<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23089049</id><updated>2011-12-23T07:58:32.019+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Patrick's viewpoints 嚶其鳴矣，求其友聲。</title><subtitle type='html'>There is no such thing as an objective viewpoint.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>ablogaday</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>47</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23089049.post-1427395510749465949</id><published>2011-02-19T23:59:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-02-25T18:52:17.710+08:00</updated><title type='text'>分不到獎金，卻分到了喜樂和興奮！</title><content type='html'>去年底收到了一個我從前學生的來電，告訴我他那組同學拿了我當他們導師時候他們那份功課去參加一個business plan competition，名為「&lt;a href="http://www.sechallenge.hk/" target="_blank"&gt;香港社會企業挑戰賽2010&lt;/a&gt;」，並想邀請我當他們的faculty advisor。經過數月來的努力和競賽，結果他們從超過1,600位參加者所組成的超過300組參賽隊伍中脫穎而出，&lt;a href="http://www.sechallenge.hk/2010/?q=result2010" target="_blank"&gt;摘下冠軍&lt;/a&gt;，贏得共約20萬港元的啟動資金！&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--xv819vYBNA/TWeJUYXoOlI/AAAAAAAAB5M/C0Z4yWQAyKw/s1600/ATBasHKSECchampion.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 395px; height: 383px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--xv819vYBNA/TWeJUYXoOlI/AAAAAAAAB5M/C0Z4yWQAyKw/s400/ATBasHKSECchampion.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5577577646753593938" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;我當時教授的科目內容是有關如何利用設計為營商創新（to innovate）和創造價值（to create value），與及介紹一些開發創新產品的理論和方法，所以功課都要以包含business plan成份的design proposal形式提交。這幾位學生當時的功課是想拿廢車場的廢棄零部件來「&lt;a href="http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20100623/00176_035.html" target="_blank"&gt;升級再造&lt;/a&gt;」，替顧客度身訂造成為高級環保家具。他們不但很用功、享受整個學習過程、產品模型做得極漂亮、就連business plan也寫得可以，當時我給了他們最高分。但更重要的，在最後一堂我通常都會鼓勵學生不要完了學期拿了分便將自己的功課丟掉或置之高閣，而是要等機會或甚至製造機會要將這盤構思的方案孵化出來，成為真的生意，不要浪費他們這麼好的作品和心血。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;我很欣慰這幾位學生聽了我的勸告，跟著兩年來他們把握著每一個機會孕育他們這盤生意，拿錢拿時間拿心機出來，在西貢租了個地方做工場，慢慢建立了一點顧客網絡，並給不同的&lt;a href="http://programme.rthk.org.hk/rthk/tv/programme.php?name=tv/coolhk&amp;amp;d=2010-07-29&amp;amp;p=4886&amp;amp;e=112306&amp;amp;m=episode" target="_blank"&gt;傳媒訪問過&lt;/a&gt;。然而在沒有起辦費的限制下，他們只能在工餘找時間生產，所以在產量上並不理想，無法應付有價有市的訂單。不時他們還會找我談寫申請資金建議書的意見，我也喜見他們真的赴諸實行。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-z5t_E-F5xmE/TWeJTG82m3I/AAAAAAAAB40/fguUK-mNPP4/s1600/ATB%2540%25232190MingPaoWeekly.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 395px; height: 358px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-z5t_E-F5xmE/TWeJTG82m3I/AAAAAAAAB40/fguUK-mNPP4/s400/ATB%2540%25232190MingPaoWeekly.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5577577624898018162" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rZIf4EX0QAQ/TWeJT97CD_I/AAAAAAAAB5E/MsGltSZ4WUg/s1600/ATBtableLamp%2526CoffeeTable.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 395px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rZIf4EX0QAQ/TWeJT97CD_I/AAAAAAAAB5E/MsGltSZ4WUg/s400/ATBtableLamp%2526CoffeeTable.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5577577639654330354" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;去年底《明周》報導過他們。其實兩年來已經至少有11家本地和遠至&lt;a href="http://www.tvbvideo.de/video/iLyROoaf8WCt.html" target="_blank"&gt;德國&lt;/a&gt;的傳媒和&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/TheCarbonreduction#p/a/u/2/LvculXEAiIQ" target="_blank"&gt;網站&lt;/a&gt;報導過他們這項目了！照片中的玻璃咖啡檯和檯燈，都是利用廢汽車零部件升級再造的。每件貨品送到客人手上的時候，都會有一個標簽，說明的除了是設計師的名字，還有包括有份參予製造這件家具的低技術工人的名字，例如負責清洗的工人、縫紉皮燈罩的婦女、給予製作上的意見、到落手落腳鑽孔裝嵌、打磨焊接等五金師傅們，突顯了產品背後對人的那份尊重。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;既然當上了advisor，我絕不會顧而不問，所以也一直就他們這次比賽所必須提交的計劃書、和現場怎樣有效並具說服力地介紹他們的營商方案、怎樣透過它體現企業的社會責任等，盡力給予意見。還有，每次他們要現場介紹的時候，我除了幫他們拍照之外，還給他們代禱！&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VO4_DkJfsQg/TWeJTQ6NvEI/AAAAAAAAB48/RpiBEfq8Wfk/s1600/ATB%2540HKSECsemiFinal.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 395px; height: 350px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VO4_DkJfsQg/TWeJTQ6NvEI/AAAAAAAAB48/RpiBEfq8Wfk/s400/ATB%2540HKSECsemiFinal.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5577577627571305538" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;ATB AutoArt是他們的參賽名稱，是來自他們三位核心成員英文名字的initial：室內設計師Alex（左一）、平面設計師Beatrice（右一）、和後來索性全身投入這盤生意的Telly（右二）。高挑男孩阿基（左二）是後來加入的組員，也是我現時的學生。Telly和阿基都是基督徒，都相信祈禱的功效。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;好了，現在他們有了起辦費，我要好好考慮應否入股呢...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23089049-1427395510749465949?l=pchankc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/feeds/1427395510749465949/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23089049&amp;postID=1427395510749465949&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/1427395510749465949'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/1427395510749465949'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2011/02/blog-post.html' title='分不到獎金，卻分到了喜樂和興奮！'/><author><name>ablogaday</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--xv819vYBNA/TWeJUYXoOlI/AAAAAAAAB5M/C0Z4yWQAyKw/s72-c/ATBasHKSECchampion.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23089049.post-6377449676694919438</id><published>2010-08-18T18:51:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2010-08-18T18:52:00.330+08:00</updated><title type='text'>結業照</title><content type='html'>在順德完成了一個為期三星期共九節（每節三小時）的培訓項目，主題圍繞產業創新，參加者來自當地的製造企業和設計公司，上至老闆和管理人員，下至工業設計師和工程師等都來了。我除了設計和籌備了整個培訓的流程和內容外，也講了幾堂課。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8K1iih_Uw0A/TGu4uKYRKTI/AAAAAAAABw8/tzPx7Jc6QZU/s1600/GDHKIIC-SMEtrainingGroup.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 395px; height: 225px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8K1iih_Uw0A/TGu4uKYRKTI/AAAAAAAABw8/tzPx7Jc6QZU/s400/GDHKIIC-SMEtrainingGroup.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506698072590199090" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;結業那天有副鎮長和幾個高層來參加，當然也要來個集體照。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23089049-6377449676694919438?l=pchankc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/feeds/6377449676694919438/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23089049&amp;postID=6377449676694919438&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/6377449676694919438'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/6377449676694919438'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2010/08/blog-post.html' title='結業照'/><author><name>ablogaday</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8K1iih_Uw0A/TGu4uKYRKTI/AAAAAAAABw8/tzPx7Jc6QZU/s72-c/GDHKIIC-SMEtrainingGroup.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23089049.post-4831085464242548407</id><published>2010-07-31T00:43:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T00:45:37.692+08:00</updated><title type='text'>贈書</title><content type='html'>我在國內的工作單位請了一個剛從設計學校畢業出來的年青伙子，主要幫我跟進那裡有關設計的項目。聽說小伙子在畢業班中也算是個優秀份子，我看他拿來應徵的作品，風格也是典型的國內看為時尚的那一類（是讚是彈，你自己想），當中亦明顯反映他對&lt;a href="http://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/%E5%AD%97%E4%BD%93%E6%8E%92%E5%8D%B0%E5%AD%A6" target="_blank"&gt;字體排印&lt;/a&gt;（&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typography" target="_blank"&gt;typography&lt;/a&gt;）的興趣。上任個多月來，言談間也看得出他那份典型fresh graduate對設計的熱情、要求和期盼；但另一樣的典型是：只要遇著小小對人和事的挫折，便馬上如一般八九十後一族一樣，想著要放棄。&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;我看著他，幻想著中國平面設計的下一代是怎樣的，特別在字體排印方面，將來中國會有些甚麼出色的設計師冒出來嗎？特別是他們的作品能面向國際嗎？嗯... 聽起來像很大很崇高的題目... 還是別去想了...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;剛過去的這星期出門去攪培訓班，我順道從家中書架上拿下了原本買給自己，&lt;a href="http://www.douban.com/note/46314195" target="_blank"&gt;廖潔蓮的《中國字體設計人：一字一生》&lt;/a&gt;，打算送給他。我在&lt;a href="http://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/%E6%89%89%E9%A1%B5" target="_blank"&gt;扉頁&lt;/a&gt;上這樣寫：&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;小郭：&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;字體排印和設計故然是一門很有趣的學問和藝術，但真是要做起來的時候，你便會感受到它在這個方寸的小世界裡，其實也是要改了又改、乏味非常、充滿挑戰、和消磨意志的一項工作。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;但要是你能夠忍耐經過它而沒有放棄的話，一套好的字體、一件蘊含著你無限心血的精煉作品便得以誕生。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;既然你告訴我你希望專攻字體排印，我希望我送給你這本書，能夠每每在你經歷枯燥乏味的創作過程中想到要放棄的時候，可以成為你的提醒，也算是我作為一個教授字體排印的一個過來人給你的鼓勵。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div&gt;對中國字體排印的發展，我想除了在課堂上教授，在工作上做給人（無論是上司或如小郭這些下屬）看，我想我可以做的，就是這麼一點點。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23089049-4831085464242548407?l=pchankc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/feeds/4831085464242548407/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23089049&amp;postID=4831085464242548407&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/4831085464242548407'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/4831085464242548407'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2010/07/blog-post.html' title='贈書'/><author><name>ablogaday</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23089049.post-1734490364877405641</id><published>2009-02-19T16:43:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-02-19T16:51:41.457+08:00</updated><title type='text'>回應Ethan的《設計的目的》</title><content type='html'>看來我們又回到&lt;a href="http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2007/10/design-is.html" target="_blank"&gt;年前的討論&lt;/a&gt;了！&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;對從前自己深信不疑的東西產生動搖，我相信是因為我們多是站在自己故有的看法和信念evaluate其它的看法，卻鮮有給自己的看法給予較深入的反思或甚至質疑。不過在我看來，這裡的「動搖」並不是對與錯的問題，而只是選擇或point of emphasis的問題。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;「設計的目的是溝通」這種偏向實用或功能主義的取向，根本是Bauhaus傳統form follows function思維下的產物。那當然仍然可以是金科玉律（我&lt;a href="http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2007/10/design-is.html" target="_blank"&gt;再說&lt;/a&gt;，我也是吃Bauhaus奶水長大的），但我們卻少有追問為甚麼追求「好看」偏偏被偋棄在function所涵蓋的範圍之外...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;宏觀地看，Bauhaus的主張其實是源自十七八世紀的&lt;a href="http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E7%90%86%E6%80%A7%E4%B8%BB%E7%BE%A9&amp;amp;variant=zh-hk" target="_blank"&gt;理性主義&lt;/a&gt;（之前的意識形態是以宗教和經驗為主導，偉大但「中看不中用」的藝術都是由此而生）。理性思維激發了數學和科學的急速發展，繼而是設計機器，之後是工業革命... 通過科學（如物理和化學）和數學精確的計算，無論在質和量上，人設計的機器都大大延展和提高了人類一雙手所能做/造的東西。這種以理性出發的思潮甚至影響了我們對「美」的看法：人們重新拿遠至&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenon" target="_blank"&gt;古希臘Acropolis的Parthenon&lt;/a&gt;，近至文藝復興Michelangelo的畫作來分析，認為比例、構圖等泛指「美」的原則其實都是可以客觀地、理性地計算出來的，甚麼「黃金比例」之類的說法日漸廣被接受。將這種以實用或功能出發的進路說為因，將一大堆藝術、建築、平面、室內和工業設計的作品說為果，這種論述成為上世紀初的主導思潮。然而世界就是這樣的，一種思潮的興起，往往又會有一種抗衡它的想法應運而生：&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arts_and_craft_movement" target="_blank"&gt;Arts &amp;amp; Crafts Movement&lt;/a&gt;，以歌頌人手所造的創作如何優勝於用機器大量生產出來沒有人性的東西云云...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;回來看設計的目的，我想我們必須給設計的論述範圍分類和收窄，這樣的討論才會有較建設性的結果。在服裝設計的領域裡，將一襲衣裳弄得好看肯定必要，亦可以說這就是它最終極的目的。但給太空人的設計太空服又怎樣？是否功能方面絕不能忽略呢？當較有野心或前衛的時裝設計大師作更大膽和expressive的嘗試，不惜犧牲或甚至偋棄衣服的functionality或現有的風格，為要突破和創造潮流，這又是否也算是用設計達到「溝通」的目的呢？在typography和平面設計的領域裡，這樣的例子也俯拾皆是（&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Brody" target="_blank"&gt;Neville Brody&lt;/a&gt;、&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Carson_%28graphic_designer%29" target="_blank"&gt;David Carson&lt;/a&gt;...）。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;「取悅」這功能：對visual communication design而言，我認為它肯是problem solving重要的一步，因為好看和美麗至少可以令你的作品在坊間云云叫人嘔心的設計之中脫穎而出，叫我們花時間看（如你所說），達到溝通的第一步。只是在「fulfil the purpose by being pleasing」之後，還有沒有後著繼續將要傳達的訊息有效地傳達給觀眾，也是我們必須追問的問題。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;i&gt;Design is to design a design to produce a design.&lt;/i&gt;" (&lt;a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=QvbihdUj2NoC&amp;amp;dq=Toothpicks+and+logos&amp;amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=NVpheagous&amp;amp;sig=Muqw68WpNNbC209scZYb5WQjKMg&amp;amp;hl=zh-TW&amp;amp;ei=HxOdSdWrNpCw6wOz3b3VAw&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;oi=book_result&amp;amp;resnum=6&amp;amp;ct=result#PPP1,M1" target="_blank"&gt;Heskett, 2002&lt;/a&gt;, p.5)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Design (a concept or field; a noun) is to design (an action; a verb) a design (a concept, a proposal, a solution, a tool; a noun) to produce a design (a finished product, a concept made actual; a noun)。我常常覺得我們在討論「設計」時，往往傾向將它的含義無限擴展，以至曖昧不清，再談美重要還是功能或是溝通重要也就落得沒有結果。設計既可以是人類任何有意識的行為，亦可以是狹窄如一個幼稚園小朋友的小手工，你到底在說上面四個design的那一個？否則誰要說服誰對誰錯，那種概念較為重要等，豈不是白費時間？&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23089049-1734490364877405641?l=pchankc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/feeds/1734490364877405641/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23089049&amp;postID=1734490364877405641&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/1734490364877405641'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/1734490364877405641'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2009/02/ethan.html' title='回應&lt;a href=&quot;http://creative2go.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/設計的目的&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Ethan的《設計的目的》&lt;/a&gt;'/><author><name>ablogaday</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23089049.post-962190991972263468</id><published>2008-12-04T11:59:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2008-12-05T12:53:02.802+08:00</updated><title type='text'>鬆一口氣！</title><content type='html'>終於完成這學期一科兩班（full-time and part-time）Experimental Typography的所有課堂！（還要在個多星期內完成評分工作。）雖然已經是第五個學期教授這個科目，但今個學期算是最吃力的了：既要為改動課程內容而傷腦筋和重新做準備功夫（especially some changes that I don't really believe in），也是最多學生的一次 —— 日夜校兩班共57人，每次tutorial和他們逐個談功課十分鐘，也最少要用上九個半小時！ —— 叫我不得不將有限的事間花在導修上而犧牲了lecture的時間。結果今晚final presentation至十時下課後，一些學生雖然已經離開，還是有八九個同學嚷著要看看我一早已經準備了卻沒有時間deliver的lecture PowerPoint...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8K1iih_Uw0A/STizOb4ljQI/AAAAAAAABJU/hf9dpYoJ7_0/s1600-h/BAAMA-ExpTypoFT2008.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 395px; height: 303px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8K1iih_Uw0A/STizOb4ljQI/AAAAAAAABJU/hf9dpYoJ7_0/s400/BAAMA-ExpTypoFT2008.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5276164024049175810" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;日校的學生下課後說要拍張集體照。Congratulations to all of you finishing the classes and assignments, finally -- not an easy task indeed!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;好了，還有星期二晚的一科尚有兩堂...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23089049-962190991972263468?l=pchankc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/feeds/962190991972263468/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23089049&amp;postID=962190991972263468&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/962190991972263468'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/962190991972263468'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2008/12/blog-post.html' title='鬆一口氣！'/><author><name>ablogaday</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8K1iih_Uw0A/STizOb4ljQI/AAAAAAAABJU/hf9dpYoJ7_0/s72-c/BAAMA-ExpTypoFT2008.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23089049.post-8491885970150197479</id><published>2008-02-03T23:59:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2008-12-13T06:47:47.459+08:00</updated><title type='text'>A good day</title><content type='html'>This was a good day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When the golden ray shone into my window, onto my bed, woke me up, I knew this would be a good day. I remembered &lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7214562.stm" target="_blank"&gt;my fellow Chinese people in mid-southern China who suffered from the snow disaster&lt;/a&gt;. After days of struggling with the cold, the freezing rain, the chaos, the hunger, the exhausted bodies... I knew this warm sunshine would ease their suffering a bit. This would be a good day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I prayed that their desperate wish for going back home to spend the Chinese New Year with their families could come true soon!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Despite it was Sunday, I still need to work today, for it was the last session of the MBA class on Strategic Design. This was &lt;a href="http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2007/03/strategic-design-for-mba-students.html" target="_blank"&gt;the 2nd time&lt;/a&gt; I co-taught this subject with my boss. Today I didn't need to prepare for any lecture because it was them presenting their final assignment. After spending with the class a consecutive 3 weekends, 6 hours each session, I was eager to see if they managed to learn a thing or two and reveal those learning in their assignment. Whatever subject I taught, I would always be excited at the last class, because it is a time I enjoy and harvest the result of my teaching. That was a good day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;19 students in 5 groups, they presented their final assignment. I always tried to be critical in giving comments as well as giving suggestions on how they could improve in preparing the written proposal for final submission. I find students always welcome suggestions on how they could move on. And because I pointed to them the way ahead, they usually felt less offensive about my critical comments. Today, we didn't end the class until we finished all the presentation at 2:30 pm. Before we dismissed, student C (the man sitting on the floor), the leading figure among them, also one of the students who my boss and I gave the most harsh criticism during the tutorial last week, proposed to take a photo together, as well as treated my boss and I a late lunch too! This was a good day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8K1iih_Uw0A/R6X3z6_J9sI/AAAAAAAAAbI/MP8b3vVTBg0/s1600-h/MBA-SD5112-2008Jan.