Contemporary Vietnamese Film-making

I have just read an article about the Vietnamese film making in Vietnam Cultural Profile then suddenly wondered, yeah, why not write something about Vietnamese film rather than keep finding information about foreign ones. The site above has 6 parts for the Film section:

_ Early film-making
_ Film-making in the north 1945-1975
_ Film-making in the south 1945-1975
_ Film-making after the Reunification
_Contemporary Vietnamese film-making
_ Current Issues

For so long, I've really wanted to summarize the contemporary period's Vietnamese film so that I can easily find the information again when i need because I just heard, saw and read about Vietnam films at sudden times on TV and newspapers. I want to rearrange, put them in timeline, so i can understand the steps in clearer order.

The Vietnamese film making field was really in a hard time when it's a fresh step to the market economy (1986) and there's a dominance of importing films from Asia, Europe and USA. The popularity didn't depend on the film content much, there was real hard time competing with foreign sources, profits and the market. "Many leading film's actors and actress turned their talents to other more lucrative work, such as television" while there were still film makers that kept their dreams and began to cooperate with their oversea counterparts to produce great films in that time. The government, at the same time, also opened up the regulations for film production, distribution and exhibition. It's a light for developing film making in Vietnam.


Vietnamese film in this period also began to get the attection from foreign viewers in western Europe and neighbor Asia-Pacific countries.

Before the viewers' thoughts of changing, Vietnamese feature film directors were beginning to explore new themes and styles:

Trần Văn Thủy
Hà Nội trong mắt ai? (‘Hà Nội Through Whose Eyes’, 1983)
Chuyện tử tế (‘Story of Good Behaviour’, 1987)

Trần Anh Trà
Người công giáo huyện Thống Nhất (‘A Catholic in Thống Nhất District’, 1985).

By the early 1990s Vietnamese cinema was appearing regularly on the film festival and art-house circuit in Europe, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Films achieving international acclaim (include Tran Van Thuy's)

Trần Vũ, Anh và em (‘Siblings’, 1986)

Ðặng Nhật Minh’s Cô gái trên sông (‘Girl on the River’, 1987)
Nguyển Khắc Lợi’s Tướng về hưu (‘The Retired General’, 1988),

_ Younger directors, notably
Việt Linh
Gánh xiếc rong (‘The Itinerant Circus’, 1989)
Dấu ấn của quỷ (‘The Evil Sign’, 1992)
Lê Dân
Xương rồng đen (‘Black Cactus’, 1991)
Lưu Trọng Ninh
Canh bạc (‘Gambling’, 1991)
Hãy tha thứ cho em (‘Please Forgive Me’, 1992)
Lê Hoàng
Lương tâm bé bỏng (‘Little Conscience’, 1992)
Lê Xuân Hoàng
Vị đắng tình yêu (‘Bitter Love’, 1992)
Vương Ðức
Cỏ lau (‘The Reed’, 1993).

_ Contemporary social themes was explored:
Nguyễn Thanh Vân’s Cây bạch đàn vô danh (‘The Unknown Eucalyptus Tree’, 1994)
Vũ Xuân Hùng’s Giải hạn (‘Misfortune’s End’, 1996)
Lê Hoàng’s Ai xuôi Vạn Lý (‘Journey Downstream to Vạn Ly’, 1996)
Ðoàn Minh Tuấn’s Hoa của trời (‘Flower of God’, 1996)
Lưu Trọng Ninh
Ngã ba Ðồng Lộc (‘Ðồng Lộc Junction’, 1997)
Bến không chồng ('Wharf of Widows', 1998)
Vương Ðức’s Những người thợ xẻ (‘The Woodcutters’, 1998)

_ In recent years :

Vietnamese cinema has attained numerous successes at international film festivals, both in Asia and beyond.

Trần Văn Thủy's moving documentary Tiếng vĩ cầm ở Mỹ Lai ('The Sound of the Violin at Mỹ Lai', 1999) won Best Short Film prize at the 43rd Asia Pacific Film Festival in Thailand (1999),

Nguyễn Thanh Vân (son of veteran director Hải Ninh): Đời cát ('Sandy Life')
Việt Nam hosted the 44th Festival in Hà Nội in December 2000
It was already the recipient of a special prize from the International Amiens Film Festival, won Best Picture Award for its director

Bùi Thạc Chuyên's Cuốc xe đêm ('Night Cyclo Trip', 2000) won third prize in the Short Film category at the Cannes Film Festival 2000, Europe

Việt Linh
Mê Thảo thời vang bóng (‘Glorious Time in Mê Thảo Hamlet’, 2002)
Won the golden Rosa Camuna Award at the 2003 Bergamo Film Meeting in Italy and was also entered in competition at the 2003 Namur International Film Festival in France.

