Stupid trainstation designs / Review

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Stupid trainstation designs / Review
2008-12-06 5:59AM / 標準BLOG / 會員可以看
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Here is a stupid looking part of the train station this is in the main hall you see 4 things standing. One most left is emergency button which could had been easily be integrated in the second pole though. The emergency buttons open up the gates in an emergency situation. A smart person would had merged this with the SOS button on the second pole, then having to make a single pole with one button and two wires running through it. It is really using unnecessary materials, space and money

The 3rd pole is most ridicules it is a check in pole it is not handy to be put in this corner. Also it not really in a way that would make you walk fast in a straight line to the trains. I you are in a hurry you need to run in a odd way, also it is bit hidden away in this station compared to the other ones. The other stations have this placed on more visual and easy seen places. Also odd is this one is blue and blend away too much while most I have seen are yellow.

The 4th is totally ridicules that box is to load up your prepaid train card. So what is the problem this machine is actually behind the gates. Which mean when the gates does work and you don't have enough money on your train chip or prepaid card you can't enter through the gates. And there is no way you could upgrade or ad money because they misplace that machine on the wrong side of the gate. You might say the yellow box behind the glass fence is the ticket machine, yes it is but for normal tickets, with that machine you can not upgrade or add money to your prepaid card.

Really allot of the train design in the Netherlands are really lame and stupid, never thought good about. A funny thing I saw this week or actually odd thing is a Doreamon graffiti.
You might think why is this odd, it is odd because Doreamon never aired on the Dutch Television. And most new generations Asians here are too young to remember or still know this character. However it could be if the graffiti painter is from Japan, because Japan used this character before for an championship. But still wonder if the person who painted this is a girl or a guy.

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Chung Dha Lam
留言於2008-12-06 9:48PM

You can actually walk out of the gates with minus value and have to recharge to pass back in. So it does not block you to go outside but inside. Also you can only ad value with that machine and no store can ad money to the cards.

3rd pole is not to check for money because the gate would tell too. And other station does not have that poles next to the machine only this one does.

I know they are pre made but all those new station have those two placed next together next to the gates. They could easily rewired it to the other emergency button. Plus at the moment everyone pushes the extra emergency gate button to open the gates so they can go out faster when it is crowded. If it was rewired with the second pole people would think only when a real emergency happen they should press it.
Etchy
留言於2008-12-06 12:07PM [举报]

probably the add value machine is on the inside because it has to be there for people who don't have enough value on their card to get out of the tickets gate.

(whereas if you are outside you can perhaps top-up your card at a nearby store or at least buy a normal ticket).

pole 3 is probably next to the ticket machine so you can check the value of your card if you can't get out or if you aren't sure if you need to top up.

poles one and two are separate because they're probably pre-made items made by different manufacturers and perhaps not always placed right next to each other at all stations. (perhaps there's one SOS pole per station but one 'emergency open' button at every set of exits).

looking at this from the engineering design perspective, there's some reason to why things are the way they are in this situation...

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Chung Dha is a designer based in Hong Kong / the Netherlands. He studied Packaging Design/ Graphic Design and joined different contest to explore his designing abilities, also he do freelance designs for companies and started his own design company Chung Dha.

2001 - I got my Mavo-D diploma at Aquamarijn Reviusplein.

2002 - I joined Gp500store.co.uk with the nickname LaZy_tJaI. Where I soon learned allot of photo editing skills with Paint Shop Pro and from a friend called GAP. I soon became a well known texture skinner in the community.

Later changed from Paint Shop Pro to Adobe Photoshop to improve my skills in photo editing. Later learned skills to convert models from SEM and Mautorex. And learned 3d studio Max from online tutorials. And made different models and most famed for making helmet models.

This year I went to pre-police academy to train my self so I could join the Police force. But in my free time I became more attracted to the designing things for games. I finished that year and got a diploma but did not applied at the police force.

2003 - I worked as a freelance designer for http://www.brandmerk.com/ where I got the first taste of graphic design in a real company. The first logo I sold was also the logo for this company. This year I also went to study at Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam and was aiming for Animations and Games, but due to too much lessons which I did not needed I left.

2004 - I went to Delft to study Industrial Design at Mon3aan, where I learned problem solving, product design and materials. Studied 2 years before I heard the diploma was for mechanical engineering instead of Industrial Design.

2006 - I found out Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam got a new study direction for Packaging Design and went to study there. This year they improved with much better lesson programs.

2007 - In the summer I joined Design Contest.net and soon became one of the Design Team Members. At Design Contest I could compete with the contests to test my own designing abilities and learn to improve my skills in designing. Also soon won in a contest to design a t-shirt for NFME F-Body Event in Memphis 2008. I also started this blog at the same time when I joined the Design Contest.

2008 - Started well and I won a logo contest directly and it was also my first time I won in a logo contest. The logo is for CircleOfArtists.com and also for Kings Poker.
Also I've been approached by Good Web Practise to design a new logo for their website.

After publishing a post of a bottle prototype I've made with using sliceform technique, I've been contacted by Computer Arts to make a tutorial about it for the special Packaging Design edition.

In the spring I had contact with a friend of mine Arkady from the GP500store days , who actually does game textures for a game called MotoGP08 and ask me if I wanted to join his team. I first gone into a test and actually passed it and also did it well with the needed time. Then I got the job to do the low helmet resolutions textures of the game for the Wii and Playstation 2. I textures allot of the riders from fairly unknown one to the top rider like Rossi, Stoner, Pedrosa and more.

Begin summer started my own design company Chung Dha and officially registered it as a company. Had a summer internship at Jackson Chang in Den Hague.

End of the summer I became a moderator at Design Contest.

In the winter joined a major packaging design contest held by one of Europes biggest packaging company SCA packaging. Only 90 entrees were submitted from all across the world, and in februari of 2009 a shortlist of 5 designers will be choosen to get 2 more weeks to improve his design in a workshop within the design centre of SCA packaging.

2009 - Embarked on a new journey on the opposite side of the world and moved to Hong Kong to have a better environment for my health and also to be able to design for Asian companies.

Came to Hong Kong and met up with allot of artist and designers. In May went to Speak Up and met Alan Leung and became friends and later worked on a toy together. However during the brainstorm and sketch sessions I accidentally made Dai Fu Lou. Now started a brand named Dai Fu Lou and start building up this brand with different products.
And who knows what the future beholds, but I am sure I will be very busy doing allot of designs.
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