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8K1iih_Uw0A/R6X3z6_J9sI/AAAAAAAAAbI/MP8b3vVTBg0/s400/MBA-SD5112-2008Jan.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5162805019229681346" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;These students came from a diverse spectrum of background and streams of specialism: they are from MBA in Innovation and Design Management, MBA in Information Technology Management, MBA in General Management, and Master of Design (Advanced Strategies); they are design managers, designers, design teacher, R&amp;amp;D manager, HR manager, account servicing, IT and marketing practitioners, TV producer... From their accents, I could tell many of them are either raised or educated in foreign countries: from India, New Zealand, Britain, Taiwan, the US... Gladly there were many positive comments given on the dining table, mostly on what they learned and what could be applied in their daily work. Apparently, most of them had a good experience in this subject. Thank God!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This was a good day indeed!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23089049-8491885970150197479?l=pchankc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/feeds/8491885970150197479/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23089049&amp;postID=8491885970150197479&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/8491885970150197479'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/8491885970150197479'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2008/02/good-day.html' title='A good day'/><author><name>ablogaday</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8K1iih_Uw0A/R6X3z6_J9sI/AAAAAAAAAbI/MP8b3vVTBg0/s72-c/MBA-SD5112-2008Jan.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23089049.post-2787071744379025822</id><published>2007-12-20T17:33:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2008-12-13T06:47:47.640+08:00</updated><title type='text'>又是寫在學期終結時</title><content type='html'>It is usually the most satisfying moment when a semester comes to an end: neither do I need to prepare for lectures nor scratching my head on thinking how to push my students to work against tight submission deadlines.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8K1iih_Uw0A/R2o3uTqGQFI/AAAAAAAAAXI/yl1o49V8zy8/s1600-h/PosterDesignAssignments.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8K1iih_Uw0A/R2o3uTqGQFI/AAAAAAAAAXI/yl1o49V8zy8/s400/PosterDesignAssignments.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5145986792914567250" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;在整個學期裡我給了學生五項功課，單poster design一項已足夠鋪滿地上！日夜校兩班Typography共43人，你幫我算一算我有多少件功課要評分！&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While I'm grading my students' works, it always feel great when I &lt;a href="http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2006/01/feedbacks-being-teacher.html" target="_blank"&gt;receive compliment emails from them&lt;/a&gt;. But in this semester I do receive something new, something I've never heard before from previous semesters（Mmm... 沒有徵得他們同意便放上來，哈！）:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;"Thanks very much for your kindness and smile. They make the lessons more interesting and we are not afraid to ask questions in the class.&lt;/span&gt;【這可真是第一次聽見這樣的comment！早陣子才聽見成人和小朋友都說我的樣子蠻嚴肅的，現在正好有人幫我平反了吧！】&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Indeed, we improved our sensitivity of font and typography thru this project. Some presentations are quite unique and we learnt a lot from them. Actually, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for making this course interesting."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I found your course is very useful, and it enlightens me to be more sensitive in typography. Most of time now, I will unconsciously keep watch for typo designs like on movie posters, movie trailers, magazines ads, signages and shop's logotypes...etc.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, I don't know how long this habit will last, but at least I can apply what I learnt from you to answer/challenge my marketing colleagues' stupid comments on typography."&lt;/span&gt;【這位同學每次功課都做很多concept sketches，比起今日很多designers在工作上都只做一兩個草圖，沒有design development便直接在電腦做final artwork，他是否算是瀕臨絕種一族呢？】&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I pleased that I can join these high-standard lesson, lets me pay attention how to create typeface, analyzes the typeface, resolution of letterform...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because your lecture on typeface let us know to request the homework standard. I study many course, I never seen a lot of diligent classmate in a class, it lets me positive diligently myself.&lt;/span&gt;【By the way，這個semester夜校生的學習態度又真積極，叫我做教的都格外有心機和加把勁！】&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the end of the subject of Typography, thanks for the tutorial and the email opinion, it is very detailed and clear. I gained a lot from this semester and I think it really can grab every chance in future in applying I have learned."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I am glad to finish all the lessons of 'Typography'. Thanks for your patient to teach us for these months. Typeface design made me satisfied... they are designed by myself and are unique. Now, I have my own typeface!&lt;/span&gt;【你能否感受到她那份興奮？】&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;It is a special experience to me. After I finished the final assignment, I understood that typeface design is really really difficult thing. During the process of designing the new typeface, I did many many times revision including the revision of the strokes. But I still enjoyed to do it. It is because I can learn more from each revision."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"May you spend some time to give some comments as your comments are highly effective and useful."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Thank you for your kindly teaching/tutorial. I learnt a lot from the lesson."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I am really grateful to you for that you had done, eg. diligent teaching, tutorial/e-mail opinions, especially you would still try your best to give me some detailed and useful opinions even if I hadn't do the well prepare for the tutorial... actually I feel so shame about that... Thank you for your teaching~~"&lt;/span&gt;【能否透過tutorial給學生一些用得上的意見是我非常重視的一環。既不應spoon-feed、亦要point the way ahead、inspire他們回去後知道下一步做甚麼... 這位同學跟很多其他同學一樣，過了遞交功課的時間還不斷寄來改進了的功課，要求我給予意見，完全體現「讀書不是求分數」的精神！】&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I also would like to thank for your teaching, the lesson make me interest in typography and let me know there are different angles tolook at design. I'm really enjoy your class... And feel surprise lot of the works of my classmates are doing so well in the final... I hope to share more about design with you at the future in the spare time~"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"... thank you so much in the Typography module. Before this semester I think I am sensitive to the fonts or text... But now, I know we have a long long way to go ... haha! All topics in the lessons are interesting, although the courseworks are really hard for me... I have to spend so much time to do... But i earned so much!!! At least, I will 堅持 what I learnt in the Typography lessons!!"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;「我們一些同學想食飯with u, like 謝謝宴~哈哈」&lt;/span&gt;【這個問題我真不懂回答呢！應承她們會否給人說我受賄？】&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;在另一個科目，我跟學生分享著作為老師，我教學方法的取向是多給建設性的批評（等他們知道下一步應怎樣做），不單給一些苛刻的意見（用俗一點的廣東話就是「插」他們或「打沉」他們），因為我贊成&lt;a href="http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2006/02/constructive-thinking.html" target="_blank"&gt;Edward de Bono的說法，這個世界太追捧critical thinking而忽略了creative thinking&lt;/a&gt;。有一位學生這樣覆我：&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"yes, I agree with your standpoint... you are the first runner up in my favourite tutor list. Just keep it up and I am sure you will be a brilliant teacher and teach someone likes me, hahah!&lt;/span&gt;【然後他提到自己白天做的工作】&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;I have a successful private show last night and of course after writing the proposal, frankly speaking, I gain a lot of inspirations through your lesson....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;I am sure you are a passion and a sincere lecturer, just keep it up and make more contributions, you inspired me actually."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;順祝各位 &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;聖誕蒙福，&lt;/span&gt;新年快樂！&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23089049-2787071744379025822?l=pchankc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/feeds/2787071744379025822/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23089049&amp;postID=2787071744379025822&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/2787071744379025822'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/2787071744379025822'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2007/12/blog-post.html' title='&lt;a href=&quot;http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2006/12/blog-post.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;又是&lt;/a&gt;寫在學期終結時'/><author><name>ablogaday</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8K1iih_Uw0A/R2o3uTqGQFI/AAAAAAAAAXI/yl1o49V8zy8/s72-c/PosterDesignAssignments.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23089049.post-1570224673246169136</id><published>2007-11-28T23:03:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-11-28T23:10:15.466+08:00</updated><title type='text'>鳴聲喜聞友聲</title><content type='html'>一直以來沒有提及過&lt;a href="http://pchankc.blogspot.com" target="_blank"&gt;寒舍&lt;/a&gt;中文名字的由來（英文Patrick's viewpoints的意思大概已經在右邊的sidebar闡明了），想籍今天收到&lt;a href="http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2007/10/design-is.html#c2586667346158252521" target="_blank"&gt;Ryana的comment&lt;/a&gt;趁機道來：&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;「嚶其鳴矣，求其友聲」其實是出自古老的《詩經》，後來晚清梁啟超在1920年一份叫《改造》的政治理論刊物撰寫創刊詞，引用了這一句來結束，充份反映這位英豪人物對時代和民族所懷的悲情，與及如何渴望籍研究、出版、和文字喚起國人對國家政情的關心和著緊。&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;（註）&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;我不像梁啟超，絕非棟樑之材，卻願借用這句說話，寄望寒舍能成為一塊有意思的分享園地。今天因讀&lt;a href="http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2007/10/design-is.html#c2586667346158252521" target="_blank"&gt;Ryana的comment&lt;/a&gt;得悉淺見不單引發&lt;a href="http://www.uxstudy.com/2007/11/25/design-is-what" target="_blank"&gt;精采友聲&lt;/a&gt;，更間接造就了&lt;a href="http://www.uxstudy.com/2007/11/05/question-design-is" target="_blank"&gt;一個集體創作&lt;/a&gt;的機會，實在可喜！謝謝你&lt;a href="http://www.uxstudy.com" target="_blank"&gt;Ryana&lt;/a&gt;，我大開眼界了！&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;註：古敏 編，《頭版頭條：中國創刊詞》，北京：時事出版社，2005年。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23089049-1570224673246169136?l=pchankc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/feeds/1570224673246169136/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23089049&amp;postID=1570224673246169136&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/1570224673246169136'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/1570224673246169136'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2007/11/blog-post.html' title='鳴聲喜聞友聲'/><author><name>ablogaday</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23089049.post-4710763961913929815</id><published>2007-11-12T18:26:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2007-11-12T18:41:10.603+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Art vs Design</title><content type='html'>Art is DIFFERENT from design, which most people just confused about. Many people just think that they like drawing, like looking at beautiful things, and so try to find a design school to study and think that someday he'll be working as a designer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Art is often about self-expression, reflection of one's world views through the creation of art. When an artist creates an art piece, say a painting or a sculpture, he works on it, changes it, experiments with it, struggles with it, refines it, polishes it and then comes a moment when he is happy with it, he stops and says he has just finished the creation of an art piece, then he sits down and appreciates what he has done and also takes a break. Now this piece of art is a reflection of what and how he sees this world or what is in his mind, and even a reflection of him this person -- it is all about self-expression and self-satisfaction -- he has the total authority on that piece of work. He does not care whether his work is making money or appreciated by other people (well, it feels great of course if his work gets recognized), he enjoyed the process of creating. The process of creating art is so satisfying because he is free to do anything, free to experiment with any media and ways of representing his ideas in your mind -- there is no rule about it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A designer, however, does things in a total different way. Design is often about solving problems. A designer sees the world as not good enough and tries to "design" for a better one. A furniture designer analyzes how people sit (knowledge of human anatomy), what postures will feel best for them and why is that (knowledge of culture and anthropology), and designs a chair for them. In the design process he has to research for the best type of materials which is on one hand best suits the purpose and on the other cheap enough for mass production (knowledge of general science and mathematics), then he has to figure out whether his design is actually practical to reproduce in the factory, he has to test whether his design, although looking good, is firm enough to hold a fat man or a naughty boy jumping on it, suffering good wear and tear.... (knowledge of physics....). Or take a fashion designer as another example. She has to design a sportswear for athletes. Similarly besides making it look great through those fashion drawings, she has to research for the suitable kind of cloth which is good looking and comfortable to wear (knowledge of textile), what cutting would make it most economical to produce in the factories, how the design would make the athlete perform best on the sportsground (how the cloth absorbs sweats well and release body heat efficiently, and let him do whatever activity he has to do? -- knowledge of biology and chemistry?)... There are endless questions and problems for a designer to consider so that what an athlete wears does matter in a competition. It takes all these problems solved to make a design work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Designers create new user experiences. This is why designers always have to approach his brief in a very LOGICAL and CRITICAL way. He cannot do whatever he wants since he has to identify the problems, analyze the problems, understand the limitations, seek for the best solutions and then evaluate whether the selected solutions are doing their jobs. And also sometimes the most difficult of all, he has to explain in an easy-to-understand way and convince his client/boss that his design will work long BEFORE the design comes to be a reality. And also he has to be confident about meeting all those deadlines and budgets given by his client/boss (knowledge of management). So you see he is never doing something which only satisfies himself like an artist. And he has to integrate many kinds of knowledge in different areas to put his design a reality. Art is only one of his tools to achieve a purpose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The trainings provided in art (and not design) schools usually concentrate on how one interprets the world (cultural studies), helping one to see the world in a different way that nobody has ever done before, and why in history those masters are representing their surrounding world in such ways (art history and criticism). Typically in an art school one would specialize on a specific art skill, like painting or sculpture, or installation art, and use the skills acquired to do your SUBJECTIVE interpretations in new and experimental ways. Well, I must admit this is still a very important training for a designer too, because this is one way how innovation and creativity are trained -- designer has to look into problems in new ways and look for innovative solutions. But for a designer, he can never use subjective reasons to convince his client/boss on what and why his design is good and an appropriate solution to the problems and needs. (Obviously the client will never be convinced and pay to a designer who just tell him that he likes to use red in the design because he thinks red is better than green.) Everything has to be explained in objective and scientific terms based on data and research, sounds justified. Besides, since the information and technological explosion, more often a designer has to solve his problems by integrating different kinds of knowledge. Say for a jewellery designer, he has to understand very much about aesthetics, but at the same time he has to know the materials (metal, gold, diamond and how lights could be reflected to its maximum (physics/science)...) inside out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For those who are keen in art and considering the design profession, I hope the explanations above can help them have a good fundamental understanding of both art and design, and which is the one they really want to do. I have seen too many people came into the design profession with a wrong motivation from day one, but came too far to turn back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" &gt;P.S. This post is edited from an email I sent in 2003 to a teenager who was considering studying design. Today when I read it again, perhaps my view has evolved a little bit but I think it is still worthwhile to post it here.