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

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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.

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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.

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

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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

ethnography: final outcome

For me, it was a big transition moving from the map(on research process) to this typographic grid as I kept relating every idea to the map and got stuck. It is organised from west to east however bearing no relation to north and south. The numbers represent the frequency of my visits to each places, followed by the name of the place and where from or to I visited there. This is only for print and additionally, I will tie up threds across the numbers, with its length representing the distance between places. It will probably be difficult knowing the exact distance, however, it should be possible to estimate and compare the distances of each travel. I used Apple Gothic as its typeface.

ethnography: research

I made a data log table on my 8 day travel pattern. I recorded where I traveled to, including my departure, the time and date, the time taken, the distance, and travel method. Because I wanted to know how actively I was travelling around London, distance became the key element when organising the data. Then of course it became apparent it will be easier to understand when the data is transferred into a map.

Two images above are the maps. Each places I have been to are marked red, the thickness of lines are directly proportional to the number of travels. It turns out I have this dramatic shape. I found it visually interesting but it was non-typographic nor in a grid system (which was what the brief was asking for).

T-shirt design competition

I entered a t-shirt design competition which was organised by Gwangju Summer Universiade 2015. It was to design an encouraging image for the event to be opened successfully that'd go on the front of the t shirt (30X30). I used watercolour paint for the splashing imagery for the sense of cool, energetic summer and made a typography out of those marks. Although I made it to the final, it wasn't the winning design. Nevertheless I am satisfied with this typographic imagery I created and a great experience.