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Manifesto is kind like announcement to public. In this project, we need to use art way to show people what we believe and exhibit our work stuff.

The first thought comes into my mind is from Netflix show named mind hunter. A man in prison said that prison is a frame of thought. We are all our own prisons, We are each our own Wardens, we do our own time. Prison is in your mind.

http://youtu.be/4fmPVcgpHeM short video in my presentation

Actually this man is Charles Milles Manson. Until now, i still can’t imagine that i was inspired by a really bad man in the world but it’s true. Let’s ignore what he have done so far for a minute, focusing on these words what are perfectly express my thought and feeling in side. What i also believe is that there’s no one was born in bad way but effected by their surrounding. There’s no one awful from head to toes.

From my perspective, it is horrible if i don’t have my own thought but following trends or be a different person based on others expectation. Possibly, sometimes we all can’t help changing or doing what we want to without following the order. However we all should have correct conception and self-awareness. ‘Prison is in your mind’ – having free thinking way and identify ability no matter who told you so. It is said that do not be the giant of thoughts,the dwarf of actions. Whereas, i think that you couldn’t go anywhere if you don’t have a opening mind.
I want people could influence each other but could not change them totally. I don’t want change the world and i don’t think i have that ability but at least i don’t want the world change me. In addition, people can lead someone else but ask or force them to do something.

Moreover, i made my poster in this way because manifesto is published as a official way in the past years while social media changed our communicate way and we almost post our thoughts every day online without conscious nowadays. So that why i want to male a connection between them.

Feedback

It is too difficult to draw like a kid when you have professional painting skill. In addition, the rad tape on the corner is really art but randomly display.

During presentation today, i quite like joko’s presenting way and her belief that gender is over. It means that there is no different between male and female.

This disign is interactive exhibition. We could play with these pazzles and read the sentence on them which is really interesting.

Selin’s design seems quite simple but there is really deep meaning behind this paper. This is a reality exsit phenomenon. people are crazy about buying stuff who are actually empty inside without emotional satisfaction.

List of illustration

Figure1. Chen(2019), My manifesto poster.

Figure2. Lorena(2019), My presention.

Figure3. Chen(2019), poster from Zhengxi.

Figure4. Chen(2019), poster from Joko exhibition.

Figure5. Chen(2019), poster from Julia.

Figure6. Chen(2019), poster from Selin.

Bibliography:

YouTube. (2020). Mindhunter Season 2 – Charles Manson Interview | 60 Minutes Australia | Side By Side. [online] Available at: http://youtu.be/4fmPVcgpHeM [Accessed 24 Jan. 2020].

I was influenced by many pioneers in different fields but the core area is architecture that is the reason i choosing this.

When i was a child, my brother was studying architecture design. I skaned so many photos on his book without understanding but make me feel happy. Back to undergraduate, I’ve chosen to study interior design and roughly knowing a part of these architect products. I used CAD to drawing the plan of some of them and want to learn how they designed these architecture. Because i believed that imitationing is a good method to learn the real thing.

List of illustration:

Figure1. Chen, L. (2020). Influencers: timeline of architects. London: Liuhua Chen.

Figure2. Chen, L. (2020). Influencers: timeline of architecture. London: Liuhua Chen.

Figure3. Chen, L. (2020). Influencers: iso of Barcelona Pavilion. London: Liuhua Chen.

Figure4. Chen, L. (2020). Influencers: plan of Barcelona Pavilion. London: Liuhua Chen.

This aim of project is about what kind of brands do i used in my life and influenced me. Then, analysing a brand in details by choosing one brand involing list.

I made a list of brands on clothes, shoes, entertainments and cosmetics. In the meanwhile, i was realised that there are so many brand what i’ve used in my life but i never think about why i brought them rather than other brands. I reviewed the moment when i brought them and where did i heard about these brand from.

Some of these brand are knowing from my friends because they wear these, it is obvious that advertising is a real powerful method to support brands especially from someone who you know well.

The company’s primary business is its subscription-based streaming service which offers online streaming of a library of films and television programs, including those produced in-house. It is a really creative brand which made their own films and books available in library.

List of illustration:

Figure1. Myuca.uca.ac.uk. (2020). Error – Blackboard Learn. [online] Available at: https://myuca.uca.ac.uk/webapps/blackboard/execute/content/file?cmd=view&content_id=_1035126_1&course_id=_67447_1 [Accessed 21 Jan. 2020].

Figure2. Chen, L. (2020). Brand you Challenge: list of brands. London: Liuhua Chen.

Figure3. Chen, L. (2020). Brand you Challenge: analysing. London: Liuhua Chen.

Bibliography:

En.m.wikipedia.org. (2020). Netflix 2015 logo.svg. [online] Available at: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Netflix_2015_logo.svg [Accessed 21 Jan. 2020].

