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I truly love what I do!

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Soup Kitchen Rules

Our Group Rule:

Everyone bring own special cutlery that shows their own personality

Cleaning up everything (No rubbish to be left)

Class Rule:

Bring own colourful cups

Tell people what’s in it. (Ingredients)

Feedback

Be mindful to reduce waste

Everyone can season to eat

Cannot be too hot or cold

Everyone can season to eat

Documentation of events (photographs on Instagram)

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Group Manifest idea

For week1 group, I was working with Jenny. At that time we didn’t discuss food manifesto as we thought we could do any subject so we came up with the idea to do manifesto about  “Dream” as everyone had the dream since childhood.

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Case study #2 Tokyo Picnic Manifest

For case study 2, we went through an organization called “Tokyo Picnic Club” which was founded in 2002.The members are consists over 80 people now including other professions such as graphic designers, photographers, landscape architects, food coordinators, patissiers, curators, and planners. I actually really wanted to join this club now after I read through everything on their website.  I loved how they’ve been using picnic as their act of expression to covering a wide range of issues and activities and how the members work collaboratively to dedicate their talents of creativity for re-defining the activities of the picnic in the modern context of the urban circumstance of Tokyo.

When I read through their profile, stating that Tokyo is lacking green spaces and the parks are not fully open to the public, it reminded me of the process of lacking green spaces to succeed of urban green spaces in Korea.

Around 1950s, there was only 20% of green spaces than current and all the mountain was bare like a desert so Korean government

after reforestation, Korea became the only country that succeeds of forest recovery after world war 2 and according to UNEP Secretary-General, Korea is now stating as universal pride for succeeds of forestation business.

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Case study #1 Reality

We started our first class of semester 2 with an understanding of this course and watching 2 videos by Andy and Chris. The first video was short 5 minutes video clip of Master chef that looked like the 2 women were in a team and were getting good feedbacks for their final food which seemed like they are going to win. The second video was a short movie called "FOOD" made by Gordon Matta-Clark who is a performance artist famous for his site-specific artworks and it showed us about the process of producing a good meal from purchasing ingredients to cook and eating with good people which also made me feel like I was there with them. These 2 videos are based on realism but there was big difference between the two. Master chef clip seemed performed by  sound with good image editing and  scripted voice and body language from  which was easy to excite audience's curiosity more than "FOOD" movie which was no background music, subtitles or sound effect but contained the sound of the environments, peoples, and gestures which made this movie so realistic.

Other students are saying that Matta-Clark's video was interesting but to be honest, that movie didn't really grab my attention. When the movie started, I was like "What is this..." and it was boring to me to watch the whole thing. I just felt like I was watching someone else's daily life through CCTV but compare to Master chef video, even the clip was short, I could feel the 2 chef's mind and gain my emphasis. Definitely, people might know that Matta-Clark's movie is much realistic and Master chef is performed, but they take a deep interest  this kind of stimulating contents. Like YouTube videos, people easily get interested with short video with great image editing that takes about 3-5 mins but if the video takes about 20mins with less editing, people get boring easily even though the information is same and some people even doesn't watch the video if the video takes 20 mins because they feel wasted time.

Practically, if we compare the videos with interest by the audience, they are not comparable as the "FOOD" was made by 1972 and master chef was made recently so the master chef is easier to get people's attention.

After I compared this 2 videos, I thought the both way they try to approach realistic to the audience is important in design as well. The process of producing a good meal shows in Matta-Clark exactly same as the design process. It’s unaffected, ordinary, and there is no specificity but when the design is done,

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Final Reflection

This is final interview with Sylvia Sohyun Lee, Jewellery designer whose working in one of the raising Jewellery company in Korea. She had a hearing disability since she was 3 years old and she was my best friend in Korea since primary school student which is more than half of years of my age!  When I couldn't reach my first and second person, I was bit worried and disappointed but when I interview her, we both actually enjoyed the process and I was even surprised because I thought I knew her well in personally but I could learn few different things from her! Like she mentioned that she was uncomfortable with people's eye when she wearing hearing aid so she tried herself  to not get those eyes. When I read this part I was so heartbroken as I couldn't realise that for so long even though we're best friends and when she said that she started to go overseas from her first Australia trip, I was so happy about it because she came here with me right after I went to Korea after Yr 12 HSC and same as her in Korea and she stayed here about 2 weeks at my place. I didn't know that she was inspired in a lot of ways on her life and her design works so I was really happy to hear that! When I design her interview with her nature collection, I wanted to give hope to other hearing-impaired people through her life story and her working experiences as she overcomes her frustrations and succeeds so I designed the interview like seed packet style as seed gives a hope of nature. I also wanted to give hope to my  audience who's going to read the interview inside so when they open the seed packet, they will see the 6 cards that represent the beauty of nature through full sized image of her beautifully worked designs that contain beauty of nature in her each work that's been professionally taken so those photograph of nature collection represent hope of nature and hidden treasure of nature. The front page of the seed packet is with plants that she used one of the elements for her work with  muted colours. I put 4 different languages which are English, Korean, Chinese and Sign language as the audience is going to be multicultural people in Australia and I also put sign language as one of the typeface forms like other languages to blend all together so that sign language shows that it's part of our daily languages as well. Then I blended with my watercolour painting with the texts so that some parts of typefaces are hidden on the plants and look like it's growing under the typefaces and barely wrap the typefaces so that looks like they are blended each other as she blended nature into her jewellery design, I also wanted to blend the typography with nature in communication or graphic design way in her style!

