In the last class, we discussed StefanĀ Sagmeister and watched his Ted talk video. First Video was about happiness by design. He discussed his numbers of real moments of happiness. He makes a list of happiness he wants to do. He had a scale of happiness from comfort, contentment joy, delight, and bliss. He talks about MoriĀ museum in JapanĀ which opened about happiness. He talks about visualization of happiness. He also mentionsĀ in advertising happiness is a bad reputation.

The most important are campaign he showed was done by a young designer in NYC for the subway. The sign of subway systems changed them. It was interesting to see what designers can do. A young designer in NYC prints out 55,000 speech bubbles and puts them on posters and people fill it out. It really interesting way to getting to what people are thinking what is on their mind in their daily lives.

The secondĀ video he talks about his how money doesn’t make him happy but when the project was printed it had an error of money does does make me happy. We also discussedĀ how curious he is about life and design. It’s really importantĀ for a designer to rejuvenateĀ himself with different kinds of project and let your creativity work. He kept a show in new york city where he would steam up the windows and designers would come and write what they have learned. Milton Glaser, Massimo VignelliĀ came to his show and it was successful because of its execution. If you think about you can just ask somebody what have you learn but that would be so boring but writing on steamed windows makes it so much interesting to read what one has learned in their lifetime.

After this, I thought to myself what makes me happy in my life and my design life. I believe being happy is learning. I love to design and in design, there are so many things you enjoy and be happy about is reading design books. With typography, I feel that when you know about typeface and know where to put them on the page and your mind becomes clear with using typefaces. That becomes delightful because you improve. I also feel happy that design has so many aspects which are changing the world.

Like infographic, we tend to forget that back infographicĀ saves lives. If we are not taking facts out and numbers nobody would know what is going on and to what extent. I have done an infographic graphic project on climate change. it is important that we know what is going on in this world. I learned so much about climate in that project that it makes you think about we need to do something. I felt good that I have done projects that are on climate change. Also, if generally speaking doing which you really want to do is which makes me happy and that will bring out my best.