Form Follows Function, Shape Follows Speed

Bugatti Veyron. A name which is known to those who are crazed for speed and luxurious automobiles. It has the top speed of 431.07 km/h (267.85 mph) and currently holds the record of the world's fastest legal car. When it comes to the shape, or the form of the car, does it ring a bell? Have you ever wonder why is the legendary Veyron designed this way? Was it because that it's attractive? Or is it due to the performances' needs?


In my opinion, the forms or the shape of the car follows the function of the car. For example, Buggati Veyron runs a maximum speed of 431.07 km/h, therefore,things such as the down force and the aerodynamic current should be taken into account in order to prevent the far from flying off or thrown into the air when it is running that fast.

Look at the picture above, it's the spoiler of Bugatti Veyron. Do you think they design it this way then think of it's function? It's like designing a box without thinking what use does it do. Designers normally work with the engineer to know what kind of design are to be made while maintaining the function that they wanted the car to possessed. When the car reaches 220 km/h (140 mph), hydraulics lower the car until it has a ground clearance of about 9 cm (3.5 in). At the same time, the wing and spoiler deploy. This is the handling mode, in which the wing helps provide 3,425 newtons (770 lbf) of downforce, holding the car to the road. The driver must, using a special key (the top speed key), toggle the lock to the left of his seat in order to attain the maximum (average) speed of 407 km/h (253 mph). The key functions only when the vehicle is at a stop, when a checklist then establishes whether the car and its driver are ready to enable top speed mode. If all systems are go, the rear spoiler retracts, the front air diffusers shut and the ground clearance, normally 12.5 cm (4.9 in), drops to 6.5 cm (2.6 in).


The Veyron was design with it's back part longer than it's front part is due to that it's engine is situated at the back of the car, giving it powers on the back wheels to increase the acceleration as cars with engines in front had a hard time accelerating due to their front parts pushing weight. Besides that, Veyron's shell or frame was design to sustain the air pressure outside the car while in top speed.

In conclusion, I think the forms normally follows functions as we could not deisgn or to invent the look of something without knowing first what it will do.

More Is Less or Less is More, What Do You Think??

How you will feel if your girl friend had cardio problems and any surprises or sad things would take her life away? You love her more, she'll have lesser time to breathe on, you love her lesser, the more time she'll live, however, a dull and down time. Both choices had the same ending though. Both ended up the same, heartbreak. If you were in a shoe of this condition, what you'll do?

Here is a movie that I'd like to share with everyone. It tells the story of how a girl would change a life of a ruthless, selfish billionare boy. The enviroment or you can say the setting where this movie is taken is amazing and quite a breathtaking view as well. I enjoy the storyline, especially the ending where you know what is coming but hoping it nit to come. The twist and turn of the story gets me wondering what would happen next.

It's a very touching stories.

(P/S: Bring tissues when you're watching the movie)

P A D I N I

Elegant, arrogant and definitely no elephant shop, the Padini Concept Store. The shirts from Padini are all in high quality and formal modern looking, last but not least, pricy! If you got a girl and she loves shopping, this is a shop that you might want to avoid going in if you are paying. Ok, back to the store. Mission spying number 3, BEGIN!

From the look of the entrance and the lighting, a shot of the word EXPENSIVE shot into my mind. It looks luxurious! Black + White + Gold Shiny Light is never a good color for the money inside our purse. The lighting and the color matches the luxurious Hyatt Hotel, and trust me, the tags are off the charts. EXPENSIVE! The design of the entrance is simple, playing with just 2 colors and the material use also plays a very important role in bringing out the luxurious feeling.
The word 'PADINI' would caught most of your attention as everything on the wall is black and only the words are white.

Right beside the entrance is the model display of the products available within the store. It ranges from the formal wear to the simple but cool looking casual wears. Padini main products are cloth and accessories. Therefore to enforce the feeling of clothing, the model are placed within a display enviroment that gives people a feeling of a wardrobe. To give the feeling of luxury and high quality, good and high valued tilings and wood materials are used in making the display set. They placed both male and female figures to show that it's not just a women's shop, but men's too.


From this side of view, you can see the display of the accessories and the clothing are placed neatly and according to the brands. They are divided into 3 different sections namely women, men and accessories. The composition is like any other cloth shops but the colors and the lighting is what that matters. From the look of the appearance, it looks like a French looking cloth store from the movies. However there is something which irritates me a lot about this store, the reflection on the floor tiles is a pain to the eye!


This is a view where you can see the cloth display and how they divide the category. By making use of the pillar, they simply divide the type of shirts they are displaying, making it as though there are two different set of display box.
A closer look on the inside of PADINI. For those who had money and tend to try luxurious trend clothing, this is the correct store for you. As for those who are penniless like me, try to make a U-Turn before your girl friend sees the store. xD

Feel the Epicentre of Apple!

