GDAD show

I went to GDAD show today, I saw lot of interesting artworks, designers and artists are from the different countries, such as Taiwan , Japan and China. I want to share one of my favorite artwork.

Her name is Meng Yun Chuang, We come from same country Taiwan. I found we have same hobby when I interviewed her. We both like to eat and cook. She said she was inspire bye Jamie Oliver from Ted Talk 'Teach every child about food'(2010).She started thinking about food education and how to pass on food culture. She decided to make website to share recipes, and named Fun food studio. her major is illustration, so she drew food by watercolor , and tried to use different materials to make illustration about food, such like black tea. Except illustration , She spent a lot of time to research about food photos. She wanted the pictures look delicious, so she tried to decorate. after she finished website.

I like her style and ideas. It not only used the website to share the recipes , but also promote food culture. I can't wait to see more about her art work.

[FUN FOOD STUDIO]

www.mengyunchuang.wix.com

TED Talk:Building the Seed Cathedral

I watched TED Talk:Building the Seed Cathedral by Thomas Heatherwick today. It was very brilliant lecture. He shared a lot of his artworks. I am not a big fan about architecture, but his creative ideas made me amazing. 

One of his famous artworks is The UK pavilion at Expo 2010. It was a sculpture structure built by a nine member conglomeration of British business and government resources directed by Thomas Heatherwick. His ideas combined the nature and technology to made the building. He used more than 60,000 slim and transparent acrylic rods to containing seeds of different plants. It also wanted to save the things you've got and make it better tomorrow.

It started to be popular about green building in the Taiwan recent years. Every one noticed that we only have one earth and global warning began to be more seriously. The government provided policies to improve the world, such as riding bike, taking public transportation, use packing of recycling, and building green houses, etc.

Design is a way to understand the world

My classmates and I went to Design Museum in London last Friday. I did some research on the internet.I found a popular designer from the UK.

His name is Jonathan Barnbrook and very famous designer.Barnbrook is good at designing CIS ,Font ,CD covers and Posters and also work for foreign companies, like Japan.I really like his artworks.It looks very colorful and strong and has very creative ideas.

Design Museum is not too big and close London bridge.I looked forward the exhibition ,because it made me thought of exhibition of graduation.I tried my best to do it, it was a unforgettable experience.

I arrived Design Museum.There are two exhibitions, one is Camper shoes's display, and another is Designs of the year 2015.they showed a lot of artworks, and included graphic design, Fashion,Architecture and Industry,etc.

I wanted to share  a sentence when i saw it in the museum.I thought that right.

Design is a way to understand the world.

And enjoy design!

Project 3

It was very special experience to me. It was the first time to join team work, and also worked with different countries people. Everything to me, It’s like the challenge.

Our group called 22.5, We are from Taiwan, China, Japan and Norway. At the beginning we chose the body language as topic, unfortunately rang of topic is too extensive, so we decided to change it. Our topic called “Project 7.2 Inside．Outside we are the same.” There are 7.2 billion people in the earth. The "7" represent the seven continents and the "2" express two people inside to communicate with each other. The seven part with the different size outside not only symbolize the real continents, but also represent the diverse cultures which people who are from different nationalities receive throughout their lives. When people go into the space inside alone, the surrounding environment in the room are dark and people can see nothing. But the light will be turned on if another people stand in another room and people can see each other in this moment.

In the project’s process, we had a lot of fun, such as had lunch and dinner in the outdoor, we prepared the food, and went to Margate to visit the museum , enjoy the beach and do presentation.

I think this project, I learned a lot from team work, such as time management, communicated ,etc. And thank you my partners, we tried to do our best for the project 3.

Project 7.2 - inside ‧ outside we are same

The interactive installation symbolizes the seven continents. The installation aims to raise the awareness of some of the global issues the contemporary society faces. We believe that original people is pure and undifferentiated, people be classification by educated, culture and political. But all of those conflicts in the world are due to these differences between ethnics and nations if people can realize what common we are, maybe people have more opportunities to face the global issues we have.

The viewpoint of people would move from global issues to personal problems by entering the inside structure and looking at their own figures on the dark glass wall. Accordingly, they would realize that they come to the starting point of those global issues and think the meanings. Moreover, they would notice the existence of others and the awareness would lead to the re-recognition of oneself, others and its relationships, and also lead to a new understanding of the meaning of this word. We are convinced that this interactive installation would bring an important rule to people for reviewing modern society with impact and give opportunities to change the consciousness.

In this project, we would like to choose the individual as main theme, and land in the earth is the source of the ideal. We aim to do this by connecting global issues between personal communications from different places and waving this together with installation‘7.2’. The proposal will be given due consideration to think about that human’s life is influenced by various factors, putting away these things to deeply discover the depth of our individual is the same with each other. Finally, we expect ‘7.2’ would affect viewers.



Group 22.5
Halo,Nozomi Watanable,Jevons Wang ,Jieyun Xia, Raven Fu ,Yuxuan Guan ,Wendy Wang

Ai Wei Wei

Before I watched movie “Ai Wei Wei never sorry”, I didn’t know anything about artist and have exhibition in Taiwan. Ai Wei Wei is an unofficial Chinese contemporary artist and activist. He is good at images, art, architecture, social media and comment about social and culture.

Personally, I don’t agree that he is an artist, I thought he is more like a active thinker or famous superstar. He always has bravery to share everything in the internet, even China government didn’t like it. Ai Wei Wei still did it and got attention from the world. He also has a lot of exhibitions in the different countries, such as Italy, Korean and Germany, etc.

Ai Wei Wei is a positive activist, he believe that behavior is art and expressed freedom.

IFAD Show

I went to IFAD Show today, artists and designers are very young approximately 18 years old and from the different countries. They displayed a lot of brilliant artworks in the exhibition.

*Picture from Verdiana Pagnano 's Facebook

I want to share one of designer’s artwork. Her name is Verdiana Pagnano from the Italy. She is a 19 years old designer. Verdiana’s art work is a short animation about 2 minutes, and named “ The dream of Ghiberti’s door”. She used many materials, there are black , gold paper and cardboard, chose the story from Holy Bible, They expressed the famous door called “The Gates of Paradise” located in the Florence, Italy, her hometown, she also want to share her culture and where is she from. She chose black and gold color, because it's like the door and easy to connect between the materials and the real doors. I asked her about the project,” which part is difficult?” She answered me “skill of animation and music “.She just finished Art and Design course about 1 year, didn’t learn a lot of skill and knowledge about animation, but she wanted to challenged herself to know the limit. Another part was music, she tried to find the many music, like old Greek music, It seemed perfect for her video ,but the animation is quite fast, afterwards she found a good music for video.

I felt a lot about her passion for the animation, made me thought about when I went to art school the first day, I was curious for everything about art.vShe is an excellent designer, tried her best to finish animation. I hope to see more artworks about her.