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'

Model making experimentation_ Green Hero

This is the 1:100 model of my design proposal for the second year, second semester, the heathrow airplot project. The proposal is named as 'Green Hero' which is an 18 metre, five-storey vertical farm tower. The focused key word of the project was 'experiment', and I made model as part of experimentation.

Finsbury Avenue Square

Finsbury Avenue Square was my case study site for second year streetlife module. The reason why I choose this site is the space has unique atmostphere and it’s a really unusual feeling. So I wanted to explore detaily abut this landscape. The square at the heart of Broadgate’s financial district. Broadgate is home to a lot of the world-class financial companies such as the Stock Exchange and the bank of England. With the context of rapidly growing financial area, Finsbury Avenue Square was designed in co-operation with the client, architects Skidmore,Owings & Merrill and Townshend Landscape Architects. The square measuring 55,347 sq ft, is a sophisticated white, paved public space flanked by red oak trees and acers. Interactive sunken lighting features bring the square to life at night. Moreover, a stylish subterraneanrestaurant, seating areas and public arts make the square more unique in Broadgate district.