My design Career

Since I was young I always had an interest in drawing, put in art classes when I was 7 and from then my passion has grew. However being asian meet my parents never really supported a career in design wanting me to get a job in finance or medicine. I did work experience as an admin and also pharmacy, although the tasks were managable and easy, they failed to challenge to me and I could not see myself behind a computer all day or handing prescriptions to people from behind a desk. I wanted a career that would be stimulating, exciting, took me places and flexible.When choosing uni courses in Yr12, 'Industrial design' sounded like a cool name for a uni course, researching into it more. I found it suited me quite well, problem solving + a lil engineering+ design and flexibilty in design avenues. Tossing between UTS and UNSW, i choose UNSW for its credibilty over UTS.

When I create, I find myself emorsed in my own world, I can work on artwork from the afternoon to 3 o'clock at night, just experimenting with dyed water in a spray bottle and stencilling. When I was first introduced to Design and Technology in yr8 it was cool, we made plastic keyrings, metal badges and wooden money boxes. I remember how much fun it was designing your own object then make them and people would wear the badges and keyrings to school or give them to their friends and family. As well yr8 Design and Technology, I also did yr9 Information technology, one of the projects was to invent your own product and promote it. My group created the "I-shoe", a functional shoe that would have speakers and play music. It sounded awesome at the time because ipods and converse shoes were the big fads of high school. IT also introduced me to photoshop and movie maker, giving me skills to be able to experiment and develop animations, photoshopped photos and create short films. I think the best part of design was the reactions.

As like many I'm still apprehensive and little scared of whats ahead of me. I love watching documentaries especially ones nature or science.  Perhaps I will combine design and medical science and help design medical machines and utensils.Or go a little crazy and make products with the "fun-theory" in mind.