This project took me a lot of steps to get the final piece as I couldn't think about my own style. I had to make the presentation form within her styles and I had to give hope to the audience through the interview and the "Jewellery Packet" design to make them want  to read. As I was also an audience for other interviews, I sometimes skip it  because it's too long and tight without any spaces so I wanted to make it using 2 senses of our body which are tactile impression and visual impression so they can read it and also touch it. As Sylvia told me that her other senses are developed than others to sense the situations well since she lost her hearing so I considered about other hearing-impaired people whose going to read my interview!

After I finished my final photograph and send to Sylvia, her first response was “Ara! This is totally my style! I love your design! You look like a professional interviewer” and she uploaded on facebook :)  I’m so happy that she liked it and this project developed me even further as design student to understand and think about audiences and the person who I’m going to interview! :)

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Final Photograph #1

I Eskersley’s to get some coloured paper to take my final phootograph but I found this grass feeling sheet which is using for Architecture I guess so I got them in A4 size. They were about $8 each and the rolled up one was about $70 so I just 2 of them and placed underneath!

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Process #5

This is my final ‘Jewellery Packet’. I really like the outcome of pure and simple like her style! I actually put some her elements on the back of the interview card and showed to Sylvia but she recommended me to just make it a simple white background so that texts can focus directly on the interview and simple and clean so that can be balanced with front and back page!

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Process #4

I was in process to create card style with pockets to put them on A3 posters so I was cutting her works on photoshop but the cropped outcome were not looking great as I expected because her pieces were photographed professionally so if I touch on those photos, it looked unbalanced so I changed my idea to develop my design contain Sylvia’s style and keeping the images original.

Then I finally came up with seed packet design as nature comes from plants and plants come from seeds. I thought about the connecting link of nature but her plants are designed in jewellery style so it's going to be "Jewellery packet" with seed packet style and her jewellery works will be representing “hope of nature”

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Process #3

I finally got half of answers from Sylvia on Monday and the rest on Tuesday night and the answers were about 3 pages in total. Browyn recommended me to crop out the texts before I translate as it’s going to be too much work and too long so I edited the questions and answers to make the readers comfortable to read,

Then I could make it 1and a half-page short! so I started to translate into English. As I  help my boss sometimes to call to head office in Korea to translate to him and the director of the headquarters in my workplace so this experience quiet helped me to think about the audience how would they understand easily and catchy their opinions.

This is the final translation of her answers! Phew! That was challenging for me but luckily I’ve finished!

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Process #2

I painted with watercolour painting with Sylvia’s one of her plant element, corn flower then scanned it to work with illustrator to merge with typography.

This process actually took me a day to finish it! As the painting was not drawn by illustrator and scanned image, I had to take it to photoshop and  outline those every plant pieces to cover the typeface. Through this, I want to make it as one image that’s blended all together with plants and the typeface like Sylvia blended nature and jewellery through her works.

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Process #1 Sign Language

Alphabet: S

Alphabet: Y

Alphabet: L

Alphabet: V

Alphabet: I

Alphabet: A

I’ve learnt sign languages from her since I was young so I took photograph of myself to make Sylvia’s name with sign language then I draw with pen tool to create illustrated sign language like one of written language form and combine with other her English, Korean and Chinese name.

I’m happy with this outcome as sign language also look like written language form like others. I hope one day there is sign language keyboard came out so they can use it as written form because I heard that even though they translate their language into sign language to speak, the grammar is bit different so when you talk with hearing-impaired people you might sometimes slightly not understand so Sylvia told me one day that she’s so sad when sometimes people  misunderstanding her which she didn’t mean that way so I hoped sign language can be written from and translate into their mother’s tongue.

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Research #2

I researched some works based on her style. As her style is based on nature, I’m going to use plants with muted colour line and make it simple as possible as she showed less fanciness of her communication of nature beauty through design works.

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Research #1

As she uses sign language when she communicates, I research some sign language artworks! 3 different style, hand illustrated, shadow illustrated, and black and white photographed eye checking style poster! I really love this work as it expanded the sympathy to hearing impaired people as well!