_ Screening in European art-house cinemas.
Việt Linh
Chung cư (‘Communal Living Quarters, 1999)
Ðặng Nhật Minh
Mùa ổi (‘Guava Season’, 2001)
Vương Đức
Của rơi (‘A Dropped Gift’)

_ One of the most successful local films of recent years:

Phi Tiến Sơn
Lưới trời (‘Heaven’s Net’) "a film about corruption which closely mirrors the recent trial of Năm Cam’s criminal gang in Hồ Chí Minh City

Lê Hoàng
Gái nhảy (‘Bar Girls’, 2002) "which dealt with the tough reality of HIV/AIDS and the seedy underbelly of Hồ Chí Minh City’s nightlife, breaking all box office records and taking nearly 15 billion VNĐ (cUS$1 million) on its release in February 2003"
Lọ lem hè phố (‘Street Cinderella’)

The opening attitude in film-making, as a result, needs cooperation to exchange, expand experiences and also the capital for Vietnamese film industry. For that it came many films that was made by overseas Vietnamese.

Trần Anh Hùng (France), with first feature Mùi đu đủ xanh ('The Scent of Green Papaya', 1993)
Won the Camera d'Or award at the Cannes Film Festival,
Xích lô ('Cyclo', 1995)
Mùa hè chiều thẳng đứng ('Vertical Rays of Summer', 2000)



Tony Bùi (USA)
Ba mùa ('Three Seasons', 1998) won three prizes at the Sundance International Film Festival in 1998 and became Việt Nam's first-ever Oscar entry for Best Foreign Film at the 2000 Academy Awards
(Tran Anh Hung's 'Vertical Rays of Summer' was also submitted for the 2001 Academy Awards)

_ More recent international co-productions :

Nguyễn Phan Quang Bình and Jonathan Foo (Việt Nam and Singapore)
Việt Nam War film, Vũ khúc con cò (‘Song of the Stork’, 2002)

Nguyễn Khắc Lợi and Yuan Shiji (the Việt Nam Writers’ Association Film Studio and the Zhoujiang Film Studio in China’s Guangdong Province)
The documentary drama Nguyễn Ái Quốc ở Hồng Công (2003)
"which tells the story of Hồ Chí Minh’s life in Hong Kong during the 1930s"

Oversea Vietnamese Director Nguyễn Võ Nghiêm Minh, winner at the 2004 Chicago Film Festival.
Mùa len trâu (‘Buffalo Boy’, 2003), a collaboration between Giải Phóng Film Studio, France’s 3B Productions and Belgium’s NOVAK

"Philip Noyce’s remake of The Quiet American on the streets of Hồ Chí Minh City, Hội An, Ninh Bình and Hà Nội in 2001 marked the beginning of a serious attempt by the government to promote Việt Nam as an attractive location for foreign filmmakers"

_ Updated from other sources:
Áo Lụa Hà Đông (Lưu Huỳnh) won Audience Award Pusan Film Festival 2006 [link]

Dòng Máu Anh Hùng "The Rebel" (April 2007)
Buena Park's Charlie Nguyen, won the grand jury prize (narrative feature) at the recently concluded Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival [link]

Logo

I agreed to help my friend in his final assignment lately. He needs a logo for the virtual pizza company and asked me to create one.

I thought it a chance to use what i have learned to create a logo. Actually i need more time to create a real logo but the time here isn't much so i did it to practice my skill and apply gestalt theory.

I did searching and found out most of the pizza's logos are pictures of a pizza that was simply illustrated.My friend, by the way, want me to do that also, including a pizza image in the logo. I tried that but the result is it looked like a poster rather than a logo.

Then, since I love typography and love to play with them, i changed my path to create the logo using fonts. I found fonts that are sans serif and round - it should look like kind of sauce or ingredients in pizza. So found one that pleased me to do the logo.

