Thursday, April 29, 2010

About My Final Project


Hi guys!!! sorry for the very-the-merry late delay on updating my blog for You all to see :)

The photograph above is me being as the model for the catalogue which will be out soon before our exhibition for the exhibition itself :)

Below are details about my final project...


DESIGNER NAME: Norhafilah Amin

PROJECT TITLE: Escape From Claustrophobia

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

Imagine yourself going to a room and you accidentally being locked in and started to panic with uncontrollable breathes and felt as if you desperately wanting to scream inside your head calling whoever is on the other side of the room. This then slowly triggers the fear of being claustrophobic where my interest in this project is looking through on how can we control or prevent an access to claustrophobia. From this, my intentions for my objects are portable, wearable and understandable that the user can make sure of themselves that they can get out from these panic attacks whenever he or she is trapped in this fear.

QUESTION THAT UNDERLINES THE THEME OF YOUR WORK: Can I escape from this fear?

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Claustrophobia...

For this week...we were introduce with this Italian guy talking about films and how we record to make films in sooo many possible ways :)

...we were then told to produce a short video clip about our major project for our final year...here, I produce a video in a form of stop picture motion...describing about the feeling of being claustrophobic...My theme for my final year is called Claustrophobia...where I want to explore the whole aspects of it and hopefully to design that can either 'cure' the feeling of calustrophobic..or to make the user the feeling of being claustrophobic...

...for the sound in the background...I was plucking random on my guitar...to give the feeling of being clautrophobic...Lastly, would like to say a big Thank You to My Love for being part in my project...:)

Thursday, November 19, 2009

The White Binoculars...





...First of all, would like to say a big Thank You to my sister, Ken2 who has helped me out on the story...this is a project of mine where we were told to write a short story followed by an object that refers to the story that I am telling you guys...

...Above are the pictures of the object from the story...it is a white binoculars made with two baby bottles where I joined them together with a series of rubber bands and covered it with white strings to make it look like a binoculars...If You guys want to know what it is in the story...feel free to read it :)

The White Binoculars

On the east bank of the Heavenly River lived a female weaver, weaving colorful clothes for all the gods and goddesses. One day, a young man came by and asked her for help.
“I need something that helps me in seeing ghosts”, said the young man.
“Okay I'll make sure I’ll do something about it, but you will have to come back in two days”, said the weaver. So the young man went off.

With full of intoxication, the young man came back to meet the weaver after two days.
“Here's a pair of binoculars for you”, said the weaver as she gave it to the young man. The weaver said that the white strings that wraps around the unusual binocular were made to see ghosts. The weaver created a magnificent invention. With full of awe on his face, he thank the weaver and head back home. While he was walking along the road, he suddenly saw a weird figure walking towards him. He quickly pulled out his binoculars hung around his neck and looked through it. The figure was glowing abnormally.

"Who is it?" whispered the young man.
"I'm a... ghost?”
"No, you're not!", he disagreed.
“Who are you to judge me?” asked the ghost.
"Well, I'm a ghost too," he lied.
"What are you doing here?" asked the ghost.
"Nothing, just heading towards Chappa", answered the young man, holding back his fear.
"Ah.. okay." answered the ghost, invitingly.

The young man then continued his journey toward Chappa and ignored the ghost. Without knowing that the ghost is actually following him from behind, he suddenly broke the silence, "It is very tiresome to walk like this." he sighed.
The young man felt his strong heartbeat as he jerked and screamed in horror. While the ghost react the other way round.
"What about... piggy back ride by turns?” suggested the ghost.
"Oh why oh why, that is an excellent idea!", the young man agreed.
The ghost first carried the young man. "You are so heavy! Are you really a ghost?" asked the ghost with curiosity.
"I died quite recently, that must be a reason why", answered the young man calmly.
Then it was the young man's turn to carry the ghost. He was almost weightless. They went on like this repetitiously, taking turns carrying each other for several times. The young man then said, "Since I have just died, I do not know what a ghost fears."
"A ghost fears nothing but to be spat at," the ghost told him.

After a long walk, they came to a river. The young man asked the ghost to go first. So the ghost did as asked. As the ghost crossed the river, there was no noise at all. Next was the young man's turn. He made noises as the water splashes.
"Why did you make so much noise?" the ghost asked.
"I have not yet learned to cross a river quietly." he answered. "Please bear with me about that." he added.

