Name: Lim Siew Yee

ID: 1100467

Art: Art is the expression of feeling and idea in the work by using creative way.

Design: Design has a meaning of beautify thing. Design can also increase attraction of something,  advertising is one of the example.

History: When the word is separate, the word will become his-story.  History is talking about the past event and story of other.

What do you want from this course?

The course I take is Graphic Design and Multimedia. What I want from this course is the technique and skill that related with graphic design.

First will be the drawing skill. Drawing skill is the most basic needs for a graphic designer. As a future graphic designer, I have to draw out my idea so that others can understand what the main purpose of the idea is.

Except drawing skill, the second needs will be computer technique. Computer technique means the using of illustrator, photoshop, indesign, flash and other relevant program. Since I don’t have any knowledge on this kind of program, thus, I have to learn and do a lot of practice during this course taking.

Next, I have to learn to solve problem creatively. In this course, there are several subjects that can improve my creative thinking, such as creative thinking and idea generation, creative communication design, and creative writing. This will increase my ability to express creativity in my artwork.

Hopefully what I learn from my course can be use in my future and the knowledge I get can fulfill my need.

What do you want to be doing in 5 years? 10 years? 20 years?

After five years, I may finish my degree course and start looking for my first job. Or maybe I have started my job for a period of time. When I get my job, I have to work as hard as I can to target the higher position in the company.

After 10 and 20 years, I will plan to open my own business. As I know, having a business is better than having a job. So, I will do my best to run my business as good as possible.

What do you hope to get from this particular class? Is history of art and design necessary do you think for your larger goals?

I want to get from this particular class is the knowledge about history of art and design. This class may show us a lot of art work that are from the past. So that I can learn how the artists can express their feeling and thinking in the work they performed. The combination of color and the arrangement of object in the art work can affect the message it deliver to audience. Thus, this kind of idea will become the most valuable treasure for me because it may help me a lot in my future.

Other than that, I wish to learn other’s cultures from this class too! This is because culture is one of the important element in idea generation, different cultures will give audience different feeling once they look for the art work. Besides, culture also can grab the attention if the art work is familiar with the audience. This is what I learn from social psychology class, familiarity is one of the factors of attractiveness between one another. Same as art work, people will be attracted by the familiar thing. Therefore, I wish to save more information about culture in my brain in order to produce a better work.

To summarize the reasons above, this subject not only teaching some knowledge of design, it also helps to generate idea. Therefore, history of art and design is necessary for every design student.

Image of the most beautiful things for you.

The image I choose is related with food. Human can’t live without food, me too!!  Food can recharge our energy daily. Different food taste will give different feeling. When I’m taking sweet, in that moment, I will feel happy. So if I eat sweet while draw something happy, the feeling of happy will inspire me to think about some idea that related with happy.

Food is also one of the sources of inspiration. We can get many ideas from food, like what I learn from Visual Communication subject, we can create lots of design by a fruit we draw. From the image above, I know that is a burger. But the artist uses their creativity to design and it becomes a shoe. Thus, food can also become an art work!

Image of most ugly thing for you.

This image is ugly, not because of the painter; it is because of the event that appears in this image, a war. War is the ugliest thing for me. War is not only bringing out the death, it also cause many people lost their beloved. From the image, I can see the oppression of the weak by the strong. Those people at the right hand side laid down their lives to protect their homeland. How a sad story if they have their own family waiting for them to back home. I can sense the feeling of sadness and helpless when I look at it.