Design Passport

1.Visit a museum

• What did you see?

On 20th March, I visited Powerhouse Museum. I saw Australian history and culture especially many famous designers' work.

2 Visit a exhibition

• What did you see?

All works synthetic polymer paint on cavas and fabric oil pastel on velet, paper and other collage elements.

3.Read and comment on a design blog

• Which blog?

The Polbeben Blog

• What did you read and comment upon?

I read designs from Kenneth Cobonpue who is the World Famous Furniture Designer. His designs' feature is  using different materials such as microfiber, polycotton, powder-coated steel, rattan and nylon filament.

4.Read and comment another students IDES1122 blog

• Who's blog?

Roslyn Zhang

• What did you read and comment upon?

I read one of her posts.There is a gorgeous Angel Lamp.I commented about my feeling and asked who designed this one.

5.Read three design magzine/journal

• Which ones?

1.DG Magazine
2.Experimenta
3.Core77

• What was of particular interest?

The photographic catalogue was my particular interest. Those pictures can give people viaual feelings and emotion.

6.Do the UNSW Library induction-ELSE
http://elise.library.unsw.edu.au/home/welcome.html.

Yes,I did.

7.Visit another Library-COFA,fisher,etc.

• Which one? Did you borrow a book?

I visited COFA with friends. I read a few books but i didnt borrow them.

8.Listen to ABC Radio "By Design" Podcast
http://www.abc.net.au/bydesign/

• What stories did you find relevant and interesting?

Jewellery design: Why diamonds are forever.
The story is a dialogue. Jewellery design is older than the pharaohs.

9.Watch a TED talk  http://www.ted.com/

• What stories did you find relevant and interesting?

The story is called Making a car for blind drivers and the speaker is called Dennis Hong.
During his presentation,he listed three ways for realizing blind driving which are Perception, Computation and Non-visual interfaces. I found this talk is interesting because it proves a saying: Nothing is impossible.