Postmodernism at V&A

It was such a rich exhibition I have to post about this. The exhibition on postmodernism at V&A was large in content, sectioning its involvement in different practices; fashion, product, graphic, music, performance and costume, films, personal journals, architecture, photography etc. The exhibition plots its influence on designers and artists very clearly, and the presentation was striking! Whoever the curator was to organise this, is genius. The theme titles were neon-signed, the pieces were installed in a very appropriate way, obedient to the theme postmodernism. As V&A puts it, postmodernism is "an unstable mix of the theatrical and theoretical. " It exaggerates, kicking a drastic departure from modernism which was based on clarity and simplicity. From about 1975 to 1990, postmodernism brought freedom to art and design and was led to New Wave met with technology. Grpahic design in this period is playful, experimental and decorative, with use of collage technique, vivid colours and geometry shapes. Wolfgang Weingart was the first graphic designer to adapt this movement into the field of graphic design, whose stair-stepping visual motif has become the trademark of postmodern graphic design. I personally love punkyness in postmodern designs, which I believe should not be vanished. As I blogged earlier, pure geometry is the simplest and the most impactful element that is used in design.

time to time

thinking back my life, there were so many times that I didn't necessarily have to act cool.
caught up with prejudice and pride, I made things difficult, taking a tougher way to get passed.
I can't say I've overcome this strange habit because nothing really challenges me, but I still take my pride important.
Being alone may have been better than being with someone who'd keep challenging me at the moment, but I was scared then... now I understand all the psychological path I took along the way and it's pathetic. Hopefully one day, I am most confident and therefore generous enough to announce the feelings I had to others.

How dublin is branded

I went on a three day trip to Dublin right after the holiday broke. The last brief of the first term was the hometown branding brief set by Marc, and it kept me look for 'Dublinness' during the trip. While I was walking around the town, I noticed some its use of colour in branding limits to yellow/green/blue. Green is the representative colour of Dublin, because of the clover, (that's been branded for a long history) and yellow and blue seemed to harmonise to the symbolic colour. I found Dublin quite familiar because of its similar rainy and gloomy atmosphere to London, but to say it definately was an exotic city. It has signages in their own language throughout the city, especially inside the tram on the map on the wall, the name of each station was labelled in its own language. The city was branded very much for tourists with souvenir shops everywhere just like in London, but it also had many local shops and restaurants that weren't found anywhere else. I didn't feel its identity as strong as I did in London, but perhaps it's because I experienced London first where is comparably similar to Dublin. Its style of typeface used is consistent with a sense of Irishness, and these were seen mostly in souvenirs or pub signs where image of tradition is bound to appeal.

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타협하고 사는것에 두려움을 느낀다
예전에도 지금도
변하는 것이 두렵다
어쩔수 없겠지만
더러운 세상과 그안에 섞인 사람들 속에서 계속 변하겠지
22년이나 살았으니 지금 벌써 많이 더러워졌을지도

나이 먹을수록, 더 많은 경험을 할수록 더럽다고 생각되는건
내가 사상이 너무 부정적인건가

Twiggy

LOVE her

Anthropologie window display designs

During our tutorial session today jotting down our interests and strength,
a thought has occurred. I stated my five strengths as image making, photoshop, vibrancy, paper engineering and concept ideas. and I came up with an area that I can apply and stretch my strengths to!
Window display design.
Joshua recommended to look at Anthropologie's cork window display that politically brings up the issue of corks being disappeared. and while I look at Anthropologie's designs they are notably distinctive among other window displays in terms of scale, use of material and artistic feature.
Here are some interesting ones that I find are beautifully handled. I personally like the ones made with corks of its sculptural aspect. (although I think the first one in the picture overpowers the garment.)

feeling futile

everything that they went through seems meaningless.
no matter how much effort has been put, it flied away like bubbles in the air.
how could one desire something that he will get bored of so easily?
how after a long journey, could one give up on it so easily.
its that nothingness that once occupied my mind and it was gone before I know it.
utterly nothing.

almir mavignier

http://vimeo.com/15286322

whoooaaa
this brings up my interest to the surface.
i looove geometric shapes and the concept of destruction.
i love its non-decorativeness, range of colours, sizes of the shapes.
The straightforwardness is what I've been looking for.
How can I put it into a design practice?
if i had a tattoo, it would be a piece somewhat geometric. (a square or a rhombus)

not interested

having no interest in anything gives you a lot of pain in the head.

no food, boys, work, shopping, clubbing, nothing.

im in a statue of needing to sit by the sea. that's all.

in a statue of defenseless,

a statue of neutralised. 

I dont want it to last long, but i needed it.

hypnosis

everyone's under self-hypnosis
they just dont talk about it every minute

the deeper you fall in hypnosis the better you perform in life

you may be sickening inside
and its getting harder and harder to cure

Sensibility and Reason:

Sensibility and Reason:

These two words has once occupied my head the most back in the days when I was young and naive, having difficulties in social networking. I am still not quite sure how much to show myself to others, although through many experiences I know that some kind of image making of oneself is to an extent needed, even to family members. I am to be honest more of an emotional person(so that is probably how I ended up having an interest in writing on this issue) and I feel lucky about it since I am a designer and any expressiveness in anything is welcome.

This blog will be my online notebook on this issue, my forever unsolving homework, and any other related ones. I believe now is the best time to start posting on this issue because I am free?

How to Make a Paper Airplane Fly for Over 10 Seconds

1

Ensure that your wings are dihedral. Dihedral wings fold upward, not downward. Look at your paper plane from the front or back; if the wings are pointing down to the ground, readjust them so that they point upward.

2

Make sure the plane is stable. Stability in aeronautics doesn't mean that the plane will come apart; stability means that the plane has a center of gravity at a neutral point where the plane will return to if disturbed. A nose-heavy or back-heavy paper plane will most likely fly for only a few seconds. For the common dartlike paper airplane, the plane is stable if the neutral point is half the distance from the nose to the tail. Balance the plane on a finger or small object. If it doesn't balance at that central point, readjust the weight by refolding the wings or nose.

3

Throw your plane as high as you can to maximize time in the air.

4

Throw the plane as fast as possible. Ken Blackburn, the Guinness world record holder for the longest paper plane flight of 27.6 seconds (as of June 2010), estimates the plane leaves his hand at 60 mph.

Read more: How to Make a Paper Airplane Fly for Over 10 Seconds | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/how_6601305_make-fly-over-10-seconds.html#ixzz1Gfuniu8K

synaesthesia

a booklet about colour+sound synaesthesia and a graphed music score.

Penrose Annual 1938

Catalogue design for Penrose annual vol.40