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project 2

Rationale

Lamps in one form another have been in existence since our Stone Age ancestors utilized rock depressions to place burning natural fibers in animal fat. And Styles of lamps evolved as much out of necessity and function as aesthetics. More than just a convenient way to illuminate a room, lamp has been used to set tone and mood. The indispensable part of decoration of every house is the lamp, it not only used for lighting, also showed the owner’s taste. A good lamp is innovation and sophisticate elegance.

I have chosen the color blue as research of color increase the confidence, reduce pressure and make people feel happy. And the original idea of the lamp is waves which is multilevel and polydirectional. Both the idea connected easily to associate to the beautiful ocean makes us a peaceful feeling. Tapes around bulb make light are not straight out to stimulate our eyes. When the light on, the shadow of lamp is emit 360 degree. This characteristic promotes an overall good ergonomic of the product reason to establish a pleasurable relationship between the product and costumers.

This table lamb which is made of discarded poster. The aim of this product is “upcycling”, which refers to the process deal with things into something similar use or more value to avoid further virgin material extraction and reduce waste build up. Also lamp is easy to assemble, disassemble and re-assemble, easy to delivery.

This daily essential-lamp is designed for consumer to have a more pleasurable product that enriches and enhances their experience while interacting with it.

2 posters cut like 1 + 1 poster cut like 2 make 12 lamps.

Waste1*2 + Waste2

=217230*2+245300

=679760

Wastage=679760 / 1200*1840*3

        =0.1026

        =10.26%

radio reflection

Radio reflection

The radio of what is design by Bill Moggridge is talking about good design and bad design, process and something changing about design. He thinks everything used come cross the world made by man is design. So everything is designed.

He gave some great design from the national design awards. It contains many aspects like building, architecture, graph, fashion clothing, something used in the kitchen. And there are comfortable for everybody. And good design for some disability.

Then he talks about Design disciplines about architecture, furniture design, industrial design, and glassware design.

What is bad design? He showed us a preparation for a house guest. A remote control is covered unused button by paper. And the service of buy a drink using i-mode service is taken to long time. No one will actually to use it.

The key factors in the design process are understanding people and protypeing. Emotional innovation is about brands, relationships, marketing. We start design from people, and then go to business and technology. Design harnesses tacit knowledge, or learning by doing. Design for different people. First is learning to analyze the information you’ve collected. Then look, observe people to find out what they do. Then the asking, you can enlist people’s participation to elicit insights. Then try to create simulations to help empathize with people.

For objects you prototype in a shop, for electronics in a lab. For screen design, you prototype in Macromedia or flash. And Prototyping on 3 stages, inspire, evolve, validate.

Expanding contexts is for design in a connected world. Design is start people to social, then to environment. Personal products expand to health and well being. The design of the places we live expands to social innovation programs.

project 1

Salad tong

This tong is dedicated to clip the salad. This one is painted by white, but there are multiple colours to choice. Salad tongs are a basic kitchen utensil specifically designed for use in mixing, tossing and serving various types of salads. Salad tongs have been around for centuries with versions being found in many ancient archaeological sites and some luxury items found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs. Salad tongs have become more modern by design, but they still function on the same basic premise.

Salad tong is simply an alternative to using your hands, and the long handle of this salad tong and grip of the pincher makes salad tong a sanitary alternative.

The beautiful and smooth line of salad tong, make it open like a flower, gives us a kind of comfortable feeling in visually. When you are holding it, you feel like you are holding something really freely. And the shape of salad tong make it can keep the top of the tong away from desk, a support like this maintain clean of the tong and gap between desk and tong is easily to pick up.

The material of this tong is Polypropylene. Polypropylene (PP) is widely used in kitchen. PP is non-toxic, tasteless, and density is small. PP has good performance of use and high frequency insulation not effect by humidity. PP is Suitable for making general machinery parts, corrosion resistant parts and insulation parts. Common acid, alkali organic solvents almost doesn't work on it, so it is very suitable used in the tong.

This basic kitchen utensil comes in a variety of function, and it can be very useful to have at home.

 

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Video Reflection

The story of stuff shows a system about material economy. First according the text book said is that stuff moves through a system, from extraction to production to distribution to consumption to disposal. All together, it is called the materials economy. And that is not the whole story, and the speaker tracking where our stuff comes from and where it goes.

Every step along the way, this system is interacting with the real world.

In real life it’s not happening on a blank white page.

It’s interacting with societies, cultures, economies, and the environment. People live and work all along this system.

75% of global fisheries now are fished at or beyond capacity.80% of the planet’s original forests are gone. In the Amazon alone, we’re losing 2000 trees a minute. The materials move to “production” and what happens there is we use energy to mix toxic chemicals in with the natural resources to make toxic contaminated products. We are going to keep getting toxics in the stuff that we bring into our homes, and workplaces, and schools, our bodies. And developed country moves the dirty factories overseas pollute someone else’s land! But surprise, a lot of that air pollution is coming right back at us, carried by wind currents.

The primary way that our value is measured and demonstrated is by how much we contribute to this arrow, how much we consume. We shop and shop and shop to keep the materials flowing. Two of their most effective strategies are planned obsolescence and perceived obsolescence. Planned obsolescence is another word for “designed for the dump.”It means they actually make stuff to be useless as quickly as possible. So we will chuck it and buy a new one. And now people see more advertisements in one year than people 50 years ago saw in a lifetime. And if you think about it, what is the point of an ad except to make us unhappy with what we see.3, 000 times a day, we’re told that our hair is wrong, our skin is wrong,

Our clothes are wrong, our furniture is wrong, our cars are wrong, we are wrong. But that it can all is made right if we just go shopping. Media also helps by hiding all of this and all of this, so the only part of the materials economy we see is the shopping.

The extraction, production and disposal all happen outside our field of vision. We burning the garbage release the toxics up into the air. Even worse, it makes new super toxics. Like dioxin.

Because what we really need to chuck is this old-school throw-away mindset. There’s a new school of thinking on this stuff and it’s based on sustainability and equity: Green Chemistry, Zero Waste, Closed Loop Production, There is Renewable Energy, Local living Economies.

It’s already happening. Now some say it’s unrealistic, idealistic, that it can’t happen. But the ones who are unrealistic are those that want to continue on the old path. That’s dreaming.

product sketching

My Design Career

I like something beauty. And I thought if it made by myself, it would make me more happy than do something else. Design brings us a lot of fun. The design made people live better and feel better. Deign is never leave us, it’s everywhere. When you drink, design is a cup, when you eat design is a dish. Good design changes our life. When I saw something unreasonable or uncomfortable, I want to change it. I’d like to change our live better.

I love expressing yourself through products, using line, shape, color, texture and that other entire wonderful thing to share with other people and to create environments that make them feel safe, comfortable and appreciative.

When my dad spruced up our new home, he asked me advices. I did have some good ideas, and he was happy to accept. But when finishing spruced, it still somewhere less than satisfactory. After that I have been thinking what if I can design, and then I can do better. So here I am, leaning industrial design at UNSW.

Industrial design at UNSW is a very good place to provide me knowledge about design, how to think, and create. The teachers give me many good advices, and classmates grow up together.

Design is a kind of cultural inheritance, it show the designer’s thought, background. People can understand the designer through the products.

Design makes people live better, that’s why we need design.