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23089049-4710763961913929815?l=pchankc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/feeds/4710763961913929815/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23089049&amp;postID=4710763961913929815&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/4710763961913929815'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/4710763961913929815'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2007/11/art-vs-design.html' title='Art vs Design'/><author><name>ablogaday</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23089049.post-4774394329050997319</id><published>2007-10-25T01:56:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2008-12-13T06:47:47.883+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Design is...</title><content type='html'>謝謝&lt;a href="http://creative2go.wordpress.com/2007/10/11/if-you-got-a-pair-of-eyes-you-have-a-certain-way-of-looking-things" target="_blank"&gt;Ethan的推介&lt;/a&gt;，引發我繼續探索&lt;a href="http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2007/06/what-is-design-what-should-it-be.html" target="_blank"&gt;怎樣說明甚麼是設計&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8K1iih_Uw0A/Rx-IXH1g88I/AAAAAAAAAVg/SrwRTtYbB7A/s1600-h/MDesDesignIsPoster.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8K1iih_Uw0A/Rx-IXH1g88I/AAAAAAAAAVg/SrwRTtYbB7A/s400/MDesDesignIsPoster.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5124964831792788418" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;校園還張貼著一張「過氣」的海報（說是「過氣」，因為有些內容已經outdate了），是由&lt;a href="http://www.keithtam.net/" target="_blank"&gt;Keith Tam&lt;/a&gt;設計，以「Design is...」為題，用作宣傳學院所提供的碩士課程。我認為它是一張出色的typographic work：由構圖到grid design、由英文字體選擇到給「設計」兩個中文字的處理、由structure of information到顏色的運用等，都顯示出一位typographer既含蓄內斂但亦能在規範中發揮創意的特質。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;「Design is...」唔... 一條既老生常談但又不是一時之間可以答得好的填充題...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;談到「設計」的定義，廣義來說或許跟藝術一樣，甚麼都是設計，甚麼都是藝術，正所謂「設計就是生活」麻！但我還是偏向將它的範圍收窄一點，讓人明白設計並不是觸不著邊際的東西。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;吃&lt;a href="http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E5%8C%85%E8%B1%AA%E6%96%AF&amp;amp;variant=zh-hk" target="_blank"&gt;Bauhaus&lt;/a&gt;學派奶水、一直奉行&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_follows_function" target="_blank"&gt;form follows function&lt;/a&gt;教義長大的我，一直以來當然也接受design is problem solving的說法。然而世界在變，我發現form已經不一定follow function的了。在後現代的今天，form或許更多時候follow emotion，若要換上同是一個「F」字頭的英文字，可以這樣說：&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Form follows Function, Function follows Fantasy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;就拿廣告設計來舉個例：「廣告的目的在於使觀賞者對他當前的生活方式萌生不滿... 廣告示意：假若他購買廣告推銷的商品，生活便可望改善。... 廣告總是... 向買主提供富魅力的自我形象。」再沒有比&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Berger" target="_blank"&gt;John Berger&lt;/a&gt;在&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ways-Seeing-Based-BBC-Television/dp/0140135154/ref=sr_1_1/102-6597874-7048121?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;s=books&amp;amp;qid=1193249323&amp;amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank"&gt;Ways of Seeing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;（台譯《勢與藝七篇 —— 觀賞的觀念》）中更精闢獨到的分析，說明廣告設計緊緊跟隨著fantasy。當然，要保衛form follows function這教義，我們還可以爭辯不論emotion或fantasy，都可被算作function的一種。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;設計固然是problem solving，然而engineering、accounting、medicine等不也都是在solving problems嗎？設計師總不能太arrogant地說design涵蓋了engineering、accounting、medicine等知識範疇吧！？總之，這個定義似乎已無法說明設計跟其它專業的分別。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;這些年來，我常在思想設計的專業性在那兒、設計師的core competence是甚麼、它跟其它專業的差異又是甚麼⋯ 今年我自己對於定義設計，用得最多的是：&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Design is putting things together in a creative way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;在給它詳盡一點的解釋前，我倒想聽聽你對設計的定義又會是怎樣，請幫我來個填充吧！&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Design is...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23089049-4774394329050997319?l=pchankc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/feeds/4774394329050997319/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23089049&amp;postID=4774394329050997319&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/4774394329050997319'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/4774394329050997319'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2007/10/design-is.html' title='Design is...'/><author><name>ablogaday</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8K1iih_Uw0A/Rx-IXH1g88I/AAAAAAAAAVg/SrwRTtYbB7A/s72-c/MDesDesignIsPoster.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23089049.post-6757248838109628243</id><published>2007-10-10T18:25:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2008-12-13T06:47:48.110+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Creativity is Good</title><content type='html'>Despite that my blog is not updated frequently, it got linked by a Taiwanese blogger &lt;a href="http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2007/05/graphic-designer.html#c6852761333658969097" target="_blank"&gt;Ethan&lt;/a&gt; recently.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8K1iih_Uw0A/RxC3X31g86I/AAAAAAAAAVQ/fJ_7iWxGmRY/s1600-h/CreativityIsGood.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8K1iih_Uw0A/RxC3X31g86I/AAAAAAAAAVQ/fJ_7iWxGmRY/s400/CreativityIsGood.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5120794397073535906" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Before you actually start reading his blog &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://creative2go.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Creativity is Good&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, you already know he is someone who cares about design by just looking at the layout.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you, Ethan, for providing something nice to read and look at!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It always feel good to make new friends on the Net.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23089049-6757248838109628243?l=pchankc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/feeds/6757248838109628243/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23089049&amp;postID=6757248838109628243&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/6757248838109628243'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/6757248838109628243'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2007/10/creativity-is-good.html' title='&lt;a href=&quot;http://creative2go.wordpress.com&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Creativity is Good&lt;/a&gt;'/><author><name>ablogaday</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8K1iih_Uw0A/RxC3X31g86I/AAAAAAAAAVQ/fJ_7iWxGmRY/s72-c/CreativityIsGood.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23089049.post-8561090604364127448</id><published>2007-06-06T17:11:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-11-12T18:42:58.829+08:00</updated><title type='text'>What is design? What should it be?</title><content type='html'>和舊同窗談到香港設計課程的設計，他認為設計師（無論甚麼專門的設計也好）應該將眼界擴闊一點，不單在自己的作品本身，還要明白自己的作品在整個營商遊戲規律中，自己在設計的過程怎樣take full consideration and advantage of this commercial operation，以至自己的作品能產生最大的impact。這樣，才算實際地看待「設計」，不流於孤方自賞，設計不獲垂青時便埋怨account servicing、埋怨客人的濫權或敷淺...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;如此我看見了兩幅截然不同的圖畫，也就是將「設計」狹義化和廣義化：&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. 狹義化：無論自己是甚麼專門的設計也好，設計師應該將自己的設計做到最精最好，其它的issues就留給其他專家好了；&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. 廣義化：將「設計」這門學問的範疇無限擴張，以至涵蓋了所有人家的專業，收為己用。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;不錯設計幾乎涵蓋了所有人類的行為！地球上除了大自然的東西外，其餘的東西都可以說是人類設計的產物，有好有壞（好的設計永遠佔少數！）。&lt;i&gt;"Design is one of the basic characteristics of what it is to be human, and an essential determinant of the quality of human life. It affects everyone in every detail of every espect of what they do throughout each day. As such, it matters profoundly."&lt;/i&gt; Design is &lt;i&gt;"the human capacity to shape and make our environment in ways without precedent in nature, to serve our needs and give meaning to our lives".&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;a href="http://www.popmatters.com/books/reviews/t/toothpicks-and-logos.shtml"&gt;Heskett, 2002&lt;/a&gt;) 試問衣食住行以至任何人類所做的事情，不都正正是以設計（包括設計思維）改善生活（質素）的行為嗎？在商業戰場上，創新的設計牽涉了research、patent、任何方式的capital raising、profit-making、brand building等，這些都是轍頭轍尾經過仔細設計的動作，當然要教要學。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;時下流行提倡design-driven才最能創新，Apple、Sony、Nike等無不如是。如果設計師連人家的專門知識也收為己用，當然如虎添翼。但這樣ambitious地說這才算設計，會否輕篾了人家的專業、團隊或multi-discipline的功勞尚且不談，我想問的是：會否反而淡化了我們本身在整個商業運作的角色和專業，忘記了自身的core competence？連core competence也學不好而去借用或鑽研其它的專門學問，會否反而變得不專業？究竟設計教育應該硬將人家的專門學問納入為自己的訓練內容？或是在自身的core competence上尋求精進？還是應改推行跨學科的團隊合作（cross-discipline as a team）？&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm talking about the mindset, not the knowledge. I'm talking about embracing the knowledge, not necessarily possessing it.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23089049-8561090604364127448?l=pchankc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/feeds/8561090604364127448/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23089049&amp;postID=8561090604364127448&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/8561090604364127448'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/8561090604364127448'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2007/06/what-is-design-what-should-it-be.html' title='What is design? What should it be?'/><author><name>ablogaday</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23089049.post-5246589657434446332</id><published>2007-05-31T19:39:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-06-01T01:30:38.274+08:00</updated><title type='text'>從可有可無的graphic designer說起...</title><content type='html'>今午跟同事們吃日本菜，告別同事中唯一的graphic designer（雖然我的背景也是graphic communications，但日常的工作性質已經多是行政管理和教學）。現在剩下的，就只有product designers、fashion designers和automotive engineer。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;我上司的背景是產品設計和汽車設計、具有生意人的腦袋、卻一向不怎樣重視平面傳意設計，以為product designer或fashion designer都可以「順便」執行graphic design的工作。所以每當在銀根短缺的時候，首先想到裁減的往往就是graphic designer。唉...！&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;在我念設計的年代，學校對設計的分類只有平面傳意設計、室內設計、產品設計、時裝設計、及紡織設計。這是由於從前設計項目的複雜性較低，平面設計師的責任亦秉承美勞的傳統，多只集中「形」與「美」等粉飾性功能（這也是到今時今日很多行外人所認定和先入為主的觀念），他可以在作品中注入較多主觀偏好的美術元素。可是隨著時間的改變，設計項目變得越來越複雜。越複雜的設計項目就越須要跨範疇的設計師以隊工形式完成各種繁複的工序。可以這樣說：在今天一個創作概念（譬如廣告），已經很少只會運用在單一種媒體上，所以也鮮有只須要一類設計師便可完成的項目。科技的進步令傳遞信息的媒介不再以平面為主，graphic communications於是要改名為visual communications，涵蓋的範疇闊了就當然要再細分不同的專科，如information design、interface design、web design、typographic design... 若在這些專門上滲入不同的文化和科技上的學問，又可衍生出在傳意設計過程中不同的專門學科，如experience design、emotional design、interactive design、audio-visual design... 由於設計過程變得更加複雜，裡面又牽涉到更加仔細和專門的學問，在過程和隊工中設計師反而應該更加理性、放下一己的ego和喜好、不要動不動便對一些不合自己口味的建議或作品加以批判、當然更不要拿一些以主觀偏好為本的理據來硬要別人來buy in自己的設計取向或方案。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;很多同業或許都有這樣的相似經驗：當設計師的，每每投訴客人只懂無理或主觀地修改自己的設計，壞了自己心目中的好設計。又或設計師同業之間又只懂互相給對方的作品或言論加以批評，不懂設計、壞了設計專業云云。其實設計師的老本行是給設計項目找出問題（identifying the problem）所在，再給該問題「設計出（"design" as a verb and a process）」合適的「設計方案（"design"  as a solution）」。忽略了分析和identifying problem的前半部份，只顧提出大量（不適用）的方案就只會事倍工半。只顧大聲疾呼地提出問題而沒有提供方案的，就更加沒有完成設計師最基本的責任。當然，只為了贏或「唔輸得」而爭論「問題在那裡」或「那一個設計較好」就更加無聊。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Words and works，我想兩者在完整的設計過程都是須要的。Words是前半部份，works則是後本部份。Words是identifying problem所必須的，works就是實幹地為problems設計出適切的方案。Design problem不像mathematical problem般，經過計算後每個problem只有一個solution。Design is both art AND science。一個design problem可以有多個、甚至無盡的design solutions，兼且還可以不斷改善。當你感到口渴時走准7Eleven打開冰櫃看一看，數一數有多少種設計方案給陳列在你的眼前，你便會明白乾在爭論「那一個設計較好」is not the point。&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23089049-5246589657434446332?l=pchankc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/feeds/5246589657434446332/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23089049&amp;postID=5246589657434446332&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/5246589657434446332'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/5246589657434446332'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2007/05/graphic-designer.html' title='從可有可無的graphic designer說起...'/><author><name>ablogaday</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23089049.post-7774619246410796928</id><published>2007-05-09T19:03:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2008-12-13T06:47:48.664+08:00</updated><title type='text'>好久沒有買過詞典</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8K1iih_Uw0A/RkKqq2NOXaI/AAAAAAAAAJI/bswnCXzIg7U/s1600-h/OralCantonesePutonghuaDict.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8K1iih_Uw0A/RkKqq2NOXaI/AAAAAAAAAJI/bswnCXzIg7U/s400/OralCantonesePutonghuaDict.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062796584200068514" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;今天在三聯書店買了它出版的這本字詞典。自從2002年開始，因為工作上開始不時要跟國內的工作伙伴和現在的學生等溝通，須要說普通話和寫中文的電郵，到2005年更寫起網誌來。其間不時遇到的問題，便是一些日常的廣東話在說普通話或寫起書面語/白話文來應該怎樣呢？自己一貫的方法都是多聽國語歌、多看普通話電影、與及多讀國內或是台灣出版的中文書和雜誌，多加留意人家地道的用法。我觀察自己寫網誌時常會有以下的情況：廣東話說「我同你講...」，說普通話時則會說成「我跟你講...」，到書面語時我就會寫成「我跟你說...」，我倒常用上這個「跟」字；又例如普通話和書面語中的「假如」和「假若」，到我說廣東話時都會統統說成「假如」。畢竟這些都是自學的，不知能否真正改善自己說好一點普通話或寫好一點文章。可是今天逛書局時偶然看見這本詞典，收錄了近6,000個口語詞的兩種方言對譯和詳盡的釋義，心想有如「執到寶」，他日兩個女兒也應該受用，有助提升她們的中國語文能力，便馬上將它買下來。正如序言中提及：「一般的詞典，都較重視詞義的尋根溯源，偏重規範化的要求，很少注意到在不斷發展、變動中的語言運用和語言變化。」除此之外，這本詞典更能照顧口語在應用上因語境（context）變化，在不同「意義場（semantic field）」上的用法！稍加留意，你會發現能專以口語為主的詞典在坊間比較少見，叫這本詞典更顯難得。翻了兩翻，已經學懂不少廣東話轉為普通話的實用例子：&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"&gt;一次過交易 ＞ 一錘子買賣&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;一口氣 ＞ 一股勁兒&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;我呢度乜都係一腳踢 ＞ 我這裡甚麼都是一人班的&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;做乜事粒聲唔出 ＞ 幹甚麼一聲不吭&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;二撇雞 ＞ 八字鬍&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;出街食飯 ＞ 下館子&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;水浸眼眉 ＞ 火燒眉毛&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;睇到我眼突突 ＞ 看得我一楞一楞的&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;（還未攪清楚這個「楞」字怎樣讀！）&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;其實已經好久沒有買過字典，因為幾乎甚麼都能在互聯網上免費找到的。我平日常常須要撰寫文件和電郵，字典詞典幾乎是每日都用上的工具，最常用的包括：&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8K1iih_Uw0A/RkKqq2NOXbI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/vlcDMC2H5Sw/s1600-h/YahooToolbar.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8K1iih_Uw0A/RkKqq2NOXbI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/vlcDMC2H5Sw/s400/YahooToolbar.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062796584200068530" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;最「就手」的中英文雙向字典： &lt;a href="http://hk.toolbar.yahoo.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Yahoo!工具列&lt;/a&gt;上的「&lt;a href="http://hk.dictionary.yahoo.com/" target="_blank"&gt;查看字典&lt;/a&gt;」功能，隨時備用，挺方便的！&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;學術味較濃、翻譯較嚴格的漢英詞典：&lt;a href="http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/Lindict" target="_blank"&gt;林語堂漢英詞典&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;一應俱全、英文解釋的字典、同義字和反義字搜尋：&lt;a href="http://www.m-w.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Merriam-Webster Online&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;且怕夠用了吧！？&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;-------------------&lt;br /&gt;【附錄】&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8K1iih_Uw0A/RkKqq2NOXZI/AAAAAAAAAJA/KK7dsd5uzY4/s1600-h/ConciseEngChiDict.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8K1iih_Uw0A/RkKqq2NOXZI/AAAAAAAAAJA/KK7dsd5uzY4/s400/ConciseEngChiDict.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062796584200068498" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;有一本英漢字典，是我多年來的鍾愛：袋裝字典的大小、收錄的字數卻超過十萬、比牛津朗文的都要好要方便、紙張和印刷質素都是上乘 ——《大陸簡明英漢辭典（Continental's Concise English-Chinese Dictionary）》（增訂版袖珍本），大陸書店出版。