今天買了本Norman Rockwell的畫冊行事曆
490元，在誠品買的，我請店員幫我拆幾本我想看的
包括Rockwell和封面是Baseman的，還有Magritte等等
Norman Rockwell那本畫得超精緻，讓我一翻再翻
Baseman那本只有封面是Baseman，裡面是其他沒看過的插畫家作品，
老實說就是不知所云
還想說是不是Baseman版權太貴只買一張放封面當噱頭，其他隨便找一些放
然後說到Magritte那本，雖然我從國中就很迷他，
還跑去比利時網站看了一堆資料，又成立了他的家族，
但那本真的不怎麼樣，小本就算了，
拆開來後印刷紙質就是普通筆記本紙，
這樣的紙上面印畫作真是超敷衍，裝訂也不好翻，又沒有我喜歡的畫
這時店員居然還說
『買馬格利特比較好啦，那幾本沒什麼（指Rockwell那一系列大本的）
馬格利特賣比較好…一堆人買』
然後我表示Norman Rockwell那本比較精緻，
他聳聳肩的答道：『那本數量很少，其實只剩那本了』
當場就是為Rockwell抱不平，再加上覺得店員不識貨，
還有我剛剛去逛了一圈衝動跑去領了錢，於是就買了
後來上印刷課，同學就說『天阿，你怎麼買得下去！』
突然覺得 我那麼摳還會有人說我亂花錢，真的很妙，
害我反省是不是最近錢太多所以價值觀不太一樣
更讓我納悶的是，我到現在還是覺得很值得＝ ＝
反正印刷這麼精緻，2008年再拿去YAHOO賣掉，賣390就好了
每張都很精緻，Norman Rockwell就是看不膩
雜誌閱讀心得篇
其實這是我在國外設計網站看到的一篇文章，
至於為什麼不寫"書"的心得，是由於我看的那本是跟同學借的，另外還有我覺得這篇文章也是相當不錯，所以我決定寫這篇…寫英文文章的讀後心得也是相當有意義：Ｄ
文章叫做：『給設計系學生們的1000字』，內容是給設計系學生的建議
這篇文章應該也在哪個國外期刊中發表過，看了覺得很不錯，畢竟我從開始進來讀這科系，就充滿著疑惑與矛盾，看了這篇文章之後可以學習到身為一個設計學生需要注意的地方，得到一些建議讓我能夠參考，這篇文章給了我一個方向，所以我推薦這篇文章
1000 words for design students
by Allan Chochinov （是個紐約的老師和設計師）
There are a million things to learn in design school, but what about the things you need to know "about" design school? In an effort to be clear and concise—something your teachers are always bugging you to do—here are exactly 1000 words of advice for design students (clichés included):
Keep your ear to the ground.The best gossip is any gossip. Start there and then do your homework. If a course or a teacher is reputed to be great, odds are that there's something there. Same for the inverse, but don't be dissuaded by advance reviews of a difficult or challenging teacher or course—sometimes the best fit is a tight one.
Do your homework.There is no question that in design school,
what you put in is what you get out. It's not exciting and it's not revelatory, but it really does turn out that the students who work the hardest and commit themselves the fullest end up with the best stuff.
Inspiration and perspiration. You need 'em both.
School is expensive. Come on time. Stay late.College in many countries is prohibitively expensive, so make sure you're getting your money's worth. Arrive on time and insist that your teachers do too. Stay after class and ask questions; find out about more than just what the class covered. Don't be a pest, but don't be a pushover either. Why? Here's why:
We work for you, not the other way around.Teachers have an annoying habit of setting up the power dynamic to make you feel like they're in charge. I hate to roll out the "you are consumers of an educational product" argument, but the reality is that teachers, administrators, librarians and deans are all there in the first place because you decided to attend. And they really do work for you. So be clear about what you want and need, and team up with other students to make sure that those desires are communicated to the people in power. Use the library; ask for help. Make us work for you. You've already paid, right?
Hone your presentation skills.Walking the walk and talking the talk are different skills. And no matter how good a designer you are, without a certain level of presentation skills, nobody will ever know. Practice public speaking, present your head off in class, and write, write, write. There is no underestimating the harm to your future that bad presentation skills can unleash. Really. You could stop reading this now and you'd have the best stuff.
Photograph everything.If you do one thing in preparation for the new school year, buy a camera. We miss the old 35mm SLRs, but we're realists and recognize the irresistible benefits, instant gratification and economies of digital. Buy as many megapixels as you can, and if you can swing one of those sweet prosumer SLR digitals, do it. Make sure you bring your camera to class (not the expensive one though—your roommate's) and have fellow students photograph you presenting your work, conducting interviews, that kinda thing. Finally, have others take pictures of you making your models up in the shop. When you've looked at enough portfolios (car, toothbrush, chair, toy, form study, car, toothbrush, toy…), those "process" photos are positively the most exiting thing in your book to a jaded interviewer. "Did you make this model?" Well, yes. I did.
