 Name: Muhammad Junaidi Birthday: January 20 Hobbies: Drawing Expertise: Designing Contact: jun_aidie@hotmail.com ShoutMix chat widget Arina Fatin Amelia Natasha Cindy Saf Kah Hui Yusra Rui Hon Catherine Izfa SiYing Cherlyn Venessa Alifa Shah EXIT design Lina Zhai Wei Chloe Jazz Yat Hidir Rahayu Kasbani's portfolio Ying Ying Icy Kat Wan Takraw Arina Asmida Aini Rozi April 2008 May 2008 June 2008 July 2008 August 2008 September 2008 October 2008 November 2008 December 2008 January 2009 February 2009 March 2009 April 2009 May 2009 August 2009 September 2009
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Those who know me knows that I am passionate about design. Well, in this post i would like to blog about it, blog about how I came to be doing design. At kindergarden, arts and craft was my favorite lesson. Probably because I was praised for one of my art pieces(its a hand print art, I remember). That made me feel good, out of all the classes(not many actually) this one brings a more than a smile to my face. At a very young age, my interest were on Dinosaurs. My parents provided me with paper and crayons and I would spend time drawing dinosaurs. I liked dinosaurs so much, that when I draw it, I want it to be as perfect and as close as possible. Pages and pages of crayon doodles, until I am satisfied and what I see on books and what I drew couldn't tell apart. Well, I was 5 then. I remember vividly that at the age of 7, when Spider-man was introduced to me, (Spider-man is still my favorite superhero until now) I started drawing it. Again, I drew it to be as close as possible. This time, I used a pencil. (Quite a few erasing were involved) My final piece was a shaded spider-man. It was so close to the real picture that not even myself, but my parents were amazed. At 9, the school that I was in were quite encouraging on the arts. Everywhere in the school, there are framed drawings on the wall by students. I wanted that. I wanted my art, my drawing to be up there to be seem by many too. There was this time after art lesson, my teacher praised my full color drawing of Spider-man and wanted to hang it on the walls of the school. I was so delighted that I just gave it to her to do such. However, I walked around the school on the next day it wasn't there. I even checked on it everyday for the next two years but it still wasn't there. I was upset. Anyways, life goes on. In class, during a boring lecture, I decided to pick up a foolscap paper and started drawing Jurassic Park 3 logo (at that time the movie had just released). I did it with a silver pen and a red pen to really capture the logo's essence. Out of nowhere, my teacher came to me and confiscated my drawing. Though I was sad, I did not cry. After the class, I had to go to her office and I expected to get a scolding. However, my teacher did not do such thing. She said, "Junaidi, I know you like to draw, but do not do this during lesson, ok? Your drawings are really good. Even I myself cannot draw like you can." I cried. I really did this time, no matter how hard I tried not to. Why I cried? Well, mainly because my drawing now is never going to be completed, and I cried harder right after she said "even I myself cannot draw like you can." I was 10. In my early years of my secondary school, art lessons were one of the few lessons that I always look forward to. There was this one time when the whole class was given a photocopied image. The task was to imitate and draw the complete duplicate of it using pencil. I did exactly that. The next day,it was already graded and the grading that I got was 9.5/10. The teacher came up to the class with my drawing and made an announcement. "Class, this drawing is very similar to the picture, however, nobody is perfect so that is why I cannot give him the full marks. Come and take a look at it." "Huh?! Then, why you put the total at 10?", I said to myself. I find it ridiculous. The full mark is 10, everybody is aiming for that, but no matter how good it is, nobody can ever get it. This was when I was 14. At 15, Principals of Accounting and Design and Technology was introduced to me. These two were new to me, but somehow I knew Design and Technology requires drawing skills, so I picked that class. I did enjoy the lessons, especially the ideation phase as that is when I get to draw. The rest of the lesson was spent studying circuit boards, LED, LDR and all those technical stuff. Apart from drawing, I liked the model making phase of the class. Throughout my secondary school life, Design and Technology was the one class that I look forward to having. If was different, it was exciting and I can use the whole time (2hours of the class) drawing and not be scolded. Compared to other classes where you just look at books, listen to lectures, sit in class and study( boring........) Design and technology gets me to explore, think, draw and create products at the end of the day. Another thing that made me really happy is to see the end product throughout all your hard work. You can tell how much hard work was put it just by looking at the final product. Unlike studying, the end result, the grades are not usually parallel to the effort that you have put in. When it was time to pick a course for Polytechnic, I already knew what I do not want. I do not want a boring course that requires you to study according to the book, and at the end of the day, the grades are not parallel to the effort that was put in. I want a course that has drawings, model making, and where your hard work is clearly reflected on your final product. I want a DESIGN course. But where? I heard that Temasek Poly is one