Mapping Process:
I used UBC thinking process when I was doing project 4, the response piece of my research paper on women beauty standards. My thinking process was a loop which stared from asking a question, “how and why commercials effect women’s beauty standards”; then I research on this question and gradually built ideas and thoughts; I developed those ideas by evaluating my topic and research results; tested it out with the first draft. The first loop ended up with my second and final drafts of the research paper, and the second loop stared from asking a question on the test result, “how was I effected by commercials, society, and feminism”; I did more research and built the prototype; by testing it, I found it was too fragile, so in my second trail, I changed the central supporter. The second prototype became my final work because of the limited time and area issues. If I go on thinking, I will ask myself more question on this project like “what other people or things effected you” and continue this loop. The beneficial of this thinking process is that I can always extend me thoughts and make a profound project.
Learning Process and Applying:
- Mapping: Intro to mapping using word explosion charts on “systems” and “strategies”.
I mapped the way that I think in Bridge 1, Visual Images Based on Both Internal and External Noticing. I found out that my mind extends infinitely, and every things share a continuous clue, which is so-called “systems” and “strategies”.
- The Artist Posts: both content (new artists) and the strategy (building internal awareness and allowing for emergent curiosity)
By doing Artist Posts, I explored my interests and enhanced my personal style of design.
- Berger: media, representation and market (both the strategies to market, and the larger systems of market economies)
I learned that people like the things that they have seen and used to, so I am more confident to create the style that I like because as long as people get used to it, there will be audience for my works.
Looking Back at the Past Year:
The freshman year was actually surprising because I found my interest in art and no longer limit my career in my major. Experiencing different medias including filmmaking, graphic design, typography, installation, involving technology, and so on, I noticed that being a designer should not being restrained in set career, instead, I should explore my interest and combine different medias and skills, so that my works can be inspiring, creative, and pluralistic.
