Week 7 - Analogical Thinking

                                                 Classroom Exercise 1

This is a tree which is near by my school. When I first saw it, it reminded me of the coat hanger. I think the coat hanger is very convenient. When we go home and want to take off the coat and bag of something else, just put them on the coat hanger. It is a very good product in nowadays.

                                         Classroom Exercise 2

Identify 3 existing products to discover relationships to other objects and images. Preferably seeking example where a modest source has influenced the form of a luxurious target and vice versa.

This is a picture about a tree trunk and the other picture is a bookshelf which is based on the shape of tree trunk. It's creativity and useful.

These are two pictures which are the egg and sofa. As you can see, the egg sofa is based on the shape of the real egg. It's quite interesting design.

This is a doorknob which the shape is a human's hand. It's a funny design.

Field Trip

A few weeks ago, we visited National Museum of Singapore. Below are three pictures I took in the museum. I will give them a human characteristic for each one.

- She is sitting and looks very quite.

- It is plate and it looks happy because it puts its "hands" up.

- It is a gramophone and it looks curious.

WEEK 10 - Force Connection 2

These are five items that I took out from my classmate's bag which are lip balm, mirror, key, credit card, wet tissue. I will tell you a story about them.

Lip balm is a girl who wants to be a lip stick. Everyday she wakes up and looks at the mirror and think why I am not a lip stick, I also want to be a lip stick to have those beautiful colors rather than using the wet tissue to keep wet everyday. One day, she went home but she found she lost her key so she had to wait for her roommate came back and opened the door for her. She felt very boring then she went to a coffee shop and ordered a cup of coffee to wait for her roommate came back. She was sitting and looked at the outside through a window. She saw many lipsticks were walking on the street. They looked so pretty and confidence. She looked at her white body and felt very frustrated. After fifteen minutes, her roommate called her and told her she had reached. Then she wanted to pay the money for the bill but she found her cash was not enough and she forgot to bring the credit card. She was very embarrassed and flurried. At this time, a lip stick gentleman realized that this lady needed help. Then took out his credit card and passed to the waiter and told him use his. Lip balm was grateful to him and wanted to treated him next time so they left their contact numbers. After that time, they found they had a lot of common interests and they all felt very comfortable and happy when stayed with each other. They found they fall in love with each other. Then they decided to get married and after a few years they had a baby: lip glaze.

WEEK 9 - Force Connection 1

Pencil is passionate. It has always been passionate about drawing paper. It always draws a lot of amazing lines and these lines combine with each other to become a wonderful painting. It never felt tired.

Pencil is sad. It doesn't look pretty like other pens have a beautiful and strong outer case to be protected. It just have a very thin wood to be protected.

Pencil is creative. It can draw everything that it wants. Like human being, flowers, trees and animals etc. It also can be creative to draw something is not real. Like a magic wand or something else to creative a magic world.

Pencil is brave. It will be smaller and smaller even to disappear while it is drawing on the paper but even it knows that, it is still drawing on the paper to do its duty.

Pencil is greedy. It wants to draw a lot of great art works to let more and more people know its drawing. It wants to be famous.

Pencil is hardworking. It works hard day by day for creating a wonderful painting. Even it has to overnight to achieve its goal, it doesn't complain and just continue its works and do its duty.

WEEK 6 -- The answers of five question

1. If I were alone in a deserted house, I would light firewood first. Because if I light firewood, the light will more lighter than an oil lamp and candle, And some animals are very scared of fire. They will stay away it so that I will be safe at night. I also can use it to keep my body warm.

2. I will put hydrogen in the box. Because hydrogen is a kind of gas. It's no weight and hydrogen is a very special gas. The more hydrogen I put maybe the box will fly.

3. I think the inside side of a cat contains the most hair. Because they usually lay on the ground with their inside side. And scientists have proven that cats lay on their side they need the insulation from the cold on the ground. So I think inside side will have more hair than the other side to keep warm.

4. Maybe I will create a kind of machine. If the chickens come in, the machine will feel it and play a sound of gun to scare them.

5. Maybe the bee's eyes got some problem. It can not see down just only can see the straight. And the flower painting was so real. So the bee miss the vase.

