Week Four

Issac Mizrahi - Fashion and Creativity

Creativity is defined the use of imagination or original ideas to create something . Isaac Mizrahi gives a new meaning to creativity . He defined it as typical designer . He talks about inspiration but doesn't know where inspiration comes from .

From scenery or music , he has a good choice of colours and lines for the clothes that he designed to make it more interesting . Isacc Mizrahi inspires us to do what makes us happy . He does what he wants and his happiness was shown in his clothes .

Tony Fadell - The first secret of designing is ... noticing

A designer job is to see those everyday things , to feel them and to try improve upon them . There is a brain process called habituation , in a basic term called learning . It is a good thing our brain habituate because , if it doesn't , we could see every single detail of everything and there are no new things to learn .For everything we do , there are invisible problem that we can solve . We have to feel them to see them .

Look boarder is the first tip Tony Fadell gave us . He eleborates that we have to step back and look things and think how can we make the process easier . Second tip is look closer . When we focus on little details , there will be the ones that we know are important or not . Think younger is the last tip he gave . We need to have young people on our team , or people with young minds . This is because younger minds will immediately try to solve the problem and find a way to make it better .

See Think Wonder

In group of five , we are assigned to choose a topic and brainstorm about the topic using see , think and wonder technique . The topic we chose was durian .

At first start , it is difficult for us to think about what to write . With the help of the lecturer , we understand that every see , think and wonder column must have a link . For example , looking at the durian , i see spike . As spike is harmful , i think of weapon too . Therefore , i wonder if the durian can be used as a weapon .

By doing this brainstorming , i can see that it helps to expand our creativity to think more than what we see .

A Picture A Day

I see a feet .

I think of human body part .

I wonder why the candy was created that way .

The people who ate it , do they feel disgusted or they think it is unique ?

I see a net .

I think of netball .

I wonder why it wrap the two trees together .

Is there anyone uses the net to play ball or it was left like that only ?

I see a river .

I think of Singapore River .

I wonder if Badang's story true .

How strong was Badang that he manage to throw the big rock across the river ?

I see lines .

I think of arts .

I wonder what will happen if there is no art .

Will we see things differently or the same ?