Design Intelligence for Creative Economy - ADI

DICE Prep Course · Day 9 — DICE Delicacy Dish
What would your personality taste like?
On Day 9, our students took on one of the most playful and personal challenges yet: the DICE Delicacy Dish. The brief asked them to reinterpret their own personality as a delicacy, crafting an imaginary dish using a range of different materials.
It was also a day of firsts. Students stepped into visual communication design for the very first time, learning how to turn an abstract idea, who they are, into something others can see, read, and understand. Along the way, they were introduced to the documentation process and the art of storyboarding, mapping their concept from first thought to final presentation.
The result was a studio full of dishes that no menu could ever hold. A bold flavor for a bold character. A layered build for a complex mind. Every plate became a self-portrait.
This is where design becomes storytelling. Before you can communicate an idea to the world, you first have to learn to express yourself, and today, our students served exactly that.
One step closer to design school. 🍽️

โรงเรียนบ้านอ่างเตย, in collaboration with the School of Architecture, Art, and Design, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, organized the “พี่สอนน้อง” workshop under the Equitable Education Fund Thailand

This meaningful collaboration was led A.Pat Pattarapongmanee who led students from two international programs:

🎓 Bachelor of Design Program in Design Intelligence for Creative Economy
🎓 Bachelor of Science Program in Architecture

💡 Turning differences into the power of learning.

These memorable moments reflect a shared learning space between our university students and the students of โรงเรียนบ้านอ่างเตย, where ideas and experiences were exchanged to further develop valuable local products.

Behind each creative work lies a story of growth, limitless potential, and lasting friendship. 💖

We invite everyone to send encouragement and continue following the children’s creative works in the upcoming activities.

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DICE Prep Course Day 8 Part 2 — Mono Printing with Foliage
From the workshop bench to the printing table.
In the second half of Day 8, our students explored the art of mono printing, using leaves, stems, and natural foliage as their subject. Each print is one of a kind, a single impression that can never be repeated exactly the same way.
Working with ink, pressure, and the delicate textures of real plants, students learned to see the beauty in the unexpected. Every vein, edge, and imperfection became part of the image. The result is a process that rewards experimentation over control, and curiosity over perfection.

DICE Prep Course Day 8 — Wood Workshop Training
Today, ideas meet the machine.
After a day of modular thinking, our students moved into the wood workshop to learn the foundations of making with their own hands. Day 8 was all about safety, tools, and technique, the essential skills every designer needs before turning a concept into a real object.
Led by Ajarn Pat, students rotated through the workshop stations, getting hands-on with the equipment and learning how to handle materials with confidence and care. From measuring and marking to cutting and finishing, they discovered that good making starts with respect for the tools and the process.
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DICE Prep Course · Day 7 — External Workshop: Rule-Based Assemblies
Today the studio gets bigger, and so does the thinking.
For Day 7, our students step into a special external workshop led by guest studio SUPERNATURES Super.Natures , the experimental design practice behind the HXL tool-less modular system.
The theme: Rule-Based Assemblies, where small building blocks grow into full micro-architecture.
The idea is simple but powerful. Instead of designing from the top down with a fixed shape in mind, students build from the bottom up. By developing a clear "connection syntax," a set of rules for how interlocking X and H components lock together, they discover how simple parts can generate surprisingly complex spaces.
Across the day, the work scales up in three moves:
Furniture Scale — group blocks into a functional seating cluster strong enough to hold a real person
Micro-Architecture Scale — draw program cards from a lottery (a kiosk, a shelter, a playground) and adapt the system to fit
Spatial Fusion — combine every cluster into one cohesive micro-architectural environment
Students work across two scales at once: small 3D-printed kits for rapid testing, and full-scale plywood blocks to test real stability, load, and human interaction.
This is design intelligence in its truest form. Clear limits become creative opportunities, and a single block becomes a whole world.
One step closer to design school. 🧩
🙏 Special thanks to SUPERNATURES and Ajarn. Tj for this amazing experience.

