Reflective Practice

In this studio brief, we were asked to make an A2 poster  to identify and summarise something over the course

2 things that I have learnt in the course:
-I learnt more western culture, because I am the only Asian student in my class, I didn't really know much about the western before I came here, for example, I learnt that western people like to go to pub every Friday's night which is totally different with my home country(Hong Kong).
-The design between Asian and Western is quite different, Asian prefer more decoration in the design, while western people prefer simpler design.

2 things that engaged me:
-Keep studying and improving my English as it isn't my first language
-I am the only Asian in my class so I can introduce more asian culture to my classmate.

Aims and ambitions for level 5 or beyond: 
-To improve my English, especially speaking in front of more people due to the fact that it isn't my first language and I am not really good at English so I feel nervous all the time when I speak in front of many people or people that I don't know, however, in the graphic design industry, we have to do a lot of presentation so I really want to overcome this problem.

2 things that I have not enjoyed in the course:
-There is no more Asian student in my class
-I can't concentrate working in the studio if there are too many people

Mayor of London (A shortlist exhibition programme in London)

  I went to London with a friend on 18/2/2017. Actually, we just wanted to travel around London, however, when we went near the National gallery, I asked my friend if we could go into the gallery and see if there has any exhibition. Luckily that there was a limited time exhibition about playing with different objects. I took a catalogue from the exhibition, I didn't stay there for a long time because I returned in the same day so the time was really rush that's why I took a catalogue so that I can see all details afterward. The name of the exhibition was called " Fourth Plinth Commission Shortlist Exhibition", it held from 20 January until 26 March 2017. According to the catalogue, since 1999, Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth has been the home to world-class contemporary art. After sitting empty for 150 years, the plinth hosted three commissions by the Royal Society of Art. Building on this success, the Mayor of London set up the Fourth Plinth Commission, presenting works by some artists such as Mark Wallinger, Marc Quinn, Yinka Shonibare MBE and Katharina Fritsch.

  I really like this one because it was really funny, the name of this work was called "Higher" which designed by Damian Ortega, just used a toy car and the put a lot of things on it. I thought it would be very difficult to do that because if it is not balance, the things would fall down. However, in this artwork, we can see everything is very stable. Therefore, I think it was really funny. Actually, I looked at this because I want to play with different kind of objects in my graphic design journey as I always just worked with computer or digitally. Hence, it would be great to play with objects, stay away from computer.

                                        

  After I looked at this small exhibition, I went to the other part of the gallery, I saw some really famous paintings such as the " Two Tax-Gatherers".

  The description of this painting mentioned that the man on the left is writing out a list of taxes on items such as wine, beer and fish. Such tax officials were commonly allowed to retain in a percentage of the money they collected, and were criticised for their greed. The picture is probably intended as a warning against avarice. It was shocked me that as there are many meaning hided from this painting, I guess most people would just guess the man on the left is just writing something. Therefore, if I didn't look at the description, I won't know exactly the meaning of the painting.

                                       

  After that, we went to a Korea culture society building in London and then saw a lot of DVD's cover. Due to the fact that I want to work as the Kpop album cover designer, I went to there and see different cover designs.