那是很久很久以前買下的，恐怕現在都很難找到了！&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23089049-7774619246410796928?l=pchankc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/feeds/7774619246410796928/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23089049&amp;postID=7774619246410796928&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/7774619246410796928'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/7774619246410796928'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2007/05/blog-post.html' title='好久沒有買過詞典'/><author><name>ablogaday</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8K1iih_Uw0A/RkKqq2NOXaI/AAAAAAAAAJI/bswnCXzIg7U/s72-c/OralCantonesePutonghuaDict.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23089049.post-175572987525960868</id><published>2007-03-11T23:59:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2008-12-13T06:47:49.291+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Strategic Design for MBA students</title><content type='html'>這個月要跟老闆合教一科跟設計和創新有關的MBA課程，因為要教的這班學生都是兼讀生，加上在即食快餐文化薰淘下連課程設計都以在最短時間之內可讀完學位為賣點，所以要以密集形式在星期六日進行，每天要上課六小時，六日兩天共十二小時，我就是這樣過了之前的兩個周末和周日！也就是說，我自從二月廿六日至今天，就一直沒有停止上班，已經連續十四天了！所以我已經決定在後天給自己放半天假...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8K1iih_Uw0A/RfTDPpMTvYI/AAAAAAAAADY/kN_mT1aOf_U/s1600-h/MBAlecture.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8K1iih_Uw0A/RfTDPpMTvYI/AAAAAAAAADY/kN_mT1aOf_U/s400/MBAlecture.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5040868556457360770" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8K1iih_Uw0A/RfTDPpMTvXI/AAAAAAAAADQ/1BNJOqz2S_M/s1600-h/MBAdiscussion.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8K1iih_Uw0A/RfTDPpMTvXI/AAAAAAAAADQ/1BNJOqz2S_M/s400/MBAdiscussion.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5040868556457360754" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;我一面拍照，一面向滔滔不絕的老闆偷師教學技巧。右圖站著在寫白板的這個學生，帶著個甚麼工程博士學位來念MBA。在第一堂開課前我聽見他在狠批之前上過的另一科Substainable Design，因為「無料到」而棄讀了云云，我聽了未免有點壓力（在消費主義宰制下，現今念書的都像老闆，教書的只像給他們提供服務，何況是念MBA的！？）。六小時後在那天下課的時候，他進前來向我老闆和我說甚有裨益，我才鬆了一口氣！事實上過了四堂後的今天，我和老闆都分別在不同時段和場合聽到了學生的讚賞。一位同學甚至說這一科是她上過各科由設計學院提供的科目中最好的一科！&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8K1iih_Uw0A/RfTDP5MTvZI/AAAAAAAAADg/MGuDZGHYcf4/s1600-h/MBAvisit.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8K1iih_Uw0A/RfTDP5MTvZI/AAAAAAAAADg/MGuDZGHYcf4/s400/MBAvisit.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5040868560752328082" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;課堂除了有講授和小組討論外，還有到東莞和深圳考察。左圖長著鬍子的蘇格蘭裔美國人，其實是我的同事，專責跟海外設計團體聯繫，是為學院打造更高排名的重要一環，閒來也順道兼讀一個碩士。&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23089049-175572987525960868?l=pchankc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/feeds/175572987525960868/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23089049&amp;postID=175572987525960868&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/175572987525960868'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/175572987525960868'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2007/03/strategic-design-for-mba-students.html' title='Strategic Design for MBA students'/><author><name>ablogaday</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8K1iih_Uw0A/RfTDPpMTvYI/AAAAAAAAADY/kN_mT1aOf_U/s72-c/MBAlecture.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23089049.post-6809372775626468150</id><published>2007-02-26T19:53:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2008-12-13T06:47:50.044+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Design... beyond form and aesthetics</title><content type='html'>農曆新年前和上司在九龍塘&lt;a href="http://centralsaintstudent.blogspot.com/2007/01/blog-post_20.html" target="_blank"&gt;InnoCentre&lt;/a&gt;（還是第一次到這裡）共同conduct了一個公開講座，以「設計重塑製造業」為題，向香港的中小企講解和推介如何以設計幫助產品及服務增值。是次講座要幫助他們明白設計不單是用來把東西弄得漂亮而矣，而是可給利用作為創新過程中的重要工具，更希望介紹給他們如何逐步逐步的運用設計來定下策略，開發企劃以設計導向的產品。前者是觀念，後者是方法和步驟（也就是我主講的部份）。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8K1iih_Uw0A/ReLKkwW8Y4I/AAAAAAAAACI/f2DFQ_1tQ44/s1600-h/TalkSignboard.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8K1iih_Uw0A/ReLKkwW8Y4I/AAAAAAAAACI/f2DFQ_1tQ44/s400/TalkSignboard.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5035810066158871426" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8K1iih_Uw0A/ReLKegW8Y3I/AAAAAAAAACA/2r-5vXy24Ro/s1600-h/HKDCseminar.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8K1iih_Uw0A/ReLKegW8Y3I/AAAAAAAAACA/2r-5vXy24Ro/s400/HKDCseminar.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5035809958784689010" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;講座由早上9:30直至下午4:00+，人數不太多但反應不錯，加上今天收到主辦當局告訴我們參加者都感到受用，心內感到安慰，也抵消了當天整日的疲勞。&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23089049-6809372775626468150?l=pchankc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/feeds/6809372775626468150/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23089049&amp;postID=6809372775626468150&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/6809372775626468150'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/6809372775626468150'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2007/02/design-beyond-form-and-aesthetics.html' title='Design... beyond form and aesthetics'/><author><name>ablogaday</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8K1iih_Uw0A/ReLKkwW8Y4I/AAAAAAAAACI/f2DFQ_1tQ44/s72-c/TalkSignboard.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23089049.post-116609600513919027</id><published>2006-12-14T19:31:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-12-14T19:38:38.393+08:00</updated><title type='text'>學期最終課</title><content type='html'>昨晚終於完成這學期的最後一晚課堂！學生一個一個拿著final assignment回來，將它們展示出來⋯&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5234/2359/1600/534351/TypoFTCritique1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5234/2359/400/937789/TypoFTCritique1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5234/2359/1600/294872/TypoPTcritique1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5234/2359/400/678366/TypoPTcritique1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;課堂還未開始，大家便像在參觀字體設計展覽似的。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5234/2359/1600/905319/TypoPTcritique2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5234/2359/400/744667/TypoPTcritique2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;課堂開始，同學必須逐位介紹自己作品背後的設計概念和原則。華人的班房文化往往互相尊重，不會輕易當著人家面前發言給予評論，好讓一會兒輪到自己介紹時也好過一點。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5234/2359/1600/778869/TypoFTcritique2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5234/2359/400/657261/TypoFTcritique2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;作為老師，我當然要逐件作品給予意見，指出當中的好壞、有甚麼應該改善⋯ 可是用英文評論的話，多數同學會寧可走開聊天；若改用中文的話，多一點同學會有興趣靠近前來聽，但便會輪到站在遠處的那位瑞士籍學生不是味兒，唯有自己獨個兒在欣賞同學的作品了。為了更多同學能夠得益，我唯有跟他說句對不起！他曾經跟我說：&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"&gt;「以我們現在的知識，或許仍未有足夠能力設計好一套字體，但這畢竟是每個念Typography的人必須經過的階段啊！」&lt;/span&gt;對，沒有自己親自設計過一套字體，他們還是學不懂對這方寸之間的letterforms有高度的敏感，或如可欣賞他們每天都用著的各種字體，包含著人家的多少心力了。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;晚上睡前，收到同學的一個電郵：&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"&gt;"l would like to thanks for your teaching. It let me gain my sensitivity to typeface design. l have a concept to design a typeface by myself and add to my art work in the future, it is useful. Thank you very much."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;我回覆給他說：&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"&gt;"It is always good to hear &lt;a href="http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2006/01/feedbacks-being-teacher.html" target="_blank"&gt;positive feedbacks from my students&lt;/a&gt;. It encourages me to maintain my belief on how to be a good teacher and continue to be passionate about it."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mmm... 繁重工作還沒有完：要在這幾天將整個學期日夜校兩班同學所有assignments的gradings交回學校，不是一件輕鬆的工作呢！&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23089049-116609600513919027?l=pchankc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/feeds/116609600513919027/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23089049&amp;postID=116609600513919027&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/116609600513919027'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/116609600513919027'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2006/12/blog-post.html' title='學期最終課'/><author><name>ablogaday</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23089049.post-116213732689438086</id><published>2006-10-29T23:50:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-10-30T10:36:25.206+08:00</updated><title type='text'>來自海南的電郵</title><content type='html'>為期十一天帶領碩士生的海南考察之旅終告完成，我也可以鬆一口氣，安心過這三天的假期，待下周開始繼續跟進他們study trip後的design development階段。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;是次海南之行，我們邀請了當地&lt;a href="http://www.hainu.edu.cn" target="_blank"&gt;海南大學&lt;/a&gt;所委派的五位優秀學生與我們同行，一方面他們可作香港學生research時的嚮導，另一方面他們也可體驗香港學生的整個學習過程和方法。結果當中的交流極其寶貴。回港後我將給他們拍的照片電郵給他們，翌日即收到他們的回覆：（請原諒他們在英語文法和串字上的限制）&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/1600/5HainanUstudents.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/400/5HainanUstudents.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;五位海大同學在告別晚宴上逐位分享十日以來的感受。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/1600/HainanStudentsSharing.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/400/HainanStudentsSharing.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;From Jack（正在念MBA的研究生）：&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First of all, I must thank you for inviting us to joined your Hainan workshop. I gaind a lot of new expriences in 10 days.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;Abundant thanks to each one of your patience, expertise and genuine concern. Nothing will be able to erase my ford memories, I will nurture than forever.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;God bless you!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From Lily（正在念世界經濟的研究生）：&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm very happy to receive your letter from HK. Thank you for your photo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is my pleasure to attend the workshop and I really learned a lot in the 10 days. I also hope that I have helped my group members get some useful infromation about their topic. I wish they can do well in the following days.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you for your help in these days and I'm sure you are a good teacher.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From 小丁（來自旅遊系的三年級生）：&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have received your Emai. It's my honour on taking part in the activity.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt; Sure that I do gain much thing form my group members and the tearchers from your school.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt; Thanks very much for the gift and the pictures you sent me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God bless you!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;May you be happy everyday!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From 小孟（正在念室內設計的三年級生）：&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;老師&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;你&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;好：&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;謝謝你，在百忙之中還想著給我寫信，我很高興。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;自從參加了你們的活動以後，我覺得我在思想上提高了很多，正應了古人的一句話「近朱者赤、近墨者黑」呵呵，這個活動讓我受益非淺，謝謝你們。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;最後，祝您：身體健康、工作順利！&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From Mandy（正在念平面設計的二年級生，亦是最投入和主動的一位，當我參加她的一班同學正在進行評論各人海報設計功課的課堂時，她主動要我在眾人面前就她的作品給點意見。結果她的主動給她換來了香港學生珍貴的友誼。她分享說要矢志學好英文，日後來港讀書...）：&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Very happy can attend your workshop, I learned in this period a lot of. You&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt; are all lovely. I've had a delighful time! I'am Sorry My English is very poor. But, I will work hard to study English of! So, If I write wrong please tell me. I also believe that our friendship is eternal. Please give my best regards to your student! Drop in again whenever you have time and remember to look me up if ever you're here. Best wishes to you!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;（過多一天，她再給我寄來一篇中英對照的電郵，英文的部份認真得叫已經回港的香港同學給她改正後再寄給我！）&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;你的學生都太可愛了！我愛她們！總之這次參加你們的工作坊，真是讓我收獲了很多。真希望還有下次的機會啊！所以為了下一次的聚會我要好好學習語言，以便收獲更多美好的回憶！我還想對你說你的妻子很漂亮，女兒也十分可愛，相信&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;你&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;一定有一個幸福的家庭！&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;希望你們工作坊取得圓滿成功，要經常聯系哦！&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I will definitely learn from it. At the current moment, I can only speak and write simple sentences in english, but I hope in the near future I can speak alot more better... In my opinion, I think your student are all too amiableness&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;（她的意思是&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;amiable&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;）&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;, I love them very much. From attending your workshop, I learn alot from joining the group. Thank you again for that. And I hope I will have the opportunity next time. So I can further studyin the next time.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt; Also I want to say your wife is very beautiful, and your daughter is also very lovely. I believe that you certainly have a happy family. And here I want to give my best regards to your family.&lt;br /&gt;I wish your workshop obtains the satisfactory success. Please keep in touch.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Best wish to you!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23089049-116213732689438086?l=pchankc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/feeds/116213732689438086/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23089049&amp;postID=116213732689438086&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/116213732689438086'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/116213732689438086'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2006/10/blog-post_29.html' title='來自海南的電郵'/><author><name>ablogaday</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23089049.post-116133022551979308</id><published>2006-10-19T15:39:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-10-20T15:43:45.536+08:00</updated><title type='text'>海南碩士團</title><content type='html'>到底是「寓工作於旅遊」或是「寓旅遊於工作」？其實我也分不清楚，只知忙著準備了四個月的碩士生策略設計（Strategic Design）工作坊終於在十月初開始了，當中的重頭戲是要帶著20個學生到海南島作study trip，如今就是了！我跟本沒心情也沒空用一種旅遊的心情過日子：或擔心他們的安全、或擔心他們的紀律、或擔心他們帶著代表大學的身份會否影響大學的形像... 一方面要就給他們這十天行程預備好最微少的細節，另一方面又怕影響了他們在做功課上的獨立自主... 當然，念碩士了，不用人家spoon-feed了，我扮演的不過是tutor和facilitator的角色，在tutorials的過程中只集中inspire他們的creativity、囑咐他們stay away from the mistakes、與及引導他們在research、創作和設計過程中on the right track便是了。其實策劃、籌備、和推展這個工作坊本身就正是一個艱巨的設計過程。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/1600/MDesStudents%40HainanUmodel.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/400/MDesStudents%40HainanUmodel.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;20個來自香港、澳門、中國內地、美國、意大利、和菲律賓的莘莘學子，圍著海南大學的模型，驚嘆人家校園的巨大和優美。當然，急劇現代化下的中國其中一個特色，便是有最好的硬件，配上完全不相稱的軟件...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;文化的差異和膚色語言的不同，往往使來自歐美的同學份外矚目。坐在左面最前的這學生，是來自美國芝加哥的一位外科手術醫生，學習態度很認真，比任何人都愛發問。高舉相機的是來自意大利的大男孩，努力學著半咸半淡的中文，頑皮得來也常逗得同學們哄堂大笑。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/1600/MDesStudents%40Briefing.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/400/MDesStudents%40Briefing.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/1600/Tutorial%40GolfClubCourtyard.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/400/Tutorial%40GolfClubCourtyard.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;晚上在房間外的courtyard不是聊天，是教授和我正替他們逐組作tutorial，跟進他們就這次study trip如何計劃和執行自己所訂下的research plans。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/1600/MDesStudents%40beach.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/400/MDesStudents%40beach.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;都累了嗎？讓我帶你們來一所剛開張幾天的五星級酒店旁的沙灘躺一躺、享受一下海風吧！唔... 如果太太和兩個女兒加上爸媽都來了你說多好！&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;順道推介一下：由香港飛過來海南島不過一小時。這裡水清沙幼的沙灘多的是，兼且絕不會人頭擁擁，空氣更被聯合國世界衛生組織（WHO）評為全中國一二線城市中的第一！加上消費便宜，我認為比港人最愛到的曼谷或芭堤雅好得多呢！&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23089049-116133022551979308?l=pchankc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/feeds/116133022551979308/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23089049&amp;postID=116133022551979308&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/116133022551979308'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/116133022551979308'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2006/10/blog-post.html' title='海南碩士團'/><author><name>ablogaday</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23089049.post-115968803042410205</id><published>2006-09-28T23:59:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-10-01T15:33:50.440+08:00</updated><title type='text'>孺子可教</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/1600/BAAMA-TypoFT1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/400/BAAMA-TypoFT1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/1600/BAAMA-TypoFT3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/400/BAAMA-TypoFT3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/1600/BAAMA-TypoFT4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/400/BAAMA-TypoFT4.