101wanb

i'll work doubly hard....and even more....! for mum, for you, and for a better cause!

i really wonder whats happening now...

i was rushing a sketch out when my earphones dropped off, so then i blindly picked it up and plugged it back to my ear, and boy it felt weird ):

it felt like never before, it was cold, hard and a little magnetic...

i took it out found my MAC charger wire coming out from my ear in horror.

i wanted to slap my forehead so hard but must maintain image..
then i acted like nothing happened, found the right ones, double checked n made sure this time...and got back to work..

friends and families, never, never have too many wires lying around ur workdesk okay?


*yeah on hindsight i shldn't have taken it out so then i can charge myself up for the next project hor?

"Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it."
a penny for yours?

convo with NAS

i have such passionate archi classmates!

c 说:
mm so u intending to work first?
tailor-made for me. 说:
I guess so lah.....
earn and OT until die.....
then study until die......
i gonna pursue archi,....
c 说:
HAHA..aye you pathetic.....
tailor-made for me. 说:
you?
c:
hmmm...same loh.................

this is why she's cute

my mother always say that my younger cousin is a hiao-poh*....
err well, i beg to differ...

because i think she's far more jialat!

now you see why?
oh did i mention she loves traveling...
and she always does funny things when she travels without her one cute(me) and one ugly son.
:S
tryna relieve her adolescent years?
or too much korean drama propagation...
i leave it to you...

( p.s to mum if u're reading this hehe, aiyah....happy mothers day lah, dont angry k? i know you know that i know you're still as cute, young and pretty, to me & korkor at least! anyway something happened to my ipod earphones again in china, nope this time it didnt ploop down my coffeemug...i stepped on it and it became....ipods...)

*hiaopoh means vainpot in hokkien

milestone 2008

where dreams and ambitions come true..
with esp mum to thank for.
i love you! :)

destiny impact v1

sier finally chose on the 2nd design though.

these relentless pursuits

i'm immensely perturbed with my callousness...

street-art installation

cool?

And i'll tell you why my mum is so cute...

a love song for a beautiful saviour

oh boy, i should have left my poor maestro with andy or the guys :(

a hearts conviction..

"Cast your anxiety on him because he cares for you. Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of sufferings"

1 Peter 5:7-9



To anyone i've offended, be it an unkept or a rash promise, a impulsive hotheaded moment, any profanities hurled or any groundless talks, i offer my heartfelt apologies. I seek Your forgiveness O Lord, wash me thoroughly from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.

I thank You and am grateful for my family, friends and people around me and i pray that you'll bless them in each and everyway you can and let their hearts be touched by you.

We give you our utmost praise & thanks,
Amen.

when daylight fades..

the joy city

西单，北京

sunday mornin

farewell ngeeann friends! your exuberant presence & company has definitely filled our hearts with such great joy & content, this was taken right after your hasty attempt to hop on the cab! :)

that nobody can deny..

M.A.D in CHINA

the contemporary erdos museum juxtaposes starkly with its friendly old neighbour

i'll rattle more about our sensational, experiential visit to M.A.D's studio when time prevails upon me.

oh, its yet another phone call from mr developer...

there goes our weekend...

that forlorn look tells it all..

the custodian...

he looks on and continues to stand guard over the barricaded nest & water cube..

Day : 1

sunsets in the north just intrigues me, such low sun is never seen of back in SG..

the building that sparked controversies..

after all we'd have to give some credit to paul andreu with such a design...

Design and Culture

Abstract:
1. uses "Design" in a different way; but one must add that a universal language is being constructed daily .
2. design is understood here as a phenomenon which affects everybody.
3. design is characterized by a dual alliance with both mass production and mass consumption and that these two phenomena have determined nearly all its manifestations .
4．Industry unconsciously evolved its own aesthetic, and this aesthetic was from the beginning one which intelligent designers, whatever their background, tried to obey

