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Richard Seymour + Dick Powell: Designing dream machines

This video focuses on the real life experiences of industrial designers and gives us insight of the kinds of up and downs that we as designers will need to experience to become true designers.

Many lessons can be learnt from this video as working with other designers can be a fun and an enjoyable experience when developing new products but while at it, we must also still consider the consumers in which we are designing for.

Furthermore, it isn't until designers truly have the passion to design with a determined will and purpose that they will produce products that will give pleasure to both the designer themselves and the people who will use the products.

Annie Leonard: The story of stuff

Watching this video made me feel like I was back in history and geography class while still studying in high school only difference was that it wasn't as bad as those classes. There was a lot there to take in but it was all quite interesting and true. It also made me realize how the manufacturing and consumer industry works around the world because as a young consumer myself, I spend my time buying things unconciously sometimes.

So with the help of this video, it made me realize how much the world needs to change in its production and disposing of products that have been developed for consumers. It also makes me feel quite guilty as being a victim of corporate companies whose purpose is only to make its consumers spend, spend, and spend even more without caring for where it all comes from and where it goes to afterwards.

Ross Lovegrove: The power and beauty of organic design

This video absolutely opened up my mind and transported me into a new and facinating world of organic design. It felt like I was taken away from the industrial world we know of today and being teleported into a future world of new and out of the world discoveries and technologies.

There was just too many ideas and images that were packed into just twenty minutes which made me want to grasp for more! From Lovegrove's water bottle, then to his sculptures and then lastly to his studio which absolutely blew my mind!

His design of the water bottle looks absolutely unique and stunning as it highlights the rich environment of which water comes from and creates with its high and rich qualities that it displays. Then his table in which its legs come down from the table itself was just boggling!

But he saved the last for least as his studio exhibits and new and profound world of pure genius and imagination that in which highlights the profound qualities of organic design.

Therefore from this video I had learnt many things such as the shapes and design of organic design and how precious and vital that is it for industrial to incorporate the qualities of the organic world into the future of design.

Project Three: Upcycling Unwanteds

For this assignment I chose to design a picture frame stand that targets anyone who is wanting to have a new and unique way of displaying their photo frames in their living spaces.

To achieve this, I started by visiting 'reverse garbage' where I went to find some materials in order to come up with an idea of what to make. It was here that I found objects such as discards cd cases, vinyl records, and empty film reels, and lots of mosaic left over tiles. These objects gave me the idea to make picture frames out of the cd cases and the mosaic tiles. It wasn't until I found the bamboo stick that I came up with the idea of creating a stand to place the picture frames in. Therefore, the final idea was to make a picture frame stand using all the objects that I found and create this product.

So the way in which it works is that once you place the picture frames in between the vinyl records, you are able to turn the vinyl record around which reveals the other picture frames that are located on the other side. So picture this, you walk into your friends house and notice them having this picture frame stand. You then go and take a look at it and try to turn the vinyl records around. When you do, you would find a nice surprise of having to see more photos of your friends which were kind of hidden on the other side.

The final design ties in with a vintage concept that tries to show how discarded objects can be turned into something much more useful.

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Flat Packed CD Rack

For this assignment, I chose to design a flat packed CD rack which targets all music lovers. Its main purpose is to be able to be put anywhere in the house or living space so that the user is able to change the position of the cd rack whenever he/she gets bored of the existing position.

The first initial design was to make the cd rack hangable from wall which is something you don't see everyday. But then just one wouldn't be enough so I decided to add more cd racks so that they hang from the ceiling. Although after consultation, I came to realise that by having it like this, cds will easily fall out of the rack. Thus, making this design very bad and annoying.

In the end I decided to make the cd rack so that it lies normally on a flat surface. There was to be two cd racks that would be joined to make one large cd rack to provide more space to store cds.

The sheet material that I have chosen to use for the cd rack is polypropelene as it very bendable and can form into a wide variety of shapes and sizes. Whereas the fasteners that I used to join each piece together was press studs as it is very strong and durable which prevents the cd rack to collapse or fall apart.

Therefore the transformation from 2D to 3D is very easy as you only need to connect the press studs together although it can be quite time consuming with the amount of press studs that will need to be connected with one another. But nevertheless, I hope this product would satisfy the user if they were to receive it in the mail XD.

