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Looking back, I notice how my skills as a designer has developed. When I was little, I whenever I was at kindergarten, I always when straight to the arts and crafts area. I would always draw a lot of forms.

As I grew, I started developing interest to not just design but also visual arts, film and especially performing arts. I admire the forms when doing the choreography from gracefulness of ballet to dramatic movements from combat, action films.

As I got older into high school, the era where I was experimental, I started developing interest to minimalism especially industrial designer Dieter Ram's idea of how "less is more" and even wrote a book titled Less but More mentioning the main principles of what a good design is...

"Good design is as little design as possible. Less, but better – because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity."

I agree that there shouldn't be too much interfering the design and when producing design it should be simple to understand. Which is why I favour a more minimalistic approach to design.

Looking from then to now, I notice how I stylistically developed where I started to have my own style and identity especially the emphasis of forms, draughtsmanship and monochromatic colour palette comes from. I maybe meant to do this as I still don't get sick of drawing even til this age. As cliche as it might sound, I am born to design and has been preparing since I was young.

I see myself, in the future, being the next generation of designers that help improve society and I definitely see myself creating provoking designers that is different, because I believe design has no limit. Although people may believe that design is limited in stylistic and functional categories but I believe that there is more that we haven't discovered yet. The older design generations trust us to continue the design pathway and creative journey.

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