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Full attendance, full submission of assignments -- this is the least you can do as responsible students, and all of you had done it! Congratulations, my students, both the full-time class and the part-time class! What you did is an encouragement to me indeed!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/1600/BAAMA-TypoFT2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/400/BAAMA-TypoFT2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23089049-115968803042410205?l=pchankc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/feeds/115968803042410205/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23089049&amp;postID=115968803042410205&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/115968803042410205'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/115968803042410205'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2006/09/blog-post_28.html' title='孺子可教'/><author><name>ablogaday</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23089049.post-115764989663271367</id><published>2006-09-07T23:58:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-09-08T01:24:56.646+08:00</updated><title type='text'>再執教鞭</title><content type='html'>今天&lt;a href="http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2005/09/1st-day-of-typography-class.html" target="_blank"&gt;又開始了當兼職講師的日子&lt;/a&gt;，六個小時幾乎都是站著的課堂，不要說不累呢！但若果累能帶來&lt;a href="http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2006/01/feedbacks-being-teacher.html" target="_blank"&gt;好的回應&lt;/a&gt;和親眼&lt;a href="http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2005/11/blog-post.html" target="_blank"&gt;看見學生的成長&lt;/a&gt;，這種辛勞還是挺值得的。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;今個學期教上三班共兩科，每星期會用去我九小時（還未計附帶要處理有關行政事務的時間！），是正式當教學以來最多一次了！如此又要忙足四個月了...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23089049-115764989663271367?l=pchankc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/feeds/115764989663271367/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23089049&amp;postID=115764989663271367&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/115764989663271367'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/115764989663271367'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2006/09/blog-post_07.html' title='再執教鞭'/><author><name>ablogaday</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23089049.post-115709108231251306</id><published>2006-09-01T14:05:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-09-01T16:58:43.950+08:00</updated><title type='text'>視像與文字</title><content type='html'>曾經是我老師的&lt;a href="http://blog.phoenixtv.com/user1/liangwendao/archives/2006/312624.html" target="_blank"&gt;梁文道今天這樣寫&lt;/a&gt;：&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"&gt;「在這個世界，視像先於文字；只有那看不見的，我們才無&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"&gt;助地乞靈於字。」&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;視像的普及，正以前所未有的速度企圖追趕文字作為人類主要傳達訊息的媒介。香港人猶其在華語社會裡算是閱讀能力最低的一群，長一點的文章已經沒甚耐性去讀完它，這亦是為甚麼香港雜誌內的文章其實不是文章，只是圖片說明，怪不得編輯的精力都放到製造新聞去...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;我們愛取視像的即時與繽紛，也愛它沒有對文盲的歧視，更愛它完全切合後現代的文化：視像每每處於客觀之中給你任意詮釋。「每張照片背後總有一個故事」麻！你有你的解釋，我有我的想像。所以狗仔隊拍回來的照片我要怎樣排列先後次序和編寫說明都可以。現在連不少DVDs也具備了這個bonus feature，歡迎你也來嘗試將影片的影像重新剪接，重新構作屬於自己的故事。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;隨著攝影和印刷技術的不斷改善，造就了無孔不入的媒體和廣告可用上「比真實更真實」和「比真實更美麗」的超巨型視像來擄掠了城市的消費者。香港這個大都會（metropolis）就正是這樣一個徹頭徹尾的「媒體都會（media-polis）」。（註一）我們都被這「超真實（hyper-real）」的視像世界迷住的同時，購買慾也被暗暗地打造出來... 更難得現在時興說消費才能幫助香港的經濟發展，吝嗇的不消費幾乎變成了罪！&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/1600/IceCream%40MTR.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/400/IceCream%40MTR.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5829/1282/1600/CausewayBayAds.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5829/1282/400/CausewayBayAds.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;巨型廣告充塞著城市，沒留下方寸，陶造我們變成「慾望機器（desiring machines）」。（註二）&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;我讀平面設計出身，工作都是圍繞講求怎樣以各種視像的手法傳達訊息和意義，照這樣幹活超過二十年，大概也知道視像的威力和限制。然而或許因為&lt;a href="http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2005/10/blog-post.html" target="_blank"&gt;我終歸不是一個出色的平面設計師&lt;/a&gt;，把玩視像的能力有限，終歸到了這把年紀居然想到要回歸文字，乞靈於文字。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;然而我越是寫，越是發現文字其實都能給我們極大和很不同的想像空間。一首詩、一首詞，短短幾十個字居然可以叫人遊走於無限的默想世界！拿一個熱門的反面例子：描寫阿嬌更衣的標題和文字，相信比偷拍回來的相片更不道德。君不見目下八卦雜誌的封面標題已經到了無可再露骨的地步嗎？一張圖片可叫全城震怒，甚至&lt;a href="http://news.pchome.com.tw/entertainment/udn/20060829/index-20060829022810031247.html" target="_blank"&gt;令一本雜誌停刊&lt;/a&gt;，然而極盡低俗猥褻的文字卻惹不來二三千宗的投訴！&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;現在我的工作，寫的比畫的多得很，但昨晚我也技癢了！看見新一代設計師花了整個星期（兼且態度是懶懶散散的）還是沒法畫好幾張創意圖，我便將忙著要寫的簡報書閣在一旁，花了幾個小時製作了兩張創意畫稿，且看今天老闆會否採用，但又會否「撈過界」沒給兩位同事面子呢？&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;註一：Petco, C. "Media-polis/media-city" in Leach, N. (ed.) (2002), &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The Hieroglyphics of Space: Reading and experiencing the modern metropolis, &lt;/span&gt;p.281-288. London: Routledge.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;註二：Deleuze, G. &amp; Guattari, F. (1977), &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, &lt;/span&gt;p.1. New York: Viking.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23089049-115709108231251306?l=pchankc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/feeds/115709108231251306/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23089049&amp;postID=115709108231251306&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/115709108231251306'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/115709108231251306'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2006/09/blog-post.html' title='視像與文字'/><author><name>ablogaday</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23089049.post-115571607810824447</id><published>2006-08-16T16:13:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-08-16T20:35:40.340+08:00</updated><title type='text'>我在「海豹」的日子</title><content type='html'>偶爾來到一個&lt;a href="http://allaboutcomics.blogspot.com" target="_blank"&gt;專講漫畫的網誌&lt;/a&gt;，評論極為詳盡，實在少見！真佩服版主的資料搜集功夫。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;版主在&lt;a href="http://allaboutcomics.blogspot.com/2006/01/jpga.html" target="_blank"&gt;其中一篇&lt;/a&gt;提到「海豹叢書」在香港漫畫界的經典地位，叫我想起自己廿多年前還在念美術設計時曾經在「海豹叢書」的出版社當過暑期工，有很多深刻的片段可跟你分享：&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"&gt;雖然當時這份暑期工月薪只有HK$1,000，可說不太理想，但因那是第一份工作跟美術設計有直接關係，我那時已經是念設計升二年級，不想再像之前在新蒲崗的工廠做包裝，所以還是選擇做了。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"&gt;因著工作接觸了一大堆經典名字，我較喜愛的有極度爆笑的《劍道好小子》上杉鐵兵（比鳥山明的《IQ博士》不遑多讓）、望月三起也的《七金剛》和《神鎗飛鷹》、還有《釣魚手》的細緻畫工都令人印象深刻。手塚治虫和藤子不二雄的作品雖然都是經典，但始終不是自己那杯茶。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"&gt;由於日本版漫畫跟海豹的中文版厚薄不同（一本日本版幾乎等如兩本中文版），所以日本版的封面不夠中文版的用，出版社便要自行繪製更多封面給中文版用，那就是我日常部份的工作。我最喜愛畫的是望月三起也的《神鎗飛鷹》，最討厭的當然就是要我男人老狗要來畫《小甜甜》的封面了！&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"&gt;當時有兩份很風行，專刊連載漫畫（包括《中華英雄》）的日報，其中一份侵權刊載《男組》，但由於海豹正式擁有《男組》的版權，我親耳聽著老闆打電話給那報館，要求他們停載，那是我首次接觸甚麼叫「知識產權」...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"&gt;由於侵權出版的日本漫畫太多，老闆派我到紅磡火車總站的貨倉上班。那裡存滿了大堆大堆的盜版日本漫畫，我和幾個警察叔叔一起負責對照原裝日本版和盜版的中文版《男組》、《愛與誠》、《七金剛》、《漂流教室》... 你由那幾頁翻我的那幾頁，全都要寫下來... 我便是這樣看完了整套《愛與誠》和幾套名著，還恨不得將我最愛的望月三起也作品都收藏起來，奈何警察叔叔不容我，他說每一本每一頁都是起訴盜版商的證據...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"&gt;出版社裡面有幾位肥版美少女專負責將翻譯了的中文對白貼在日本對白上，好製作中文版付印。有一段時間她們常常都「失驚無神」爆笑起來，原來她們在貼《IQ博士》漫畫（那時卡通片還未在香港播放）裡的對白...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"&gt;美少女們每天都在貼呀貼呀，試過大意將在望月三起也《神鎗飛鷹》的爆破聲音「轟」錯貼了放屁聲音「砵」！&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"&gt;那個時代幾乎每個少年人都夢想過當漫畫家。我見過一位十歲未滿的小男孩，拿著自己畫在算術簿格仔紙上的作品闖上來出版社，跟老闆說要找份工作，將來要當漫畫家...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;每個土生土長，由兩歲到四五十歲的香港人，都無可避免地接觸過日本漫畫和有自己的至愛，以上的便是我所記得的零碎片段，也算是港人集體記憶的一部份。&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23089049-115571607810824447?l=pchankc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/feeds/115571607810824447/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23089049&amp;postID=115571607810824447&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/115571607810824447'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/115571607810824447'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2006/08/blog-post.html' title='我在「海豹」的日子'/><author><name>ablogaday</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23089049.post-115563033616492795</id><published>2006-08-15T16:20:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-08-15T16:25:36.176+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Suggest a title</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/1600/HangingClothes.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/400/HangingClothes.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;我想起廿多年前跟爸媽歐遊，媽媽大讚歐洲到處景色優美，其中她的一個有趣發現，是人家只會在窗戶前栽著各式各樣的花朵，不會用來涼衫。香港人嗎...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;聽說建築設計是可以shape人的behaviour的...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23089049-115563033616492795?l=pchankc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/feeds/115563033616492795/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23089049&amp;postID=115563033616492795&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/115563033616492795'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/115563033616492795'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2006/08/suggest-title.html' title='Suggest a title'/><author><name>ablogaday</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23089049.post-115770288650204287</id><published>2006-07-05T18:02:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-09-08T16:08:06.520+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Feedbacks to a tutor</title><content type='html'>In the last 3 months I've tutoring a group of students who worked on the subject of Experimental Workshop. Now the semester has ended and this is some feedbacks they gave when they fill-in the Student Feedback Questionnaire (SFQ):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"&gt;1. What aspect(s) of the teaching is/are helpful to your learning?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"&gt;• Teaching me how to think experimentally. Patrick is a great tutor. He always gives me useful advice during tutorial. I know he is full-hearted on this subject, because he always sends us e-mail to remind us the date of assignment submission.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"&gt;• The subject seems useless to our future working. However, the teacher is professional in teaching which help us a lot in our development and learning.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"&gt;2. How might the teaching be improved to help you learn better?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"&gt;• The teaching of Patrick is perfect, he actively understand our project flow and the topic.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now I'm encouraged. Thanks to my students!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23089049-115770288650204287?l=pchankc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/feeds/115770288650204287/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23089049&amp;postID=115770288650204287&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/115770288650204287'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/115770288650204287'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2006/07/feedbacks-to-tutor.html' title='Feedbacks to a tutor'/><author><name>ablogaday</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23089049.post-114776705685423026</id><published>2006-05-16T16:09:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-05-16T16:10:56.866+08:00</updated><title type='text'>中國文化扼殺創意思維？</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/1600/cover.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/400/cover.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;最新一期&lt;a href="http://www.mingpaomonthly.com" target="_blank"&gt;《明報月刊》&lt;/a&gt;的cover story是「中國崛起」的反思，提到一位叫&lt;a href="http://www.rlynn.co.uk"&gt;Richard Lynn&lt;/a&gt;的邊緣學者，他&lt;a href="http://www.mingpaomonthly.com/cfm/Archive2.cfm?File=200605/feature/01a.txt" target="_blank"&gt;認為&lt;/a&gt;東亞人（包括中國人）智商其實最高，只是中國自古以來都在亞洲一國獨大，不用像小國臨立的歐洲國家般跟鄰國競爭，所以不重視激發創新思維。他又評論中國傳統文化和教育注重灌輸已有的知識和培養循規蹈矩的聽話者，而非標奇立異的創新，凡此種種，加上過去僵化的經濟制度就更加令高智商的中國人無法發揮創意... 但是自從中國實行市場經濟，中國人的智慧就得到解放，所以注定中國在本世紀崛起，取代西方的領導地位云云...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;你贊同嗎？&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23089049-114776705685423026?l=pchankc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/feeds/114776705685423026/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23089049&amp;postID=114776705685423026&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/114776705685423026'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' 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src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/400/VannevarBUSH.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;文字用傳統方法印在書本上，缺點是視覺上「悶蛋」（「The more uninteresting a letter, the more useful it is to the typographer.」∼Piet Zwart, 1924），要求讀者要專注。但這其實是跟大多數人思想的方法是不同的：大多數人的思想方法是一如前美國總統羅斯福的科學顧問&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar_Bush" target="_blank"&gt;Vannevar Bush&lt;/a&gt;所提出的跳躍性思巧方式：我們從事物A聯想到事物B、再聯想到事物C... 這些ABC都是我們所曾接觸過、認識過的。所謂「認識過」，是指它們每件事都有我們對它獨立的聯想（association of thoughts）；而我們對一件事物的了解，是看我們對它有一個怎麼樣的聯想系統，從而建構出我們對該事物的整體認知。就用「設計」來舉例：&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);"&gt;從arts &amp; crafts傳統出來的設計人對「設計」這概念會有這樣的聯想：&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;設計&gt;藝術&gt;美術&gt;技法&gt;師傅話&gt;左試右試&gt;氣勢&gt;型唔型&gt;出唔出&gt;Photoshop filters&gt;look &amp; feel&gt;無需用太多理性&gt;乜話，research?唔係呀嘛！&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bauhaus式設計人則會有這樣的聯想：&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);"&gt;設計&gt;problem-solving&gt;form follow function&gt;analysis&gt;user experience&gt;ethnographic research&gt;solution seeking...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;（其實應該用蜘蛛網式的mind maps來展示這種非線性（non-linear）、跳躍性思巧方式和聯想比較適合。這便是文字和現時web technology的限制了！）&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vannevar Bush這種argument後來被Ted Nelson發揚光大，開創了hypertext，以至更能模仿人類的跳躍性思巧方式...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;但傳統地將知識「排列」在書本上並非沒有好處，因為作者正正可以利用這種媒介的線性傳達（linear communication of information and knowledge）特點，鋪排他要傳達的東西。不錯，它就是要阻止讀者作一些不必要的聯想，並透過作者主導的鋪排，帶領讀者投入自己的思想進路和世界。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;設計學生或許有一種天賦的反叛特質，總愛不依既定模式來思巧（不錯，這便是創意嘛！），但每每在不適當的時候不專注、隨意聯想和跳躍（並且批評人家的東西「悶蛋」，引至我無法專注和提起學習興趣）。或許身為設計人，我們應當重新思考在學習和approach整個設計流程的時候，甚麼時候應該專注，甚麼地方則可以天馬行空，讓創意和想像力踴躍...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23089049-114414496708572788?l=pchankc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23089049.post-114266638514521099</id><published>2006-03-18T15:18:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-03-18T15:19:45.170+08:00</updated><title type='text'>設計與謊話</title><content type='html'>我最初所接受的設計訓練是「傳達設計」，英文叫graphic communications，意思是用平面設計的方法來傳達一些訊息。和畫家作畫一樣，設計師在平面上往往不會滿足於將要傳遞的訊息平鋪直敘的展示出來，因為在品評一份傳達設計的好與壞，除了美感之外，還要看被傳達訊息的有效性（強弱），受眾能否完全將訊息接收等，這些都是設計師的功力所在。因此，設計師在鋪排訊息時，總會對要傳達的訊息透過平面設計裡的大小、顏色、強弱等對比、韻律、文字、圖案或相片設計等方法，將資料按其重要性篩選一番，並給予最適合的處理方法。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;較重視社會責任的設計師，在設計的過程中或會留意自己作品所流露的道德價值。某些設計師會避免觸及社會上的一些禁忌，另一些則或會認為只要達到傳達訊息的目的，會挺而走險以這些禁忌為喚起觀眾的注意和話題的工具。在展示女性的胴體正是一個典型被挑戰的界線。甚麼是美？甚麼是自然？甚麼是色情？從來都是爭論不休的。我想起多年前本地一家手電網絡供應商一向崇尚頗另類或「去盡」的廣告風格。一次他們刊登了一款全版報紙廣告，是以一張女仕穿迷李裙的下身照片為主。照片中女模特兒的下身是坐著的，然而因為她的一雙大腿是合起來的，所以沒有「走光」。雖然如此一張照片不一定會叫人想入非非，但廣告的標語卻是「任你上」！這廣告的意思是要吸引人帶手機號碼上台，但其visual能不激起一眾男士們的性幻想嗎？這廣告當天即惹來不少婦女組職的投訴，亦不再見它第二天在媒體出現了... 這麼一個廣告，說明了做創意／傳達訊息的人跟接收訊息的群體在價值和觀點上的矛盾，而這種矛盾正是訊息能否被正確和有效地傳達的過程必須要處理的問題。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;設計師的觀點一被加進作品中，要傳達的訊息也隨著不再客觀。嚴重一點來說，要傳達、被&lt;a href="http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2005/09/representation.html" target="_blank"&gt;呈現&lt;/a&gt;的訊息可以說某程度上是被扭曲了。可是，現實上這種主觀似乎是無可避免的了，或者可以這樣說：根本從來就沒有客觀這回事！然而，主觀地傳達訊息跟「鑒硬來」或甚至說謊之間，可能只差一綫！&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;多年前一位來我舊公司當暑期工的美少女問過我一個這樣的問題：「你們在設計一些售賣樓盤的書刊上，應客人的要求，將一些地形比例刻意地改變了（目的是讓該樓盤看起來較接近市中心，使讀者相信交通不是一個問題！），這算刻意誤導或欺騙讀者嗎？」&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;一個教會的弟兄又常以說笑的口吻這樣評論我們行內當圖片修復（photo-retouching）工作的行家們：「你們這些做假相的！不是嗎？那些美白廣告、那些瘦身廣告的照片不是全都是假的嗎？模特兒真人的皮膚和身段根本不是那麼完美，是你們透過電腦矇騙了讀者。」&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;是否我這當設計的，其實每天都在用不同的技巧說著不同的謊話？當畫家可不必理會這道德責任，因他的作品是極其個人的，從來就不必向誰交待。但當設計的，尤其是傳達訊息的，怎樣才可順利走過這鋼線呢？抑或這是&lt;a href="http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2006/02/blog-post.html" target="_blank"&gt;前陣子提過&lt;/a&gt;如Zygmunt Bauman所說，是文明社會現代化、事事仔細分工過程的必然表現呢？