WEEK 4 -- MIND MAP_Save The Earth

This week my group did a "mind map" together and our topic is "SAVE THE EARTH". When we got this topic, we thought it was a good topic and we should plan it well. Because earth is where we live and we must protect and save it.

As you can see, we divide into five small topics which are "SAVE", "3Rs", "ENVIRONMENT", "ANIMALS" and "WHAT TO DO". Base on these five small topics, we write a few suggestions.

About the painting, because of the topic is "SAVE THE EARTH". We draw an earth planet in the middle and we also draw some famous architectures around it. Like Pyramid, Eiffel Tower and Big Ben etc. About the "3Rs" which means Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Because it is environmental and green, we draw a big tree and the main color is green. And the whole painting is very colorful.

During making this project, I find there are a lot of good ways to save and protect our earth. Just some little things and I think we all can do that. Such as we can bring our own bags rather than use the shop's plastic bag when we go to the supermarket. Maybe you will think if just you do like this, the power is very little, but when everybody realize that we should do some actions to protect our planet. There will be powerful when many people do that.

WEEK 5 - Reflection after presentation

SAVE THE EARTH FROM OURSELVES

Yesterday my group finished our mind map-SAVE THE EARTH presentation. I found maybe everyone thought save the earth is very big and  difficult for us. In other word, save the earth is supposed to be some environmental departments' job. But we all lived there, we lived on the earth. All the houses, architectures and restaurants are built on it. Saving the earth is all human's duty. We don't have to do some big things like creating a machine for solving the pollution. From some little things we also can help to save the earth. Save the earth from little things, from ourself. And that video is to inspire us to save the earth from present from ourself.

There a few suggestions that I think we all can do in our real life. For example, never buy the clothing or other things are made by animals' skin an fur. Never throw rubbish into the river or everywhere. Using more recycle things. Taking more public transportation instead of private cars. We also can join some green organizations to follow them do some meaningful things. Like telling more people the importance of saving the earth. We can create our own stuff like make a environmental bag so when you go to the supermarket or shopping, you don't the plastic bags any more.

WEEK 2 - Breaking The Rules

The cups can have three legs! It's not the same as normal cups or goblet. We can let our cups

"stand" not just "sit" on the table!

As you can see, one cup also can become two cups. I think they are cute and lovely. You can buy them with your bestfriend or boyfriend/girlfriend.

They are so interesting! Right! As a table and a chair, they have the human's leg. It's a very attractive design.

There are two little tables on one table. Who said a table just can be one table? We also can put more things one this table. It's an interesting and practical design.

Is it an onion? No, actually it is a light but just looks like an onion. If let me choose this light or a normal light, I will definitely choose the onion one. It's cute! Isn't it?

WEEK 2 - Take a Journey

From my home to school, I just need to walk around 7 minutes. So I go to school and go home on foot every day. I realized that I had not explored around my house so I decided to look at it. One day, after class I was on the way to my home and I didn't go back to home. I just went straight and I found something new. There were many beautiful apartments behind my house and there was a little park and a kindergarten. There were lots of trees and plants in the park. I also saw many people were doing exercises like running in the park and some kids were playing the swing. In that time I thought I found a good place to go for a walk. If I didn't decide to do it, maybe I would not find this place. It's very interesting to go to somewhere you haven't gone before. Maybe you will get a surprise:)

WEEK 1 --- Tim Brown: Tales of creativity and play

Tim Brown: Tales of creativity and play


In this speech, Tim Brown showed some opinions about creativity and play. He found people forgot some behaviors while they were growing and the kids still got them. People didn't playful or creative than kids. But we still could be playful and creative. And it was not serious or playful, it was " and ". We needed to trust it. And there some behaviors we had learned from kids. They were very useful to the designers.

WEEK 1 -- A PICTURE A WEEK

Last Sunday, my friends and I went to the Universal Studios Singapore. We all spent a very good time there. There are lots of different amusement parks. Like Hollywood, New York, Ancient Egypt etc. We also saw many movie characters there like Minions, Shrek and Transformers etc. As you can the picture are minions. They are cute, aren't they? All the buildings were very interesting and beautiful. We just felt like going to another world, an interesting and funny world! There were also many amusement facilities there. Such as the Roller Coaster with the different themes and rafting. It was very exciting. During the whole process of playing, we heard many screams. So it was a little scared but it was really funny! This place it’s worth to visit it with your friends or family. You will have a great time in there!