Epicentre. Familiar with the name? Hmm...for the gamers out there, this word might ring a bell, am I right? Dun get confused. Epicentre is not just a name for the Defense of The Ancient (DoTA) hero, the Sand King scorpion. But it is, in fact, one of the world famous Apple Inc. concept store, located in IOI Mall, Puchong. Like any other gamer, the word 'Epicentre' caught my eyesight and drove me to look at it. And then, my spy job begins.

This is the main and only entrance into the store. Are Apple juicy? Look at the number of customers inside the store. That answers you. This stores design was based on Apple Inc. 's main color, white. the shop is placed under lights of sunset orange color and floor of wooden texture. How does it make you feel? Right. Home sweet home.

See how the light did their jobs? It makes the MacBook Air look so classy. Macs are well known for their classy and futuristic looking curved rectangular shape, look and superior graphic than ordinary lappy (laptops). The tables are placed with smooth and reflective surface to rebounce the light of the lighting. Together with white color, this is truly EPIC. Look pretty much like a really nice view of the luxurious Taj Mahal reflecting it's own reflection on the water. Neat!

For graphic designers like me, being in an Apple concept store is like being in a paradise. If we are soldiers, these I-Macs are like the 15 Calliber Machine Gun. The way they placed the I-Macs are like the normal cyber cafe, which is a row. I can't really get a shot of the wall right behind these I-Macs because i was undercover, too bad! Behind these Macs is a large portrait of two MacBook Air forming the shape of a butterfly. It was nice but i can't take a picture!
( P/S:Stomping my feet while i wrote this)

This is a shot from my phone, within my pocket. It shows a rack of Apple I-Phone accessories and I-Pod gadgets. What is so special about it? Well, the storage of these store is located right behind the rack. How cool is that. At first I did not notice about the existance of a storage behind it, who would right? Until a customer wanted to buy a new I-Mac and the employee opens it, my jaw drops.

It was a great experience going into Epicentre and the designs were simple and marvellous. Unlike any other Apple concept stores, this is the EPIC-CENTRE, an epic store!

CROC CROC CROC!!! RAWR!!!

Have you ever been to the CROCS concept store before? I mean the CONCEPT STORES, not the 'concept stores' at pasar malam. Apparently it is said to be the largest CROCS concept store around Malaysia, and it's located at Midvalley Megamall, awesome!

What attracts me into the shop? Well, first of all, from about meters away, I was already attracted to the shop (indirectly) due to the familiar scent of rubber and latex of the shop I knew. No offensive, the latex scent is indeed strong, and as i past through, my eye was caught on something. CROCS!
There were shoes shoes shoes shoes shoes as you can see from the picture above. The design is simple yet attractive, and most important of all, what attracts me the most is the arrangement of the color of shoes in the shop.

As you can see, unlike any other shoe outlets or stores,, CROCS hang their shoes and sandals in a wave shape on the wall. With the colors of the sandals, it makes the look like a rainbow of shoes in the shop, or you can say a rainbow of colorful CROCODILES
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This is another things which caught my eye by the window. It's like a shoe rack or something. It's like the television stores which display all types of television to the customer so they can choose the ones they like. In the other hand, this is like showing all types of CROCS, probably the new models or designs or types of CROCS in store. Therefore, this rack allows me to know more about the types of sandals, aloowing me to know which type should i try first when i enter the store.

Here is a close look at the CROCS hanging on the wall, I put the picture side ways so that you can see the wave arrangement clearly. Look at the different kinds of color they have on the display. Rainbow CROCS!

Here we have the ladies corner. I don't pay attention much on this section as I'm not a lady. But the colors do attracts me though.
Here is the non-sandal section. Here is where you can find CROCS sport shoes to formal CROCS shoe here. In this section, as it is the middle part of the shop, in order for it to connect to both sides of the hangings of the shop, it is build in a tidal waved shaped. It gives me the filing of a rainbow wave follow up by a huge tidal wave. Why? Checkout the shape!

What are CROCS without their decorations? These is where they put there Jibbits (decoration for CROCS). Unlike the pasar malam which are sold in baskets, in here, they are placed in a very interesting display. It reminds me of the candy shop a lot. As it really does looks like a place where colorful candies are placed and let you choose, the only difference is, they are not edible.

Here is the thing which attracts me the most in this particular concept store, THESE PAIR OF BIG CROCS!! Customer are alow to wear on them and take pictures. CROCS sandals are well known for their size but THESE? THESE ARE THE TRUE CROCS! RAWR!

These store is interesting and attractive, both in design and customer attraction. These shop is definitely a shop which I would come back for a second time. Simple, colourful, attractive and BIG!