Blog Essay

Blog Essay

For our last major project, we were told to sign up 12 to 16 sections of workshops to help us create and design a book. The book title can be anything you like, and the name of my book is “My Journey”. Why I choose this name is because this is a journey around London and a journey of my university life.

The first workshop I attach is contrast. The place that I am living in right now is at Oval and Rickmansworth. So there are two places that I can design for my Coat of Arms. In Oval, there is a cricket field that nearly everyone knows about it and there is a park in between Oval station and Kennington Road. So I used all this information I got from the research and made this Coat of Arm. Simple but express the detail clearly. The images in the squares and the details around the shield makes it looks like a royal symbol and a sign of warmness.




The second one is where my auntie lives, She live is Rickmansworth and it’s out of London. The place is quiet and always contains fresh air. Although the place is simple and plain, but it has an amazing park and the environment is all green.
So the Coat of Arms for this area is trees and swans, it means peaceful and calm. Pattern around the images represent the falling leaves and the warmness of the area.





The second workshop I attached was “movement”. Movement’s definitions are moment-to-moment, action-to-action, and time-to-time. For example a trip from my accommodation to my university, it will be: 1. Wake up ten minutes late. 2. Have a quick shower. 3. Lock the door. 4. Miss the bus. 5. Top up my oyster card. 6. Took the wrong train. 7. Saw a pair of twins on the train. 8. Rush to university when out of the station. 9. Search for Student ID card. 10. Rush up the stairs. This will be called moment to moment.

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Direction visit workshop

In this Section we were told to meet at Embankment and have a trip at the underground in the circle line. Take a loop in a circle line is about 1 hour long. So we have been sitting in the train for an hour and recording things that happened between this hours.

This is the brief that karl gave us for the 

trip around the circle line. 

We start from Embankment station and 

travel around the circle line bak to the start.

The trains arrive, let the journey start~~

When the train departed, the train got held in midway

woman across me had music in bust

train keep accelerating and decelerating

two women across me leave the train

arrive to temple in 2 minutes

train pass by us

the next station is manor house

the light was disconnect for a second

train went pass us again

decreasing speed

track unstable

arrive manor house in 1 and a half minutes

common street is near only took 25 seconds

please mind the gap between the train and the platform

next station is monument in 40 seconds

3 person went on board

speaker says mind the gap 3 times

next stain is tower hill in 30 second

let the passenger go out first

5 person went on board and 2 person went out

next station aldgate in 50 second

the person next to tracy leave the train

the train stop for 5 minutes and start again

a pair of lover stand infront of me

the engine was roaring for cool down

chatting to tracy for the main time

please stand clear of the door

train is unstable

next station is liverpool street in 40 seconds

around 20 people got in and 2 people gone out

a smell of alcohol

a lot of people chit chatting

next station is moorgate in 40 second

4 people got in

two people chatting beside tracy

next station is barbican in 20 seconds

the person next to tracy got his feet up to the pole

5 person went on board

next station is farrindon in 1 minutes

went out of the tunnel

10 people went on board

the person across me is reading newspaper.

the train is crowded 

the next station is kings cross in 2 minutes

a lot of people leave the train and the train is empty

next station is euston square in 1 minute

the woman across me is playing the newspaper

the next station is great portland street in 1 minute

lots of squeaking noise from the break

let out pressure from the door

unstable rail makes the train wobbly

the next station is baker street in 2 minutes

the train is shacking while its stopping

message from the driver for anointment

train has been held for 3 minutes

the next station is edgware road in 3 minutes out door station 

there are clicking noise while the train is running

change train to continue journey

went to platform 2 for our journey

went in train in 3 minutes

wait for the train to start for 5 minutes

the baby was coughing on the left in pain

the next station is paddington in 2 minutes

its an outdoor station

the station is so smelly

the next station is bayswater on 2 minutes

the time is now 3:24pm

the door makes a funny noise when its closing

the next station is notting hill gate in 1 minutes

the station have a lot of people

the person next to me says "i will be there in a couple of minutes"

the next station is high street kensington in 2 minutes station outdoor

sun shinning on me

person next to me hit me with his bag

a lot of people went on board

the person next to be was coughing

a lot of blackberry message sound

the next station is gloucester road in 2 minutes

the train stop for a second

there is a phone ringing

lot of people talking

6 more station to go

the next station is south kennington in 1 minute

people next to me talk about the tube map

the woman in front of me lost balance

the train was wobbly and unstable

the next station is sloane square in 2 minutes

a lot of student went on board

there is a weird smell in the train tinnier water

 the next station is victoria in 2 minutes

a lot of people leave the train and the person next to me changes his seat.

