London Design Festival

A couple weeks ago, I went into London to have a look at some of the Design Festival. Mind Over Matter by Alan Fletcher was interesting. I got a little bit depressed seeing a wall of sketchbook pages and his visual research. But gave me that tiny bit of motivation on how much research I have to do now.

Noma Bar 'Cut It Out' was quite fun to look at. Noma Bar played around more with a recurring theme - negative space. And the use of bold colours in each cut outs gave the whole piece humour and attraction. In the middle of the exhibiting area, a massive die-cutting machine shaped of a dog where one can produce their own cut-outs. Very interactive.

Outside the V&A, a huge installation by Amanda Levete Architects 'Timber Wave' was phenomenal. The 3-D latticespiral work built from oil-treated American red oak surely is an exciting and dramatic installation which brings the London Design Festival out on the street.

The textile field in the V&A was quite amazing for me - more like the time we spent there lying on it was quite relaxing after a long day of walking throughout London.

Europe @ Christmas.

19 Dec - 27 Dec 2010

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Everyday Object: Secondhand Books

Each pairs were given one everyday object to work with; Secondhand Books. From it, we had to re-contextualise the object and turn it into something new.

Secondhand books are considered as unwanted yet reusable objects which fits with the concept of recycling. Since books are made of papers and papers are from woods, unwanted secondhand books should therefore return to their original roots - Trees. To grow back a book in a tree illustrates the re-contextualisation of an Everyday object.

Turn Off The Light, For A Starry Night

A week collaborative work with my friends, Sophie, Olivia and Marisa. We had to come up with a manifesto for a cause. After doing some research, we realised that light pollution in the UK is one of the severe problems which we have to be aware of. A thorough research was performed to see which city in the UK is worst impacted - London.

The light pollution has created red coloured sky thus less stars are seen at night.

Our manifesto is to encourage people to turn off the lights and bring back all the stars.

The statement of "Turn off the lights, for a starry night" was written in constellation style above our studio ceiling.

We used glow in the dark spray paint to write out our manifesto and covered the entire ceiling with small glow in the dark dots to imitate stars - thus when you look up the ceiling in the dark, it feels like you are looking at a sky full of stars; the excitement of seeing that many stars would make one understand our aim.

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