Think of the rule in gestalt, I'm quite interested in the closure that our eyes can close the image without a line to connect. From this, I made an arrangement of the font "PP" (the name of the pizza company "Paddy Pizza")to look like 2 pieces of pizza - the dots are gathered to create lines that form a triangle (a pizza piece)

Please give me your comments on this so I can improve it and update a latter one in this entry. Thank you!

How to play Jew's harp (khomus)

Making sounds sometimes need tools to do. I found out this tool that quite helpful in the sound producing for film and also music. I don't know if it has in Vietnam but the sound it produces is really impressive and modern.

The video below is a short clip that describe the tool Jew Harp and way to make it work.

Tricks in Making Sound

We got a last class with nice effects about the sound in film. I’m interested in the sound in film and appreciate what it will help us in our work. A film with clear sound can make your heart feel more than the silent one. I have searched on the Net and found out some tricks that may help you with your project if you intend to record sound yourself.

Below are just 2 popular sounds that you may encounter and here you know some ways expert did to make them. You may come up with new ways to do better but first take a look at how they do to have experience.

Body and face hits

Rolled up newspapers being hit with a (soft wooden) stick are meant to be good for body and face hits.
Paul Arnold
Gordon Hall

Hitting real meat, use a baseball bat to hit leather jacket wrapped around baseball gloves, add breaking of chicken bones.
Ben Burtt

A regular old bull whip crack is good for those over-the-top Street Fighter type punches. Don Diekneite

I've used the newspaper rolled up approach in the past and it's hard to get a satisfying sound out of it. One of my favorites is wet mud, jump up and down, hit it with a bat, add some foliage for extra texture. Rotten fruit is always good for flesh squishes. The other day I was blending some carrots with a hand blender which created a wonderful consistency, simply pulling out the blender made some lovely squish noises.
Paul Weir

Heartbeat

In my sound effects research of the old radio days, I understand that to create heartbeats, they placed the arm of a record player on a towel or other kind of soft fabric - with the needle actually touching the cloth. Light taps on the fabric translated as low-end thumps when amplified through the record player. The "heartbeats" could then be performed as needed. I don't know how "good" they sounded, but it's certainly one method.
Steve Lee

A buddy of mine created a very nice heartbeat using a large plastic trash can. The plastic popping in and out was very controllable and created two distinct in/out "pumping" sounds.
Bob Kessler

Take a piece of fabric and hold it with a loose grip. Then quickly stretch the fabric for a pounding, heartlike sound.
David Filskov

Bare your chest (!), position a microphone pointing at your shoulder region and then make a quick inward pull with your arms and hands and stop abruptly. Keeps you warm as well :)

David Filskov

Any kind of thump run through a lowpass filter sequenced in a reasonably rhythmic sequence will give you the effect. It might be fun to throw in some "flushing blood" kind of liquid.
Jamey Scott

Anyone try contact mics on a pulse point? This might work well if you also employ a BP cuff (don't try it on the one in your neck :)

David Steinwedel

I double the heartbeat with a kick drum. Filter anything below 60Hz, add an insane amount of mid frequency.
Jerome Boiteau

Epic Sound

Flash Tutorial

While surfing net to find flash tutorials, i came across this nice animation that is easy to follow. There are cartoon characters that show you the basic things in Flash. Very helpful. And you can find yourself there when watching this tutorial story :)
Hope you like it.

Follow this link

Multimedia Application

Found this video really interesting and I love this kind of application too. It reminds me of the performance of San Khau Nhap "Nhìn". This also use multimedia to lead the viewers to the story they want us to see. Think i will try this kind someday :) but first it needs a clear organization and story. Let's take a look.

Hands Collection for HIV Poster

A social welfare poster is my latest assignment I've done. The HIV is my choice but how can I relate this sensitive topic to what people visually understand about HIV. And also understand what I will put in my poster.

There are many posters in my city that just contains words - and it ends up with the problem is not anyone can read and therefore we lost a certain number of viewers. Our purpose less or more has limitation.

My poster has images and also text on it. I tried to put the concept on the image and also want a relationship between the text and the image part.

The hand, is where you and the world touch each other. Everybody that have normal physical body got hands and fingers. And the only differences that we will notice is the appearance of them. It can be the skin colors, the shape of the fingers, the size, the decoration, the smoothness ... And your hand is no doubt physically the same as an HIV one. Why you cannot recognize them in public (when they're still strong) is that they're just like you. You just have a restriction yourself and began to feel scared when you see them in the hospital or somewhere for HIV patients.

