Reflection- What I learnt in this course

As a new coming student, this course is a bit hard for me since time is needed for me to get used to what is going on. Honestly, it is quite different from what I learnt in Hong Kong, it could be due to the policy. Moreover, it is a bit hard project for graphic designer even though I know it is actually training our creativity. I was stress on this project as I was confusing what to do. Moreover, I’m not sure my blog is good enough to present what I think or believe. However, I still pass through it.

What I learnt in this course is about how to consider a social problem deeply. For example, watching ‘An inconvenient Truth’, it is a kind of awaking the awareness of global warming in the bottom of my heart. Human being is interesting, as a design student, I am also similar with normal people. I understand environmental protection is important and global warming is also a graveness problem as well. However, human is easy to forget and selfish. Or there are so many things we need to care about, family, studies, works, etc; we totally neglect those problems surrounding us. We care about our living standard, our living environment; however, we totally forget the environment apart from our life. This course is not only reminding our topic, but also to those students working on this project as well.

As we are studying communication design, global warming is only a kind of starting point for us to think about the social problems around us. If the world more develop, seems like a ‘real communication’ between people is getting less and less. What I realize my duty is to work on how I can do, which is using my design to send my message out to the world. No matter how, I still believe we should try first even though I understand that it is difficult to change one’s mind. Or if they really catch what it is, can anyone guarantee how long the idea can be lasted in people’s mind? But at least I am the one who is changing, discovering and reflecting the ‘true’ me first. It is because I should believe or discover what is truth before I convey to the others. This is what I learn from this course. It is refreshing my mind anyways.