Bad Design - Portable Vacuum Cleaner

For this task, I had already known of what product I was going to talk about which was this portable vacuum cleaner. I had stumbled across it while I was at church one day as I was told to vacuum the floor. But once I had put it on, I immediately came across the problem of not knowing where the switch for it was. So for about a few minutes, I was searching for the switch cluelessly and it wasn't until my friend told me where it was that I finally found it - which was right at the lower part of the vacuum cleaner where I saw a tiny switch.

Therefore after that little scenario, I was extremely agitated that it took me that long just to find the switch so for this task I have chosen this badly designed portable vacuum cleaner. So if I was to redesign this product, I would firstly change the colour of the switch to the colour red as it stands out a lot and allows the user to notice it instantly. I then would definitely change the location of the switch and put it on the upper part of the vacuum cleaner where it is instantly noticeable for the user. Lastly, I would change the shape and size of the strap so that the user can turn it off and on more easily.

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Project One: Experience Enrichment

THE "CHAP"STICK

Guys, have you ever been on public transport or in an expensive restaurant and notice that your lips are starting to get dry? And that the only solution is to apply some chapstick on your lips as if your applying some lipstick on your lips? I know we've all been there and done it and for decades the only solution to this problem was to create chapsticks that were "labelled" to be for men. But the problem was that they still looked the same as normal chapsticks and you still had to apply it as it were a lipstick! So of course guys don't want that feminine image to be brought upon themselves and therefore, my aim for this project was to design a new kind of chapstick that would be made just for men!


It wasn't an easy task to do since I had to research on various issues such as male hand gestures, different kinds of lips of different cultures, existing chapsticks, and so on. But once I had finished analyzing my research, I was able to come up with a final design that hopes to make the existing chapstick into a more 'manly' one. This had been succeeded by designing the chapstick to have a curved shaped so that they way in which the user uses the chapstick is horizontally towards the lips. Preety hard to picture aye? Well just think of when a rugby player places a mouth guard into their mouths. Yes just like that so the outer layer of the chapstick was designed to have a similar shape to a normal mouth guard but instead making it more simple by just having a nice curve shape. Also, the use of the colour which was black, silver and gold, further highlights the bold and masculine look of the chapstick. But what's different with the function of this chapstick is that the actual chapstick which is applied to the lips, is in liquid form which means that the user has to press the front part of the chapstick in order for the liquid to come out.


This chapstick is aimed for men of all ages as it hopes to give pleasure to men as it helps give them more confidence of applying a chapstick without feeling feminine anymore. It will also create a talking point with their guy friends as the design of this chapstick is totally different from the standard existing chapsticks and that it is a lot more 'manly'.

As for the materials that it would be made out of, well the main focus of my research was to find materials that were all eco-friendly ie, recyclable. So as I researched different kinds of plastics, i narrowed it down to the most efficient and recyclable which were HDPE and PVC as they are the most common forms of plastics that are recyclable. The other material i researched for was rubber. Rubber is a very complex material to recycle so there wasn't much that i could find except for rubber mulch. Rubber mulch is 100% recycled from car tires and is used for padding in children playgrounds. This means that this type of material would be very efficient as it is shock proof and very durable.

Therefore, I really hope that the design of the "Chap"stick really helps all men feel more confident about themselves as they apply it throughout their everyday lives.

Yves Behar: Creating objects that tell stories

Ok now seriously, my opinion of this video is that the designer Yves Behar talks about too many irrelevant things during this video. He firstly talks about what he should really be talking about throughout the entire video which is "creating objects that tell stories" but this only goes on for about 2-3 minutes. He then switches topic and starts talking about what he made back when he was still a teenager which completely goes off the main topic already. So for the next couple of minutes he just starts talking about products that he had been designing for companies.

Only after the second half of the video does he actually start to kind of get back on the topic but instead of talking about objects that tell stories, it becomes "creating objects that come from values". It starts from the organic drink bottle product which turns into a game, to the free laptop for each child in developing countries, and then lastly to the free condom machines in NYC. These all bring about values of environment and humanitarian aid to the human society but stil not too sure about each product being able to tell stories.

Furthermore, I'm not sure if industrial designers will learn much from this video other than keeping values when designing, because even if there are iconic products in this, I'm not too sure what kind of stories they would be able to tell once obtained.