人人手中所作的，縱然宏觀來說，這個大系統的結果可能有道德價值的問題，但只要獨立來看自己所負責的工序，工作細則和內容本身都沒有觸犯道德便可以了。如此，盡力畫好樓盤裡的交通地圖、盡力將充滿缺陷的模特兒身體和皮膚修復至完美、盡力做好在投注站的teller工作、盡力幫老闆在客人面前把白色大話講得更完美，不然不是一個好秘書、盡力將「謆稿」寫至完美，替廣告商在新產品測試中推介滯銷的產品、盡力做好黑社會的打手工作、盡力準時將猶太人送到集中營、盡力滿足要滅殺他們的數量要求（不然集中營便要爆滿了）... 看來這些都沒問題吧！&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23089049-114266638514521099?l=pchankc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/feeds/114266638514521099/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23089049&amp;postID=114266638514521099&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/114266638514521099'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/114266638514521099'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2006/03/blog-post.html' title='設計與謊話'/><author><name>ablogaday</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23089049.post-114123014302268420</id><published>2006-03-02T00:17:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-03-02T00:22:23.030+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Teaching tangible and intangble knowledge</title><content type='html'>西方的現代化教育（包括設計教育）愛將腦袋裡面每樣認識的東西分拆成一小件一小件有形的（tangible）知識，並將之系統化專門化，好方便知識的傳遞與檢討。很多時我們會誤以為有了資訊（information）便是有了知識（knowledge），更遑論怎樣將知識轉化成智慧（wisdom）。但知識、學問和智慧其實最終要被還完成intangible，embed入我們的腦袋（甚至是潛意識）內，這些知識對學習者才不算「死記」、「強記」或依書直說，乃達至一種融匯貫通，像本能一樣的反映和運用出來。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;有時我看傳統的師徒制雖多是「知其然卻不知其所以然」，但往往能將知識、學問和智慧原原本本地保持其intangible的狀態，由師傅的腦袋傳至徒弟的腦袋裡。我看這是現代化教育方式所面對最頭痛的難題。對我來說，這仍然是一個奧秘！&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23089049-114123014302268420?l=pchankc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/feeds/114123014302268420/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23089049&amp;postID=114123014302268420&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/114123014302268420'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/114123014302268420'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2006/03/teaching-tangible-and-intangble.html' title='Teaching tangible and intangble knowledge'/><author><name>ablogaday</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23089049.post-114106249321415665</id><published>2006-02-28T01:30:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-02-28T01:48:13.223+08:00</updated><title type='text'>中國文化點睇創意？</title><content type='html'>中國儒家思想不嬲都鼓勵人學效古人多過自己創新。睇「修身、齊家、治國、平天下」呢個先後次序，你就知創意唔知要排到第幾。到滿清年代考試仲係考緊「扑扑齋」詩詞歌賦之類既野。設計創意不嬲都俾古人睇為一D功利同手作野，無社會地位不特止，佢係咪帶比你名成利就呢D野更加係儒家不屑一談既話題，反而做死一世窮畫家窮書生，人地先會話你有風骨，讚你「不為五斗米折腰」（不過我地香港既設計人就肯為兩斗米折腰）...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;或者可以咁講，係中國人眼中反而欣賞你識抄：呢，學書法都係從「臨摹」開始架嘛！唔係中國畫點解畫左幾千年都係山水花鳥同松竹梅？&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;「創意」唔多唔少都係響西方高舉個人主義既文化推波助瀾先至得以發揚光大，我地中國人反而比較輕視個人，樣樣野話要以大局為重丫嘛！你講個人、講獨特，聽入儒家既耳裡面反而有種negative connotation, sounds like自私，聽入馬列主義者既耳裡面就好似反動，再加埋十年既文化大革命洗禮，乜鬼野有文化有創意既野都洗到乾乾淨淨！&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;香港雖然政治上同大陸有好多唔同，但係文化傳統價值呢D野就一脈相承，唔係咁易改到。&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23089049-114106249321415665?l=pchankc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/feeds/114106249321415665/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23089049&amp;postID=114106249321415665&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/114106249321415665'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/114106249321415665'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2006/02/blog-post_28.html' title='中國文化點睇創意？'/><author><name>ablogaday</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23089049.post-114103675380601818</id><published>2006-02-23T18:34:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-02-27T18:39:13.810+08:00</updated><title type='text'>開卷有益</title><content type='html'>近日讀著看著的書多極了：&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;有前陣子買下的，Malcolm Gladwell的&lt;a href="http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2006/01/blog-post.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Blink&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;（直覺思維，叫人大開眼界！但每說一個論點都略嫌太長篇大論...）、&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;有在新一期《時代》雜誌與Rick Warren等並列為&lt;a href="http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101050207" target="_blank"&gt;美國廿五位最有影響力的福音派基督徒&lt;/a&gt;，J I Packer的經典 &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/083081650X/002-5633028-6623218?v=glance&amp;n=283155" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Knowing God&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;（中譯巴刻的《認識神》，對我來說是重讀，仍然受用！）、&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;有為自己教學裝備用的Alex Fung, Alice Lo及Mamata N Rao的&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Creative Tools&lt;/span&gt;（不是徒有精緻裝楨設計的外表，內容都蠻有insights和趣味！）、&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;有舊同學送的《城市文化論壇2004香港會議報告》（香港、深圳、上海、和台北四個城市的文化人、政府官員、學者、傳媒人、商人、和藝術家齊集香港三天，以「牌品·品牌」為題，討論city branding的課題，每篇報告略嫌太短，未夠深入，但偶爾仍有些good points。）、&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;剛從圖書館借來，殿堂級社會學家Zygmunt Bauman的&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0801487196/sr=8-1/qid=1140683570/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-5633028-6623218?%5Fencoding=UTF8" target="_blank"&gt;Modernity and the holocaust&lt;/a&gt;（中譯&lt;a href="http://202.130.245.40/chinese/RS/162919.htm" target="_blank"&gt;《現代性與大屠殺》&lt;/a&gt;，讀著這位猶太裔學者得獎作品的首章，不難察覺他實懷著極為悲痛的心情寫這書，將早被邊緣化的納粹大屠殺重新闡釋，論述為文明社會現代化、事事仔細分工過程的極端（還幾乎是必然的）表現，叫我驚覺我們所處身的現代和後現代社會，不單要給那資本主義、消費主義、個人主義等多加提防，原來還有那麼多的黑暗面，與及人離棄神後可以墮落到怎樣的地步！各位，在你想著要怎樣在自己的工作上做好本份和追求卓越之前，請聽聽包曼的分析。）、&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;我平日看書和讀經的時間，不外乎在上落班等車和車上、在等候午飯的時候、和偶爾在睡覺前的一會，想不到多年來也可以看了比想像中多很多書的！感謝神，雖然生活上很多事情都難盡如人意，但祂每天仍給我的心靈和腦袋餵得飽飽的。（哈！看完讀完那麼多，這些寫下來的blogs大概是消化後的「便便」吧！）&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;今早在巴士也看見一位蒼蒼白髮的婆婆也在讀一本有關著名音樂家的書。我頓覺人生到此仍孜孜不倦，知識的吸引力果真是有韌力：物質享受或許在婆婆年輕時曾經產生很大的吸引力，但現在似乎唯有精神食量才能叫她有充實和飽足的感覺...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23089049-114103675380601818?l=pchankc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/feeds/114103675380601818/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23089049&amp;postID=114103675380601818&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/114103675380601818'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/114103675380601818'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2006/02/blog-post.html' title='開卷有益'/><author><name>ablogaday</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23089049.post-114103638947815006</id><published>2006-02-17T18:24:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-02-27T18:33:09.480+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Operacy</title><content type='html'>現在當老師的，除了要教學生有關學科上的知識，還要教他們處世之道，例如要苦口婆心地勸他們上課不要遲到要抓緊時間做功課... 無他，都是想他們不要在校園浪費大好的青春。念大學不像念中小學（猶其是念設計的），並不是一天到晚都在課堂上聽老師授課，而是有很多時間給自己自修、創作、實驗、求證等。但往往每星期過後，你還是看不見他們的功課有多大進展時，你便會希奇他們每天在學校的時間是如何過的了。說實際點，你會擔心他們在學期末交些甚麼質素的東西給你；矛盾的是，你為他們擔心的，他們自己在這刻還未懂得擔心...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;昨天寫了一封電郵給自己的學生，因為要說的頗長，長一點的英文電郵他們是沒有能耐看完的，所以破例來一封中文的，目的還不過是要苦口婆心的勸他們要抓緊時間為功課計劃得好一點吧了。在這裡節錄一部份給大家分享：&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;我明白大家正在為要將這學期要做的project以文字（還要用英文！）寫出來（還要是以proposal的麻煩格式！）而頭痛，所以才寄出那封電郵。或多或少大家都想迴避這項工作，這是我看得出來的。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;Operacy這個字是我再次從思想訓練家Edward de Bono那裡借來的，我這裡嘗試將它翻譯成「實行」，因為它主要指到有關「做的能力或能耐（the skill of "doing"）」。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;談到藝術家或設計師，一般人都自然地聯想到他們是天生一些有創意的人，能造出一些創新的作品。假若我們仔細研究一件藝術品或設計成品的誕生過程，其實牽涉了「創見」、「創意」、「創造」和「創新」。（註）&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;從事設計或藝術的人，往往對事物能有一些新&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;的或不同的看法，從一般人看不見的事物上發掘出新意；意思就是他們能夠從一般人意想不到的角度來看我們這個世界和其中的事物，這就是「創見（creative insight）」，畢加索和梵高的畫便是好例子了。就著這種嶄新的洞見，藝術家便想出一些新的方法來表達（reflect/express）他所看見的，設計師也想出新方法來解決一些困難（problem solving）或改善這個世界及其中的東西（design for a better world）。這就是藝術家和設計師將「創意（creativity/creative ideas）」放進他打算做的作品上，將抽象的「創見」轉化成具體的artifact。但注意，他們是如何將「創意」發揮，變成一件實實在在可供人們欣賞、反思或使用的成品呢？就是要經過「創造（create/creation）」的過程了。一件創造完成的成品，才配得人家讚賞是一件富有創意的「作品（work）」、「創作」或是一項「創新（innovation）」。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;這裡我想大家多加注意的是：沒有「創造」，再好的「創見」或「創意」，都只不過是一個概&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;念，紙上談兵，不會成為一項「創新」。是甚麼成全「創造」的呢？就是「實行（operacy）」了！所以我們想要從事藝術創作或設計，不單要學怎樣想（think），還要學怎樣實行，而thinking跟doing/action主要的分別，是後者沒有了前者的天馬行空和「想怎樣便怎樣」的自由，反而要事事回到現實，與及必須運用很多已有的做事方式，特別在與人溝通方面，更要考慮到人家能否接收到你想說甚麼。這個亦是為甚麼我們開始這個project之前，要求大家要寫proposal。給大家指引的意思，是取自現行一般人能夠明&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;白和選擇的溝通和記錄方式，亦幫助自己清楚地說明project的背景、目的（大方向）和目標（可量度的）、表現形式（execution/deliverables）、與及layout出project如何進度和時間的運用等。這些看來繁覆的步驟，也就是幫助我們規劃「創造」的過程，藉著它將「創見」和「創意」實現出來的那樣東西，也就正是上面所講的operacy，the skill of doing。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;給你一張地圖，在其中找一處目的地要求你往那裡去，是容易不過的事情，因為通往那目的地的道路都在地圖上清楚說明了。但在現實生活中大部份的事情都不像地圖般有完備的資料提供給你，就好像一副不完整的puzzle一樣，有很多missing pieces，要你想辦法figure out。要figure out便非要operacy不可了。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;在今次這個project中，要將你的ideas實現出來，你無可避免地要運用operacy來解決人的問題（像我作為tutor的質詢或其他同學的批評）、來取捨、來決定&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;優先次序、來&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;釐清目標、來設計project進展的步驟和策略、來嘗試、來修補、來估計、來創造... 當中你會遇見很多情況需要你堅持、讓步、討價還價、辯論、求證、爭取、犧牲... 這些就是這個project的實驗性所在，這些都要你運用你的operacy，做的能耐，來過關斬將，你最後的作品才得以實現。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/1600/HandDrawn%20Experimental.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/400/HandDrawn%20Experimental.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;這個學期我負責的科目是「實驗工作坊」，&lt;br /&gt;我自己的目標是希望能幫助各同學透過自己所選的課題作一些新的嘗試，&lt;br /&gt;操練創意，突破自己的限制。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;（圖片來自&lt;a href="http://www.posttypography.com/alphabet" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.posttypography.com/alphabet&lt;/a&gt;）&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;懶得去思想的人，不要奢望自己的作品會神蹟地具備上好的質素，並拿得好成績。不錯，假若你這樣也拿得好成績，除非是意外或真是神蹟吧！不然，我只會預見你眼巴巴看著時間由慢慢到快快地飛逝，落後於其&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;他同學的進度。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;註：有關「創見」、「創意」、「創造」和「創新」四個概念，其實是拜讀蕭競聰曾在某報紙刊載的一篇文章，可是已經忘記了準確的出處了。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23089049-114103638947815006?l=pchankc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/feeds/114103638947815006/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23089049&amp;postID=114103638947815006&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/114103638947815006'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/114103638947815006'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2006/02/operacy.html' title='Operacy'/><author><name>ablogaday</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23089049.post-114106289440642408</id><published>2006-02-10T01:52:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-02-28T01:54:54.406+08:00</updated><title type='text'>What is research?</title><content type='html'>Research is the collection of information about a particular subject, aiming for a more thorough understanding of that subject.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Research is not aimless. It has a target.&lt;br /&gt;It looks at the target from every possible way.&lt;br /&gt;It looks at the target from every impossible way.&lt;br /&gt;It looks at the target what is considered the correct way.&lt;br /&gt;It looks at the target what is considered the wrong way.&lt;br /&gt;By research we know what IS our target.&lt;br /&gt;By research we know what IS NOT our target.&lt;br /&gt;By research we KNOW more about our target.&lt;br /&gt;By research we know we do not KNOW our target.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Research is endless.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23089049-114106289440642408?l=pchankc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/feeds/114106289440642408/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23089049&amp;postID=114106289440642408&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/114106289440642408'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/114106289440642408'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2006/02/what-is-research.html' title='What is research?'/><author><name>ablogaday</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23089049.post-114106365862144355</id><published>2006-02-01T23:03:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-02-28T02:07:38.623+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Constructive thinking</title><content type='html'>我們這一代，給意見的已經習慣了用批判式的口吻來給予意見，聽意見的亦已習慣了第一時間為自己和自己的作品辯護... 讀一讀Edward de Bono的&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Six Thinking Hats&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.twbookmark.com/books/62/0316177911/chapter_excerpt9537.html"&gt;第一章&lt;/a&gt;，你或會更明白為何我們今天會有這種以辯論為本，卻未必對創意有利的文化。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;在今天的一課堂，我要求一班學生在聽人家present自己這學期習作的初步構思。由於大家的概念仍然很rough，尚未成熟，當然也沒有任何research或理據support自己的ideas，present的時候自然就顯得有點躊躇和沒自信。但我規定大家聽意見後必須要給點意見，但只可用&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Thinking_Hats"&gt;Six Thinking Hats&lt;/a&gt;中的yellow hat、green hat或blue hat來回應。課堂臨結束前，有幾位同學跟大家說：(1)對這種討論方式感到很新鮮；(2)人家的意見和聯想都對自己的idea development非常有用；(3)都很享受當中的互動，討論不再是一場對design concept沒甚建樹的自信心攻防戰，而是一次甚有建設性的brainstorming session。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;我相信到稍後的時間才以較批判的black hat和較感性的red hat來作回應會來得更適合。&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23089049-114106365862144355?l=pchankc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/feeds/114106365862144355/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23089049&amp;postID=114106365862144355&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/114106365862144355'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/114106365862144355'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2006/02/constructive-thinking.html' title='Constructive thinking'/><author><name>ablogaday</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23089049.post-114103580978146577</id><published>2006-01-06T22:16:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-02-27T18:23:29.783+08:00</updated><title type='text'>好書待讀</title><content type='html'>上月&lt;a href="http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2005/12/graduation.html" target="_blank"&gt;畢業禮那天&lt;/a&gt;哥哥送了我一張辰衝的禮券，雖然金額不大，但正合我心意。趁今天經過尖沙咀便順道逛一逛，補了少許錢，用禮券買下了一大一小兩本書：&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/1600/PostSecret%20Blink.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/400/PostSecret%20Blink.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;大的一本是硬面精裝、Frank Warren的&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060899190/qid=1136541803/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-4817774-9671040?s=books&amp;v=glance&amp;amp;n=283155" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;PostSecret: extraordinary confessions from ordinary lives&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;，它收集了由一個community art project發展成為一個美國舉國注目的art project的作品。由於這project可以是永遠on-going的，所以&lt;a href="http://postsecret.blogspot.com" target="_blank"&gt;它的blog&lt;/a&gt;每星期都會更新，《時代雜誌》網站稱它為&lt;a href="http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1072872,00.html#postsecret" target="_blank"&gt;2005年五十個最酷網站之一&lt;/a&gt;。翻著這本書，你會驚覺普通人其實也可以是極具創造力的同時，也會為這一代人們極其須要精神和心靈上的牧養而深感沉重！從來秘密就只屬於個人的，是孤單的；而這些秘密都往往是一些不為人知或明白的創傷。這個art project卻設立了一個分享秘密的平台，叫分享的和閱讀的都明白自己原來並不孤單，從而得著鼓勵，也確實值得深思！&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;小的一本是袋裝版、&lt;a href="http://www.gladwell.com/bio.html" target="_blank"&gt;Malcolm Gladwell&lt;/a&gt;的&lt;a href="http://www.gladwell.com/blink" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Blink: The power of thinking without thinking&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;。我們都被教育如何用理性和邏輯來思考和做決定，但Gladwell卻告訴我們瞬間用直覺所作的決定，其實可以是同樣有效和可信，並且這種馮直覺和第一印象的思考方法，並不是甚麼天才方可擁有，乃是可以分辨、訓練和控制的！雖然那些自稱理性或偏向理性的人（包括我）有大套理由認為自己的思想或論點如何合理，但其實那只是一個宣稱而矣，我們無可避免地在生活的大大小小事情上，都會用上直覺（如果並非不假思索的話）作選擇，並且多少時候這種決定和看法比我們仔細思量所得的還準確！告訴你，這是我從太太身上得悉的...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;謝謝你，哥哥！&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23089049-114103580978146577?l=pchankc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/feeds/114103580978146577/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23089049&amp;postID=114103580978146577&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/114103580978146577'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/114103580978146577'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2006/01/blog-post.html' title='好書待讀'/><author><name>ablogaday</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23089049.post-114103878750704285</id><published>2006-01-01T18:55:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-02-27T19:13:07.516+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Feedbacks being a teacher</title><content type='html'>The semester has come to an end. Here're some feedback emails I received recently from the students in my Typography class -- these are not for showing-off, but some encouragement for me to maintain the passion to teach:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;"thx for your comments and teaching^^"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;"Thank you for you comments, I will improve my work with your comment. Thank you so much!!!!!"