18042014_week 9 Lecture`s Notes n Read ( 'why prototyping is important in design process')

This week was particullarly interesting as some of you have came out with a very interesting prototype of your design project. Some still working on it and some are still in the process of refining the outcome. What ever it is I need to emphasis the improtant of designing your prototyping process and it is a process that you should never skip in your design process regardless in what ever design practices that you are in.

Lecture's Note on The importance of Designing the Prototype in the design process.

when you stop reading, you stop being excellent! 

Dont stop reading...

Read Articles:

1. Why Designers Should Never Go To A Meeting Without Prototype?

2. Why Prototyping is Essential to Your Design Process?

 

Never forget to TEST the prototype in the real world and see the impact of your product (at the moment it is your prototype) can do. If it is a successful one then start looking for the problem. FIND the ERRORS because remember nothing is perfect.  

Lastly remember to alway enjoy the process and document it.

Dr. Nurul

14042014 VIA DESIGN SOLUTION PART 2 : STRUGGLE! STRUGGLE! STRUGGLE!

14/04/2014 (MONDAY)

Messange: 

Tomorrow 5pm (after typography class) we need to meet up to do the mock up of our little dustbins. Pleas bring along paint materials, recycled materials and reference picture for painting. Will figure out if we will include any text or purely visual on the dustbins. After that, we will photoshop the dustbins onto the picture of our location in georgetown.

Please also note that we need to get ready with all these by wednesday morning, so try to do together.  

16/04/2014 (WEDNESDAY)

Messange:

- Mineral water bottle also okay, cut into half

- We show her at least 4 designs on friday, she said we got 4 heads

- Chew lin i think you have all the painting materials so you can do one and bring during tutorial class.

17/04/2014 (WEDNESDAY) 
 

Messange:

idea (1)

http://rossyatesyak.blogspot.com/2014/01/aluminium-can-lantern.html

-it looks like a sunflower with a happy face!

idea (2)

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/203717583118783206/

reason： we didnt pick it as it looks nice but a bit hard to do the mock up.  

idea (3）

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/203717583118224567/

14042014- Lecture`s note n Read (share)

READINGS

Within the visual communication ground, a person or a community can communicate to the another. In this newspaper article, a group of Pakistanian artists expressing their concern to the world through an large scale image so that the image can be seen through the sky, hoping that someone might see it. Indeed someone did and it is now in the world news.

Tackling social issues with design methods and strategies.

part 1： design solution 'happy bin'

At the beginning, we are 8 person in one team.

But

in the end, we decide divide into 4 person in a group 

as Dr. Nurul feel too many person in a group is not a better way.

First, we called 'Happy Bin' for our project.

Location that we chosen which it could be empty space or wall or some creative spots.

In my points, i think that creative spots that people will never thought of being able to be used for this kind of project.

- some simple sketches about some poping idea when discussing with the teamates about the project.

- First, we think about our theme which is `happy bin`. We wanna distort the dustbin with messange but at the end, this idea was rejected.

- At the last, we wanna make it simple, save cost and effective. Then, we think about can and bottle. We decide pick the cans as our found materials. And we perform it just by using yarn to hang it on our eye levels sign at the location that chosen.

- All of us haven't found anything as reference to paint on our dustbins

- After discuss, we try using arcylic or water color to test on surface of the cans or plastic cup.

- Green color was color by using water color on plastic cup. But, it really look ugly and it doesn`t work if hang it on tress as the trees already green color.

- Middle can and right can which paint by arcylic color also can`t accepted.

- The typo looks BORING and messy at all.

- All of this are the problems that discovering such as the materials that used to paint on it, the color that we chosen, and also the typo.

