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State of mind

Evian Year Bottle - Gwenael Nicolas

Most people thinks the more books you read the more knowledgable you become, while this is true to an certain extent, but lately i cannot help to notice i am unable to think laterally outside the books i have read. It is as if part of the roots starts to deteriorate. The thinking process which have fixated on those readings or researches is making the mind harder to accept new beliefs. Looking at Paul Smith the fashion designer who has a diverse range of inspiration from child toys to animals and was keen on to have a literal mind has give me some insights on his thinking process. 

"Have a childlike (not childish) approach to life, think laterally and always be curious, observant and optimistic." - Paul Smith

It is my hope to pull sources from broad range of disciplinary into design.To erase the idleness of our mundane life, revisiting that joy of discovery again. Easy said than done, but it must happen, otherwise this is as far as you get.

"Youth is not a time of life it is a state of mind" - Tadao Ando.

Permanent verse erasable

Elasticity 

The internet is an malleable content that is sculptured by the knowledge of the world. In the past only dedicated scholars who research extensively on that topic were allow to write articles and journals which later collected and published into books. Books are an medium that requires perfection and our careful attention it is an permanent process, it cannot turn back once completed. The mind lured to the state if we made a mistake is fine, because we can always change it later. The same can be said to electronic products which have undergone the transition from analogue to digital. Old Film Cameras, Book Publishing and etc...

Brand Design

(suggest from chris)

 Brand Treatments

Previous Project regarding brand and logo design. Deborah Thompson design was an logo design for an jeweler who has skill in rubber and metal works. The theme was an solid round diamond with ribbons around it. I made the circle overlapped between each other and use that overlapped space as a segment.

Body Brand Treatments

Body Brand Treatments Type 2

The body website was an art exhibition collaborating with many fine artists, the theme was the human body. The exhibition need an identity to convey its theme. The famous Leonardo da Vinci body proportion was used to emphasis the five elements of the body. A five petal flower comes to mind. An animation was planned to made to animate the transformation of a circle to a five petals flower.

Signage Design

Umeda Clinic - AD: Kenya Hara

Umeda Clinic - AD: Kenya Hara

The signage system was for a Clinic in Umeda, Japan. The goal was to let patient anxious waiting for the doctor to feel to relaxed and comfort. The signage are printed on a soft white cotton with elastic that loop at the end, so that it wrap around closures. By using soft white the space can create softness as if telling us this clinic is not as rigid as most of sci-fi movie depict the hospital to be. It also tells us how clean the place is by using easily soil fabric, these signage must be regular washed to maintain its original state.

Packaging Design

Juice Skin - Naoto Fukasawa 

The juice skin is made out of paper tetra pak packaging with fibre flocked on to the paper surfaces. But perhaps one of the unexpected element to the "HAPTIC" was that there was no sketching involved when coming up with that idea. And certainly not when you think of paper pack fruit juice that if a person blind folded limited to taste but also through the sense of touch. HAPTIC deals with two of the five major sense, the visual gain through our eyes and in conjunction to the sensitive touch we process in our hands and feet.

Self, Death, Life

Araki - Self, Death, Life

Araki Nobuyoshi, the photographer came out with some flowers that capture death and life, much like the 'white' concept coined by k,Hara. The silence came after chaos is tensional. Life itself can desire as the begging of death and araki's work capture those two elements instantaneously with his camera.

Tradition Suprise

Mimosa pudica (Sensitive Plant) 

Tradition Suprising, my tradition was different from that of here. In terms of opening Christmas presents on Boxing day the 26th December. But i receive the presents in front of the receiver this years and to my surprise they opened their presents in front of me. Needless to say some of the 'anticipation' was loss and shame is reveal as if my thoughts was punctured by holes.
I think Design is that same thing, when Naoto Fukawasa said 'designers do not like their 'output' (product or whatever fields of design) to read right away.' Human behaviour(Japanese Sensibilities) is like Mimosa pudica (Sensitive Plant) when touched directly, shrivel up in embarrassment. He doesn't like his design to be read right away.