Journal

RMIT student👱‍♀️Communication Design

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After some basic discussion about the exhibition, we went to see the Super Tight exhibition in the second week.

Super Tight explores the culture of spatial tightness emerging in Asian cities and their creative potential. This immersive exhibition considers techniques for living closely, unpacking the delight and difficulty that arises from the dense occupation of large cities. The exhibition questions social attitudes to tightness, both in Australia and abroad. More broadly it proposes the concept of the 'super tight' as an approach to design and culture that is valuable.

When I walked into the exhibition, I could feel the crowded space, which perfectly explained the meaning of the theme, the lighting is also dim, giving people a sense of oppression. I think the route of this exhibition is very reasonable, you can follow the route to see every work and then reach the exit.

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Handle With Care?

This studio tests experimental methods in curating design. We are going to learn how to develop an exhibition and learn about the different parts of the curatorial process We will encounter curatorial work in on-site visits, and practice these methods in the development of the 2019 Grad show.

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Handle With Care -SKO

I will record my learning process at Handle With Care (studio) and share my thoughts on this account.

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Reflective text

In this semester our topic is FOOD for core project . I learnt a lot in these overall course.In lecture, I learn food experience and food design etc. Andy always show us many different designers work in lecture.Studio work sho also very interesting and creative. The first workshop called ‘Exquisite corpse’. We needed to switch our artwork to each other, I never do a activities like that, I think it is really help us to know each other and to open our mind.The final core project in my group is to present cultural food.Everyone in my groups just introduce their own hometown foods, its really interesting. In this project, we need to present our cultural food in different ways.I just designed postcards to show my cultural food. At the end of the class,we have Art event that we can display our works and share the ideas with each other. That was really interesting.we can talk to each other and make friends.

Our essentials class was very helpful for us, but I think it is hard for  me. Essentials class can help us know the design process clearly.

Well done.I hope I can improve more in next year.

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Communication Design Studio 1 | Core Studies | Week 12 | Workshop

I am finally done with my cultural cupboard!! And I named it “Memories of Kopitiam”. The following paragraphs are my description on this artefact.

Coming from a Malaysian Chinese family background, I am proud to have such a unique culture called, Kopitiam, which means traditional coffee shop in my home country. I will never forget how it feels to be in the koptiam that I used to grow up with. The vintage feeling, peacefulness and leisureliness, and a little bit of dirty and messy is what I want to replicate in this artefact. 

I used some of the old times traditional items to bring out the noshtalgic feelings. I used the traditional wood cupboard as the outlook of the artefact. Inside the cupboard, there are some cigarettes and old-school style receipt. And the box full of tobacco stains acts as an ashtray. All these items could be found in the olden days kopitiam. Last but not least, the yellowish diaries show the thoughts of a boy about kopitiam and his food culture in his different phase of life.

If you are interested of how it is like to be in a kopitiam, come and experience it with on our next week’s FOOD EVENT!!!

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That must be a full of memories cupboard, the most interesting is when I opened it , the smell of cigarette came out to me, I think that you completely reappear the atmosphere in Kopitiam

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Really love your work!! very special

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Essentials  study modules Reflection

Essentials study modules operate on a 4 week-4 session model structure, each of the 3 Essentials study modules has an allocated 4 week timeframe .In my class, first part is Project Management, the second part is Project Production and the last part is Project Proposal.At the beginning of the class, we need to select a brand to work on, I chose Coles as my customer. During the Project Management class,I was really confused between Scope statement and Deliverables.After discussion with teacher talk I found Scope is what is needed to achieve this goal, but Deliverables is the thing that must be done to accomplish this goal.I think this is a problem I have encountered in this part of the course. In the Project Production Class ,we learned how to produce a design project,I think this part is not so difficult for me, but every time I will talk with the teacher after school to discuss the problems in my work. Project Proposal is the last part in my class, It is also the hardest part for me. I just confused creative strategy and creative proposal.But David explained to me the difference between thses two. He said creative Strategy should essentially be a statement of what direction you intend to creatively explore and develop as a visual language, without talking about specifics or details. But Creative proposal is a summary of creative strategy and we should talking about the details.So I think it is important to discuss with the teacher in the course of learning. In a word ,through the essentials study modules,I got a lot of gains and I got a closer look at the course.In these three parts of the study I have different questions, but through the discussion with the teacher to solve my problems.