SHARE: IDEA_INSPIRATION via PACKANGING

a great idea that can make us happy and smile^^

SOURCE: http://www.teepr.com/41%E4%B8%80%E5%80%8B%E8%AE%93%E4%BD%A0%E6%84%9B%E4%B8%8D%E9%87%8B%E6%89%8B%E7%9A%84%E7%94%A2%E5%93%81%E5%8C%85%E8%A3%9D/

02042014- BRIEF via HERE COMES TO DESIGN SOLUTIONS

PROMBLES > DESIGN STRATEGY > DESIGN SOLUTION > OUTCOME

LOADING...

FEEL LOST??

How you overcome the feeling when you are lost!?

calm down...

relax...

You shouldnt b a passive student but you should b a active student!

Dealing... Questioning...

What people expect, you just give them!!?? If you know you are good, why needs people tell you are good!? {JUST BE YOURSELF}

BLOG > VIDEO? PRODUCT? POSTER? IMAGE?

Do you know animation always start from a paper : sketch from paper > more and step by step!

to b creative > to b different!

without understanding to be different...? How?

- approach your work

- repeal yourself

don`t care what people talk about or look at you, you have the right but so do I (communication always are 2 ways, not 1 ways!)

OBSERVATION

to be continue_

TIME TO THINK_LOST & FOUND: PENANG`S HERITANGE BUILDING

乔治市老店屋你知多少？

PART 1: HERITAGE SHOPHOUSE STYLES 

 

Heritage shop house in Georgetown fall into 6 main styles. Each style has distinctive architectural and decorative features which is repreerntative of a different period in Georgetown`s history.

BI Version via heritage shophouse styles

 
Enlarge Picture :
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBZUESS-L8t4HOPmuM-0cAXyh7rCMjpzibrbQoYpKWnoIZWvOc3RqlfJzGcigktyHiS_xELN97tuOF_UO0rTlgoy2_g3LPgZba8lB6_r9iJZSaZklL_x9SpmZKJu51yGfEvwI4cwBWpWQP/s1600/Flyer%2528c%2529+-+BACK+%2528ENG%2529+small.jpg

 

BC Version via heritage shophouse styles

Enlarge Picture : 
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Owners and tenants who are confused about the original features and decorative elements of their shop house should use the following visual guides to retaining the distinct historial features of the shop house or restore features that have lost!

PART 2: HERITANGE SHOPHOUSE FEATURES 

 

你可否知道老房子的构造与特征呢？

让以下的图片告诉你老屋的特征，并教你如何保护老屋哦。

BI Version via heritage shophouse features 

 
Enlarge picture : 

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3BvqHK4qyoShOvKqZ_EK_aU5k3sAnbm_0dOR-W62ajGAqpWcLl7M5QVR-r6hC3Vfmd5vtHb9oA4fWpZ1xEd1qw8aKz_mPCSXjda8zWaa0h8f6az-ws18A1mWF-UD0cKE6GRCduEwMUVFG/s1600/Flyer+%2528C%2529+-+FRONT+%2528ENG%2529+small.jpg

BC version via heritage shophouse features 

Enlarge picture :

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-2sr27yS4sni0Ziztu6UrYiK8NeGMBCrde4E75tzBTzebRCqPgyI-yzHIT4pANerRhFWpRA7orT5XPkVxkK3jGcvtEPkf4133TttGOGAGR6cto0AW3QTYJzxKQlawcTs57rL_GXYmILDU/s1600/Flyer+%2528C%2529+-+FRONT+%2528CHI%2529.jpg

 

要如何保护老屋的原汁原味:  

* 历史风格 - 鉴定老房子的历史时期和风格，以修复门面的原貌特色。

* 建筑风格 - 理解空间的分配及使用、无脚基的功能，以及天井和屋后阳台跟空气流通与风水的关系。

* 传统建筑材料 - 学习传统建筑材料（白灰、木材、红砖、陶瓦和花岗石等）的科学知识，以及为何这些建筑材料适合在乔治市的地质和天然环境中。

* 传统建筑知识 - 聘用一个熟练的承包商或工人，他们知道哪里可以找到传统建筑材料，以及如何使用这些建筑材料。