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Sohyun Lee’s Style

As she’s currently working till late night, she wanted me to give her some time to send the answers and she also said that she doesn’t want to be on video as she’ so shy to be on film which is fine so I had to think about other medium forms to present her interview with writing. Then, I came up with small magazine style with 3D style on the front. I was thinking to die cut her name on the front like crystalline style like jewel so the second page can be shown which I'm going to paint like gemstone then I will put clear gel on the top of her name which will get harden in UV light so the cover page itself is going to look like crystal but when it meets the second page, it will appear like gemstone.

After this idea, I talked with Bronwyn but  advice me to blend with her styles on the presented form which I only thought about Jewellery, not her works.  Then I went back to her works and analysed  to present her styles. She’s showing the beauty of nature through her collection so she used plants as main elements with muted colour line to embody the imagery of nature.

Then I came up with A3 poster design with pockets to put the card in with her work and interview on it and on the front, it’s going to be illustrated plants elements that she used for her designs. For considering other hearing-impaired people as their other senses are developed than others to understand the situation without hearing so I make to feel the 2 senses which are tactile sensation and visual sensation.

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Interview Sohyun Lee

As I didn’t get any replies, I decided to interview her then I tried to make few questions in Korean and sent to her. I’m thinking to ask her to film herself for her answers in sign languages and create a video with translated English subtitle! I gave her my aim for this interview, her introduction, and 7 questions.

As there is a lot to translate, I’m going to translate all together when I get answers from her! I’m so excited to see the outcome.

제목: 청각장애를 딛고 일어선 꿈이 많은 디자이너, 이소현

인터뷰의 취지: 이 인터뷰는 이소현 디자이너의 디자인과 여러 과정들을 통해 청각장애를 극복한 삶을 전달함으로써 다른 호주에 있는 청각장애를 가지고 있는 사람들에게 꿈과 희망을 전달해주기 위한 인터뷰입니다.

이소현 디자이너 소개: 이소현 디자이너는 주얼리 디자이너로써 또한 수화 선생님으로써 청각 장애를 극복하고 어느 사회인 못지않게 주얼리 디자이너로써 자리매김을 하고 여러 캠페인들을 통해 같은 환경을 가진 친구들에게 희망의 메세지를 전달하며 멘토 역할도 하고 있습니다 또한 참 많은 나라들을 돌아다니기도 했는데요, 그녀의 이야기를 한번 들어볼까요?

Q1 한국은 취직하기가 참 힘들다고 알고있어요 그렇다보니 장애를 가진 사람들에게도 취직의 기회를 갖기란 참 어려운일인데요, 소현씨는 대학을 졸업하기도 전에 취직을 한 케이스죠, 취업을 할 수 있었던 노하우가 있을까요?

Q2 이소현씨의 삶에서 디자인이란 어떤 의미인가요?

Q3 디자이너로서의 삶 이외에도 여러 방면을 도전하고 실천하고 있는데, 어떠한 것들을 실천했고 실천을 할 예정인가요? 또한 계속 도전을 하는 이유가 있나요?

Q4 만약에 청각장애인들을 위해 디자인을 할 수 있는 기회가 생긴다면, 어떤 디자인을 가장 만들고 싶나요?

Q5 회사에서 가장 힘들었던게 있을까요? 있다면 무엇이 가장 힘들었고, 그것을 어떻게 극복을 했나요?

Q6 보통 디자인을 할 때 어디서 영감을 얻나요?

Q7 졸업작품으로 만든 작품들이 나오기까지의 과정을 들어볼 수 있을까요? (아이디어부터 전시회로 가기까지)

조언: 소현씨처럼 자기가 하고 싶은 것을 이루고 싶은 청각 장애를 가진 친구들을 위해 조언을 부탁드립니다!

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Ask me anything reaching designers 1

I’ve sent emails to my first person, Suwa and second person, Heekyum but as the due date is getting closer and needs answers to start the design, I’ve set a rule to myself to  just wait for 5 days till they response but if they don’t response me, I’m just going to interview my 3rd person, Sylvia Lee straight so I sent message to Sylvia Lee if she can do an interview if anything didn’t go through as I planned just in case and she said yes! 

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Reflection

Tumblr journal has been a great assignment for this course to revise myself and study. It has also been a great tool to get to know and see how other student developed their assignments through the research and put their personal thoughts and opinions. Compare to other assignments, it’s great to see how I developed my work from research to final piece and how it’s organised so well in one place to look back. I really enjoyed this course and I can say to others that I’ve learnt a lot about typefaces. Even though I studied graphic design before, the workshop for each class was so fun and new to me and sometimes I felt I was back in primary school as there were various materials that I’ve been used back in there but how I used it was different. I never thought I could create typefaces with tape or play dough or even creating initials with my fingers. More over, I could see various typefaces from my research and others that there are lot of typefaces created with everyday object that we couldn’t even thought we could do it easily!