Key Words: Culture，aesthetic，imperfect，confidence

Now that "Design" is understood from Tokyo to Moscow, from Buenos Aires to Montreal, it is obvious that each country according to its politics, its economics, its sociology, its industry, uses "Design" in a different way; but one must add that a universal language is being constructed daily.
The word "culture" is used throughout the text in its most democratic sense, that is, as a concept which embraces the ideas and values expressed by modem society as a whole, rather than one which only touches one level of human endeavor. In parallel, design is understood here as a phenomenon which affects everybody.
This definition of culture has to be considered within a broad context which subsumes economies, polities and technology as these are the forces which have determined the dominant cultural patterns in modem society. Design is also formed and sustained by these forces and, as a result, designed artifacts act as cultural ciphers. In this book, I have set out to examine both the way in which culture has influenced design in this century and the manner in which design has, in its turn, played a part in creating culture through the objects, institutions, personalities and the patterns of behavior and thought that have accompanied it. Since 1900, design and culture, in this wide sense, have become increasingly interdependent and the implications of this relationship will re-emerge constantly in the following chapters.
My main thesis is that, within the framework of industrial capitalism which created it and continues to dominate it in contemporary Western society, design is characterized by a dual alliance with both mass production and mass consumption and that these two phenomena have determined nearly all its manifestations. Like Janus, design looks in tow directions at the same time: as a silent quality of all mass-produced goods it plays a generally unacknowledged but vital role in all our lives; as a named concept within the mass media, it is, however, much more visible and generally recognized. In this latter guise design becomes an extension of marketing and advertising. The "designer-jeans" phenomenon, which persuades us to buy a product because it has been designed, is, culturally speaking, totally distinct from the activity of the anonymous designers within industry who resolve the problems of cost, appearance and use in consumer products. The way in which design as an adjunct of marketing has grown out of design as an aspect of mass production is a major theme within the story of modem design and the focus of this book. It is a change which directly mirrors the way in which the model of mass-production industry, as presented by Henry Ford, which dominated American ideas about industrial organization in the early twentieth century, has been challenged by an alternative model which stresses batch production, a smaller scale of operations (or set of operations), and, at times, a fair amount of hand or skilled work. This latter model - best expressed by Sloane's work at General Motors in the USA in the 1920s and by contemporary development in Japan and Italy - puts the demands of the marketplace above those of the logic of mechanized mass production and tends, as a result, to value the diversification of products rather than, or as well as, standardization. These two models of industry coexist in this century and have different implications for the meaning of design. An important sub-theme is the way in which the aesthetic of designed artefacts has swung repeatedly backwards and forwards from production to consumption as sources of metaphorical inspiration.
While this book concentrates on design as it has come to be defined and understood since the advent of mechanization, and emphasizes those themes which have made it part of recent history, it is also important to remember that the concept has an earlier history which is largely responsible for the way we comprehend it today. Design has always been one aspect of a larger process - whether of manufacturing, in the craft or mechanized sense, or, from the consumer's point of view, of participating in social or economic life - and its definition has, from the moment the word entered the English language, been in a state of constant flux due, primarily, to the changes in the social-economic framework which has sustained it.Thus the difference between a seventeenth-century-pattern maker and a modem industrial designer is less one of the nature of their respective creative activities than of the economic, technological and social constraints within which the activity is performed. What have remained constant are the visualizing and humanizing aspects of the design process as even today the designer's input into the manufacture of an electronic calculator, for example, focuses on the aesthetic and ergonomic aspects of that product.
Long before the profession of industrial designer was invented, there were people who carried out the designer’s function. Basically, they can be divided into two groups —— the artisans and the architects. Artisan design evolved from direct work with tools and materials, and even , in the early stages of the Industrial Revolution, from direct work with machines and an intelligent exploration of their possibilities. Industry unconsciously evolved its own aesthetic, and this aesthetic was from the beginning one which intelligent designers, whatever their background, tried to obey. Philips Webb, the architect who built the seminal Red House for William Marries, and who later made designs for that fountainhead of the English Arts and Crafts Movement, the firm of Morris & Co., once said:” I never begin to be satisfied until my work looks commonplace.” The table-glass which he designed for manufacture by James Powell & Sons at White friars proves that he meant what he said. The idea was thus planted very early that the successful industrially produced object eschewed not only ornament but anything which might make it seem conspicuous.
Industry, however, did not simply establish itself and then become a constant, a stable background against which the designer must work. It constantly threw up new problem. What happens, for example, when a machine is used to produce, not just some simple object, but another machine? Here, new born, is a mechanism which may seem to dictate a surface which is visually complex, to reflect the complexity of a multitude of parts. Is the designer obliged to follow faithfully whatever lies beneath the casing? If he does, this may result in a form which is economic from the material point of view, but uneconomic visually because it requires a much greater effort of perception.
Loewy was not himself a trained engineer, but someone who took over after the engineers had done their best or worst. This is a very common situation where industrial designers are concerned, and it calls into question the assertion made by one authority on the subject——that good design is“the outward expression of the engineer’s confidence in his work.” In fact, whether it is the creation of trained engineers or not, industrial design is quite often palliative, not radical. It is a technique that may be used to conceal faults, such as distortions in die-castings, introduced by the inaccuracy of machines, rather than to show off their accuracy. In these circumstances the industrial designer’s job is to see that these inevitable faults do not spoil the finished result —— for example by introducing a moulding to disguise an imperfect fit.
In any case, the designer’s task is often to establish limits rather than to conduct a search for perfection. He tries to trace the frontiers within which a range of acceptable solutions can be found. These boundaries are usually drawn for him by questions of cost as well as by those of structural strength and mechanical efficiency.

Welcome to BeiJing

an extensive portfolio of architectural, advertising & photography design works coming your way...
meanwhile... pardon my series of unsorted & disorganized photos down my blog...

the big day.

above all.

botany revisited..

she haunts with those red shoes...







bewarrreeee...

lets countdown with lines and vermiculite sprays

Architecture Reject says:
if you guys have no plans and want to spend count down doing work at my place please gimme a call at 9*******... i know its pathetic but its what archi students do... they do work while other's are enjoying.

i can do all things..

through Christ who strengthens me...

Terminal 3(dimensonal)

and the only spectacle... taken in the toilet.
yes.





go figure! :)

happy 5

the birthday extremes.

they either make u very happy or very sad.



hey, wrong ball dude.

details

EVENT: the filmic urban space.

and you can count on me.

blind mice

灯笼节

i only eat with yolk.

眼

我也累了

woohoo!

its bye-bye 10D, bye-bye D70s, and HELLO 40D.
I love it, i love it, i simply LOVE IT!

and to my friends, this is second-hand no more!

19

Happy Birthday JIA! :)

lai ah lai ah, instant photo print, 1 dollar only lah!

love@firstbite

hmm..?

gotham city

we all know it, the batman building.

crossed paths

crossed paths

food for thought!

mum: eh, so what are you gonna do with all these capsicums after taking?
cute son: huh? throw away loh..
mum: THROW AWAY? dont be crazy, still can eat one, put in the fridge i'll eat later.
cute son: huh...?