Designers who broke the rules

This time round i am going to talk about designers who are non related to fashion, a few artists who broke the rules.

Steve Jobs was known for breaking the rules and as we all know that Apple doesn’t just make a product. They completely change people’s perception of what’s stylish, what’s the future and what’s going to be ‘trendy’ in the months and years to come., white earphones was just one of many. Steve Jobs is an incredible innovator and was known for breaking the rules in work. He was an incredible innovator who changed the way we saw and used technology like no other. While others were still stuck with black or silver earpieces, the CEO of Apple designed the iconic white earpieces. White plastic earpieces which looks tacky to him at first but he still made these white earpieces when releasing the iPhone. To his content it appeared stylish and trendy whilst listening to music.

In 1907 its painter, Pablo Picasso, broke all of the rules that the "artistically correct" learned at the art academies: he disposed of three-dimensional perspective, abandoned harmonious proportion, used distortion, and borrowed from the art of primitive cultures. In fact, the painting was such a revolutionary statement that when the painting was first viewed by some French critics, the painter Derain even suggested to Picasso that he would one day commit suicide for the shame that he had brought on the art establishment.

In rendering the new reality, Picasso also abandons harmonious bodily proportions. This, of course, was done on purpose since Picasso had been trained at art school how to render the human figure through mathematical proportions.

Picasso claimed to have broken the rules way earlier than another artist who broke the rules, Francis Bacon.

He is a artist who paints faces that are ferocious, distorted, hideous. The bodies tends to slouch insolently. The rooms are almost empty, the walls blank. Critics howled that the paintings were sloppy, stupid, and meaningless – the same complaints we often hear today. Now, it's a beloved style. Instead of giving us smooth, realistic bodies, Bacon pulled viewers into cosmic bleakness. 

Reflection on Mindmaps

A mind map is a diagram used to visually organise information. A mind map is often created around a single concept, drawn as an image in the center of a blank landscape page, to which associated representations of ideas such as images, words and parts of words are added. Major ideas are connected directly to the central concept, and other ideas branch out from those.

Mind maps can be drawn by hand, either as "rough notes" during a lecture, meeting or planning session, for example, or as higher quality pictures when more time is available.As with other diagramming tools, mind maps can be used to generate, visualize, structure, and classify ideas, and as an aid to study and organise information, solving problems, making decisions, and writing.


Mind maps have many applications in personal, family, educational, and business situations, including notetaking, brainstorming (wherein ideas are inserted into the map radially around the center node, without the implicit prioritization that comes from hierarchy or sequential arrangements, and wherein grouping and organizing is reserved for later stages), summarizing, as amnemonic technique, or to sort out a complicated idea. Mind maps are also promoted as a way to collaborate in color pen creativity sessions. Effectiveness - Cunningham (2005) conducted a user study in which 80% of the students thought "mindmapping helped them understand concepts and ideas in science".



Last lesson we did mind map on "pursuit of happiness" because the topic was relevant to me and my group mates! And so we did wrote down all the points. It was interesting.

Omg @ Fashion Designers who broke the rules~

COCO CHANEL

Being a women who designs feminine womens outfit is already hard enough..... BUT being a women who design boyish yet stylish outfits has always been a challenge! Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel did not let that kind of restricted mentality intimidate or distract from her modern philosophy and innovation. Who knew that a woman, who grew up in an orphanage, rose by nuns, who also sang at a cabaret, could become such an influential mover and shaker in fashion history? 

Guys, Coco Chanel had arrived.

Coco Chanel is the most well known example of a fashion designer who broke the rules, especially for her time.. and boy she definitely knock them down! She disregarded the womens' mindset of her time period and created her own fashion perspective. She created a trend where luxury and comfort go hand-in-hand. 

This will have a long-lasting influence in fashion designs to come, because her style will always stand for what she believed in,

 –simplicity and everlasting elegance-

Paul Poiret

In Paris, one man broke the rules and made it his mission to modernise women’s fashion and make clothes bright, fun and exotic. After a while Poiret started to sell designs to large couture houses in Paris.  

Paul Poiret, who called himself the ‘King of Fashion’, was born in 1879 in Paris, and apprenticed to an umbrella maker. He used leftover scraps of umbrella material to make dolls’ dresses and managed to sell some of his sketches to a local dressmaker while still in his teens. 

Initially he worked for for designer Jacques Doucet and later on more famously for the House of Worth, where some clients were shocked by his modern clothes with a Japanese twist.

The cloche hat – now symbolic of the Twenties – was popularised by Poiret, as were fur-trimmed coats.

Poiret’s fashions remained popular until World War One. After the war, his complex designs seemed to be outdated and people were buying high quality clothes by the new designers such as Coco Chanel. By the time Poiret died in 1944 and he was largely forgotten. What a great shame...as he was perhaps the first truly modern designer.

Alexander Mcqueen

“You’ve got to know the rules to break them. That’s what I’m here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.”

 And breaking the rules is exactly what Alexander Mcqueen did. It was his hope that through his clothing, he would be able to empower women, to inspire them, and boost confidence.

 A legend in the fashion industry, McQueen’s short 19 years in the profession was a determined one. He's a creative “genius”. Most of his designs were dramatic, gothic and beautiful all at the same time.

The costumes on display are unique examples of the talent of Alexander McQueen.

Brainstorming? Mind maps?

Previous lesson was to brainstorm on a phrases given and my group chose the topic "How to break a glass" immediately. We thought it was easy but guess what. We're wrong. It's actually not easy to think those points because for this topic, what popped out on our minds was the most straightforward answers; none other than the typically 'drop on the floor' or 'smash it'. We wrecked out minds and finally think out of some exaggerated points which may not be necessarily useful. It was quite an interesting lesson that day.


Question of the day: 
What is brainstorming?
Is mind map useful?

Brainstorming is a great way to solve problems & to come up with new ideas. It allows you to examine the problems from outside the boundaries of normal thinking, and understand the issues and root causes, and come up with alternative solutions. 

Yes it is. When running out of ideas, mind map comes in. Ask yourself who? when? what? why? where? & how? and start joining arrows and ideas. That's how I develop good points. Isn't this how it works? Not sure what's your method but hope this helps!