Friday, January 29, 2010



Physical needs

Intellectual needs

Emotional needs

Social needs

Waiting for a bus at a bus stop

Poor air quality, Loud sounds, Sheltered ways to the bus stops and on to the bus,

Bus stops need to have the time the next bus comes, Cool design of the bus stop

Entertainment, Have a manga library at the bus stop, Cool design of the bus stop

Entertainment, Have a manga library at the bus stop, Cool design of the bus stop, They can recruit retrenched workers from other industries

Waiting for a train at a railway station

Poor air quality, Loud sounds, Sheltered ways to the railway

station and on to the train.

Railway station need to have the time the next train comes, Cool design of the railway station

Entertainment, Have a manga library at the railway station, Cool design of the railway station

Entertainment, Have a manga library at the railway station, Cool design of the railway station, They can recruit retrenched workers from other industries

Waiting for a plane at an airport

Loud sounds,

Airports need to have the time the next plane comes, Cool design of the airplane

Entertainment, Have a manga library at the airport, Cool design of the airport

Entertainment, Have a manga library at the airport, Cool design of the airport,They can recruit retrenched workers from other industries


Done by: Jonathan Soh, Shawn Tan, Tan Jian Hui, Shamus Seng

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Different types of drawing


1. Life Drawing:  drawing from direct observation
2. Emotive Drawing: drawing, like painting, as an expressive way to explore and put forth feeling, mood, self, time

3. Sketching: freehand technical drawing, drawing through the act of visualizing; drawing actively and loosely
4. Analytic Drawing: drawing as a way to dissect, understand and represent;
5. Perspective Drawing: drawing as a way to represent volume, space, light, eye-level (horizon), surface planes, and scale, perceive by the eye; 0 point, 1 point, 2 point, 3 point
6. Geometric Drawing: drawing as a means to precisely represent all aspects of construction; drawing that shows measured scale, true sides, sections, and a variety of descriptive views.
7. Diagrammatic Drawing: drawing in order to investigate, explore, and document concepts and ideas; drawing as an active design process where ideas evolve due to adjacencies and happenstance
8. Illustration Drawing: drawing in order to document; drawing to clearly state and render intent, style, size, color, character, effect

9. Architectural Drawing: (a) Dimensions (b) Lines are straight; drawn using tools
10. 


Green house gases stay can stay in the atmosphere for an amount of years ranging from decades to hundreds and thousands of years. No matter what we do, global warming is going to have some effect on Earth. Here are the 5 deadliest effects of global warming.

5. Spread of disease
As northern countries warm, disease carrying insects migrate north, bringing plague and disease with them. Indeed some scientists believe that in some countries thanks to global warming, malaria has not been fully eradicated.


4. Warmer waters and more hurricanes
As the temperature of oceans rises, so will the probability of more frequent and stronger hurricanes. We saw in this in 2004 and 2005.



3. Increased probability and intensity of droughts and heat waves
Although some areas of Earth will become wetter due to global warming, other areas will suffer serious droughts and heat waves. Africa will receive the worst of it, with more severe droughts also expected in Europe. Water is already a dangerously rare commodity in Africa, and according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, global warming will exacerbate the conditions and could lead to conflicts and war.


2. Economic consequences
Most of the effects of anthropogenic global warming won’t be good. And these effects spell one thing for the countries of the world: economic consequences. Hurricanes cause do billions of dollars in damage, diseases cost money to treat and control and conflicts exacerbate all of these.



1. Polar ice caps melting
The ice caps melting is a four-pronged danger.

First, it will raise sea levels. There are 5,773,000 cubic miles of water in ice caps, glaciers, and permanent snow. According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, if all glaciers melted today the seas would rise about 230 feet. Luckily, that’s not going to happen all in one go! But sea levels will rise.

Second, melting ice caps will throw the global ecosystem out of balance. The ice caps are fresh water, and when they melt they will desalinate the ocean, or in plain English – make it less salty. The desalinization of the gulf current will “screw up” ocean currents, which regulate temperatures. The stream shutdown or irregularity would cool the area around north-east America and Western Europe. Luckily, that will slow some of the other effects of global warming in that area!

Third, temperature rises and changing landscapes in the artic circle will endanger several species of animals. Only the most adaptable will survive.

Fourth, global warming could snowball with the ice caps gone. Ice caps are white, and reflect sunlight, much of which is relected back into space, further cooling Earth. If the ice caps melt, the only reflector is the ocean. Darker colors absorb sunlight, further warming the Earth.

Some causes of global warming:

increased world population

increased production and consumption of material goods

widening of the income gap between the rich and the poor

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Lesson 1-Group reflection

1)Art is "the use of skill and imagination in the creation of objects, environments, or experiences that can be shared with others.Design is the planning that lays the basis for the making of every object or system.Media concerns the storage and transmission of information.Technology deals with human as well as other animal species' usage and knowledge of tools and crafts, and how it affects a species' ability to control and adapt to its natural environment.

2) In general, environment refers to the surroundings of an object.

Done by:Shawn, Shamus, Jian Hui & Jonathan