En.wikipedia.org. (2020). Netflix. [online] Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix [Accessed 21 Jan. 2020].

Netflix.com. (2020). Netflix United Kingdom – Watch TV Programmes Online, Watch Films Online. [online] Available at: https://www.netflix.com/gb/ [Accessed 21 Jan. 2020].

Love challenge is doing an assignment about spread the love in creative thinking class. For spread the love, it aimed to sharing love with surounding people and their neighbours in the community- community was Epsom and Ewell area by Epsom and Ewell Borough Council. In addition, the most important thing is making people happy and save money at meanwhile without financial reward. Our group have discussed about this situation and make plans.

How to make people spending pravite time to help others and make them happy without financial support?
This is a interesting question to find out solutions and reason why they want it.

Combined with different ideas and feedbacks from other groups, we find out the key word in society is ‘benifits’. We edit it with ‘beyoufits’ as brand title.
Our aim is building a system to satisfy everyone basic needs by using exchange activities.

Our targets are retired residents, teenagers and local companies. As for elder groups, they need someone accompany with them in case feel lonely and help them to do something with strength such as shopping, garden cleaning, cooking. Based on these problems, young generation could solve these problems.

But how to engage them?

Basically, youth group around that age want to be independent without parents help. They carry to much pressure when they are trying into society at the beginning. For example, they need private rooms, transportation fees and clothes even jobs and social experience.

The youth could learning life and work experience from the elder when young generation help them make dishes and fix funiture. They could learn a lot within these conversation which can also improve their relationships to promote relationship between different generations. The elder group would get company and caring, on the contrary, the youth would get social skill and enhancing handmaking ability.

In addition, local companies could support them. supermarket and could supply foods for them to avoid food wasting and overdue. Others could use a part of profits to donate discount card for them and offer some basic positions. . They would get good reputation by this free advertising. The community could niddle scarfs and gloves back to market as gifts and market could sale these as profit.

List of illustration

Figure1. Chen(2019), plan01.

Figure2. Chen(2019), plan02.

Figure3. Chen(2019), other group presentation.

Figure4. Chen(2019), other group presentation.

According to Customplanet(2019), screen printing is the process of transferring a stencilled design onto a flat surface using a mesh screen, ink and a squeegee.

Fabric and paper are the most commonly screen-printed surfaces, but with specialised inks it’s also possible to print onto wood, metal, plastic, and even glass. The basic method involves creating a stencil on a fine mesh screen, and then pushing ink (or paint, in the case of artwork and posters) through to create an imprint of your design on the surface beneath.

Bibliography:

Customplanet.co.uk. (2019). What is Screen Printing? A Step-by-Step Guide to Silk Screen Printing. [online] Available at: https://www.customplanet.co.uk/what-is-screen-printing-step-by-step-i50 [Accessed 16 Nov. 2019].

I was so familiar with this photograph back to the young age. At that moment, i realized that this photo was from playboy as their first published magazine on 1953.

Then i did some research online and found that their sales at the peak around 1970 arrived 5. 6 million Monthly but now not even close to half million.

I was so excited and thought that definitely is what i want to work on.

As we all know, America had several times technology revolution after second world war. But it’s not quite a right time. So, it result in recession with rising prices and over tens of millions people loose jobs. This is main reason why the sales rising.

According to Hollywood films, directors prefer to employ mature woman with angular face especially Italian woman rather than sweet looking woman such as Marilyn Monroe during that period.

From this cover, we can see that this woman is powerful. Because she wear suits and hold a cigar although she is naked. But, do u aware that these characters are all like man. I was conscious that actually these women are looking from men’s angle.

I collected almost all of covers from 1953 until last year. They use woman features to attract audience like lips, feet, boobs and actions. But it differ from porn books. It’s involved news, fashion and also interview report from different fields. In addition, old media like magazine and newspaper were effect by new advance technology media since 1980s. The CEO of playboy company claimed that people could look for naked photos even videos online by a click.

At the meanwhile, wide cross-section of society showed that these covers engage young generation treat women as entertainments or appendants based on their hobbies. Public opinions lead playboy company forbid using nude woman photos as covers for a year although reused on next year. Their theory had been waver at least. Furthermore, they changed subheading from entertainment for man to entertainment for all on 2018.

This brand has over 60 years history, but it still needs to change due to the world and society keep changing.

By the way, archive workshop does helped a lot. A bunch of paperwork and books in front of me when I get archive folders. It is difficult to decide where should i start with if I didn’t take that workshop.

Bibliography:

BBC News. (2019). Playboy magazine reinstates nudity. [online] Available at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38963007 [Accessed 15 Dec. 2019].

