Design Principle - Project 2

30/5/2022 - 10/6/2022 - Week 9 - Week 11
Design Principle / Bachelor of Design in Creative Media

Lee Yan Xu 0347696

Project 2 - Sence of Place

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LECTURE

The Importance of Observation

Being observant means being attentive to your surroundings, paying attention to the details, and to be analytical about them. For a designer, observation can be an effective way to get ideas. Sources of observation can stem from artifacts, daily happenings, physical surroundings, and such.

Fig 1, 22 examples of genius design around us

Fig 2, Herzog & de Meuron Architects, Buildings

Fig 3, New Era of 'digital media' architecture

Observing is an active act of acquiring information, through the senses, about a subject matter in its natural setting. Observation is also important to designers as it enables them to see “problems”, as well as get ideas for solutions to those problems.

" All we have to believe is our Senses, the tools we use to perceive the world, our sight, our touch, our Memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted."

Fig 4, Neil Gaiman and one of his quote

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Instruction

Also with :

- Visual research

- Idea exploration 

- Feedback

- Final outcome which is in the PDF file

- Reflection

Visual Research

These are some hand-drawing pictures that I had been searching on Pinterest.

Fig 5, Drawn by Vintage on Pinterest

Fig 6, Drawn by Elsa Sanabia on Pinterest

Fig 7, Drawn by Danny Hernandez

These are the real photo of some place.

Fig 9, Photo taken by Hex on Pinterest

These 2 photos were taken in Malaysia's tourist areas. Most people do not know about Malaysia, but actually, Malaysia is one of Asia's hidden gems and I want to show them these Photos.

Fig 8, Photo taken by Lenka Miháliková Mlfashion.sk on Pinterest

Fig 9, Photo taken by Adam Azman on Pinterest

Exercise

This is the first time I went to London and the first time saw the London Bridge also known as Tower Bridge.

Fig 10, London Bridge

Fig 11, London Bridge

Fig 12, Final outcome of a sense of place

Fig 13, Final outcome of a sense of place in PDF

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Feedback

Week 9 - No feedback from this week

Week 10 - No feedback from this week

Week 11 - No feedback from this week (holiday)

Reflection

This project let me memorize the old memory again, and I am very happy with that. Although my drawing skill is not good enough, I still enjoy drawing it.