Thursday, 8 October 2015

My Thoughts on Synesthesia

Week Eleven - 5 – 9th October
  


  
Deep inside the iceberg, I feel small. 
A deep lonely feelings. All white, all alone.

I hear a sound ; "this is your place, oh Cold Hearted."
But deep, inside my heart I say no, this is not. 




 I fly away into the sky. I want to be free, I let off my lonely feeling. I breath freedom, I released stress from above. 
I see mountains, movement of the mountains created a bold classical music.


I thought this is my place. This where I belong.
But....


Far away at the sky I feel confuse about life
where this flight will take me, what crackles and huge iceberg this flight will face

What If...




I feel dizzy and grey. 
There I found many sounds distracted the bold, classical sound I used to hear.
"this is your song, oh dear Cold Hearted.." I heard that sound  again in my ear


Until the day I challenge my self to come down.
I'm coming into the ocean. 
I can breath a fresh air, feel the strong wind on my face.
 I can hear the waves keep moving, I can taste a cool menthol on my tongue.

"What a relaxing and calm day oh my Cold Heart"
the Cold Hearted has finally found it's place.

Either the loneliness of the ice, nor freedom on the sky. 
but a calm and relaxing ocean. 


Thank You for reading,
xoxo
Phebe


Force Connection 2

Week Ten - 28th September – 2nd October


Reflect back, we were together with our group designed another object using Force Connection. 
At first, we did a brain storming from taking out many things from our bag.
Here are what we found the most interesting. There are charger adaptor, usb cable, headset, and watch. 


Ideas from different things in our bag
Sketching progress
First Design idea

 In our brainstorming process, we had an idea to create a multifunctional smart watch. We are connecting a smart watch and a charger adaptor. The shape is triangular, we adapted from the adaptor itself. 

In this idea, we use some terms of SCAMPER


1. COMBINE



Combining a smart watch with an adaptor at the back

2. ELIMINATE

- Instead of bringing a single adaptor, you can use it as a watch.

3. ADAPT


-Adding a charger adaptor on the back of the smart watch ( with modification inside ) 
-Adapt the shape of  the adaptor for the watch design

4. PUT TO OTHER USES




Instead of using  an adaptor to plug into sockets ,also can be used as a smart touchscreen watch

5. REARRANGE















-Smart Watch : Ability to shows the time and notify you of incoming calls ( Paired with bluetooth connection with your smartphone )
-Adaptor : Easier for you to charging your electronics
-Slap band: Easy to used  

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A story in the Material Room

 I can't live without colours. Colours have a huge part in my creativity process. Without knowing colours, I'll fall into confusion about art and design. 
As a furniture and spatial student, I have a big curiosity about colours, which I can learn a lot from this room.
It's the Material Room in NAFA Campus 1.

I have been working here since early September, and I enjoy to do my duty so far.
I can learn about various kind of tiles, cloth, wallpaper, and reading the books.

I feel so lucky that I can learn about the materials before the others can do. 
I'm sure by working here every week I can understand more about 3D Materials that will help me in my next study.





Thank You for reading,
xoxo
Phebe




Force Connection 1

Week Nine - 21 – 25th September

Reflect back , I learned about force connection on this week. It's about connecting 2 ideas into one object that can make faster, easier, and give great changes for people. Force connection inventions, especially in the past 2 decades has been affected a huge change in human's life.
One of many genius idea is a 3D Printer. This invention has been developed many sectors in human's life such as medical, art, education, and manufacture.
3D PRINTER in NAFA 3DD Workshop

3D Printing PVC 

Eiffel Tower diorama created by 3D Printer

Iron Man figurine

Eames Molded Plywood Chair model 



Class Excercise 1 on Force Connection 


In this opportunity, our group have a design idea in force connection. It's a solar cell battery.



When the previous invention used solar panel as the power to charging, our idea is using the solar panel itself is on the battery. It works just when you put it anywhere under the sunlight, and it will adsorb the light energy unto electric energy.

Here are the SCAMPER that we use describe on our product. It's a eco-friendly battery that everyone might need in the next 50 years. :)









Thank You for reading!
xoxo
Phebe






Sunday, 20 September 2015

Analogical Thinking (2)

Week Eight - 14 – 18th September



Another week of class discussion about ANALOGICAL THINKING. 
There are three main ideas of Analogical Thinking.

1) SIMILE
use LIKENESS to describe something
example from the class : as sweet as sugar
as hard as rock
her skin is like cotton

2) METAPHOR
it uses to describe something IS something

ex: my maid is a bear
my friend is a snake

3) ANALOGY
-Personal
-Direct
-Symbolic
-Fantasy


Analogies Quiz

Analogies Quiz is quite easy if you know exactly the word, if you understand the connection between the words. 
The key to solve the questions is understand what this word about and the picture about. 
I did a quick exercise on class, there are 6 exercises I had done. The first 1-5 exercise was pretty easy.I could answered the questions about 10 minutes for all. But I found difficulties in answering the 6th Exercise. Many new vocabularies I've never read before. So, I chose many wrong answer in this exercise. Here are the most difficult question I found.

No 16. pulsate: expand and contract with strong regular movements
throb: beat or sound with strong/regular rhythm
(synonym)
answer : C.
examine is the synonym of scrutinize


No. 19 jaundice: yellowing the skin or whites of the eyes
liver : liver problem
(jaundice is an indication of liver problem)
answer : A. 
rash is the indication of skin problem.

No 20. conviction : someone is guilty of a criminal offense
incarceration : the state of being confined in prison
(conviction is a result of incarcetation)
answer : A.
reduction is the result of diminution


No 8. dominance : power influenced others
hegemony: leadership / dominant
(synonym)
answer : C.  



No. 10 feral : in a wild state
tame: not dangerous or afraid of people 
 (antonym)
answer : E. 
ephemeral ( lasting for a very short time) is the antonym of immortal (live forever)

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A Sun Kissed Walk


I was on my way back home, this time I took a different way than the usual.
On the street I walked by, I recognize there were many interesting object with beautiful colours around me.
They came from natural things and man-made. 




Here in my post, you can see that I mixed 2 different type of photos. Nature and man made. 
But I can feel these photos having a similar colour schemes and completing each other.





From this morning walk, I learn that I need to go out and look more intense into the nature and the environment around me.
 Because you'll never know when the inspiration comes. 
Inspiration may be appeared anywhere by anything.

So, take a first step, and be ready to get inspired!





Thank You for reading!
xoxo
Phebe Crhristine