week 3 Design Process EMPATHIZING

Canteen too small



employers worker
If we were one of the employers we will feel happy with the small canteen because it will be easier to clean, easier to manage the canteen and by the end of the day there will less overfood. However, we will be having a hard time to prepare the food early in the morning, because the food we need to prepare are huge amount, since most at the students will be eating at our place.
And because of the small place, it will be really crowded and hard to catch up all the students order, and sometimes the noisy make us feel annoyed
Last but not least, because at the small canteen it will be less employers (workers) which make us need to do a lot of staff. Although we have less leftover food we sometimes also feel bad if we cannot provide the students more choice,etc.

the picture u see is the leftover food, most of this food will be wasted, so if we have a small canteen, we might have lessover food, and waste less.

so i think this is the advantage of the small canteen.

Design Process week 2-1 Canteen in China

Last week we do some research about our theme, Canteen Too Small, and here is our mind map

This is my first mind map and u can see it is really rough, Then the other day our group had a group work, so we discussed it and at last we did a big one......

and i add some pictures and paste something on our mind map, it's nice and clear.

Then after this class I compare the NAFA's canteen and some of the primary or secondary canteens in China, and it looks quite different.

U can see that canteen in china is really big, any of it can service all the students teachers and stuffs and one time and do not need to wait a long time. Actually it's because China has a vast land.

  

This is a video from YOUTUBE that shows the south china university canteen, it's just like a Chinese KOPITIAM...hahah.....

Design Process week 1-1 Beginning

This is the first week I have the class Design Process, I am the leader of the group, and I will put anything related to our "problem"----canteen is too small on this blog...

The passage below is what I just found by google and here is a school got a really "tiny" canteen and it makes some argument.

Let's see!

In a very subtle way, all the "reasons" given by the school, by the PTA, by the Education Ministry officials, by Putraja through Ku Nan, have a common denominator - they are implying that the planners failed to provide a canteen that could accommodate at least half the maximum number of pupils in each of the school's two sessions.

Why only 50 percent? This is because it is a common practice, if the school is operating at maximum capacity, not to flood the canteen with the whole school population at one go so as not to make it impossible for the canteen operators to handle the crowd in the very limited time for recess. Therefore, recess is broken into two sessions. If a school is much under-enrolled, then a single session break is possible.

It has not been stated that SK Seri Pristina is over-enrolled, i.e. having a student population that is more than the capacity it was designed for.  If it is not over-enrolled, then the canteen that came with the rest of the school buildings should be able to accommodate all the children, half of them at a time at least.

So, claims of insufficient space in the canteen mean that the canteen was built too small. This is like giving a slap to the JKR schools division that is responsible for school buildings, It is therefore incumbent on the JKR schools division to clarify:

How many square feet of canteen space did it allocate for each child in SK Seri Pristina?  Is this the norm or otherwise?

What is the area of the space in the canteen usable by children for their meals? What is the area of the teacher's dining room in the canteen?

How is it that sunlight makes the canteen a much hotter place than the washroom/toilet that was converted into a permanent extension of the canteen as stated by PTA member Major Hardeep Singh?

Was the JKR schools division ever informed that it had provided too small a canteen for the number of children it had built the school for? 6) By how many square feet more must the canteen be enlarged in order to accommodate the "overflowing" children? What will the cost of the extension be? 8) How long will it take to complete the extension?

What is the explanation for not building a large enough canteen in the first place - lack of space? Lack of funds? Etc.

Schools of similar design are to be found all over the country. It is therefore very important for the JKR schools division to provide answers to the above questions before the PTA's of some other similar schools make similar decisions as the SK Seri Peristina. They may improve on the performance of this school by putting up beautiful signboards outside the washroom/toilets stating "Kafeteria SK ……" ; and even decorating them with flowers, etc.

AS U CAN SEE, the small canteen sometimes really got a problem, like it said that the canteen that came with the rest of the school buildings should be able to accomeodate all the student, half of them at a time at a least.

BUT, why NAFA's canteen also tiny but no one conplains about it and even sometimes it looks really empty? so in the few days, our groupmates and me will discuss this questions...  

2D Final work----work in progress......

This blog I'd like to talk about my 2D Fundamental final work..

Over the past weeks, I have been learned some elements and principle of design, and in the brief, it said that we should use the elements and principles to finished the final work----FANTASY...

