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WILDFIRE DISASTER CENTER- R.A.W by FDPM 

THE SMOULDERING INTENSITY CONCEPT RESEARCH AND RESOURCE CENTER IN SS14 WITH USING SOME TECHNOLOGIES TO CONNECT PEOPLE AND HELPS PEOPLE TO PREPARED BEFORE THE DISASTER COMES. SINCE WILDFIRE IS NOT RECENT HAPPEN IN MALAYSIA, THUS GOVERNMENT ARE NOT REALLY FOCUS ON IT AND THE INFORMATION ARE  LACKING IN THE LOCAL. THE SOUND WE RECEIVED FROM THE VICTIMS IS THEY REALLY DID NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO DURING THE DISASTER AND AFTER THE DISASTER SOME OF THEM ARE FEELING AGRY BUT CAN’T DO ANY THING ON IT AND IS LIKE THE SMOULDER FEEL.

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THROW BACK TO LAST SEMESTER PROJECT

THE NEW GENERATION OF CONVENIECE

FAMILY MART DURING THE PANDEMIC COVID 19

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The non-F&B outlet I choose was Uniqlo.

A typical japan company that used to give people a warm and neat impression.

in Uniqlo, they used timber as their flooring to form a warmer atmosphere and white ceiling to form neat and wide space. Using the closet as a wall and partition to save up more space. Uniqlo try to form a warmer atmosphere with adding timber clothes rack and closet. Choosing stained steel as their counter will give the customer a premium feel when they consume.

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I choose Starbucks as my F&B visiting outlet. Starbucks usually giving us a high-end branding image and normally this image is due to its price, quality and environment. In this fact, their outlet design will become more challenges.

At the first step when u walk into the outlet will let u feel peaceful and warm because of the usage of timber on ceiling, wall, counter and furniture. At the same time, the main lobby area will be insufficient sunlight and darker theme, so they try to use warm light to make it brighter and warm ambience.

After you have done your purchasing and ready to sit down to enjoy your beverage, those high ceiling sitting area will be your first choice, because of the huge tempered glass and high ceiling will affect your mind to let you feel you are in a high-class area.

They choose darker floor tiles is actually a smart choice, the first thing was aesthetic to make the ambient became chill, the second reason was the tile doesn't dirty easily. most of the wall was tempered glass to get more natural light for indoor usage. their ceiling was separate to difference material, timber and plaster. metal is also one of the main material that presents its building characteristic. Usually, they use downlight as their main lighting system but track light and pendant lamp will use as decoration usage. they try to use some exquisite plugs as an ornament.

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Maggie is a 1-year-old who loves to play and crawl around everywhere, maggie likes to explore on her own and be independent while she sucks on her binky when it’s time for her to sit still she gets whiny and squirmy.

In this situation, I will design a chair for maggie with considering safety and flexibility issues, because Maggie is an active and small child.

with those conditions, I was requested by my lecture to design a chair with any color of sharpie pen in 5 minutes time limitation. then I have designed a chair with safety bumpers in front of my chair and a roller on the bottom to make it movable. After that, the lecture Ryan requested me to do a chair model with difference material (Cardboard, wires, clay, and toothpick)  in 5 minutes each, without using any pen to draw it out.

1.) I think wires are the ones I enjoyed the most. because it can be shaped easily.

2.)clay is the one I'm not enjoying. even it could be shaped easily but it isn't stable enough to bear the load

3.) wire+cardboard is the most that expressed my idea.

4.) I have changed some of the ideas because I realize it’ s unable to make this chair in only one material

5.) I get stuck on insufficient time and I just cut off some of my design

6.) A sports car inspire me that was like safety and flexible.

7.) conditions that suit a children.

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TEA ART-NOT ONLY IN TEA

Normally, when people heard about tea art, the first impression was elder men’s hobby and only focus on the word ‘tea’, but definitely not those kinds of stuff. The word ‘tea’ once was the reason caused many different wars and why people will take with it as a necessity in those days? some of the reasons are they are not only using it as a beverage, for health issues, status symbol, profit-earning and more. But in now day tea art became one of the agings items, I mean there is no millennial generation going to interest on it or explore it. In fact, how can we let these valuables culture dying and without posterity continue? Tea art isn’t only the art of tea, there is a lot of different categories inside of it, there will be tea, teapot, plant (bonsai), drawings, furniture, tetsubin, porcelain item, ornaments, timber and so on. The difference category has its own aesthetic, so we do have to learn about it and its information is like the deepness of the sea, couldn’t learn it in a short while. 