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;"It is so surprise to receive your comments! Thank you very much as they are very detail and it is useful for my future improvement~!!! (It is obvious that you had put a lot of effort to prepare each lesson for us!!!) It is my pleasure to learn fr om you~~~ thank you &gt;u&lt;*"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;"Thank you for your comments and I think I really learnt something in design field in your lessons."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;"Thanks you for your lessons, i enjoy it very much. In your lesson i gain many knowledge and concept about typographic. I think this is well starting  point to develop my typographic skill."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;"Thank you very much for your email about detail comments on individual projects. I am deeply appreciate with them as they are useful for my design and development. Thank you!"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;"I just wanted to say thank you so much for a great course, I've really learned a lot. I really appreciate all the care and work you put into preparing your lessons for us. Do you teach any other courses on the BA?"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This last student submitted his final project which he worked with another student in my subject to a public art competition, and to my surprise, they won! Congratulations!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23089049-114103878750704285?l=pchankc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/feeds/114103878750704285/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23089049&amp;postID=114103878750704285&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/114103878750704285'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/114103878750704285'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2006/01/feedbacks-being-teacher.html' title='Feedbacks being a teacher'/><author><name>ablogaday</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23089049.post-114475040315289379</id><published>2005-12-12T18:11:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-04-11T18:16:17.526+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Signs in Hong Kong</title><content type='html'>拙作在香港設計師協會新一期Xpress刊出了！今期的主題是「設計與社會意識（design and socialness）」，我寫的一篇命題是《Signs in Hong Kong: A cultural analysis on the "socialness" of design》（中譯《「標誌」著香港：「社會性」設計的文化分析》），文章略為學術性，雖然已經是中英對照，未知是否適合本港「看圖不識字」的新一代設計師... 但版面設計就略嫌太難讀了！&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;奇怪HKDA從來不更新它們有關&lt;a href="http://www.hongkongda.com/eng/abo/abo6.asp#nid30" target="_blank"&gt;Xpress的網頁&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23089049-114475040315289379?l=pchankc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/feeds/114475040315289379/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23089049&amp;postID=114475040315289379&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/114475040315289379'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/114475040315289379'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2005/12/signs-in-hong-kong.html' title='Signs in Hong Kong'/><author><name>ablogaday</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23089049.post-114106312591479290</id><published>2005-12-10T19:56:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-02-28T01:58:45.916+08:00</updated><title type='text'>What is culture?</title><content type='html'>Culture is an integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief and behaviour. Its formation is based on the community's capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations, and results in a set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices within that community.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am part of Culture. Culture is part of me.&lt;br /&gt;Culture is moulding me. I am moulding Culture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the very beginning, there was no Culture. Man gave birth to Culture. People came together. People communicated with one another. People compromised and established something common among them. Culture was born.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In return, Culture brings people together. Culture defines the way people communicate. Culture defines what is common among people. More people are born under the Culture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Culture is much more powerful than we think.&lt;br /&gt;Culture brings people together, but also separates people altogether.&lt;br /&gt;Are we in control, or is Culture in control?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23089049-114106312591479290?l=pchankc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/feeds/114106312591479290/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23089049&amp;postID=114106312591479290&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/114106312591479290'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/114106312591479290'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2005/12/what-is-culture.html' title='What is culture?'/><author><name>ablogaday</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23089049.post-114103509837545778</id><published>2005-12-03T23:03:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-02-27T18:11:38.376+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Graduation</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/1600/Graduation.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/400/Graduation.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Yes, you can say this is one of my most honored days in my life -- my graduation as a Master of Arts in Design. Adding to that, I'm the only one in my class who graduated with distinction!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My wife and my parents shared my honor and this photo was taken by my wife from her seat. The second one from the left is me, with the other 3 representatives from the 4 MA classes from the Faculty of Communication. Many thanks to my family and friends for all your supports and encouragements.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23089049-114103509837545778?l=pchankc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/feeds/114103509837545778/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23089049&amp;postID=114103509837545778&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/114103509837545778'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/114103509837545778'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2005/12/graduation.html' title='Graduation'/><author><name>ablogaday</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23089049.post-114103455455171929</id><published>2005-11-23T02:26:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-02-27T18:54:37.926+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Business of Design Week 2005</title><content type='html'>This is the project that got me fully occupied since mid-Oct:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/1600/BODW2005-1.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/400/BODW2005-1.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/1600/SettingBooth.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/400/SettingBooth.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Nov 20: setting up of booth in progress...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nov 21: everything in place by 9 am.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/1600/BoothEmpty.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/400/BoothEmpty.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The exhibition finally kicked off. Groups of secondary students led by their teachers coming to see what is it all about with design...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/1600/BoothCrowded-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/400/BoothCrowded-1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/1600/Workshops.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/400/Workshops.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/1600/Works.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/400/Works.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;We prepared a series of 3 design workshops: &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;[Design to sit] &lt;/span&gt;required the students to design a "sittable" structure in an hour with the provided carton paper; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;[Design to wear] &lt;/span&gt;is about designing some wearable apparels or items; not sure what they'll ask the students for &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;[Design to hold]&lt;/span&gt;... Anyway, it's about letting these students to gain a 1st-hand experience about designing -- it's much more than drawing a beautiful picture, but also involves problem identification, problem analysis, problem solving and design development...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/1600/GuidedTours.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/400/GuidedTours.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I also need to train a group of student tour guides who will guide and explain to the students about the different exhibits at the venue so that they would learn how to appreciate good designs. Well, if you just let them wandering by themselves, they'll really "wander" around aimlessly, understand nothing, and learning nothing and leave.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the other hand, I also need to accompany my boss to explain to the press and media about MyCar. Even TDC Chairman Peter Woo wanted to give this sneak vehicle a try. Because of this event, I compiled and published a booklet to be distributed here within a super-short timeframe -- reminded me of the magazine days...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/1600/MyCar.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/400/MyCar.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/1600/Booth%20Chris.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/400/Booth%20Chris.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;One thing that got me excited is that one of my MA classmates won the Young Design Talents Award, which is for young HK designers under the age of 30 -- vow! He's so much younger than me!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/1600/BoothExterior.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/400/BoothExterior.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Pheew! I need to take some rest after tomorrow...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23089049-114103455455171929?l=pchankc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/feeds/114103455455171929/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23089049&amp;postID=114103455455171929&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/114103455455171929'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/114103455455171929'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2005/11/business-of-design-week-2005.html' title='Business of Design Week 2005'/><author><name>ablogaday</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23089049.post-114103211424709498</id><published>2005-11-19T22:19:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-02-27T18:47:02.286+08:00</updated><title type='text'>沒法躲懶的工作</title><content type='html'>從一些當老師的同學得知，當老師的就只有紅白二事才可以請假。真的，不是甚麼非常情形，實在很難找甚麼籍口將教學的工作推遲。所以就是在近數星期以來忙得連睡覺的時間也幾乎沒有（有兩晚我在零晨時份吃完晚飯，坐在沙發上休息睡著了，誰知一覺醒來已經是黎明了！），也不能不為課堂有充足的準備。難道要二三十個學生看著你「食螺絲」、「打天才波」、或打啊欠嗎？反過來說，若老師看見學生在堂上渴著睡，就只能怪自己教學悶蛋，或想著光罵他們就只會叫整班同學也沒法集中精神上課，還是叫自己不要因他對自己的不尊重而發脾氣吧！不竟他們（的爸媽）是消費者、是顧客，他們付了錢卻自己放棄學習的機會和權利，你也拿他沒辦法...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;但當然當老師也有它本身的滿足感：就是當你看見他們沒有怎樣「走堂」，反而越學越有興趣；當你看見他們不錯的作品貼在牆上，一次一次的在進步；當你看見他們下了課還上前來孜孜不倦的問你怎樣可以改進自己的作品，或用心聽著你評論其他同學的作品，希望從中也學得一二時，你便想：「孺子可教也！」&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;說實的，還有甚麼比看見生命的成長滿足呢？&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;註：之前在開學那天&lt;a href="http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2005/09/1st-day-of-typography-class.html" target="_blank"&gt;說過&lt;/a&gt;一些對這個學期的期望，到現在為止還沒有落空呀，真安慰！&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23089049-114103211424709498?l=pchankc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/feeds/114103211424709498/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23089049&amp;postID=114103211424709498&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/114103211424709498'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/114103211424709498'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2005/11/blog-post.html' title='沒法躲懶的工作'/><author><name>ablogaday</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23089049.post-114103089043425298</id><published>2005-10-18T21:50:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-02-27T18:54:00.453+08:00</updated><title type='text'>難怪我不是一個出色的設計師</title><content type='html'>我大學的老師倒沒有教過下面這些professional practice...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://ueo.sicls.ac.cn/pad/200583/200583135621.htm" target="_blank"&gt;成為設計師的37個步驟&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;〔黑色字是原文，&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;紅色字是我的回應。&lt;/span&gt;〕&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. 時不時開著你Audi TT出來炫一下。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;〔我連開車也不懂，何來有車？〕&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. 只穿黑衣服，當然是那些名聲顯赫設計師的作品，當有人問起你的衣櫃，你要講述一個充滿幻想的故事片：你在某服裝秀（當然裡面必須有一些時尚的名字，如Erik Spiekermann）聽說了一家小店，你喜歡在那裡買套裝。註：它必須是你開車行駛至少500km才到達，而且它要有一個時髦的名字。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;〔我絕少穿黑色（除了喪禮），更何放它映得我更瘦！〕&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. 記住100個頂尖公司和設計師，一旦有機會時，要時不時不經意的說出他們的名字，還要記住100個最大的世界範圍的預算項目。還有你本應該在那100家頂尖公司中的一家工作。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;〔老了，沒有那麼好記性！〕&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. 不要聽流行音樂！要經常聽那些奇怪的，沒人知道也沒人聽得懂的邊緣音樂。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;〔這個還可以，但我怕自己也聽不懂！〕&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. 只讀時髦的，暢銷的書，特別是別人在場時；只能買設計書籍，最好它們從外表看上去很漂亮。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;〔這點好像和上面那點有矛盾？〕&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. 不要關注技術問題和實際實行，那是自尋煩惱，要知道那是技師、程序員、印刷師及那些地位低於你的人的工作。你，是個藝術家！&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;〔第一，我從來反對將設計等同藝術；第二，我從來不覺得上面這批人的工作與設計師的有高低之分。反而不懂或不關注人家之專業知識和技術的設計師，更容易在他們面前出醜。〕&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7. 工作時要傲視群眾。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;〔有人喜歡與這樣的設計師合作嗎？〕&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8. 永遠別結婚！&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;〔對不起！我今年將要慶祝結婚十五年了！並且我還有兩個極可愛的女兒！〕&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9. 隨身攜帶一塊素描板，就算你連一筆也不會畫！同樣，隨身攜帶公文包，Organizer（當然是電子的）！&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;〔我只有後兩樣...〕&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10. 不要忘了 —— 你是這個星球上唯一一個有創造力的人。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;〔才怪呢！〕&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11. 多用一些英語短語，最好用法語，說不出時，就自己編造。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;〔這個我有，但不懂法語，日語行不行？為甚麼沒有普通話的份兒？〕&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12. 你的香煙應是一種外國的，特別的，沒人聽說過的牌子，如果是那種手工卷製的就更好了，這點對於其他個人用品也適用。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;〔吸煙危害健康。這個不追求品牌的時尚跟國內和康港剛巧相反呢！〕&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;13. 不要保持長期的戀愛關系，經常與最漂亮的人一起拋頭露面。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;〔上面已經說過了。何況我太太在我眼中不就是最漂亮了嗎？〕&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;14. 只與那些你在風景勝地拍寫真集時遇到的頂極模特和明星保持交往。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;〔弊！我好像一個也不認識呢！〕&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;15. 每周去找形象設計師將你徹底的改頭換面，但要保密，別告訴別人！&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;〔付不起錢耶！〕&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;16. 只買設計們用的家具，把多餘東西扔掉吧，還有那些不夠酷、過時的音響，你的專業器具一定要緊跟形勢。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;〔到底我們是設計師還是設計用家？〕&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;17. 不要微笑！（千萬不要大笑）&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;〔可惜我是一個最愛笑的人...〕&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;18. 每周都去整容門診，告訴所有人你是從生下來就這麼漂亮。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;〔難道老一點醜一點的人就不是優秀設計師？上面提到的Spiekermann算漂亮嗎？〕&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;19. 別管別人是否感興趣，炫耀你的高雅品味！&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;〔中產階級想學有錢人般享受，但卻又付不起錢，才發明「品味」這回事。付不起錢飲XO便說紅酒更好飲！只不過中產階級多受過教育，論說起來倒似模似樣吧了。〕&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;20. 以你的頭銜為榮，見縫插針地運用它。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;〔這個我懂，email的signature便是一處必用的地方。〕&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;21. 用不著關注少數群眾。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;〔???