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.

The design aims to reflect Diana's life, water flows from the highest point in two directions as it cascades, swirls and bubbles before meeting in a calm pool at the bottom. The water is constantly being refreshed and is drawn from London's water table. The Memorial also symbolises Diana's quality and openness. There are three bridges where you can cross the water and go right to the heart of the fountain.

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

After visiting the Ron Arad: Restless exhibition, I was really impressed and became a big fan of his works. I would say it was one of the most interesting exhibitions that I've visited during this year.









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.

I love his chair designs and especially 'Gomli'(2009) was my favourite. Gomli is a rare figurative piece, which makes good-humoured reference to his friend Antony Gormley who uses his own body as a model for his art. In contrast, Gomli represents the universal seated figure. As the physical embodiment of the 'invisible sitter', it enables Arad to design pieces to seat every individual comfortably. I felt Ron Arad is a designer who really thinks about ‘human’ through this design.

Green Peace airplot competition

I entered the Greenpeace Airplot contest and I am really glad to say that my proposal 'Green Hero' has been selected to exhibit in Oxo Tower Bargehouse Gallery.

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

[Book]The Image Of The City

This book was recomended as a significant landscape theoretical book.
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'