I AM MADE FOR SAM

So it was another awesome lesson for creative thinking class. Our class had a visit to SAM (Singapore Art Museum), and we were given this "I AM MADE FOR SAM" stickers.

Me and my team member, with stickers on.

With a simple task from Ms. Tan, we went to the place of our mission.

Thanks to Yi Sheng for sacrificing his head.

At a glance, honestly I didn't know what thing is that. After looking closely and read the explanation, I realised that the thing is actually a big bunch of real hair, created into a javanese rural hairstyle for girls. Related to this artwork, we have to came up and draw hairstyles that trends in our own culture. My group itself has like 4 cultures since everyone came from different countries; Malaysia, Singapore, China, Indonesia. So we personally came up with some hairstyles that we often sees in our country or in worldwide.

Discussing hair (Fujun is totally immersed with her hair too lol)

Drawing on the floor since we don't have any tables. And its very dark.

Finished works (The one with colourful hair is mine)

I guess our team was the most ambitious one since we draw so many hairstyle, looking the other team that draws one or two hairstyle only. I feel sorry about Ms. Tan for waiting us so long on the floor because we were the last group to finish.

So after completing our task, my fellow member and I walk around the SAM, seeing artworks and took some pictures together. We went to various rooms with various interesting things to play, to see, and to experience with.

CCTV camera experience (don't try this at home!)

Playing with laser lights!

Honey sticks from SAM

Leisuring on nipple pillows.

As an artist, it is a very interesting experience to actually see so many exciting and creative works that we have never seen and thought before. Even though it's only for like 1-2 hours, I feel that the works and the task that was given is actually brings many new ideas into my head. And I think this whole activity is not just to observe and to learn arts, but I think it also strengthen our  friendship bonds than ever. It is a very great time I have there, especially being able to have fun with my besties. I would like to go there again with my friends.

FUN FUN FUN

Hello! It's already week 6 and I found this class refreshes me a lot from a very exhausting week of assignments and classes. This time, I will fully share about our class activity this week. We usually have our class on Mondays, but this week we also had a make-up class on Thursday, and I think this week is one of the most exciting week from the whole 6 week of classes. Especially also because projects always done in team of 5-6 people.

So last week, we were assigned to list 50 dishes which is made from 2 ingredient that we randomly given, and we have to decide one dish for starter, one dish for main course, and one dish for dessert for our menu. This Monday we have done our menu with side dishes and drinks, and submitted! It's kind of funny because the ingredients that we have are durian and soy sauce, which is actually very strange to make a dish with. Here is our completed main menu;

                  

                     A rather simple cover for our book

Our starter dish

                  

                        Our main course dish

Our dessert dish (I made this one!)

So beside submitting this menus, we were also told to bring a marshmallow per group (one of my team member brought the whole package), and our teacher gave us a small bunch of glue tack and 15 long spaghetti sticks. From those ingredients, we were challenged to.. build a tower using spaghetti sticks as tall as possible with a marshmallow attached on top of it.

          

           

So we made the tower, and it was really unstable. We found troubles all over and fixed them, and found another problems, and fixed them again, and somehow it goes on and on, until finally it stands by its own.

Our survived tower (yeay!)

But well, life is not that easy. After all of the group's tower done, we were challenged to the most unwanted and disastrous thing for our group. It is to take out the marshmallow with only a person's one shot bite, with hands on the back. I was like screaming in my heart and my group was holding their breath. The purpose is to test how well it was made and how strong it was. Well, our group knows the answer for our own tower.

My team member, Ben, pulling the marshmallow

Yeah it broke. But we have so much fun and we laugh all the way through. It was really fun.

So we move on Thursday, new day, new groups too. We were told to submit our mock up product of various themes, and our group choose "future defense mechanism". So we meet up before class outside school, and we made a sort of futuristic gun with drink package, can, water bottle, branch, anything that we can found there. We haven't plan the gun's details, but it is going well as we found new materials on the process and we were quite satisfied with the final result.

With the same group, after a brief presentation of the product, we were faced another challenge, which is another fun waits. So we were given a story plot, which is told that we were trapped in a spooky island. Before dark, we have 1 hour to dress ourselves as similar as the monsters in the island, who eats humans, which have 3 fingers, half of the body covered by black mud, have a very long hair,  doesn't have any eyes in the face, and have egg trays attached in their part of body. We brought the materials per group, which is things like trash bags, cellophane papers, egg trays, large papers, masking tapes, and many other things.

So we choose a model from our group to dressed up with. We start from covering her with the black trash bag and begin to make the extra long hair. After that, we cover her eyes with a hat and begin to make eyes behind her head. Attaching here and there, finally we added additional things like wings or so called horns on her.

And after done, I take pictures of what other groups doing with their models, which I found all are very interesting and unique.

So after every group done with their models, it's time for a very brief presentation of what they are wearing. I would say that every team's monster were all different even though has a same instruction, which is look very interesting when all completed.

Our teacher, Ms.Tan, with the monsters.

The 5 team's unique models!

While seeing and experiencing so much fun in this class, I also learn many things. I learn how to corporate with my team members, how to gather idea with them, how to express thoughts, how to work and completing things with them. I also learn how different perspective of other teams are actually exciting to combine. This way, I learn how to accept differences and I learn how to actually working together with people that we don't used to work with. No matter the result was, bad or good, I feel that the more important thing is how to solve problems with others and how we make and feel things into a fun way to learn. I found these mini challenges and projects develops me into a better person in environment and also to encourage me to be a more creative person, seeing how unique and creative my friends are. I would love to have more fun with them while learning more about them.

