outside, the reason I do not want to cut the outer layer is also because I do not want to lose the original cocoon form.

The joints are really difficult to decide, any foreign material can easily break the form of the lamp or look imperfect, so I decide use the same material as the lamp and make some round arrow head connectors, so by just cut line through the layer and slide the arrow head across it, it can easily stabilize the pieces.

I decide on the cocoon theme is because I think at the time that the life inside of the cocoon is alike to the energy of light, radiating through the layer, ready to shine through.

project 2 - assembly instruction

Project 2 - Cutting diagram

peer comment for project one

http://kosukedesign2011.blogspot.com/2011/09/project-1-experience-enrichment.html?showComment=1318230879812#c7286960177163986989

http://2011jj.blogspot.com/2011/09/project-one-experience-enrichment.html?

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http://neveronline4.blogspot.com/2011/08/design-posters.html?showComment=1318227353080#c1987369037484973853

http://danielhjkim.blogspot.com/2011/09/experience-enrichment-hero-shot.html#comments

http://seon-tae.blogspot.com/2011/09/projet-1-experience-enrichment.html#comments

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