Assignment 3 : Good Place & Bad Place

Bad Place : Gwanjung library lobby on 7th floor

  I chose the Gwanjung library's lobby on 7th floor as bad place.









  This is an outlook of the lobby on 7th floor. It looks quite nice when you just see this without any thinking.








  However, if you look into this pond, it is really dirty. Because water is not flowing, water inside is really dirty and smells bad. This doesn't give fresh feeling to someone who is taking a rest while studying.

  Secondly, It makes people who try to take some rest, hard to sit on. There is water right behind someone is sitting, so he can't lean behind his back. 

  Therefore, the pond is just taking a lot of place which could be decorated with comfortable couches or tables. 

  Moreover, there's even worse thing. Can you see that tree on the bench? It is really wired. 

  Introduction in the picture says this is the tree which were growing in the library's site. It insists that by putting that piece of tree, we can feel nature inside the library.

  Well, in my thought, if they really wanted to bring the nature inside the library, they could do other things! Putting piece of dead tree on the bench doesn't make people think they are near the nature.

  To conclude, I think this place was not designed carefully for users who wants to take a rest between studying times. It seems like they just wanted to spend enough money for just good-looking decorations.

Good Place : Jahayeon

  According to the article, place is not just the place itself, but also the interaction between its users and itself.
  In this perspective, I chose Jahayeon as good place. We take it for granted Jahayeon being in this place because 'it has been there' since we entered the school, but what if there were buildings instead of Jahayeon? Maybe, these buildings will block the sight of people who are walking down from the liberty plaza or who are walking straight from the student union to college of business administration building.
  Not only Jahayeon itself makes campus more beautiful, but also makes kind of plaza area, which makes people to interact in the middle of the campus. It can be seen interactive, because the place is creating somekind of symbol, like the heart of the campus.

Assignment 2: What is Good Design?

"What is Good Design?"

  This is one of the questions which made me to start minor in design. I tried to find out the answer for this question because my final dream is to found a global culture platform company which is good for myself, workers, customers, and world (I was quite surprised because writer mentioned about this virtue similarly). For this objective, I had to know what is good design, because design is really important as much as managing and developing technologies.

  So, what is good design? In logic, to define what is good, there has to be criteria to determine what is good. Therefore if I could define what is the criteria to determine what is good design, I would be able to define what is good design.

  In that point, "How good is good?" doesn't suggest criteria of the good design. It only shows how bad design ruins our life, and how good design makes our life healthier. However, the essential idea of the essay gave a good point of view that just pretty eye-catching things could not be called good design.

  In this perspective, I established six criteria for good design. I will call it SFHEAD!

  1. Striking : good design has to carry strong message.

  2. Friendly : good design has to be friendly to users.

  3. Historical : good design has to have meaningful historical context.

  4. Economical : good design has to save resources and efficient.

  5. Aesthetic : good design has to be beautiful.

  6. Durable : good design has to be strong.


  In my thought, good design doesn't have to meet all criteria simultaneously (and it seems impossible). Rather than that, designer has to determine which criteria is most important among six criteria. Then he can start designing keeping in mind the concept of design.

  In this perspective, I chose monami pen for good design. Monami pen, which has been steady seller for long time ago, has strong points in durable, Economical, Friendly criteria. Also, they deliver the message to us that this pen is only concentrating on function itself! At that moment, this pen looks even aesthetic and this made monami pen obtain historical context by being sold steadily for about 30 years.

  However, obbadak calendar, which I chose for bad design, shows none of these criteria acquired properly. It is not aesthetic, and carries no message about their products! It is wholly covered by good-looking man which I cannot understand why this is related to fried chicken advertisement.






   

Assignment 1 : Punctuation mark

Hello, his name is Saddy :(

I concentrated on three keywords while I was designing this punctuation mark.

1) Emotional

   I thought there already exists many functional punctuation marks. Therefore, I tried to design punctuation mark which can help describing someone's feeling effectively. Then, I came to realize that there are no punctuation mark related to sad feelings(We use " ! " to express positive feelings like, I feel good today!, I'm really excited!).

2) Simple

   When I pondered on this subject, I came to realize that all punctuation marks are designed in just 2 lines. Maybe it is because, in order to use it when we are writing a sentence, punctuation mark has to be simple!

3) Intuitive

   Also I could find the fact that, most punctuation marks were designed intuitively.


  As a result, I made a punctuation mark with 2 lines going downward. I tried to symbolize tears flowing down by drawing 2 lines going downward. Thank you!