Sunday 14 August 2011

My Design Career


I wanted to become a designer because design empowers me to be the person that I want to be and to become better at what I am doing. Design would help me to always have a positive attitude because I can only be creative if I am a positive thinker. Creative energy is a positive energy and it can only come from people who are happy in what they are doing. I also think that design can help me to become more of a well-rounded person because after all, design is related to almost everything which includes engineering, business, science, psychology, culture, history and the list goes on. Having a designer’s mind is always helpful in whatever we are doing.

 It is because that design is so versatile; design has the power to cause the trend of the society and industry to change. At the same time, the society, environment and the technology that are booming year by year will also affect the design itself in return. That is how universal design, ecological design and digital design have born to help, care, understand, appreciate and improve people’s lives and their surroundings.  I find that industrial design is a noble and humble career that does not seek popularity but instead innovatively improving everyone’s lives in a good and honest way. 

 The future will always be defined by creativity and innovation as many innovative countries such as Japan, US and the Scandinavian countries have highly skilled labour forces that excel in creating and innovating because these countries always favour innovation.
  
  I believe that industrial design has a lot to offer in the coming years. However, many people out there are still not aware what industrial design is all about and it is often misunderstood. There are also some people who have never heard of it before. A lot of people are much more familiar with fashion design, interior design and architecture. In reality, industrial design is everywhere around us but sometimes people don’t even realize it that they are subconsciously interacting with the products that they are using. This really gives me that extra determination to change the perception of the society towards the importance and how influential industrial design could be.

 Through design, I would have the opportunity to rediscover my own identity which covers my personal, cultural and of course, my country’s identity, which is Malaysia. The country’s multicultural diversity distinguishes Malaysia’s brand identity from the rest of the world, and this is something that Malaysians can use this type of strength to express themselves through design.

 I have chosen UNSW to study industrial design because it emphasizes on manufacturing, engineering and business aspect of design.  I heard that industrial design students will get the chance to mix with the business students and the marketing courses are offered by Australian School of Business and UNSW is well known for these courses. Courses that are related to Mathematics and Science are also included for better understanding in scientific and technical challenges as well as manufacturing processes. The design environment in UNSW is socially healthy and promotes good relationships among students and lecturers through discussions, individual and group works.  

 I hope that my design career in the future will be a steady and stable growth. I think it is important to work from scratch and do my best to understand how the design trend and the world would change in the coming years. I will give more effort to travel to other countries to understand their very own unique design, culture and people. I think I would be interested in learning new languages or even learn to cook new cuisines that are relatively alien to me. In this way, I can fully appreciate and understand their living habits and the way how they design things in every day’s life. Other than that, I always wanted to design products that people need and not what they want for their own self-satisfaction. Products that could help under-resourced groups of people and people who are physically challenged, suffering poverty and ecological crisis are things that I would highlight it as a top priority. I also planned to go back to my home country and work for the local companies to further improve their products and help the local designers to be part of the team to form an organization to promote design as a whole.

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