of the most established design schools in Singapore. I put that as one of my choices. However, there was this new Design course in Singapore Polytechnic called Diploma in Experience Design(product and interaction)-it was called that then. It was SP, near to where I live and it has the words DESIGN and PRODUCT in it. Now, I am the pioneer batch of that course and enjoying it. How can I not enjoy this course? It has model making, no exams or studying required, no book to follow, grades are almost irrelevant, hard work definitely pays off and most of all it requires me to do what I like to do, and that is DRAW. I can now draw as much as I like without a care. Unlike art, Design puts my drawings to good use, to help people to better their standard of living and most of all make them happy. I am truly in my zone where I truly should belong. I am in heaven. There is no other line for me other then the design line. That is my story. Aidie blogged @ 12:55 AM All of my classmates have ended their attachments and is getting ready for the first day of school. However for me, I was packing my bag for Milan. I was to join Outofstock Design a design company in Singapore for a design fair there for an exhibition. The best part of going there is that a product where I played a big part in its design during my internship and it was going exhibited there. I spent eleven weeks attached to Outofstock Design. The first nine weeks was spent preparing for an exhibition in Milan, which was known to be one of the biggest design fairs in the world. The exhibition entrance.  With the Outofstock team.  During the nine weeks, I was given an opportunity to be part of the design process, where my ideas were considered and implemented into most of the products that made through to the exhibition. I was assigned to design a press gift. In the end, the product was included in the company’s brochure as one of their collection during the exhibition. Named Offcuts ruler, the product was also displayed in the company’s booth at Fiera Milano during the six days exhibition. Making the Offcuts ruler.  The the brochure.  The final product.  Setting up.  Besides being at Fiera Milano, I was also given time to visit the city, as fair was not only enclosed within the expo. From Fiera Milano, to another exhibition space called Superstudio to the La Triennale di Milano Design Museum, the city is the fair. Design street Zona Tortona.  Superstudio.  Triennale Design Museum.  Tokyo Senseware.  Achille Castiglioni.  When not in the fair, I manage to get a glimpse of one of the most famous buildings in Europe, the largest Gothic cathedral and the second largest Catholic cathedral in the world (The Duomo). Duomo.  Milan streets.  The reception of the fair was amazing and it was a great experience and opportunity for me especially having the Offcuts ruler among the ones being exhibited in the fair. The Milan design fair was really an eye opener for me. I wish to go there again someday, as an exhibitor. Aidie blogged @ 9:27 PM I never liked tests. I had my Labview lab test today, I did not study but I depend greatly on how much I pay attention in class.  Why I do not like tests? Firstly, it is because you have to go home and spend hours on it to study. I never liked studying because it makes you pursuit good grades just to justify the hours spent on studying. Grading is never a good way to signify how much a person have spent hours to study or put effort in it. After you get your test results, you tend to compare with the rest of your classmates. The ones who get high marks would boldly go around the class to compare with the rest, to boost his or her self esteem and destroy those who fail or get low marks. I hate those people. Test marks are not suppose to be compared, if you are those who get low marks all you will feel is depression. I always think that tests and its results should be confidential, actually abolishing tests in the first place is better. Do not compare results, as you are not competing among your classmates, but against yourself; to better yourself. So what if you are top? What does that give you other than being a teacher's pet? Tests and results can determine what kind of friends you are suppose to be allocated to. Have you ever notice the clever people with clever people and the slackers with the slackers? This intend doesn't do any good to those slackers who want to study. Or the clever people cannot be associated or even accepted by the slackers as friends. After all, this is my say through my experience. Its up to you to take it or not. Aidie blogged @ 8:55 PM 20th April 2009(Monday). Below, the COOP supermarket that we visited.  Up in the morning, hardly have time to bathe, work starts. There were a few problems with one of the prototype and before assembling it up, it requires some fixing. Exactly what Luciano is doing. Got to the booth for set up, then Gabriel and Wendy had other errands to tend to. So, I am left with the two Spanish guys, Sebastian and Luciano. They were fixing up one of the prototype while I painted the booth, giving it another coat of paint. Still, the rest of the booths have not set up yet. When it was time, we left for the apartment, but before that we visited COOP. The two Spanish guys went around buying stuff for themselves as well as the rest of the team. There were so many things selling there, I did not know what to buy. I took a picture of this section, I find it nice with all the non-halal pork and lamb chops..hehe. In the end, I bought myself some Pringles, milk, Oreo cookies and my very very favourite Kinder Bueno. I bought two as one is never enough..hehe. I got one original, and another Kinder Bueno white. Ooooo..its damn nice. Hold on, I'm buenoing.  