As they were approaching Chappa, the young man put the ghost on his shoulder and held the ghost tightly. The ghost demanded in a loud voice to let go, but instead, he turned a deaf ear to it and ignored the ghost. He walked straight to the center of the town and put the ghost down on the ground and spat at it. The ghost suddenly turned itself into a goat. Without slight fear, the young man considered himself to be lucky and sold it to a farmer. His wide smile simply explains how grateful he is to earn a big amount of money just by selling a goat.

Thursday, November 5, 2009

'Telling Stories' Exhibition At V&A...

...Now, it's like a-blink-in-an-eye that I'm finally in my final year...major project I must strike it homerun mann...anyways, I was out with my friend, Peri to V&A museum & gallery...to check out on the exhibition on 'Telling Stories' :)

above is a picture of everyone favorites who comes by to V&A...



Love the displays by the shop...


...and the chandelier down at the cafe :D
its amazing to see the chandelier inside this old V&A building...a mixture of both the past and the present...

...before going to the exhibition, we had lunch...and this was what I had

...Peri busy feeding her baby Aisyah too :D


...The exhibition was amazing and inspirational...unfortunately, I was unable to take pictures on the designer's artifacts because we were not allowed to...

My Days...

...During the first week of our first term, we were told to write down ideas onto these yellow posted notes and were to bring it along on the first second week... :)

...So, to unwind myself...I went to Hyde Park to get my ideas jotted down onto the yellow posted notes while having some fish & chips...

...My first shoe that is still can be use since I first came to UK like three years ago!!! :D


...and here is Dilah's room :) this was taken when she first moved into her single room...more to come...

The First Two Weeks In UK...

...It's the coming of Autumn during these times...Now, it's Autumn and the coming of Winter season mann...BRRrrrrrrrRRRrrrr~


...This was lunch time with them during our first week of our first term...It was sunny outside and we were chilling and have our lunch-time :) Love the weather!!

...A picture of me and my cousin, Yuni who is here now studying down at Coventry...this was when she first arrive to UK and so, I shopped with her around Oxford Streets... :)

What's Around By My Window..?

It's been quite awhile I have not been putting up on my blog to share what's going on around here guys...

Here are some of the pictures that I took...view outside my window while playing around with my new digi cam...the quality?? awesoome mann...loves my new cam :)

...my bed side table...the table actually made by me and two of my colleagues during our Live Project...


...My flowers I've bought few days after I've arrived :) it's good to have some by your window and see them in the early mornings mann...

...and these tiny squared boxes was made by me during one of my workshops project.

Monday, August 24, 2009

....More In The First Week At PTEM

...And here, continued to hep him out on getting the trees done...=)



...Teacher Sarah then assigned me to re-do this art piece that was done by a student last year for it's final piece...

...and so...my adventure for this art piece begins...=D



...and so, I started off coloring down the above part of the canvas in deep ocean style colors...


...This was done by Azhar...a good idea to start with...playing with recycled materials such as what he was using...do keep in mind that papers are the starting point in creating such a piece..=))

The First Week At PTEM...

...Yea, had my attachment down at PTEM...such a great experience mann...for sure I'm gonna miss these moments helping them out...So yea, here were the pictures that I took at the Art & Design Studio where I was being attached....as a supervisor and a helper to them =))

...Above is a picture of Azhar who is interested in Fashion Desgn customizing a shirt...a face of Marilyn Monroe using glittered beads being hand sawn one by one...=))

...And this is Sawir...Who is interested in Animation areas...Here, for his final piece...he made a big illustrated images of his comic characters...

...seemed that he had trouble with how to blend the colors perfectly...

...and so, I helped him out on getting it done...well, halfway done..=)




...This is Ikmal...She's into Typography Design...here, for her final piece for her project...she's planning to install a pillar wth a curtain designed wth typography of her signature styles...=))

...Helped her out on getting her pillar done that time..*good times*

...and as for this...is owned by another student...her name is Azidah...she's interested in terms of trees...so for her final piece...she decided to have an installation of trees in a form like these mini models...



....and here it is...the tree scultures that she is still getting it done..=)