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.