〕&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;22. 要保持活躍的思維，甚至坐在馬桶上時，靈感經常從這裡產生！&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;〔這點倒像樣。〕&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;23. 要時刻顯的很忙！&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;〔這個我從來不用扮呢！〕&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;24. 光顧健身中心，日光浴室。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;〔到底這是討論怎樣當設計師還是模特兒？〕&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;25. 每天至少16小時工作時間！&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;〔這樣那有時間光顧健身中心、日光浴室、或找上面說的形象設計師？〕&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;26. 像座火山似的抽煙吧，靈感來自于煙霧繚繞。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;〔再說一遍：吸煙危害健康。〕&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;27. 對別人要嗤之以鼻，否則，你就不能在這項工作中長久存活。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;〔我還以為這是客人的專利？康港的切雞屍都是唯命是從的...〕&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;28. 參加所有的創意比賽，若不能參加，記住參賽者的名字，這有利於隨口漏出幾個名字。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;〔光參加比賽養不成活耶！〕&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;29. 時刻保持睿智和良好的情緒。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;〔這點也像樣。〕&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;30. 只看嘎納電影節獲獎作品，認為那些流行作品是粗制濫造的。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;〔音樂我不介意偏一點，但電影我倒愛主流的多。〕&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;31. 盡可能多發表文章關於你和你的設計。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;〔這個blog算嗎？〕&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;32. 刻意輕視那些沒文憑的同事。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;〔問題是，我雖然快擁有碩士資格，還不比那些沒有文憑的人混得好... 況且香港的一線設計師中，很多沒有甚麼顯赫的學歷。〕&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;33. 嘲笑周圍的窮人，無（低）教育者，但不要面露笑容。（見17條）&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;〔見到窮困的人還笑得出？我怕我不單不像設計師，連人也不像呢！〕&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;34. 要神秘，盡可能使自己引人入勝。（但注意，不要穿的花哨）&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;〔mmm...〕&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;35. 反對任何事物，你是個無信仰者。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;〔這本身不就是一個信仰嗎？〕&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;36. 拒絕團隊工作，要知道你是一個藝術家！&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;〔見第6條。〕&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;37. 不要被程式所束縛，當然也不要被這37條所束縛。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;〔早點說麻！〕 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23089049-114103089043425298?l=pchankc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/feeds/114103089043425298/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23089049&amp;postID=114103089043425298&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/114103089043425298'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/114103089043425298'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2005/10/blog-post.html' title='難怪我不是一個出色的設計師'/><author><name>ablogaday</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23089049.post-114103016116436502</id><published>2005-09-20T16:47:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-02-27T16:49:21.166+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Representation</title><content type='html'>昨晚深宵在電視看到一個德國Industrial Designer的故事。這位設計師雖然已經七十多歲，仍然對他已擁有卅多名員工的設計公司的事情親力親為，包括親自見客present公司的產品設計。節目訪問了一個跟他相識很多年的客戶，這為客人盛讚他的老朋友不單是一位優秀的設計師，還是一為很好的communicator。我便跟太太說：「為甚麼設計教育沒有任何科目教學生如何跟客人溝通，有效地sell自己的設計？」現代的設計教育，由設計理論、design thinking、creative thinking... 到軟件應用的科目（對，是「科目」，內容和質素如何則不得而知！）都涵蓋了，為甚麼單單沒有溝通技巧上的訓練？這一代的年青人，能說能畫能寫的都好像較難找的了！Email都是forward的多，自己寫的少。ICQ嗎？說的都不下是really? yeah! oic! nope! OK, cu soon... 長一點的也說不出來了...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;聽人說過，設計師就像相士，懂得設計之時也要有如相士的嘴巴，說服客人、教育客人。（當然，另一種說法是好的設計不必用上人的嘴巴去闡釋，將作品和設計的觀賞／使用者的互動關係必然化，這個題目有機會再談。）&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;回到校園後，也接觸到一個跟溝通和傳達意念息息相關的題目「呈現（Representation）」。Representation可以說是一個很闊的題目，它完全影響了我們怎樣觀察和了解我們身處的世界，包括聖經！今天一切我們所能認知的東西都是通過「呈現」的過程才達到我們面前，我們才能對之有所認識。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/1600/ex_permanent.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/400/ex_permanent.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;不知你有沒有到過香港歷史博物館，參觀過其常設展「香港故事」。那裡以香港為一個漁港為始，以九七回歸為終結，將香港歷史生動地呈現在市民面前。作為一個土生土長的香港人，假若你細味一下這個展覽所論述的「香港歷史」，不難發現它是一個有立場的歷史論述。單以其展示回歸的方式，描述港人那種全城歡騰，慶祝香港回歸中國懷抱，已經可圈可點。原來被展現出來的歷史，不一定要代表多數人的看法；原來在對一件（應該客觀）事實的論述，是可以有立場，不！應該說是必定有立場、有目的！怪不得在台灣，有歷史教科書將來自中國大陸的統治，寫成跟被葡萄牙、荷蘭、或日本統治沒有多大分別 —— 其實都是「外來的」政權。這個從本土文化身份為出發點的台灣歷史論述，就是為了要透過「重新發現」台灣歷史，完成建構一個獨立的台灣國家身份的目的。要展現香港人是渴望回到祖國的懷抱，可以用維港和青馬大橋大放煙花的壯麗場面。要展現台灣人其實並不是中國大陸的一部份、有其獨立的文化和身份、將台獨合理化，可以透過「重新發現」和「重新論述」台灣原居民的獨特文化，如語言、習俗和信仰等。歷史（事實）本身是否真的如此發生並不重要，重要的是所呈現出來的歷史，能否傳達描述歷史者要傳達的信息和印象！你看得見歷史是如何通過「呈現」左右我們對所謂「真實」的了解嗎？&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;各種知識、學問、或資料的呈現，都必先有其「再呈現(represent &gt; re-present)」的動機和目的，才有其選定的立場，才有其對事實的描述手法 —— 怎樣寫才能傳達作者要傳達的信息？這便是representation所擔當的角式了。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;大概那位年過七十的設計前輩，也從這一代後浪身上找不到具備過人的表達和溝通能力的接班人，他才要在這把年紀還要親自將設計present和解釋給客人看... 說的、寫的、畫的，你懂得那幾樣？&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23089049-114103016116436502?l=pchankc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/feeds/114103016116436502/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23089049&amp;postID=114103016116436502&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/114103016116436502'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/114103016116436502'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2005/09/representation.html' title='Representation'/><author><name>ablogaday</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23089049.post-114102789080445309</id><published>2005-09-10T23:00:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-02-27T16:11:30.813+08:00</updated><title type='text'>1st day of Typography class</title><content type='html'>原本這篇網誌（中國大陸在翻譯上都講求連發音都要接近，比如worldwide web不叫「互聯網」而叫「萬維網」，不單在普通話發音上相似，也能將蜘蛛網的spider web互相交織的意思繹了出來！Blog呢？台灣音譯「部落格」，大陸則仍有很多&lt;a href="http://www.cnblog.org/imnotboke/index.html" target="_blank"&gt;爭論&lt;/a&gt;，你認為如何？）應該早點寫，想寫剛開始教新一個學期typography的感受，連同下課當晚學生的作品貼滿班房的壯觀情景post上來，可是等了兩天，相片還沒有收到，收到的反而是另一個學生當晚的感受：&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"&gt;"I enjoy your class so much yesterday..."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/1600/TypoPresent.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/400/TypoPresent.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;開學第一天，有三個surprises:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;一．今個學期學院將兩班放在一起，我要連續由下午三時半教至晚上十時。起初以為有半個小時休息，應該沒甚麼問題。誰知真的連續行行企企的講授、討論、看學生堂上做功課... 結果沒有連續坐下超過五分鐘，晚上回家後兩條小腿實在酸痛得要命！&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;二．下午上課前看著點名的名單，以為只有十五個學生，誰知來了廿一人，超過了上個學期的數目。晚上的一班更來了卅人，椅子也不夠用，真的沒想過！校務處的人也真是，怎麼可以跟名單相差那麼遠？&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;三．晚上的一班來了一個英國伙子，立刻在沒有準備下改為雙語授課。很多年都沒有連續講過那麼多英文了，可幸還比想像中流利，也沒有因人多脅場，還算滿意，上面學生寄來的電郵也confirm了自己的想法。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;感謝神，給我這個學期的師表生涯有個好的開始！但願在十四堂過後，我沒有變跛子、人數沒有越來越少、學生滿有得著、亦能做一些出色的作品出來，我就心滿意足了！&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;平日數碼相機都是隨身的，可是上星期日借了給人，相片唯有要等學生記得給自己才有得看了。反正Blogger可以讓我隨時修改自己的message，還是先將上面的寫出來吧！&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23089049-114102789080445309?l=pchankc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/feeds/114102789080445309/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23089049&amp;postID=114102789080445309&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/114102789080445309'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/114102789080445309'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2005/09/1st-day-of-typography-class.html' title='1st day of Typography class'/><author><name>ablogaday</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23089049.post-114102948078903903</id><published>2005-09-06T20:16:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-02-27T16:38:00.796+08:00</updated><title type='text'>What is education?</title><content type='html'>Education is the art, the action and process of changing people's minds and ultimately people's behaviour.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"&gt;The kindergarten teacher educates:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She teaches kids the ABCs (minds) so they speak (behave) what is considered correct. She teaches them the hows (minds) so they behave what is considered correct.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"&gt;The kindergarten kids educate:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Instead of rationalising everything, they only do what is enjoyable to them. Now the teacher sees (mind) that things to be taught has to be attractive and enjoyable. Now the teacher teaches (behave) creatively.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"&gt;The university professor educates:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He does not tell his students what is correct (minds) so they have to find (behave) it by themselves. The students struggle, experience, criticise, testify, and so believe (minds) what they have found is correct and act (behave) accordingly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"&gt;The university students educate:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Instead of doing what is only attractive and enjoyable, they are asked to criticise what is considered correct, even it is from their professors and considered "sacred". Now the professor sees that everything he considered correct are being challenged. Now the professor struggles, experiences, criticises, testifies, and so renewed his beliefs (mind) and acts (behave) accordingly.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23089049-114102948078903903?l=pchankc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/feeds/114102948078903903/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23089049&amp;postID=114102948078903903&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/114102948078903903'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/114102948078903903'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2005/09/what-is-education.html' title='What is education?'/><author><name>ablogaday</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23089049.post-114106138712846504</id><published>2005-08-08T20:26:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-02-28T01:29:47.136+08:00</updated><title type='text'>絕世高手</title><content type='html'>周星馳在他的電影裡面，常愛將一些絕世高手描寫成其貌不揚、深藏不露、甚至是極其市井和醜陋，或蹟近顛狂，好像是要衝著世界（特別是香港）「先敬羅衣後敬人」的價值觀，說明身懷絕技也不一定要急不及待告訴全世界，比起大美國荷里活拍出來的X-Men、The Incredibles或Fantastic Four，提倡「假若你擁有一身絕世好武功，就必定是天將要降大任於斯人，應該將它盡情發揮」，來得含蓄得多。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/1600/PPAgang.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5234/2359/400/PPAgang.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;這幀照片裡面左起第三位長者，我和一班舊同事都稱他「黃師傅」，據說曾任職多家4A廣告公司，現在已經移民加國。黃師傅就是我上面說這種含蓄的高人。他隨了手作正稿和插圖技術了得之外，各種書體的中英文書法手到拿來，中文美術字和做dummy的技術更是我從來沒有見過那樣好，是「手稿年代」真真正正的師傅級人馬。我雖然用電腦作美術設計超過十五年，還是覺得黃師傅手造的東西更「正」、更「見得人」！黃師傅，我祝你身體健康，請你保重啊！因你見證著科技無發取代的知識、技巧和智慧！謝謝你提醒我：還是上帝的創造奇妙！&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;今天難得與黃師傅和一班舊同事吃午飯，再見眾人都安好，繼續發揮著港人在獅子山下不屈不撓的精神，深感安慰！&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23089049-114106138712846504?l=pchankc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/feeds/114106138712846504/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23089049&amp;postID=114106138712846504&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/114106138712846504'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23089049/posts/default/114106138712846504'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pchankc.blogspot.com/2005/08/blog-post.html' title='絕世高手'/><author><name>ablogaday</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23089049.post-114106616398184950</id><published>2005-08-01T22:39:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-02-28T02:49:23.993+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Who am I? Who are you?</title><content type='html'>We are attached to things or people around us, which and who are what define &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;who we are. &lt;/span&gt;We're afraid that we forget who we are so we keep on grasping things or people around us. Think about how you introduce yourself to people:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I am Patrick." Some people define themselves with their &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;names, &lt;/span&gt;because their names reveals certain stories (and thus meanings) in their lives. Those are either joyful stories they treasure or painful memories they couldn't get rid of. It further strengthen their life narratives. So why do people change their names?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I am a man." or "I am a woman." Some people define themselves according to their &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;sex, &lt;/span&gt;(note that in some forms that we need to fill in, people begin to use gender (性向) instead of sex (性別) -- you know why.) because man and woman "are supposed to" act and behave differently. Do you agree?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I am a man. I'm not a kid anymore!" Some people define themselves according to their &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;age,&lt;/span&gt; because every age group "is supposed to" do different things, and belonging to certain age group entitles or limit you from doing certain things. And in our community there are certain age groups which got bigger control over the others. Guess which?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I am a designer.", "I am an artist." or "I am a writer." We define ourselves according to our &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;profession, &lt;/span&gt;because either the profession reflects certain social class we belong, or reflects our accomplishment or how much we earn. If we are not, we'll try to cover it with some terms which sounds better, or we wouldn't introduce ourselves in this way, and use something else to define ourselves. True?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I am a Macintosh enthusiast.", "I am a celloist.", "I am a tough negotiator." or "I am Miss Hong Kong." We define ourselves according to &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;things which we're good at, &lt;/span&gt;because it reflects our taste and it gives us some sense of significance of ourselves. The more we get the significance, the harder we'll study or practice into it. It is something to claim victory over someone who is actually more powerful than us ("My boss is a dumb, he just uses Wintel PC." or "These kids only know Twins and Kenny. They'll never be interested in Bach or Tchaikovsky."). How about you?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I am a Chinese." or "I am a Hongkonger." We define ourselves according to our &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;ethnical standing. &lt;/span&gt;We identify ourselves to a certain group of people whom we don't actually know (most of them we don't even know their names or never met them before! (Anderson, 1983)) but feel very connected because we buy in the same culture as theirs, or we found our so-called root among them. What does it mean to you by being a Chinese or a Hongkonger?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I am the husband of Patricia.", "I am the son of Mr Chan.", "I am a student of Paul Rand." or "I am a loyal fan of Twins." We define ourselves according to &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;our relation with other people,&lt;/span&gt; most probably because these people means a lot to us. They may be someone we're proud of. Who are you attached to? What if these people disappoint you one day?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I am a father of 2 kids." We define ourselves according to &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;our role in the family, &lt;/span&gt;most probably because we enjoy very much our family life. But on the dark side, this role gives us pride too -- we tend to introduce ourselves like this when we are enjoying the dominant role and we have authority over other family members. If other members in the family turn hostile or rebellious against us, we'll try to hide our family conditions before other people. Does your family members make you proud?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I am an environmentalist." or "I am an anti-terrorist." We define ourselves according to &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;our discontent about our surroundings. &lt;/span&gt;So badly we hope that we can contribute something to make our surroundings nearer to what we want it to be. What is your discontent?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I am a Christian." We define ourselves according to &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;our belief, our faith or religion. &lt;/span&gt;It represents something we're heading for and striving to be. This is our ideal self, although we're not up to the standard yet. 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