ABOUT
I realized I wasn't studying industrial design to become an industrial designer, I was studying it to become a designer.
De La Salle-College of St. Benilde
2018 | Bachelor of Science in Industrial Design
Industrial Design is such a broad course, but basically people know it as product design when it is far deeper and more complicated to explain than that. When I was studying industrial design it's when I realized I wasn't studying industrial design to become an industrial designer, I was studying it to become a designer. I wanted to learn how to think, feel, move, and do all sorts of designs. I didn't like to constrict myself, I wanted to do everything, maybe not perfectly, but I wanted to learn to do at least a part of it and further improve my skills and knowledge.
Harvard Graduate School of Design
2019 | 2 months intensive summer program
This once in a lifetime opportunity came as a huge shock to me. After getting an invitation I was honestly hesitant to go because well, this is Harvard, only great minded people get to go there and I was sure my brain and skills were pretty much average. But in the end as you can see after my family convinced me and I went on that journey.
The program was called Design Discovery: Architecture. It's a program for professionals and non-professionals to hone their skills and get a glimpse of what getting a Masters Degree in Architecture feels like.
It was a very intense program where we couldn't help but work long hours and weekends to finish our projects. In this course I learned how to design out of the ordinary, in other words, we were taught to think outside of the box, far beyond the box. Aside from morning sessions with architects, landscape designers, urban designers, and product designers, the afternoons were all about doing our plates. The plates given to us were all unconventional and at first I couldn't understand what it had to do with architecture. That is until we reached the end wherein we combined all the lessons on the projects we did and that was when I first built my own building mock-up. Not as professionally made, but a building I designed nonetheless.
The program has thought me to design out of the box, to make your simple mind into something unconventional but becomes conventional, to be confident in your work because just because you don't appreciate it doesn't mean no one will.
I attended the course to learn about architecture, but I ended up with the same thinking as when I was studying in college, but more.
I didn't attend to just learn about architecture, but to increase my knowledge and how I see and do anything related to design.
