Ballet
When I was a child, I liked watching ballet from some TV programs. The performers wore in the ballet dancing dresses, and their light chiffons and laces made me fascinated ballet in those days. The...
View ArticleDesign in Society
From the beginning of the human history, men inhere creativity. We are inborn designers. We know how to build and use tools for our living. We are different from wild animals and insects who are...
View ArticleWho caused me like design??
I have always liked to draw, and even to made sculptures and handcrafts. In elementary school and middle school, I always did exceptionally well in my art classes, and winning prizes in...
View ArticleCreativity from without
The famous masterpiece which is called 'Cold Dark Matter: an Exploded View' is produced by the Turner prize nominated contemporary artist Cornelia Ann Parker. The pieces of charred wood & objects...
View ArticleStone Soup
About “Stone Soup” this story, I heard it long time ago when I was a little child in Hong Kong. The memory is kind of still in my head but cannot remember what is the whole story. This is so amazing...
View ArticlePioneer of printing - Harper's
Harper's magazine is a weekly magazine which covers many general interest like literature, politics, culture, finance, and the arts in nowadays. However, you may not know the promoters also had made a...
View ArticleDesign as a conversation
When we want to express our thoughts more than just using speech, different kinds of conditions like color, shape, size, smell, sound, textile, brightness, and thickness would be considerate as the...
View ArticleCompare and Contrast
During the days of economic downturn, all trades use all sorts of wiles and methods to stimulate the growth of corporate business achievement. Like recently, Gap suddenly drastic makeover their...
View ArticleNew home decoration
Besides oxygen and food, water is the essential for maintaining our lives, so we cannot live without water everyday. Since water tap and its system had been designed, we all can get water easily...
View ArticleObjectified
“Objectified” is a documentary about the industrial design industry. Inside the movie, we can findmany famous designers to tell about what they have learned in the industrial design field. From what...
View Article“Objectified” – what “Form and content” in today’s design world
“Form and content” both are the essentials for a design. Especially for industrial design, form is talking about how to present an object and what visual aspect should be appeared to consumers. Some...
View ArticleA complementary relationship between "Word and Image"
Our college has the great honor to invite Mr. Brian Fies, the Arthur of the comics book “Mom’s Cancer” and the winner of the Eisner for Best Digital Comic in 2005, to be our guest speaker in the...
View Article"Word and image" practical example - Times magazine
Every week, Times magazine tries to use different gimmick to create their book covers. The reason of why they need to exhaust all mental efforts to do it, it is certainly for attracting audiences to...
View ArticleRepetition and Unity
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View Article"Check it Out"with words and images
Last Tuesday, we had watched several funny music videos in the Design one class. The one that most impressed me should be the song “Check it Out” by will.i.am and Nicki Minaj. Maybe the video is...
View ArticleErgonomics of the innovative fan - Dyson Air Multiplier
Can a fan function without blades? Before you see the real object, you may not know why I ask this question. Last year, Dyson had a new development of electric fan. The new generation fan is called...
View ArticleHow to use "Bezold Effect" to change a design
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View ArticleThe utopian women's wear- the Little Black Dress by Chanel
The utopian design for women's wear should be the Little Black Dress which was contributed by Gabriella Bonheur (Coco) Chanel. The Little Black Dress was born in 1926, and it was the year whenwomen...
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