Peer comments: Postal present

Claudia Zhang
Shanshan Wang
Danielle Taouk
Greg Shar
Vivian Shao

Bad Design

Postal Present

(sorry for the colour on my posters again, but i really dont know why and how to fix this problem.)

I did a clock for my postal present project. It is made of polyproperlyne and felted wool, they are joined by velcro dots. The numbers on the clock can be adjusted to any angle the users like. So it is a fun clock to use.

Upcycling: peer comment

Julian Chow
Julia Xiao
Danielle Taouk
Stanley Wong
Shanshan Wang

Upcycling

(i dont know why, but somehow the blue areas in the poster turned into orange, and the oranges turned into blue after i uploaded the poster on here.)

Anyways...

I chose to upcycle take away containers, because i found that they're everywhere and very hard to get rid of. I played with different shapes and sizes of them. And i thought i could make good use of its transparent quality by making a room divider. They are joint together by wires. It's best to hang it somewhere with sunshine.

Richard Seymour + Dick Powell: Designing dream machines

This video showed each stages of how a product design process is, from research all the way to manufacture. By showing 3 different projects they had, the bsa scooter, the india scooter and the kettle+food mixer set, it showed that the importance of communication. First stage of the design process is research, you'll need to talk to your target consumer, the manufacturer, your client as well as research. Then you'll need to make communicating sketches, which can fully explain your ideas to your client. If your client approved, you'll have to make welly done foam models, which can communicate with yourself and fellow designers to see what can be improved. After that you'll make need to make a functional model that you can present to your client that shows what the real thing will be like. Every step in the design process is about how to communicate your ideas to your client, your co-workers and yourself. Even the final product is to communicate to your target consumer.
It was amazing to see how Seymour and Dick make so well communicated sketches and models. As well as the no limit brain storm session at the beginning of the video. As a first year industrial design student, this video is important for us to watch because it showed us how a designers design process should be and it told us how important "communication" is for design.

Annie Leonard: The story of stuff

URL: http://storyofstuff.com/

This video is surely an alarm, a reminder for everyone what we are doing everyday are harming out own earth. Annie is right that, we won't be aware how harmful it is until we know the whole story. Especially the example of the $4.90 radio. I guess everyone like bargain and good quiality stuff, but have we ever think how can things be so cheap? Nope?! After watching the video, as a consumer and a industrial designe student myself, it reminded me alot of things as well as opened up my mind. As a consumer, we should buy what we really need rather than buying just to follow trends. Cause we buy in, we throw out, and the sufferer will only be us or our further generations. As for designers, rather than trying to deisgn stuff to tempt people keep buying new ones, should think more about sustainability and how to make things environmental friendly. We dont need that much material to make us happy, to have good lifes.