My Design Career

Ever since I could remember, I had always been passionate with art, specifically music and design. My mother enrolled in music and art course since I was in kindergarten and it has become a big part in my life. I do enjoy other school subjects like science and maths, but I just couldn't bring myself to imagine having a future (career) in those area. As art isn't very respected in my home country, when I entered year 11, I begged my parents to send me overseas to pursue my art, but they told me that I was too young and that I should wait until I finish high school. However, when I finished high school, I suddenly got cold feet and the thought of being overseas by myself scared me. Instead, I enrolled in a university in my home town and studied politics. But after undergoing politics for a year, I had enough. My art passion resurfaced and again, I begged my parents to let me go overseas. Luckily, my parents were very supportive and they said that they knew I wouldn't have succeeded in politics anyway.

So I began searching for schools through education agents all around. And I finally decided to go to Australia. I was offered a few universities by my agent, and one of them was UNSW. I read through the booklet, and found out that UNSW has a few design course. The reason I chose Industrial Design was because not only it has design class, but also commerce and ergonomics. And it also consists of hand-drawn designs, model making and computing designs. And I believe that those features will help me in my future life as a designer. And I chose UNSW because it is very well known for its quality of university, teachers and student.

I have seen my parents' friends who are involved in a design career, and I have to say that I would prefer working in a small firm rather a massive mass producing companies. Because I can see them interacting with their clients and producing a design piece that matters to the clients, and not just economically valued designs in thousands of quantities. I would like to be able to connect my designs to my clients and it will be a piece created not just by me, but also by my client.

Shape of Scent

My bottle of perfume. The perfume was fresh scented and one of the words we put down from our brain storm was morning. So I used the idea of a morning dew. And another word we put down was trees, and dew is commonly found on leaf , so I joined the two together. But instead of having the dew on top of the leaf, I put it the other way around as if the leaf is protecting the dew (also for another word warm from our list). And I was thinking that the leaf also serves as the button for the perfume. So you press down the leaf and the perfume will come out of the hole (tiny dot on the second picture). The colour of the leaf would be dark green, as the perfume is quite strong, and the dew would a gradation of orange with the strongest colour on top like a sunshine.

P.S. the perfume was Versace for woman