So why just judge them like other people besides you?

Creating Collage Photo

This is my work on doing the first Collage.
Before I just got confused about how can I find my face looks like something.
Many people talk about my face shape. They said it made they can know that's me while seeing me braining something - looking at one invisible point.
My face shape is like an oval - or as my sister says "looks like a reversed triangle" - I'm not quite comfortable when people saying that straight to me though. But now it did help me out with the problem in doing my work. So I tried to find things looks like my face.

There is a small dust vacuum cleaner in my house. And the shape of it is round, quite big near the handle and smaller at the "mouth"(for collecting dust) - i felt it will fit my face shape. Then I took photos with many different views of it and began editing.

The most interesting thing is when I resize it smaller to fit my face size, it just perfectly fit every curves. I don't need to cut or add any curve. And the metal part with circle holes on it made me think of a mask.

The next part is for the eye and my hair. That time I got a curly hair and I always let it fall in the front of my shoulder. I thought of the handle of the vacuum but it just too straight for my purpose. Then the string is the perfect choice. About the eye, I don't want to make collage of both two, it's just irrelevant, so I made for one. The power button of the machine is really cool for this and I add it as an eye. While adjusting it to the eye, i found a cool depth when i took the button photo. Then I highlight it a little bit and made it merge a small space with the skin and the metal. A stress on the whole portrait like i want it to be. Because I like my eyes most on my face.

The highlight really did a main part in doing this work. It increased the quality and the emotional look that i want to create. The black background is all what i need to complete the collage.

My original portrait

The dust vacuum machine

My final collage work

Camera Technique

This short clip had some of the basic camera techniques like span, tilt, dolly, zoom in and out. Some parts are quite not clear but if you see again, you will see it.

Type Choice

I love written old style, and this font P22 Virginian came to me as a tool to express the typography power in designing mysterious media design.

Summary for this font:
_ It was created by Ted Stanton (in 2005)
_ It is a part of "Staunton Script Family"

This font is used for printing historic novel and imitate the hand writing annotation and in family bible.

I'm still finding the facts about this font. It is not an old style font but the use of it is popular in making accent graphic recent multimedia work's purposes today.

There is a piece of music that i found really suit with the font's use and meaning


References:
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/sherwood/p22-virginian/p22-virginian/index.html
http://freeplaymusic.com/search/preview_file.php?id=2022&dur=0&type=mp3
http://memory.loc.gov/mss/mgw/mgw2/012/2440242.jpg

Art work process - Maximalism

Since we have known about Maximalism and Minimalism and I know that many of you love Maximalism with curves, many florist decoration, I found this interesting video. It show us about the process of creating things on wall (not graffiti style) - erasing and drawing new things. Here and there we could see it's interactive with things happening from the real word. And the ending would make you laugh :) Enjoy it my friend. There are many kinds and signs that we've already known before. Here is one out of thousand ways we can do with them to create Art works.

1 week with Art Work

Philharmonie de Paris

This is a recent amazing design made by the architect Jean Nouvel in the process of building the Paris Hall. The New York Times spread the news and also provided some computer rendering photos of this architecture.

Throughout the two recent decades, the French government had poured money into building and renovating museums, library, and opera houses. This led to disappointment in orchestral lovers thought. Although there are also places that can satisfy their requirement, an art trend construction seemed to be still in need.

The audience now don’t need to wait any longer since Philharmonie de Paris, as it will be called, is scheduled to open in the Parc de la Villette, in northeast Paris, in 2012.

There were considerations in placing this building in France and many more facts about it that you can view in the article written by Allan Riding – New York Times online. Here I just want to show you the newest pictures that they got from this building project so you can have an overview of it. I love the curves covered the whole space, experts call they’re built in “vineyard” style, “with the audience on all sides of the orchestra on multilevel terraces”. It has the seat capacity of 2,400.

Reference:
Building a Paris Hall Around Its Audience

Great HELVETICA event 2007

These recent weeks are really weeks for typography. We have already known the Helvetica with its popularity all over the world. 2007, Helvetica celebrates its 50^th birthday (March 24^th, 2007) and there was a big event for this. A documentary film was made about Helvetica by Gary Huswit and was premiered on April 6^th, 2007. This film will be screening nearly as 100 events all over the world. If you check this screening schedule , you can see that the tickets on April 11 in MassArt Eventworks, Boston,USA were already sold out (up to this point – when I am writing this entry). New dates and cities will be added every week. This really made me hope for a ticket if they screen the film in Vietnam.