WEEK 3 -- 101 IDEAS

            101 WAYS TO SAVE THE EARTH

1. Cut lesser trees
2. Use recycled paper
3. Do not throw rubbish into water e.g. seawater, riverbanks 
4. Reuse plastic bags
5. Factories should reduce exhaustion of gas into the air
6. Plant more trees
7. Decrease deforestation
8. Recycle anything that can be recycled
9. Throw rubbish into its designated recycling bins
10. Take public transport instead of cars
11. Reduce use of chemical supplies 
12. Use glass bottles instead of plastic bottles
13.  Do not buy things that are not needed
14. Use environmental-friendly bags
15. Increase temperature of air conditioner
16. Buy goods you can refill
17. Do not buy things e.g. bags, coats made from animal skin and fur
18. Do not waste food
19. Use water cautiously
20. Reduce use of electronic devices
21. Do not put too much food into refrigerator
22. Turn off all electrical appliances and lights when unused e.g. computer, air conditioner etc.
23. Use natural materials instead of man-made materials e.g. leather
24. Join environmental organizations to help the environment
25. Classify rubbish before throwing e.g bottled products, paper etc.
26. Walk or ride a bike to work or school
27. Use compact fluorescent light bulbs instead of standard bulbs
28. Clean air filters
29.  Dispose toxic waste immediately
30. Identify water polluters
31. Create your own stuff e.g. cleaning products
32. Compost
33. Protect animals
34. Use solar powered outdoor light
35. Install low wattage motion sensor night lights for bathroom
36. Recycle glass
37. Do not preheat ovens
38. Use both sides of a paper
39.  Recycle newspapers
40. Take shorter showers
41. Maintain your own vehicles
42. Use matches instead of lighters
43. Use rechargeable batteries
44. Drive slower
45. Do laundry by hand
46. Donate old clothing/unused paper
47. Turn off sink while brushing teeth
48. Go to the car wash instead of washing your own car
49. Pay bills online
50. Use a dishwasher
51. Go vegetarian
52. Stop littering
53. Stop smoking
54. Inflate tires
55. Don't dump  toxic household products down the storm drain or street gutter.
56.  Buy durable and long-lasting products
57. Use silverware and dishes instead of paper and plastic
58. Use reusable diapers
59. Recycle ink and toner cartridges
60. Use latex paint instead of oil-based paint
61.  Buy organically-grown food
62. Use dimmers and 3-way bulbs when possible
63. Use a tea kettle instead of a pan to boil water
64. Buy appliances with energy efficiency labels
65. Shut refrigerator and freezer doors shut when not needed
66. Keep freezer at least 3/4 full at all times
67. Use a microwave oven to cook vegetables
68. Cover saucepans with lids when cooking
69. Recycle aluminum cans
70. Use biodiesel fuel for a diesel car
71. Purchase natural furniture e.g wool, cotton etc.
72. Recycle electronic gadgets
73. Kill insects naturally instead of using insecticides
74. Don't use higher wattage bulbs than necessary
75. Wear warm clothing and turn down winter heat
76.  Use cold water instead of hot whenever possible
77. Opt for small-oven or stove-top cooking when preparing small meals
78. Run clothes washers full, but don’t overload them
79. Airdry laundry when possible
80. Install water-efficient shower-heads
81. Collect rainwater and graywater for gardening use
82. Limit or eliminate use of "disposable" items
83. Maintain and tune up vehicle regularly for maximum gas mileage
84. Don’t speed; accelerate and slow down gradually
85. Rent or borrow items that you don’t use often
86. Use colored fabrics to avoid need of bleach
87. Use natural fiber clothing, bedding and towels
88. Avoid rainforest products
89. Use postcards instead of letters for short messages
90. Stay informed about the state of the Earth
91. Stop junk mail (opt out for letters)
92. Adjust your thermostat; higher in summer, lower in winter
93. Create an organic vegetable garden
94. Reuse school textbooks
95. Reduce air travel
96. Use e-tickets when traveling
97. Do not burn trash
98. Use an electric car
99. Don't spill oil, paint or cleaning supplies down the drain
100. Use cloth napkins instead of paper napkins 
101. Use Baking Soda to scour sinks, pots and pans or tile surfaces