Statista. (2019). Playboy – global circulation 2018 | Statista. [online] Available at: https://www.statista.com/statistics/485332/playboy-circulation-worldwide/ [Accessed 15 Dec. 2019].

#Team tower

Build a tower_build a team

—— Tom Wujec (TED TALK)

Unfortunately, we lost this challenge and the most embarrassing thing is that I’ve studied architecture more than 5years. This might be the key reason why we lost.

We made a plan even draft sketching. Similarly, we consumed a plenty of times cause it. Unlikely, the others made the tower straight away and negotiate at same time.

In adults society, majority people want to be in charge in community. Sometimes, it is easily forget the aim in the project and processing. In addition, the thinking way of adults are more complicated and overthinking. However, children are slightly influenced by this factors. They are always thinking straight away to get results.

#The Egg Event

“How many distances can we catch the egg?” _ Question

I’ve thinking that the reason why we were throwing the egg and catch it. Firstly, it is obvious that the relationship between people means team work. The action of throwing and catching, i think that it’s like a conversation between them. The success could count on one person which need communication and negotiation.

Moreover, from this action, ‘throwing’ person should concentrate on another person by using acceptable method to throw egg. On the other hand, the ‘catching’ person should get ready before throwing by using two hands to hold egg to protect it.

Brian brought up some deeply meaning more than appearance. It is kind like the same way when we do research. People could only guess before they get the ‘information’. Then they could feel something when catch it. Finally, they could see more clearly when it explore.

#Question challenge

I think that asking questions need a appropriate technique if we want to get some helpful information. Sometimes, it will be strange if people ask something directly without making the stories. There’s two results we would get if we use this way. First one is fake information, people will answer what would makes u feel good or what u are looking for. Last one is that u will get nothing cause people feel weird and vigilant.

Bibliography:

Wujec, T. (2019). Transcript of “Build a tower, build a team”. [online] Ted.com. Available at: https://www.ted.com/talks/tom_wujec_build_a_tower/transcript [Accessed 24 Nov. 2019].

List of illustration:

Fig1. Kate(2019), Spaghetti tower from Julia group.

Fig2. Chen(2019), Explanation from Brian.

Video1. Joko(2019), The action of throwing and catching egg.

This aim is creating a ‘loose’ timeline of those who have impacted (society) and the world in which we live.

Making timeline is a best way to help doing self-reflection of historic information and make it more clear to understand. In addition, creating a timeline with my own influencers like directors, musicians, artists, writers, enterprisers and even presidents.

It is always difficult to make things start at the beginning. However, everything went well when someone nominated a name of influncer. Moreover, I discover that the history processing in the past years in the whole world. At the specific time, what happened from different countries, which shakers make influence at that time in what kind of field.

It is more like a film to me with different timeline around the world showing in front of my face. In addition, the most familiar part for us is the time after 19century due to we all born after that time and got deeply influence by the innovator and influencer at that time.

This lesson makes me realize that the aim of this class is providing a opportunity and method to observe the changing in the whole world in diversity period during this timeline.

Focal point of society keeps changing by years. In the past decades, the majority group of influencers are from cultural pioneers such as Fraud.

Whereas, most of influencers are celebrities or actors today. It tends towards type of entertainment- kind of mental aspects.

List of illustration

Fig1. Chen(2019), Timeline.

Fig2. Chen(2019), Timeline.

Fig3. Chen(2019), Timeline.

This aim of project is looking for a observations in UK and working as a group. We need to practice our negotiate skill and team-working.

180 strand

I’ve get along with team member very well Via brief 2. We had more than 7 times team meeting to negotiate what the goal should we achieve. During the first meeting, we all confused without any valuable idea. Automatically, lots of idea comes up after re-reading the requirement and concept of brief. We decided purposing a even like an exhibition in london per person then vote for one option. After simple team presentation, we all choose the 180 strand exhibition which was from Lorana.

I’m not a people person. It is a little bit difficult to express my opinion and feeling for me in case we have different ideas create divisions. However, we get along with each other very well. We are all from different countries with diversity culture, definitely, the thinking way could not be similar with. But it is also a good situation, it provides more information and probability except easily manage these information.

From other sides, our relationship becomes closer by negotiating. I’ve almost conquered my inner fear of communication via this project. Moreover, my girlfriend give many help on video making due to we are not familiar with Perimeter application. The most problem for us is introduction. I think that we should use and quote official introduction on website with reference but the others believe that this behavior is stealing and unacceptable. I text and also call to convince them. But they insisted their opinions so i compromised with this decision. But i feel fine with it cause i have expressed my opinion and would not feel regret with this situation. We all work hard for the same aim and want make it better. Finally, we have a unique experience and get a satisfied result at the end.

Bibliography:

180thestrand.com. (2019). 180 The Strand. [online] Available at: http://180thestrand.com/ [Accessed 10 Nov. 2019].