Below I got some pictures on the Helvetica 50^th birthday (March 24, 2007) and a short video clip about the documentary film.

Helvetica50
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich & the Freitag factory
March 24, 2007


The panel discussion "Will This Typeface Last Forever?" Left to right: Erik Spiekermann, Alfred Hoffmann, Lars Müller, David Carson, Manuel Krebs. [Gary Hustwit not pictured... because he's taking the picture...]



The panel audience.



Reception after the panel, with the 12 finalists in the museum's Helvetica50 poster competition.



Poster competition finalists.



Poster entry, detail.



Spiekermann meets the press.



Museum director Christian Brändle introduces the film screening. At capacity with 300 attendees, 200 turned away...



The afterparty at the Freitag factory, hosted by soDA magazine. 700+ in attendance.



Live visuals by a team of artists with overhead projectors.



The big H.



Happy 50th Helvetica!

If you’re interested in this event, please visit the links in my references.

REFERENCES
Design Observer, Michael Bierut, Our Little Secret.
Helvetica Film Web Site
More document clips on this event
Picture sources: [link]

Typography with Concepts

There are words that have various meaning when they're put in different type fonts and different backgrounds or just simply color. This is the first time I try arranging a word in different ways to create different meanings.


The first one I chose formal style to do with black font and blue background. I separate the "RE" from the "MEMBER" with the purpose to make it look like an emphasis on how things that you remember related to the people involved in. You can see I also have enough space for the "RE" if it is pushed into the blue zone to be perfect. A reminder.



The second one I want it to be more romantic. Yes, this meaning is quite popular. Remember can be missing, looking back precious moments. The tone in the image should be a little bit sad and moody, so I chose script style with a florist sign (actually it's a special character that you can find in Character Map easily) to make it smoother and curlier.



The final one is the strongest style. The red brings you "warning" and the target sign makes you focus. I put 2 target signs one with low opacity in the centre of the word "REMEMBER" and the second one with yellow at the corner but just a quarter of it. Often when people remind you something, you of course want to remember it, but lost concentration is what you more often meet when you're busy and this banner is also considered as a reminder or a warning that you may cause if you forgot things.

~- Blend Me -~

I practiced blending with my own pictures. I like the Moth brush in the exercise so I made it big and put it cover half of my face. Adding more layers with 2 different parts of my face. I like my nose and my mouth going together: one for this - and one for my half top face with just the eyes.

I found Eraser is a really effective tool in blending, you should try it in some way, really made your pictures blend into each other and naturally "erase" the pictures' edges for you.

Blend Exercise

I didn't satisfy much about the colors in this pictures, but after many times redoing, I think this is closest to what I want it to be. It's too green though, i think but green is the main color for this so let take it strong to express the mysterious, cold and scary for the picture. Please give me your comment to make it better.
Thank you

--- Blur and Motion ---

When I still got stuck with choosing pictures to practice what have learned in class, I suddenly find the picture below.

At first sight, I just look at the final picture and thought it is a kind of orchid. See it the second time, there it goes a beautiful vision for the life of a tulip. Even with the moment it leave the world, it still has its own beauty.

Then I quickly thought of a motion - creating motion with blur and depth with shadow. Began to play with cropping and layers. Many layers to take care of, the shadow and colours transition, blur proportion. It brought me the final work after 4 hours. The last flower cost me much time in cropping because there are many separate and different color areas. I made it a challenge to practice cropping with that. It doesn't seem to be perfect this time but I can feel my skill in using pen tool has been upgraded :)

My final work

Special thanks to Selester for the picture.

Orchid Business Card

Before the lesson about cropping - I didn't know how to use pen tool in Illustrator and Photoshop. I often used Magnetic Lasso Tool to crop my pictures but now i find this new method even more efficiently. I read many tutorials about cropping using pen tool before but it seemed to be hard to understand and do like it said word by word. Only practice will bring you success. And now I can do it. Applying the ZEN theory, I can feel pleasant not to do it hurriedly. A way to practise patience :)

I first use black for the background but then I found a more attractive color for the card, dark purple seemed to be better suited.

The picture above is the original size (the required size for the card): 5.5cm x 9cm

Below is a bigger size for a clearer view on this card.

