Designed by Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron
Saturday, 30 October 2010
Tuesday, 18 May 2010
Diana Memorial Fountain
Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain in Hyde Park
The fountain was built with the best materials, talent and technology. It contains 545 pieces of Cornish granite - each shaped by the latest computer-controlled machinery and pieced together using traditional skills.
Celebrate 10 Years of Tate Modern - No Soul For Sale - A Festival of Independents
To celebrate 10 years of Tate Modern, free arts festival is held for all from 14–16 May. I visited there evening at 14th May, first day of the festival. There were so many people to celebrate and join the free market. And I could find lots of cutting-edge art events, performances, music, and film. See over 70 international artist collectives, from Shanghai to Rio, come together in Turbine Hall.
[Exhibition]Ron Arad: Restless


London based maverick Ron Arad can be described as a designer, architect and artist.
He was Head of Design Products Department at the Royal College of Art from 1997 to 2009.

Friday, 14 May 2010
Green Peace airplot competition

The brief was designing a sustainable fortress and final design should help Greenpeace, activists, and residents to stop goverments' the new Heathrow third runway plan.
2nd - 6th, June, 11am-6pm
Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf
Wednesday, 12 May 2010
[Book]The Image Of The City

The author Kevin Lynch was an American urban planner.
The Image of the City published in 1960, is the result of a five-year study on how users perceive and organize spatial information as they navigate through cities. Using three disparate cities as examples (Boston, Jersey City, and Los Angeles), Lynch reported that users understood their surroundings in consistent and predictable ways, forming mental maps with five elements:
- paths, the streets, sidewalks, trails, and other channels in which people travel;
- edges, perceived boundaries such as walls, buildings, and shorelines;
-districts, relatively large sections of the city distinguished by some identity or character;
-nodes, focal points, intersections.
-landmarks, readily identifiable objects which serve as external reference points.
Information + Graphic = Infographics




During when I analysed some of the sites for my projects, I realised how important is the clear way of showing the information as well as gathering good information. Therefore, I suppose Infographic is extremely important matter for analysing sites.
and I found some useful Websites:
- http://gerdarntz.org/home
- http://interface.fh-potsdam.de/infodesignpatterns/patterns.php
- http://www.richardpalmergraphics.com/
-http://ffffound.com/image/2ffa0b17905547a15ea5fce35405b3c069c83572
useful Magazine:
'grafik' Issue 184 'Information Design'
Tuesday, 13 April 2010
Model making experimentation_ Green Hero



Monday, 12 April 2010
Finsbury Avenue Square

Monday, 15 March 2010
Wednesday, 3 March 2010
[Exhibition]Decode: Degital Design Senstions @ V&A London

The exhibition explored three themes: Code presented pieces that use computer code to create new works and looks at how code can be programmed to create constantly fluid and ever-changing works. Interactivity looked at works that are directly influenced by the viewer. Visitors were invited to interact with and contribute to the development of the exhibits. Network focused on works that comment on and utilise the digital traces left behind by everyday communications and looks at how advanced technologies and the internet have enabled new types of social interaction and mediums of self-expression.




My favorite was Daniel Rozin's "Weave Mirror". Because his work was a fusion of new technologies and crafted materials. I think his work represents a hybrid of old physical materials and new technologies and it is something that we are surrounded by in our daily lives. His work makes me reflect appearances of our current lives.


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