Simply, this is my essay below.
My Design Career
Kosuke Fujisawa
Since my childhood, playing and toys have been big part of my life. Even now, I sometimes go to buy some toys or just do online shopping related to my favorite TV shows. That is because it is one of my hobbies and, most simply, it makes me enjoy. They are not just for children in terms of having visual impact and interesting functions even adults could be attracted. Although this is because the companies have to attract parents, the attempt has been succeeded and everyone can enjoy with these toys nowadays.
Therefore, I would want to become a toy designer. Such an aim has been in my head since a few years ago. Once I found I like playing with toys, I also started to think of making toys, which can give small children the chance to learn or develop their ability of imagination through “playing”. This is because I think playing is one of the fundamental factors in human activity. Also, learning something by enjoying is even better for children. Both of my parents are teacher in primary school but they have preceded a lot of programs of teaching children with fun, because they know it is much better than just making children sit down and read books. Physical experience sometimes has more meaningfulness than ordinary study style. So, I want to design something interesting to play but useful for the development of children as well.
The reason why I chose Industrial design at UNSW is, first of all, it would be the best to study this category of design, the nearest field, for such my future career where I would be required to make products. Also, in order to catch as many customers as possible, I would have to keep getting unique ideas, that children and their parents feel like getting my products. I must have a variety of knowledge and ability, and this time right now studying at university is the best period to have a look at many things to broaden my eyesight, perspective and range of my idea for imagination. I want to get a job in a toy company as I mentioned at first to make many kinds of toys for children but also for the fun for myself, to be honest. I believe I can give children many opportunities to learn something from my side in terms of providing problem solutions, the most suitable definition of how designer should be.
In the last part, I want to mention about how I would like to spend the rest of my university life. Although I wrote I like to play, I sometimes become too serious for my given assignments and exams and feel frustrated. So, I would like to try enjoying that study as much as possible so that I can come up with better way to process if there is anything like that. Also, I have found that time management is quite important for everything around me such as university, work, and private time. So I think I should keep that in mind in every moment.
Hi there! I have to agree with you that 'playing' is always part of learning to improve one child's thinking skills, mind development and creativity other than reading books, listening/singing songs, etc. I have actually helped my sister to work for a few days in her childcare center and I know how important it is to have a product to engage them to learn something useful.
ReplyDeleteAlso, Its a good positive mindset you have that we always should try to enjoy ourselves as a design student and do our best we can. For example, im sure our Project 1 has given us some pressure but we should remind ourselves that we have the chance to design a product which is something that we always wanted to do, so be happy and excited about it. Express your true self through design.