Task 2: My Design Career

28th July, 2010

My path to design started when I was still a little kid, while other children show interest other areas, I have clearly shown my interest in the designing area. I loved drawing, and designing new things, which had caught the attention of my parents, teachers and friends, as a child, the feelings that I had was simply amazing, having so many positive comments about my drawings. As I receive a lot of positive feedbacks, my interest in drawing have rapidly increased, my design varies from small things such as toys to big things such as houses. But since I was living in Hong Kong in my early years, which is a city that focus in study, I have very limited chance to express my passion in design.

At the age of 8, I migrated to Australia, and I received a lot of chances to express my passion to design, unlike Hong Kong, I was able to show my creativity in Australia, I was asked to design postcards, posters etc, and the feedbacks I received from teachers and classmates had built up my comfortable in design and drawings. Which becomes one of my free time hobby, I enjoy designing and drawing as I received a lot of fun from it.

As I enter high school, become a designer had become a goal for me, I have studied graphics design for four years, and learnt from fundamental to computer aided drawings, and the achievement I received in graphics design had clearly lead my path to design, but as I learn more and more about design, and look at designer’s design, I had time when I lose my confident, and doubt I will be able to do designs at a level where everyone will accept. But I was able to regain my confident after the HSC.

Before I choose Industrial Design at UNSW, I had to choose between architecture, Interior design, architecture computing and industrial design. But look at my past, I realize the thing I enjoy the most is to create new things, therefore the obvious choice was industrial design. These are the reason I want to become a designer, and studying industrial design in UNSW is now a start for my design life.

For future, I wish to become a product designer, which everyone wants me to design for them. But as I understand that the road to design isn’t easy, so I would like to work in any design industry to gain designing experiences and work for a product design company in future, ultimately start my own brand.

Task 1: Shape of a Scent

27th July, 2010

This is a perfume bottle sculpt in plasticine, the scent we received was number 5, it had a strong first impression but it became pure, and light afterward, which gives me a feeling of young, active, sporty girl, also a feeling of summer and simple. So the design of the bottle is to be round and curve, without corners and straight lines.

Therefore, the design of the bottle can be broken up into three parts, the top cover, the bottom cover and the bottle, the covers will be produced using aluminium, which match the first impression of strong toughness, also the two cover joins together with a wave, which symbolically represent the waves in ocean, giving a summer sporty feel.

The inside bottle is to be simple, straight forward, so the design of the inside bottle is simple and using the classic design of perfume bottles, it is to be produced using clear glass with pure colours, such as yellow, pink or baby blue, which gives a summer and pure feeling.