Don Norman - Emotional Design

Have you ever dreamed of owning and driving those classic sport cars or putting on those expensive "Rolex" watches? Well I'm sure mostly everyone has once in their lifetimes or maybe even throughout their whole lifetimes, but do you actual realise why you envy to have those treasured items? Well in this video, Don Norman explains to us how there are three aspects in which makes up the "emotional design" that becomes a part of our lives everytime we purchase a new product. These three aspects are visceral, behavioural, and reflective design.

Through this video, I've learned that those three aspects of "emotional design" each correlate with each other as a way of making it a criteria. This is because if we're not happy with the visceral aspects of a product, we move onto the behavioural aspect of the design and if that fails the criteria too, it just leads to the last aspect of reflective design.

Therefore it is in this video that i've mainly learnt that we as humans choose to purchase products based on our likes and dislikes and bluntly in which whether or not the product looks good or not. So this video would be a very good resource for industrial designers as it tells them that what users want in a product isn't always initially of what the product can do but instead, of how appealing it is to them and to others around them.

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Youtube link: - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlQEoJaLQRA&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fides1031-2009.blogspot.com%2F2009_07_01_archive.html&feature=player_embedded#t=705

GOOD DESIGN TASK

My thoughts on this award-winning product? Well overall this research machine device is a preety innovative product as it helps solve crime scenes and help scientists with researching various substances and materials that are new to them. So yeah this product is quite a useful product to use and in terms of its design and look....it is quite appealing as it fits with the whole scientific look concept that in which its target market who are mainly researchers, can associate with its design concept.

Overall, I have learned a couple of things about design during this task such as the various design principles and elements in which before I haven't really learned much about or maybe just forgotten XD. Plus I haven't used photoshop for a couple of years now so its good that I started to use it again as it will help me in future assignments tasks.

Have you ever walked into a clothing shop and wondered how the clothes you pick would actually look on someone? Or have you ever had the desire to turn your working office into a space that you would actually enjoy going to each day? Well famed industrial designer David Kelley has been able to provide humans with solutions to just some of those everyday dilemmas we experience everyday. He does this through his focus on "human - centred" design which puts emphasis on human behaviours and emotions and intertwines these concepts with his designs when designing new products.

So one of the first innovations that is shown in the video is of the new and creative innovative technologies that have been incorporated into the Prada clothing shop in New York. The technology that is incoporated in the shop allows the customers to have a more thorough look at what they are browsing for example, the staff device allows customers to take a look at what clothes they are interested in purchasing by displaying what they look like on models on the runway. The "magic mirror" technology is also a smart and innovative technology which solves a long time problem for customers in the past since back in the old days, you wern't able to see what you looked like with the clothes you were trying on, therefore this innovation solves the problem by having a 3 second delay to give the customer maximum satisfaction on deciding what to get and not to get.

The next "human - centred" innovation is seen in the London Science Museum where it shows a digitally interactive wall that is visually mesmerizing but also incorporates the human emotion aspect with the design. This had been done as words come start to appear in a straight moving line across different directions on the wall, each displaying a different feedback from its various visitors. This innovation not only helps the museum obtain feedback, but it also reflects on future visitors as it provides them anonymous feedback from their fellow peers.

Now for decades, the office cubicle has been a workplace that has shown to create major boredom and lifeless emotions as everyday is a repetitive cycle with countless reports and documents being read and filled out in that tiny space called WORK. So in this video, it shows how a normal company office had undergone a dramatic make-over of its office cubicles. Each worker had been asked to design their own space of what they would like their space to look like. Through this process, human emotions and behavious had been incoporated into objects such as walls and both living and non-living objects to give each object a human-like behaviour. This idea not only makes the office workplace a more enjoyable place to work in, but it also captivates the emotions and feelings of the workers as they are able to express their inner desires and opinions through products.

Therefore, this video would be important for industrial designers as it assesses and analysizes how the aesthetics and looks of designing products aren't always what the consumer market are drawn to these days in the 21st century, since human based emotions and behaviors play a more vital part in solving everyday situations when considered more while developing and designing new and innovative products.

Picture obtained from: - http://www.experientia.com/blog/ideos-david-kelley-wins-edison-award-for-innovation/

Youtube link: - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXndL3TNCmo&eurl

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