i’ve never been a big fan of designing. actually, i hated designing. that’s why i chose research for my final year project, instead of design. i had always been good at mathematics, equations, and so on. but i was stuck in this valley of desperation called design.
this story was continued until i got a job. my first job, luckily didn’t require me to do much design work. all i did was transforming my bosses’ idea and their design into real drawing. but that doesn’t mean i did not have any chance to design. i had that chance! that kind of opportunity was considered as a gem, cause it was so rare for me, junior apprentice, to design something. yet, i failed to impress anybody. my design was epic fail then. LOL.
but i realized i did not have what it takes to be able to design landscape. i lacked of landscape knowledge. whether it was planting names or landscape construction principle, i had no idea about landscape at all. i did not know who is the best landscape architecture firm in the world, i did not know famous landscape architects at all. maybe i was just not into design.
i thought in grad school we were gonna talking about research, paper, seminar, conference, etc etc. yet i was fooled. i have to meet my biggest fear: design.
i am sitting here, in my lab desk, with bunch of tracing paper in front of me, headphone sticking in my ear, and enjoying my time to design. but why? how come i can enjoy designing?
if you are in the position that:
- your design is not that good, but it’s enough to make you stay in the class. with effort, you can do better in the class.
- the theory classes are almost incomprehensible for your brain to be processed.
i’ll take the option one, please. without any chili and please don’t make it spicy for me.
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