Essay 3-Man Chau Chau(Eric)

Introduction:

Be a term that can change the world, design cannot disappear. In my life of design, I always thought about design is a difficult task. Design one thing takes many times to prepare and develop the idea. The creation of the design also can make me want to give up. But design is an interesting thing to learn and to work with. I can say if my life without design, I will be going crazy.

 

My design life:

When I was young, I learned how to use some graphic software to do some graphic by myself. Before I attend to Australia, I learned printing and learned some of professional graphic software to create artwork. At that time, my design level has been increase more. In Australia, I started to learn more animate software to create animation graphics and create 3D graphic and games.

My design life is easy. I do not have too much experience to design thing. I only become a designer in Australia for one year. That year is a good experience for me to show up my design skill.

During I study at the University of Sydney, I found that design can be everything. Everything is related to create new ideas and can be induced in design. Design can be “things” or “work” and  I learned that design has a power to change human’s life.

 

Worksheet

 

Philosophy:

In the year I work in Australia, I always do researching before I design things. For example: Design a logo. I will first look at some other designer’s design and look at the company’s pervious design. This affects me to change my design process and design thinking.

 

 

Farming:

I believe that understanding is important for design. To understand the goals of the project and the need of the project can make the project successful and unique. Also, designer can put more power on the project to increase their level or life.

 

Response Process:

Learning and working with other people make the project easier. I think design is a learning process. I always learn by design.

 

Incessancy:

I think I am not a work hard person. I do incessancy when I am doing an important project such as: doing a job.

 

Reactivation:

When I work on a less important project such as: Assignment, I always do reactivation. I will doing other things, and then come back to the project.

 

Preparation:

1 day

 

Lecture:

 

Interpreting:

Different people have different interpretation of things. Designers doing design always follows their interpretation of the project or works.  For example: Design a package,

You need to find the solution to make the package can be packed and hold product. My design process is a top-down design process. I design the solution for the project and then do other sub-task of the work.

 

Knowing:

Knowledge is the one of main goals that human to seek in the whole life. Without knowledge, human cannot live in the world. Human needs to have knowledge on doing everything. In creative area, knowing is very important. For example: Draw a cat.  Painter to draw a cat, they need to know what is cat look like.

Designer also needs knowledge. Before design things, designer needs to know about the project. Hence, designer can combine their knowledge to design a product.

 

Practising:

What I need to do and what I didn’t need to do is the result of practising. By practising, designer can defend what they need to do and what they didn’t need to do. Expert designer can find more easy solution for design. They can finish the project quicker and save money and effort to do other necessary process.

 

Researching:

Researching is one term that includes in many designers’ design process. For myself, I also do researching before designing things. The purpose is to look at other designer’s design and try to find out their advantage and disadvantage to make sure my design will not follow their fault and put their advantage into my design to make the design more unique and success.

 

Modelling:

Modelling is important in design process. To make audience know about the design, make a model is a good way to present. In printing industry, before go into printer, designer always do a mock-up to check everything is done and present to client to make client know that what the final product look like. By modelling, designer can learn about how the design can be improved.

In fact, I have not done much about model. The reason is my experience seldom have opportunity to do model.  But I think modelling is good for designer.

 

Exploring:

Exploring is the topic of my first essay.

As my experience, exploring and researching is the first step to start a design. Without exploration, design cannot be done and cannot be presented properly, the meaning or some physical effect cannot be shown explicitly to other people. Design in exploration is to find a correct way to solve some problems or explore the world such as: know more about the world, explore one person’s personality or thinking and solve problems.

In my opinion, exploring in design can make the design more unique. Interpreting, knowing and exploring are the three good ways to learn about the world.

 

Discussing:

For myself, discussing is about communication. Every designer needs communication with his or her partner, client or audience.  Discussing can make their relationship closer and easy to communication with each other.

Within conversation, designer can learn the good thing and the bad thing for each other. And try to not follow the bad things of them. 

In addition, discussing can get the reflection for other designer and come up some professional idea and problem with the design.

 

Experiencing:

In every people’s life, there is much experience to look at other people’s design. People can learn how designer thinking and how to design things.

I think I can learn more by doing it. This is practise. Practise can increase my experience in design and improve my design skill.

Experience is around my life. I think all design acts are about experiencing each of the following tasks: Knowing, discussing, researching etc. This is because “learning directly though senses and introspection”. Everything we do in out life is experience that is because after the things happened, we will think and introspect about it. For example: Researching, after we do the researching, we will analysis the information and remember it. That will become the experience in design things.

 

Presenting:

Presenting is second essay’s topic.

I think I fully put my views into the essay.

Presenting is to show the work to other people to look at, get feedback from them and to convince other people to believe or buy the work. To show the work to other people and explain the work is the action that designer always does.

Presenting is very important to effect audience to keep an eye of the design.

Conclusion:

            In conclusion, design is a term can change the world. There is no single and simple way to design, there is much design acts.

            Design thinking is an interesting course. Throughout the whole semester, I found that there is too much knowledge about design. There is a lot of step I have not thought before attend to this class. I believe that I complete my goal of attending to this class, my design skill has improved  and my design thinking has become more professional.