Gestault

The circle of the flower's shape inspired me most in this design. People easily feel love when see something curves than straight lines. The softness is also felt in this kind of flower so I think it's most appropriate for the text's meaning to be developed in visual.

I grouped each text group into circle shapes like smaller flowers flying high. Arranging them up - down so they seemed to fall into one another, making the meaning of the title to be clearer when mentioning about sex life of plants. The last group of text is arranged as a balance for the whole design. We need balance in any situation and therefore the circle of sex life also needs to be balanced.

Sun & Moon

I often relate what I've learned or seen with my own situation, my memory. Here it goes with my exercise about the Moon and the Sun. My birth year belongs to fire element and the animal represent for me is the lion. From those facts, i want to link the symbol SUN(hot) and MOON (cold) with the Lion Face.

The sun is considered the important factor for our system and the lion is the king of the forest. The moon, in the other hand, is represented for something more calm, but it doesn't mean that the moon is nice and silent. It still hide something, mysterious and dangerous.

I retouched the photo of a lion i found and made it look like more "human" to be a saint for both Sun and Moon.

Picture Source: Lion Face

COFFEE

This is a flash that I made for a simple website last semester. I had to search many sources to create effects over the images such as the blur, fade in, fade out and the way the branch move to best suit the Website about Coffee. Leave your comment when you see the flash and give me your opinions. Thank you.

It can take time, but it will work.

Interface for real life

Sticking our eyes on the computer screen for hours becomes normal in this current life. Pressing "turn on" and my morning began. We frequently see that the desktop is designed to look like a place where we can put our documents and do things on that. I found another type of design that display in a reversed way: imitate the interface on desktop and bring it to real life. Impressive reverse interests ones who addict computer as well as create a new way to make you feel different. Below are some pictures about this type

Hans Gremmen with Monique Gofers, Empty Trashcan, 2004


Jan Robert Leegte, Scrollbar, 2002


Liron Ross, Masking Tape Folder, 2002


Cory Arcangel, Disassembling 48K, installation view Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland, 2005

Sources:
Design Observer, Interface Space, Dmitri Siegel, 02.01.07

Creativity Process and Reality

I currently had my first design work launched in December, 2006. This is my first time working with a group to promote one big event in my school. I joined to have more practical experiences in designing and practicing technical terms I have learned in class. I had learned many more things from the higher semester students, also had chances to see more hidden problems in preparing a marketing plan. I had to face not only the graphic problems, I mean ... technical problems while working with Photoshop, Illustrator or iMovie , I also need self-confidence, determination and stand point to protect my work after it's finished. To me, receiving feedback made me have 2 different feelings, the feeling about feedbacks coming from the ones that know the sensitiveness of the maker and the ones who don't. I don't mind explaining my choice for the layout or colors in my work but there are barriers and distances between the maker and the viewer's viewpoint and purposes. As a result, your final work can be totally different from the original one if you cannot protect your viewpoint and persuade others to accept it. It's really a big deal.
This made me think of the future when there is money and position that can bend your mind and make you loose your determination, loose your style, and over all, loose the concept. I worked with design student and also commerce ones. So there are two different thoughts and it's hard to pleased both of them. That's what I should encounter.

I wrote this entry just to share my first experience after my first work was launched. Reality is really different from theory and can varied in steps and process. It won't work with just design and concepts, it will be consensus, fighting, protecting and fixing. What I want to advice you in doing design work with a group is trying to protect your work, listen to the feedback that can help you improve your work and never give up.

Step to a new world ...

Where is the border between a child and a mature one? 18 years old (according to Vietnam law) is already a mature. However, mature or not, depends on your own life. I’m not 20 though I am really in now. Comparing to friends in other country, maybe I’m just 18 or … 12.

The social life in Vietnam made you feel pleased or frustrated? The viewpoint of Vietnamese people is somehow hard under foreigner. But to me, it’s quite easier than before. The limitation is always needed to control. I study design: A decision totally changed my life. My childhood life was closed and silent … Hardly believe this field could create a different me. Is that the opposite or just a reveal J I’m still wondering.

I study here, absorbing new thoughts, new visual views and also new life, new friends. I’m struggling with the suitable way for me – finding the overlap of Art, culture and my favor is a hard thing to do.

2 previous DIM courses really upgrade my critical thoughts and passion on studying design. I'm curious what I would study in this course also. Good luck for me and my friends.