Do more; consider auditing a class."The people who do more are people who get more done." Duh. It's no secret that busy people often get a lot accomplished, and this is the same for students. Take an extra-curricular, non-design class (especially if grades aren't important/necessary for you), or, at the very least, consider auditing one course per semester. (Auditing a class means attending and doing the reading, but not taking up the teacher's time with homework, or taking up the class's time by asking questions. Get the word on the street, sit in during the first couple weeks of the semester, charm the pants off the teacher, and bask in the rays of someone telling you something you didn't already know. Most students aren't familiar with auditing, but it's offered in most schools.)
Read the paper.This is the single best way to be and stay connected with the outside world. A killer-talented designer with nothing so say isn't much use to anyone (though the marketplace would expose the idealism of that argument!), and there's nothing more dangerous than an ignorant mass producer. If you live in a city that has a good newspaper, subscribe. If you don't, find a good one at your library, or read countless ones on the web for free. What's a good newspaper? The New York Times. There. That's a good one.
Get off campus.School is great, and, after all, that's what you're doing there in the first place. But school design programs are kind of like the "official" program—the real stuff is happening by people who finished school (or often ignored it altogether), and your best investment is to connect with the communities of creative people who are doing design for a living and a life. Training in school is only part of the equation. Being submerged in the culture of design practice is where the real action is.
Don't work alone.I know you know that design is a collaborative effort, so there's no reason why you shouldn't practice getting along with others while you're still in school. But that's not the real benefit of doing design homework with others: It's more fun. If you don't already know this, then you haven't done design work with others.
Take almost any job.There is absolutely no replacement for the real thing, and practical experience in any design related field is more than you already have. So don't spend six months after you graduate looking for the perfect job. And, certainly, don't wait until you graduate to look for your first design job. You should be doing everything in your power to get some practical training onto your résumé and into your brain and hands before you graduate. That means helping out somewhere once a week, or bagging that summer internship. Do anything design-related. You'll be respected more by future employers, and have some chops by the time you get out.
Well, that's it for me. 1000 words of advice. But there's more out there, so with the ball rolling, why not share your own advice. Don't be shy
訓練自己的表達能力，很好，我就是不敢在不熟的人面前嚷嚷，之前幾次上台我幾乎嚇得內臟要吐出來，只有一次上藝術欣賞講讀書心得好像還有表達到東西，其他的我真是不敢回想
跟他人一起完成作業這點我個人是非常想做的，除了學習團隊合作的經驗，也不用一個人做很悶，不過學校集體作業似乎不多，而有的老師講個大概就要我們回去做並把成品交出來，可能以為大家高中都做過類似的東西了吧，所以有時候一個人在房間裡做作業真是遇到很多困難，越做就越哀怨，多點人討論比較好，還可以互相學習，所以以後我希望可以多跟幾個朋友找機會聚在一起做作業
將生活週遭的東西都拍下來，個人覺得很有趣，也很有意義，可以試試看！BLOG是個好玩意
演講心得篇：當代藝術的異想世界
演講者 : 東海文學院院長 倪再沁院長（演講到最後聊到周星馳很high）
時間 : 11/14（二）pm6:30~9:30 地點 : 東海大學
那天是我第二次去東海大學，同學載我去的，東海校園晚上氣氛相當好，讓人想躺在草坪看星星邊拿海尼根（什麼？）聽完時間有點晚了，東海藝術街真的超像宮崎駿動畫的場景，好想再去一次，其實去東海真的是藉聽演講的名義，行參觀之實阿
這場演講蠻有趣，演講者讓我們用不同的角度來看藝術史，並提醒了我們一件事，他說：『你有沒有發現我們讀的藝術史裡沒有孟克，沒有克林姆？我們所讀的藝術史並沒有放眼整個歐洲，只看巴黎，而巴黎就是從古典然後印象派，立體派，野獸派，超現實主義然後直接就跳到了現代藝術，所以我們讀不到克林姆席樂孟克，之所以如此因為我們讀的藝術史是『美國承認』的藝術史』
演講過程中我們看了很多名畫，大師之所以為大師，常常不是因為他畫得好，像莫內的日出印象，很明顯就是沒畫完然後就拿去參展應酬一下（演講者還指了畫面又上方的天空，還真的有點像）．大師也不見得有自信，佐拉曾寫了一本書講一個畫家很失敗，塞尚就很生氣跳出來，要跟他絕交，人家又沒說是他；另外杜象在發表他的名作「泉」時，其實自己也很心虛，拿一個尿壺出來展，就簽了個非自己本名的名字『慕特』，然後在展場觀眾在批評的時候，跳出來為「慕特先生」辯解…
演講者用不同的角度帶我們看了一次藝術史，非常有趣，也讓我們潛在的疑慮獲得紓解：『為什麼這個人畫得這麼爛是大師？』有時候我們看名家的畫，若不是因為他是馬蒂斯、畢卡索諸如此類公認的大師，我們會覺得他畫得很爛，也許並不是我們不懂畫，只是不了解藝術史，這些人只因為是開拓者，所以被稱為大師，如此而已