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TEA ART-NOT ONLY IN TEA

Normally, when people heard about tea art, the first impression was elder men’s hobby and only focus on the word ‘tea’, but definitely not those kinds of stuff. The word ‘tea’ once was the reason caused many different wars and why people will take with it as a necessity in those days? some of the reasons are they are not only using it as a beverage, for health issues, status symbol, profit-earning and more. But in now day tea art became one of the agings items, I mean there is no millennial generation going to interest on it or explore it. In fact, how can we let these valuables culture dying and without posterity continue? Tea art isn't only the art of tea, there is a lot of different categories inside of it, there will be tea, teapot, plant (bonsai), drawings, furniture, tetsubin, porcelain item, ornaments, timber and so on. The difference category has its own aesthetic, so we do have to learn about it and its information is like the deepness of the sea, couldn't learn it in a short while. 

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The jeweler LUCY WALKER

Lucy Walker is a British jeweler which is operating her workshop in our capital Bangsar Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She is the one that combines jewelry courses and manufacture in one building. She chooses a big compound which is a 3 stories bungalow for her multifunctional studio.  Every designs or setting are suitable for Lucy and those jeweler, even on the table they tried to set all those things is in their hand length area and these setting will help them to save a lot of time. In the workshop, a big basin is really needed because of jewelleries work are really dirty but they required a clean product and Lucy hopes to do the basin beside every working table in the next renovation. Lucy mentions that choosing a trusted courier service is definitely important to deliver a piece of jewelry because if any broken will cost a lot of unnecessary money.

In the jewelry making course, Lucy is running actual classes and visual classes (online classes). Not only local is taking part in it, but even foreigners are also aboard to Malaysia for the courses. In education, Lucy is putting lots of effort into it, she used to work from 8a.m. to 8p.m. daily and after going back home she will also try to do some paperwork for it, so every new course will take her 1/2years to do.

In conclusion, Lucy said that as a designer should always be on point and on time, everything before you do, you have to consider it as a designer behavior. A designer's behaviors, habits, appearance, time management could affect the whole career. Try to use the internet in this era, because the world is going to it and read more blogs and news opportunities are in there. Better start to create and manage your own Instagram because young people are started using more on Instagram.

Lastly, I asked her a question 

JACKY: “normally how do you get your inspiration and put it together with a small metal?”

LUCY: “actually it was quite difficult to set in a design to small metal jewelry, not much space to play on it. So normally I will get inspiration from all the things that around me, it could be the leaf on the tree or the patterns on the rock. Look more details that you can inspiration will appear when u research more?”

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The tailor JEREMY TOK

Jeremy Tok was an advanced male tailor who running a loaf style Soho tailor workshop in a plaza in Damansara, Kuala Lumpur.

The first impression for me is when I went into his shop, it wasn't like the traditional tailor shop keeping a lot of fabric in their shop causing it messy. It was actually narrow, a few working tables and a mini pantry, and this was explained by Jeremy Tok that this studio is suited for 3 workers and the whole concept is like really commercially, this studio is only for working. Jeremy Tok also employs some freelancers tailor to do the works in their own house, these may cause those freelancers will put more effort and loyalties to the company because they are already in their home, no much issues should be considered.

Jeremy tries to serve the top qualities to his customer, he tries to set everything in a best and mint condition to really get the customer satisfaction from his masterpieces. he will use to do all his work during the day time because of no such light better than the natural sunlight, sunlight presents the 100% real features sight so he tries to avoid those artificial light, so he tried to choose incandescent light bulb for night used because incandescent light bulb isn't that artificial compared to others. Those fabrics he chose were the premium grade worldwide so he used to make it done with no remaining many fabrics to reduce the not necessary cost.

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The tailor  JEREMY TOK

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1. What are the designer's main motivations in designing with craft?

At first, craft designers are tending to earn profit to maintain their life, no one is going to do something without profit. Sometimes craft designers are trying to get attention and glory by designing a new great masterpiece to the consumers,  and mostly they will feel satisfied when their masterpiece suit this market, so in this fact, designers are willing to design more.

2. According to the article, what are some of the factors that made people interested in craft again?

In this article, they using the masterpieces to get the same senses from people, in another hand they try to persuade people to like more and know more about the material itself. Everyone loves new things and they started to change the previous traditional design into a new contemporary design, but it doesn't mean that they will totally give up the traditional design. They also try to mark down the price of their masterpiece because they might not only serve rich people, they might think about those consumers who couldn't afford all those luxuries masterpieces, then only everyone can own an aesthetic craft.

3. Reflect on your chosen craft/trade. Why do you think that there is an opportunity for it in today's society?

I think nowadays, people who buy craft is not only buying those masterpieces, they are mostly buying what's the background and story, in today society, social  media are standing at the peak of the trend so why not we use it probably on sharing our stories and attract people's attention and consume on our masterpiece. By the way, now people love to experience more than reading your stories, so we can let them have some experiences by making these kinds of stuff/craft on the site.

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Inspired by a few tracks.the first time I used to design something with using music.

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the collaboration work between id and graphic design. Learn a lot like teamwork and communication stuff. Interesting!