Still working on the set square and rulers, but it is getting closer and closer to completion. Aidie blogged @ 5:21 AM 19th April 2009(Friday). The first day of the set-up. This was my pass to enter the exhibition hall. Got up early and head down to Salone Satellite, cargo 5.  With the help of the GPS system Luciano brought along, we got to the place. This was our booth. It was beige in colour, so since we got a white carpet for the floor, we had to paint the walls white. With the white paint that we bought yesterday, we started painting. The rest of the booths were slowly setting up too. There were a few empty booths around. I guess they have not arrived in Milan yet. We just spent the whole day there, painting the place. Left the place at around 7 to go have dinner. Got to the apartment and I continued finishing up the set square and ruler. Aidie blogged @ 5:34 PM  During my stay in Milan, we rented an apartment. Located at Via Arona 14, it was opposite COOP, a supermarket.  This is the door to the apartments. The door is actually on the bottom right. On the right side is the door bell. Attached to it is a camera, so when someone rings the bell, you can actually see their face from inside the apartment itself. The best part of the apartment to me was the vintage lift. It could only fit a maximum of 3 persons, but I like it a lot. Our apartment was on the 4th floor, so we get to take the lift quiet often.  When you enter the apartment, turn to your right and this is what you would see. The first room on the left is the kitchen, followed by the toilet and straight ahead is the bedroom. Enter from the door and you are welcomed by the living room. This room has two sofas that can be flipped into beds. At night, 4 of us will be sleeping here, one on the floor, one on the sofa and two on the two foldable beds. The TV is just hanging there. Into the kitchen now. On the left you have the dining table. On the right, you have all the stove, the sink, microwave and oven. The toilet have no locking system. So, when there is someone inside, the door would be closed, if not the door have to be opened at all times. On the left is the tub, the right have the sink and mirror. This is the toilet bowl. Why two? One is the toilet bowl, while the other is the bidet(bee-day) to clean your ass. Well, that was the apartment. For air-con, you have to open the windows. Enjoy your stay. Aidie blogged @ 7:35 PM 18th April 2009 (Saturday). 11am Milan time. 5am Singapore time. Milan is 6 hours ahead of Singapore. Usually, during the Milan fair, it would rain but this year seems different. The day was bright.  These were the prototypes that were with us in the plane. It includes two tables, a coat rack, a chair, tools, 800 brochures and of course the rulers and set square pieces are with me. We were waiting for the rest for the rest of the team to arrive, but somehow we got to know that they missed their flight and won't be reaching until around afternoon. We had to do lots of stuff before we get settled. We had to get paints and stuff to set up the booth on the next day and had to get the rented car, so Gabriel and myself left Wendy at the airport to wait for the rest while we went out to get the rest of the stuff.  To get to the city center, we had to take a 45 minutes bus that cost 7Euros for the ticket. When I stepped out, the cold temperature hit me. It was as thought someone left the air-con out. Then, we took the Metro, had to spend 10Euros for the 10 ride ticket. Wah, already spent 17 euros = $34 on transport. Stopped at Porta Genova (Zona tortona) and we walked to a paint shop to get of course paints. The guy no speaking the English. Only Italian. So, most of the time we were doing hand gestures to show what we meant. We did got the stuff in the end. With lots of time left, we thought of waiting for the rest to take us to the apartment somewhere along Tortona but after some time we got bored and decided to get to Superstudio to take a look at the place. Took this picture of the tram there. You don't get these in Singapore. Nice! OK, this is Superstudio, another place where we were exhibiting. It was for Elle Dekor, and when we arrived, they were still setting up the place. The location was not that good, as it was in the basement in one corner of the building. Then, Gabriel and I wondered around Milan, since the rest were not settled yet. Up until late at night it was just the both of us. Went to Duomo and chilled there for a while before we went to Amendola (the station near to our apartment). Got there, it was raining. Milan rain is like drizzling that last for hours. Soon, Sebastian(meeting for the first time) found us and we head down to the apartment. With all the prototypes at the back of the car, I had to squeeze in one place to sit. We soon reached our destination. The apartment was at Via Arona. (Via means street). As I stepped out of the car, I stepped into a puddle of rain water. I was like OH NO, MY NEW SHOE(converse original, Jack Purcell shoe that cost me $119). Anyways, that was when I met Luciano. After settling into the apartment, we got out to a pizzeria and had a celebration dinner. It was great, we finally reached Milan with all the stuff we need and the prototypes done with only the assembling part to do.   Got back to the apartment, and I slept on the floor as there were not enough beds, but I didn't mind. I just slept. Aidie blogged @ 10:24 PM |
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This is the bedroom. Two out of the six of us slept here.