Design Personae

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  My name is chang, I'm from Mt Zion (Mt Eden), Auckland.

I decided to come to design school to gain skills and higher knowledge. These I lack.
By skills I mean things like drawing and other hands on stuff, however I also mean my perception.. There's been a lot of talk of changing the way we look at the world in our lectures and its exciting, I’m constantly trying to perceive things in a different light, and hopefully through design school I will be able to hone my perception into something a little more “design-orientated".
When I say higher knowledge I refer to the history, philosophy and whatever else is considered “important” in design. I’d like to pay respect to the greats, hahaha.
 To be honest I draw a lot of inspiration from “Hip-Hop culture”, KRS-ONE, dondi, Futura2000, the Wu-Tang Clan, King Kase2 (RIP), Seen, Niels “Shoe” Meulman the list goes on..  I guess one of my more relevant (though not Hip-Hop related) inspirations would be Tinker Hatfield.
Hatfield is a designer for Nike. He joined Nike in 1981 and he designed some of the best and most memorable/coveted sneakers for Nike, air max 1, 3, Jordan III, IV and XI are amongst my favourite of his creations. Hatfield was/is always one to combine functionality with great aesthetics to his designs, he drew inspirations for his shoes from many different things but always executed them in a tasteful manner.
 I guess this is what I’m aspiring to be, producing good design that is aesthetically pleasing, but not compromising in its functionality.

Chur.