a lot of business men went onboard

the next station is james park in 2 minutes

2 people leave the train and 1 peron went onboard

the next station is westminster in 2 minutes

the woman sit next to me leave the train

the next station is embankment out last stop. 55 minutes reach our destination

the journey is complete.

repeat pattern workshop

Today we were doing a section called the repeat pattern. What we do in the section is creating a repeat pattern by drawing and cutting. After all those drawing, go to the photocopier and print out the work u did and the repeat pattern is complete.

This is the brief and example for the repeating pattern for the section.

I hold it helps my explanation in this post.

A simple and quick example of a repeat pattern drawing.

Flowers repeat pattern

original flower outcome

London repeat pattern

Colour workshop.

In this colour workshop,  we were describing london in two different colours, one is orange and the other one is blue. In these two colour we were separated into two groups. Each group have a different colour, In my group we have orange. Describing London in the colour of orange.

We brainstorm the colour of orange and came out a lot of information.

but all of them is quite nonsense laugh out loud.

After that we brainstorm London as well and came up a lot of 

negative key points to go with london like stinking rich. :P

I agreed what we have put in the brainstorm is true.

Than we made a image of what London feels like

when it combine with the colour orange. The 

background have some old crack and uncomfortable

feeling in it that makes the london so stinking rich...

And the last one is London on a orange wall 

that makes london so old and dull. Nothing 

to do and so disorder. This is a good example

for london i am sure.

Reduction Workshop

Today we were having a session with Jo Spencer for a Reduction Workshop. We were exploring the london map and she give a number for the map that we are going to do and illustration. 

This is the brief that we got from the section.

This is the map that i got from her.

my number is 6.

A simple outline of the map that I make in AI.

The progress that she put all the maps we make in the lesson together.

This is the final outcome of the mapping we did in the session.

Negative and positive workshop

Today we talk about negative and positive in paul's workshop. What is negative, and what is positive? There are a lot of answers that can describe these two words, like negative space and positive space. Red for negative and blue for positive, Bright is positive and dark is negative. Something bad is negative and something good is positive... etc. There are lots of things that can link to negative and positive.

We were told to bring newspaper to the session to work on because we are going to explore what is negative and positive. For example like the colour of the image is positive, but the passage is negative, the advertisement is positive and the meaning of the headline is negative. Why do you think it is positive and why do you think its negative.

This is an example of the positive and negative post in a metro newspaper.

the white spaces and neutral, red is negative and blue is positive. 

What!! Extension Workshop... I guess i got to start doing it soon~ 

Scale Workshop

In the Scale workshop, we were shown how to make a board game in a simple way and there are some interesting examples that they did in their magazine. We were told to make a board game of our life, so i decided to make a journey of myself going to school. What will happen in mid way and what will you do if  you forgot something at home.

Simple design of my journey to school. Its a long way to school,

but if its not long, there will be no fun in this game~

Example 1 of the work that the tutor shown us in class.

It quite short the game, but looks really interesting.

This example confuse me... I still dont get it...

Where is the start and where do I go? the drawing is good,

But the game is too confusing.

Emphasis Workshop

In this workshop with Jo Spencer we were told to create a CD case for london using Two songs and its lyrics. playing with the fonts and letters, different size and composition. We are not allowed to use pencils and drawings in this sections, just cut and pastes. So we need to photocopy all the sized and font we need as much as possible. These are the progress I took when i am creating the CD case.

This is the first CD case complete.

There are some lyrics inside and the design is quite simple.

My second CD case is complete as well.

I think this one is better than the first one. 

What do you think?