               

Creative, Unique, Innovative, Useful

Hi again! After a very tiring first few weeks, finally, I can feel a little bit relaxed while making my assessments. Most of the subject's assessment for this week is to research for things, and while doing them, I found some interesting images of products. Instead of doing my assessment, I keep searching for another similar images and now I want to share some very interesting ones here, the ones that has all four value that is essential in the product, which is creative, unique, innovative, and of course, useful.






I found this sofa design is very innovative and very suitable for daily needs, especially for those who likes to read, because beside it saves spaces in a room, it is also make the one who sits can easily place or take the book. I also love how the designer picks the red colour so it stands out well with the books and the black shelf.

I really love this one because sometimes I also feel how having an umbrella for two or more person under it is very inconvenient. Well this one, is a very simple design, with just attaching two umbrellas, but I found it very interesting and very useful. It seems very easy to carry too!

I would love to have this cup because it combines a mug with a plate. I have never think about this and I think this is very useful and very unique. Somehow it shows a modern feel even though it is very simple.

This one is actually very suitable for people these days, people who sticks themselves with technology in whatever they do and wherever they go. This one also has a very simple design, but very useful yet unique.

Same as the above image, this one is also related with technology usage. As the time goes people tends to invent things that will make everything easier. Now this one is to use handphone without carrying your own drink with your hand, just attach the phone case which is also already works with the drink hanger. I would also love to have this one since I also text a lot while carrying things.

Everyone might now know this one, but I think this is a very creative  invention, which is actually effects  life style of most people in this world. , which is to take a self-camera without bothering people to take picture of  someone else.

This one is a unique cup which is made to drink a tea made with natural tea leaves. It is designed to drink a tea with a simple way without any tea pockets and so. I think this is a very innovative design yet this is a recommended cup for the ones who loves to drink tea!

For those who loves shopping, this simple tool can be an unique way to make  you easier to hold your shopping bags.  Of course, the weight you're carrying will be the same, but at least you won't hurt your hand because grabbing the tight plastics in your hands! I would love to have this  creative tool for my mom who loves to shop!

This soap grater is a very creative way to substitute a liquid soap by using a bar soap which is will be grated once you press the metal part. It is grated to a very tiny pieces so it can be easily dissolved with water. This is a very simple thing, but I found myself fascinated by how the designer actually think about simple things like this.

The last but not the very least is this cake server. This invention actually made in purpose to cut the cake easier with a precise amount of potion and to take the slice of cake easier by just pulling them away from the whole cake. I found this tool very useful for parties and those who has bakeries and  restaurants to make everything faster and a nicer look. 

Based on these inventions, I now understand that invention is made with purposes, and mostly because there's a problem behind it, which is made the designer or the inventor will create the problem-solver, in this case, a product. I found that everything is very interesting, includes how the inventors sees and solves the problems with their ideas and imagination, with things that is actually never thought and realised before with other people. I learn that to invent great things, it is essential to be creative and to be daring with things that is new, and by seeing new things, we can learn a lot of way of thinking from many different perspective. Somehow seeing things like these also stimulates me to have brand new ideas, and I think I would come to make them real someday.

Breakthrough into the World

Firstly,

Did you find this person familiar?

Honestly, most people would not know just from looking this picture. He might seems ordinary, but well who knows that he's actually brings a very big influence to the world just by his ideas and creativity. Some of us, especially designers, must have known the name, Milton Glaser.

This person, is nonetheless, the person who makes one of the world's most famous and iconic design of all time. And everyone must have known his design;

Yes. I love NewYork. With creating a symbol of heart to symbolise love and to shorten the word "New York", this have been one of the most popular and well-known icon around the world, not just in New York. We all know that this logo has been followed and used by many many people in the world. Even we can see there are so much people who used it and changed the "NY" into another initials. Who knows that this simple yet creative design will make a breakthrough for almost all countries just because a simple shortened sentence. He's a genius indeed.

Born in New York City at 1929, he's one of the most adored American graphic designers until now. He has his own studio named "Milton Glaser, inc" yet his works are very well-known. His works has been featured on exhibitions, museums, galleries worldwide, and we can find his permanent collections on many museums world-wide. For us designers, he's one of the most inspirational artist to make a breakthrough for bringing one of the first modern design concepts in the world. 

And here are some of his famous works;

This is one of his most famous poster that shows the silouette of Bob Dylan, 

the name written bellow the poster, with colourful hair. 

This is very interesting for me because he only used lines to represent the hair and the face, 

and used colours to make it stands out.

This one is used for DC comic books, which is stands out for "Detective Comics", popularly called as "DC bullet" design. This one also brings out a beginning of modern logos which is used a more simplified yet meaningful icon to represent the theme and the brand.

Only uses letter B and circles, he cleverly uses colour to hold the design. This is also one of his famous logo designs, again with a simple yet strong logos.

So overall, personally, I really love his works, especially how his ideas for maintaining simpleness to bring out a new kind of design that has barely appeared to the surface is very sublime. Making such a breakthrough sure is not easy since he had to do things that people won't take risk at, but he managed that. I admired him for his creativity, his unique yet simpleness, his ideas and his style, and I will keep learning so someday I can take the same path as he did, to be productive and innovative, to make things new to the environment and to the world.