Week 9

I’m doing font design for the second project. Because the theme is Bauhaus to our house. When I was brainstorming at the beginning, I thought that house can also understood as architecture. This font is inspired by western architecture. Western architecture gives a sense of solidity and majesty, as well as many fine patterns for

Week 8

1. MACD Interim Show Poster 2. The works printed by our students filled the table 3. The concept of our show 4. Preparation process 5. Interim Show set up completed 6. Talks and discussions around the theme of the Bauhaus.

Week 7

This week’s blog content is to write a short summary introduction project 2 – house. I will use the headings below to frame my project plans. 1. Working title of your project Font design combined with the characteristics of Eastern and Western architecture. 2. Why Your reasons and motivation for undertaking this project Font design,

Week 6

This week, we had a 3-day workshop with two teachers from Germany. At the first workshop on Monday, teachers showed us some of their projects on font design. I remember that there was a project that looked for typographic inspiration from the texts and graphics of many different countries. Then, make different font categories through

Week 5

This week we visited the Design museum and Japan house in London. And we also got the brief of our second project, which is about house. In the design museum’s Home Futures exhibition, designers and architects in the 20th century displayed their fantasies and predictions for the future Home. 1.In this design called Supersurface, the

Week 4

Video: Nick Foster (2016), Future Mundane a talk In this speech, the speaker said that the design projects can be divided into now, next and future. Countless futuristic technologies have been created in design and other film and television creations. But the speaker proposed an idea called “the future mundane.” And explains the concept of

Week 3

In the first project, my theme is to help traumatized refugee children learn the local language. Because many refugee children have suffered unimaginable disasters, Mental health problems prevent them from learning properly. But for them to get a better life and future, local language education is essential. The final artefact will be a pop-up book,

Week 11&15

First semester summary In this blog, I will use The DIEP strategy to summarize my study in the first semester. D – Describe objectively what happened The course name we learned in this semester is Design and New Media. At the beginning of the semester, Andy introduced different design methodologies to us. In the first

Week 10

Donald A. Norman (2005) Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things. Three Levels of Processing: Visceral, Behavioral, and Reflective Visceral Level Humans have complex brain structures, the body’s visceral mechanism is the visceral layer of the human attributes that is automatically preset. Behavioral Level The part of the brain that controls daily behavior, completing

Week 9

Grid systems At the workshop in week 8, we split up into different groups to explore the typographic arrangements, through building grid systems, and then using different graphics to create a typeface. By using grid system, we find that with the help of grid system, we can solve problems in the design more quickly and