Less Is More, More Is Less

The definition of "Less Is More" is that simplicity and clarity lead to good design.

From my understanding, it's obviously telling us that simplicity is better than having too much in design something. Instead, it can give good impression to others as it simplicity can very well present something that meaningful and people are easy to understand it well. Sometimes, simple design or work make people understand better but too much simple also can be considered as lazy work and it all depends on us how we look at it. In design, for example too many colors, too many typeface, too many information; can make things over crowded, less attractive and people hard to understand the message. To be a good designer, the principle of design have to be considered so that we won't over do it and keep balance in design.

Le Modulor

Based on Wikipedia, the Modulor is an anthropometric scale of proportions devised by the Swiss-born French architect Le Corbusier (1887–1965). It was developed as a visual bridge between two incompatible scales, the Imperial system and the Metric system. It is based on the height of an English man with his arm raised. It was used as a system to set out a number of Le Corbusier's buildings and was later codified into two books.

From my understanding, proportion or composition is very important as it can relates to balance and harmony. We as designer have to consider about the composition as it can balance our design. Rhythm/pattern, variety, harmony, proportion/scale, contrast and movement also need to be considered as it is the principle of design.

"Form Follow Function" and "Function Follow Form"

Form Follows Function VS Function Follows Form. 

Here is the definition of it from the Wikipedia, "It is a principle that associated with modern architecture and industrial design in the 20th century. The principle is that the shape of a building or object should be primarily based upon its intended function or purpose."

Form follows function or function follows form?

Form follows function is easy to understand well because from my understanding generally, the subject will be created based from it functionality and it result should fit with its purpose. For example that I can give is a basketball shoe's form doesn't come out just like that if we don't make a research about it's function on how it'll give comfort to it's user, how it can absorb pressure from jumping up and down, and so on. So in other words, function will decide it's form.

Function follows form is basically reverse to the form follows function and the subject or whatever we created must be fit to its function and with its form too. For me, I think it is a hard way because we cannot imagine our final outcome fit with the function as we basically do the easier way as form always follows the product.

In conclusion, I choose Form Follows Function because it is clearly better than the Function Follows Form in a lot of ways.

Bus Stop Model

After doing all the cutting and pasting for one whole day, my bus stop model is finally finished!! So here it is, sorry for the low quality photo since it's taken from my camera phone only.

Front side

Left angle

Digital Sketches

After doing some sketches from hand drawn, I finally choose this design to make as my advertisement on my bus stop before model it out. I choose the basic colour from it's logo to make my bus stop as well.

Local Brand/Product

For this task, we were given the the opportunity to choose our own product or brand but with one option, it must be local and must not be same as any other people. So it means first come first serve. It's quite hard to think of local products since there's a lot of students in class and they have chosen their brands quite fast. After doing a lot of thinking I choose the Unifi product from Telekom Malaysia (TM).

It's quite hard to this local product since it's quite new but I'm going to challenge myself to make it happen. After going through the Google Image to look for advertisement done by other people so I can it as my reference, below are a few pictures I took for my studies.

Assignment 1

For our first assignment, our lecturer gave us the task of doing a research on bus stop advertisements. Below are a few of designs I found over the internet. Thanks to Google Image =D