Exam

PART A

What makes designers and consumers desire these objects? How and where would you place them within contemporary design and culture?

Well, I agreed that nowadays there are plenty of new designs that don't make sense were produced. Designers are coming out of art of pieces within contemporary design and culture due to the prosperity and futuristic in the world. They have to design something is new in forms, with or without functionalist which are innovative.

For example, Satyendra Pakhale designs, among other things, objects, furniture, bureau accessories, and other tabletop. He is able to combine east with west, craft with technology and function with fun. Satyendra is the most interesting young designer at work today. Therefore, I think that designers create contemporary objects blending the 'old' and the 'new', 'artisan' and 'highly industrialized'.

This is the ceramic chairs that designed as a ceremonial object of welcome. These combine with earthenware and stoneware clay. The ceramic elements are fired separately and then connected with PU glue. The soft-satin surface is a thin layer of clay slip known as 'terra sigillata'. These one-of-a-kind chairs have been manufactured by Satyendra himself at the European ceramic work centre in Amsterdam, NL.

PART B

Look at Fig. 2. How do you feel about it? What kind of emotions does it trigger you? Refer to your previous studies on Semiotics.

I feel curious and wonder how would its usage to us nowadays. How much it cost? hehe... I think this 'NOW' word on the watch can be considered as an index in the three categories of Semiotics. For me, I am a person that must wear a watch if I want to go out anywhere. I am already familiar to see 'what time is it now'? I'll uncomfortable if I forget to wear my watch out there just like lack of something and my emotion will be a little bit blue sometime, weird and uncomfortable. Maybe for some other else they don't really need a watch to refer the time but for me the watch is on my hand and I can refer the time anywhere even my hand phone or laptop are showing the time. This watch is very cool for me but I would also want to know the price of a product that I am interested.

Finally get it done!

Our final assignment is project report which is 2000 words. Finally, i get it done my report and submitted to Ms. Teresa. I tried to do my best to finish my report and want to submit it on Friday, November 2, 2007, but i can't finish it.

I finally get to done and submitted to Ms. Teresa on Tuesday. Ms. Teresa asked me "What happened to you? Where were you last Friday?". I said that i can't finish my report and she told me that i should tell her this. I'll tell my lecturer if i can't finish it on time because this is my responsible to do that.

Ms. Teresa also told me that coming this Friday we'll have a 1 hour exam and journal presentation as well. I think it'll be our last class on this Friday.

New Signs

In our presentation, we had presented the signs we chose to create another new signs. We showed original signs and those signs we created. During my presentation, my part was to present the signs that i created. Indeer talked about the introduction and conclusion. Tunku talked about the signs that he created.This is the original cross road sign which we usually see

beside the road. It is a human figure.

This was the cross road sign that i created.
It was yellow color but i don't know why it became
blue color when i browsed this image. I only drawn
the legs to represent cross road sign. It is more
interesting and new to me.

Original Stop sign.

This was created by Suei Ming.
It was red and white color.
I don't know why it is blue color when
browsed it up to my blog.

These are the female and male toilet symbols
that we usually see it around.

This was created by Suei Ming.
It is humour, funny and intersting.
The whole class was laughing when we showing
this images. That was interesting and not
boring environment during our presentation.

Finally, our idea about these new signs
were with four points which are:

1. Easy to understand
2. Interesting
3. Humour
4. Acceptable by design culture