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Jan 16, 2015
Graduate / The sparks of innovation all start with the way we experience and perceive the world surround us. [4]
Personal Statement or why I chose digital media. Graduate SOP for RISD Digital + Media
Hi, I am a 2015 RISD applicant. The deadline is tomorrow, so it's kind of urgent. Can anyone offer me some ideas about my essay? Thanks a lot !
Words in total:581.
The sparks of innovation all start with the way we experience and perceive the world surround us.
We are human beings, in the flesh, in the digital. As high-tech tools are becoming more accessible in daily life, I see an urge for me to learn more about and deeply understand the emerging technologies that we live and work with. Graduate program at Rhode Island School of Design will allow me to emerge myself into the convergence of Art, Design and Technology, expand my boundaries of medium, and develop my skills as a computational designer in the future.
Undergraduate studies in design exposed me to an environment where design theories and practice go together. In the design process, technology has played an unrivaled role in providing valuable tools and it opened doors to new experiences. However, in some cases, I found myself handicapped by the mainstream digital design tools. If I only stick to these methods, the conceptual constraints and aesthetics would probably appear. This problem intrigued me and became my initial motivation to pursue further education in graduate study.
Much of who I am as a designer centers around visual communication work. I create my artwork with a vision of finding wonderful connections between daily and ordinary things. Synesthesia, graphic culture study are important topics of my work, and I enjoyed the process of turning original ideas into tangible output. The multi-media courses in UCLA last summer was my introduction to creative coding and it whetted my appetite for more knowledge. I found myself deeply interested in generative design and I started to think about realizing design in a generative way.
In the graduate education , I want to aim at further artistic and interactive exploration of Communication Studies. I desire to explore how technology can enhance the way we experience the world. How can technology create constructive new ways for people to communicate, especially in the realm of typography and motion graphics? How can we guide its continued expansion into our physical and social worlds so that it has a positive impact on the way we conceive and communicate our identity and individuality?
Data visualization will also be a key topic in my future study. We are living in a data-driven world and data can tell us stories about our lives. I want to investigate the ways of using data as a primary medium in creating narrative system and communication system. Is it possible for us designer to reuse these everyday raw data and generate innovative ways for communication? How do we transform the development of technology and society into direct and sensible expressions for our society members? In China, air pollution has become a serious public concern. However, the professional data of PM 2.5 can be an obstacle for the public to deeply understand this environmental issue. As a designer who aims at pursuing multimedia study, It my responsibility to devote myself to working on this problem.
I believe that the Digital + Media Program at RISD would provide me with unrivaled opportunities to investigate these areas of interest and explore in the virtual media area. I am attract to the diverse environment of interdisciplinary exploration in Digital + Media Department, and it seems like a great atmosphere for the sharing of ideas. The opportunity of working and studying with people from different backgrounds will expand my study territories and help me to achieve my ambition of growing into a critical communication thinker and cultural producer in the future.
Personal Statement or why I chose digital media. Graduate SOP for RISD Digital + Media
Hi, I am a 2015 RISD applicant. The deadline is tomorrow, so it's kind of urgent. Can anyone offer me some ideas about my essay? Thanks a lot !
Words in total:581.
The sparks of innovation all start with the way we experience and perceive the world surround us.
We are human beings, in the flesh, in the digital. As high-tech tools are becoming more accessible in daily life, I see an urge for me to learn more about and deeply understand the emerging technologies that we live and work with. Graduate program at Rhode Island School of Design will allow me to emerge myself into the convergence of Art, Design and Technology, expand my boundaries of medium, and develop my skills as a computational designer in the future.
Undergraduate studies in design exposed me to an environment where design theories and practice go together. In the design process, technology has played an unrivaled role in providing valuable tools and it opened doors to new experiences. However, in some cases, I found myself handicapped by the mainstream digital design tools. If I only stick to these methods, the conceptual constraints and aesthetics would probably appear. This problem intrigued me and became my initial motivation to pursue further education in graduate study.
Much of who I am as a designer centers around visual communication work. I create my artwork with a vision of finding wonderful connections between daily and ordinary things. Synesthesia, graphic culture study are important topics of my work, and I enjoyed the process of turning original ideas into tangible output. The multi-media courses in UCLA last summer was my introduction to creative coding and it whetted my appetite for more knowledge. I found myself deeply interested in generative design and I started to think about realizing design in a generative way.
In the graduate education , I want to aim at further artistic and interactive exploration of Communication Studies. I desire to explore how technology can enhance the way we experience the world. How can technology create constructive new ways for people to communicate, especially in the realm of typography and motion graphics? How can we guide its continued expansion into our physical and social worlds so that it has a positive impact on the way we conceive and communicate our identity and individuality?
Data visualization will also be a key topic in my future study. We are living in a data-driven world and data can tell us stories about our lives. I want to investigate the ways of using data as a primary medium in creating narrative system and communication system. Is it possible for us designer to reuse these everyday raw data and generate innovative ways for communication? How do we transform the development of technology and society into direct and sensible expressions for our society members? In China, air pollution has become a serious public concern. However, the professional data of PM 2.5 can be an obstacle for the public to deeply understand this environmental issue. As a designer who aims at pursuing multimedia study, It my responsibility to devote myself to working on this problem.
I believe that the Digital + Media Program at RISD would provide me with unrivaled opportunities to investigate these areas of interest and explore in the virtual media area. I am attract to the diverse environment of interdisciplinary exploration in Digital + Media Department, and it seems like a great atmosphere for the sharing of ideas. The opportunity of working and studying with people from different backgrounds will expand my study territories and help me to achieve my ambition of growing into a critical communication thinker and cultural producer in the future.