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Essentials study Project production

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Reflection

This semester is coming to an end,I am so happy I done the all work!!! In this project, different class has different topics, our groups topic is cultural food. I designed two different forms of postcards to show my cultural food.during the class,I think both workshops activities and lectures have a positive impact on my design, In lectures Andy showed us many different designer’s work, in Workshop  studio, the different activities are all very interesting and creative. So I got a lot of inspiration through these different activities. What’s more, in the process of my design, there are a lot of problems, but through the one-on-one conversation with the Suzie, I got a lot of good comments.For example the text colours and form of postcards.So I can successfully complete my work, really thanks for all group members!!! Happy to work with you guys! To sum up, the experience in this course is very helpful for my design in the future, Hope that the next semester can improve more about my design skills.

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Food Event

Date of event: Monday 16th October Place of event: Alumni Court RMIT Setup of student works on tables: 10am to 12pm Start of event: 12pm End of event and clean-up: 2pm

We have the art event On Monday to show our final work and communicate with each other. I walked round and took these pictures! All of the works looks amazing and creative!  Well done!!!!

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These my final Production. I take photos from different directions to show the varity side of my calendar. The name is ‘Home-made favourite’.

All the food in the photos in the calendar is from my Mum. These foods from different places in China, of course, there also have my hometown traditional food. Every places has their distinctive food. Because I like eating very much, my mum always makes various dishes for me. When I was studying in Melbourne, I really miss my mum home-made.

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It,s looks great! I like your design style! Really colorful!!

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Week 12 | Workshop  Final One

This is my final.I put some photos inside of the box,others put them beside the box to show the details.And my project name is photo memory.I also print the title by polaroid camera.

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really cool～

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really Cute design!! Great work

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FinalFinal

This is my final food work!! I used illustrator to design four traditional festivals food postcards.The facade of the postcard is the photo and the name of the food and the history of this festival, the back is about the introduction of the food and my experience.At the same time, I also painted four postcards to introduce these four kinds of festival foods.In these postcard,the front shows  the food that I painted and food name , and the back shows the recipe of food.All finish!! Well done! I also made a folder in an old feeling style.

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The role of the designer is not to ‘create’ something from nothing, but instead to transform what already exists.

Andy (via michaellaballas)

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Food Culture Project

Drinking tea is a part of our life in my family, it is showing the moment when tea leaves are put in boiling water, from dry to wet, from fold to unfold, from compressed to blooming, from clear to colored… Now, this moment is frozen in these tea bags. The teaspoon is used as a handle here, the box is covered by a bamboo curtain splint, both of them are the representative of traditional tea culture in China.

I chose Chinese tea for my project topic, as tea has a long history in China, and my family is engaged in selling Chinese tea for many years so I get to know tea since I was young. We drink tea during many parts of the day such as at meals for good health or simply for pleasure. In other words, Chinese tea is meaningful for me and my family, Tea is very popular in China, particularly in the south of China.

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what a great model making!! Awesome!! 

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I really like this one! looks amazing!! great work

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Design a folder for postcards

The first picture shows my first design for folder,and the other one shows my final folder. Suize said the paper of folder can be more special and I can try to find some interesting paper, like the texture paper. So I chose the paper looks old to present the old feeling.

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Working.....

Final is coming!!!!  I just changed the color of the text,and finish the Illustrator part! I also drew some food postcards.I really try my best to draw. The pictures show the process of my drawing. Suzie said that now I can consider the packaging of postcards！

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W E E K  10 | studio

Second shoot + Lightroom alterations

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Good Work! The layout is pretty