What is the most profound thing you have learned about yourself and your creative practices through this course? Have you experienced moments of disruptive wonder? In what ways has your perspective on graphic design practice changed?

The most profound thing I learned about myself is I have ability to be a problem solver, and i am clearly know there is nothing impossible to do during design process. I trust myself and i know my potential is very large; as long as keep digging, there is alway a way to solve problem or come up with new ideas. During the design process, although i had anxiety and restlessness feelings, but i know i have ability to make myself calm down, and I have perseverance to do research and solve problems. Overall, from the entire design process, i saw my potentials. In addition to these, i also recognize that i have certain deficiencies. I am easy to be affected by others’ works, and not confident on what i did for every step. Only when i got approved, i feel comfortable to move on to the next step. This is a very serious problem for me; as a designer, if i don’t have enough confidence with my own design work, how could I be able to convince my audience to support my ideas or got inspirations from me.
This class is the first course without limit for the design form, I like it very much! The final design form is depends on ourself, so it gave us enough space to use our own way to show our ideas, which is easier to devote our energies to do research and design. During the process, we could shared our works with our classmates and got feedbacks from them. Because we have different design forms, so it allows us to have different opportunities to see issues by standing on someone else’s design position. we are using a variety of ways to stimulate our own creative inspiration. This class for me, got inspirations greater than the final design results. My first project changed my perspective on graphic design practice. The final outcome is video, rather than the traditional graphic design form, this final outcome broke the traditional way to solve problem in graphic design. It makes me feel to break the shackles of certain form and found a new way to express my ideas. Meanwhile, the connection between graphic design and new technology had highly implanted in my mind, just like Meggs article mentioned. Also, for the second project, i did series of posters, the design elements are not limited on purely graphics, which remind me the elements of graphic design are enlarge. This change has changed our perspective on graphic design.

Reflect on your own creative process. How do you strive to achieve a moment of performance or move forward in reach of a noble pursuit? Are your creative activities leading toward a moment of disruptive wonder for your audience, as well as for yourself? This entry should be completed no later than Day 7 of Unit 8.

My exploration for this week is collected more poor children from all over the world. At first, i was though my audience will be Chinese people, which is based on the fairytale i picked; However, later i decided to the worldwide, because this fairytale had been translated to many languages and published in many countries, so it has became a world classical fairytale. I researched where is the poor area in the world, and children life in these places. These posters are propaganda for these children who doesn’t have enough food to eat or can’t afford to go to school. I want to use a powerful sense to convey the emotions to help these poor children. The first feeling that came to my mind is the Constructivism, due to the Russian constructivism was influenced by the october revolution, there are so many radical artists created artworks based on the social background. These artists were using their strong expression to show the social purpose and their ideas, also the color they used are very bold, so, i got some inspiration from them. Through the feedback i got from professor, she introduced few artists’ artworks, which contains Marianne Brandt, John Heartfield, Gustav Klutsis and Moholy Nagy. I did some research on their artworks, sum up their design layout, and the color they used, also what typeface they choose.I got so many inspiration from them to used in my own design. Even though this project has relationship with art movement, but it works. At the beginning of sketches, i also want to use some new materials, like foil papers stick on the poster, which can let audience see themselves through this paper, for them to image, if they are one of these children, do they want somebody help them? It’s kind of reflection process. Also, i want to use the contrast between the rich and the poor to evoke sympathy of people to help these poor children. For me, the children were born equal, that they should enjoy the rights of other children have. My creativity could express my ideas very clear, and it has ability to make the audience clearly too. Anyway, these poster’s creative has a strong connect with the fairytale that i selected.