First things first, I just Google "fantasy" image and find the inspiration, then i decided to do a brainstorming and write down all the stuffs...

From this picture you can see that this is my mind map, our final 2D work should have a group of audience so I also considered about it...

At last, I think children and teenagers is okay and I can draw something about education and positive  stuffs, and then, after this, I back to the fantasy and search some reference from google...

this is my first idea that you can see there is a charming beauty in a lecture's head and all the stuff he saw is connected to money even the leaves...but later i think it's not good enough, not suit for all the children and teenagers, so this way is not quite good, and decided to change one...

so I back to focus on the education, and the subject of education i chosen is art...and here is all the reference...

here are some small drafts, and it does have some change...the first one I think the area of clock is too empty and the overall is not balanced...obey the principles

the second one i think that's too balanced and there is nothing about movement, so I change to the third one and I think it might be the best composition of this final work..

here is the bigger draft...just some rough things....not draw the details...

This one is more specific and clearer than before, and i tried use some colour pencil to colour it 

This is the reference from the google 

And this is the work... still in progress and add more decorate lines and dots....

I think I will finished it before next Monday...

 

S-Watch design

This week we had a individual work to draw a watch for one of our friend in our class...and the shape it's the swatch...so i decided to design a pattern for my best friend Shiyue...
As i know, She loves the CNBLUE so I decided to paint the background blue...

and add some little pink, purple and yellow flowers 

and i decided draw the group name "cnblue" on the top of the watch and when u wanna see the time u just need to press the small button beside.

in order to make it looks more 3d, I decided to draw the shadow with grey and black colour pencil. And I will post some work our classmate do below...

this one looks abstract, it contains many elements and i think this is great!~

You can see that this one has more details, and there are also some different elements in the top of the watch.

This one i can see that there is a rose in the centre, and it looks really abstract but i like it!

this one looks more simple.and the left part of design is interesting...

Another abstract one......

the red one, a girl is dancing in the watch, that's so nice!~

this is the most simple one I think... but it contains so much information and looks more technological!~ 

Abstract Acrylic Painting

Last week i found an video on the youtube and it's a tutorial video that teach you how to draw a abstract painting. The video is really inspired me and I decided to buy some materials and do some paintings.

here is the painter's painting,but it is too long. so I do some changes.

the painter used 4 piece of pairing frame, but i decided just use one so that it won't take too much time. And I used black and white to finished the background, the acrylic is so smoothy so it's easy to paint.

And i just like the painter to do something chaos....I am too focus on the painting that i forgot to take the photo of the progress...

This is some textures which i have learned from 2D Fundamental and Drawing Fundamental..

Drawing things like this really makes me relax and never mind to make some wrong, maybe the wrong things make it looks more beauty. I think this is the charm of the arts!

After it dried, I hang it on the wall, that is so nice, I LOVE IT!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4BbGSJ4vAw

(CLICK HERE TO SEE THE VIDEO)

change the package

As i said last week, there are too much silly package you can find in the supermarket. And this week we decided to change it, makes it not silly anymore...
Here is the original package that we have chosen, it's a penguin that take a piece of chip flying in the sky.

we are still decided to use the close colour in order to makes it looks similar, and we find a cute penguin so that it can more attracts the costumes eyes...

this is what we draw and we decided to make a zip in the middle of the penguin and  it looks more fun.

After we finished drawing, we add the top and the bottom and makes it like a long can...and u just need to open the zip and you can get the chips. You will never worried about you have a short arms or a big hands anymore.

Our group mate 

This is our whole classmate done...

This is a nuts box,  but I still don't know what kind of nuts inside...but the package is really interesting, it is folded by a large size of paper, and after you eat all the nuts in it, you can easily unfold the box and make for a other use.

It is a big question that how can you open this case! it really test your IQ, but you can get something fun in it. And the package is telling you what is inside...

Nowadays, the illustration on the package can lie to you, what it looks on package sometimes is quite different...so in oder not make costumes confused and disappointed, it is better to make the package transparence, even is just a small area on the package, it's enough!~

This is the candy package, at it original package, there was only one picture(you can see on the left) and it's hard to find what is this mean, but after change the package like this way, you may understand  how the candy works......

changing the package is really makes a lot of fun...