DICE Prep Course · Day 6 — Color Theories & Technique
After building their drawing fundamentals and ideation techniques, our students turned to color. Day 6 dove into color theory and hands-on technique, working across poster color, acrylic, and marker.
The work laid out here, from gradient studies and color scales to fully rendered compositions, shows students learning to control value: the play of highlight, midtone, and shadow that gives an image depth and life. Each medium asked something different, from the flat coverage of poster color to the layering of acrylic and the precision of marker.
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Day 5 — DICE Prep Course
Creative Thinking & Ideation
After a few days of drawing, today we shifted from the hand to the mind, with a session on creative thinking and ideation.
This is the part of design people rarely see. Before any sketch, any model, any finished piece, there is the question of what to make in the first place. Ideation is the work of generating possibilities, holding several at once, and resisting the urge to settle on the first idea that arrives. For a designer, that is the main ingredient. The drawing skills carry an idea forward, but ideation is where the idea comes from.
What we want students to learn early is that good ideas are rarely a single flash of inspiration. They come from quantity before quality, from asking better questions, from looking at a problem sideways instead of head on. Today they practiced pushing past the obvious answer to find the third, fourth, and tenth one, because that is usually where the interesting work lives.

Once the semester opens, every brief they receive will start here. A project is only ever as strong as the thinking behind it, and the students who learn to generate freely now will have far more to work with when the real problems arrive.
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Day 4 — DICE Prep Course
Quick Watercolor Sketches
Today the course moved from line to color, with a session on quick watercolor studies.
For a designer, watercolor is really about making decisions at speed. Working fast and loose builds the same discipline design asks for. You commit to a choice, see how it lands, and keep going instead of fussing over every detail. That habit shows up everywhere in design work, and the students who build it now will move with a lot more confidence later.
Color matters here too, and not as a finishing touch. The way warm and cool tones sit together, how a single wash sets the mood, how contrast pulls the eye where you want it. These are the same ideas behind a brand palette, an interface, or a room. Once the semester opens and the projects get bigger, this is the instinct they will lean on again and again.

Parent Orientation & Student Orientation for Year 1 Students
School of Architecture, Art, and Design, KMITL
We warmly welcome our Year 1 students, parents, and guardians to the orientation activities for the 2026 academic year.

Parent Orientation
📅 Saturday, 20 June 2026
🕐 09:00–12:00 — KMITL Main Auditorium Hall
Location : https://maps.app.goo.gl/s7Qca5QR2FmcPDZs8
🕒 13:00–15:00 — Prasomrangsiroj Hall, School of Architecture, Art, and Design
🕒 15:00–16:30 — 3rd Floor, Main Lecture Building, Room 315, School of Architecture, Art, and Design (DICE - BE.I)
Parents and guardians are kindly requested to register in advance so that we can best facilitate you during the event.
Registration form:
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Student Orientation
📅 Monday, 22 June 2026
🕘 09:00–12:00 — Prasom Rangsiroj Hall, School of Architecture, Art, and Design
🕐 13:00–16:00 — 3rd Floor, Main Lecture Building, Room 315,School of Architecture, Art, and Design
Please note that the 22 June Student Orientation is for students only. Parents and guardians do not need to attend this session. A registration link will be sent to students privately.
We look forward to welcoming you to the School of Architecture, Art, and Design, KMITL.
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Day 3 — DICE Prep Course
Sceneries
Yesterday we worked on perspectives and quick sketches. Today we stepped back and took in the whole view — full sceneries.
A scene asks more of you than a single object ever could. Suddenly everything is talking to everything else: the building against the sky, the tree breaking the line, the road pulling you into the distance.
Nothing stands alone, and that's the lesson.
Drawing a scene is really an exercise in choices. What do you keep? What do you let fall away? Where do you want the eye to land first, and where does it travel next? Every mark is a decision about attention.
That instinct — knowing what belongs and what to leave out — is the heart of design itself. It's the same judgment behind a clean poster, a clear interface, a street that feels right to walk down. A good designer isn't someone who can draw everything. It's someone who knows what matters.
Today, our students practiced exactly that: looking at a busy world and deciding what to say about it.