Task 6: The story of bottled water

The story of bottled water, tell us the story of manufactured demand-how you get Americans to buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week when it already flows from the tap.

The phenomenon of people buying bottled water instead of tap water is very common, due to its flexibility convenience and attractiveness, and all the commercial effect illustrate us that bottled water is healthier and tastier. However have we ever thought every time we buy a bottled water we create more waste and the bottle never can be 100% recycled in reality. and from the video that shows us bottled water is not as fantasy as in the commercial, it even taste worth than tap water, from the research. That brings me thing in depth, what is the reason we keep buying the bottled water,personally i think it due to its convenience. When i feel thirsty in the university, i would prefer go to nearest shop to buy a bottled water rather than looking for a tap and refilling my water bottle. and i suggest university or other public places should provide more tap water drinking place.

the video also covered the topic of how to take back the tap and how we can support investments in clean, available tap water for all. In some developed countries drinking bottled water is not appreciated anymore it just as bad as smoking in the public, people think it is a way of pollution, this phenomenon up grated to a social norm, which is good way to encourage people not buying bottled water.

we only have one plant, and it can not afford any more pollutions, everyone should take effort to protect our planet, therefore let's drink tap water instead of bottled water.

Task 5: Design for life

design for life is a great TV show, it is a competition between 12 young designers who are chosen by world famous designer Philippe Starke, the winner will stay and work for him. The mean idea of the series, according to starke, the winner will stay and work for him. The mean idea the series, according to starck, he thinks that the brits haven't had a new natonal design aesthetic since terence conran opened his first branch of habitat in the early 1960s. Therefor this time is a great opportunity to learn from him, both competitors and audiences. ' I shall open the zip of myself and say 'now take what you want'.

In the serious, i noticed that there has a strong trend in the future that product design is no longer for something expensive and aesthetic aspect, it is for people everywhere in order to satisfied Haman's need in an sustainable ways. As an designer, you need to consider the value of the product, if it's really need to be exist in the market, there has already too many useless products and our planet cannot afford it anymore. And 'you don't make good design if you think about design' said by starke, ' you make good design if you speak about life, sex, flesh, sweat.' that means to understand the subject, designers need to have lived a bit, you cannot simply design product with imagination.

The competition gave us an good understanding of how the design process went through, you firstly go on an internal search which is your own experiences and cultural influences, then go out for external search to refine your ideas, after that you will go for more specific technique supporting of your design,then you need to communicate with your target group in order to make sure meets their need. After several times of refine idea, then model prototype and whole other processes will support your final design communication. It is very important that you have a good time management and communication with others.

project 2: Organiq Bin

our product is organic bin which designed for community garden.

a total new area of exploration, before this design process i have no idea about 'community garden', and i knew if you want design a good product you have to understand about it, you need to put yourself into that situation, to explore what is the consumer really want, therefor, Newsha and i went to the community garden, and we both got inspired a lot , we talked to the people who work in there and asked them about suggestions.

then back to the work shop, under the instruction of community garden, our group came up hips of new ideas and it helped us a lot with our further development, therefore experiment in community garden is worthful!~

final product

Something for funnnnnnnn~

designed by Japanese

Nice sweet design

Creative public service ads

This is an interactive environmental ads, the picture which placed on the footpath, is a shrivelledtree. On the two side of this picture, is placed green paint, while people walking cross the picture, the green paint will paint on the picture. The tree will getting greener and alive again. In the way of educate people that we can make our environment green through our foot, in other words, the more we walk (instead of driving) the more we protect the environment.

project 1

Design for maritime disaster



In the maritime disaster, the most challenging thing for people is that how to survive in such wicked environment. From the research shows that, keep victims’ temperature is extremely important. At 0° C, people only last 15 min, at 5° C, will become 3 hours, if its above 15 ° C, victims can survive almost 10 hours. Compare to other disasters, maritime disaster has its own difficulty of surviving, most of the time victims are in the sea, they hard to find pure water and gathering food, and from the research, people can survive for 7 days without food, but without water, people can only last 3 days. Therefore water is an important issue.The product I designed is focus on the area of food supply, which allows the people carry their food and water in a convenient way.

Life-saving box Aim: allows people to carry food and water, which keep them basic need supplemented.Features: light weight, hand free, convenient, self buoyant.The life-saving box is formed by two parts, the box and the base. The box is made of PET, which allows water filled in the middle section of the box, and two sides which contains the energy bar, and life saving applicants, such as touch, personal belonging. To make sure the box is water proof, firstly, for the two sides, I inspirited the idea of lunch box, on the lid of box, and there has a silicon seal, which compress the air, and blocking the water. Secondly, for the water container, there has a straw, which allows people easy to drink water, especially when people floating in the sea. And it contains 2L water which last 4~5 days. The base are made by EVA, which allows to support the box floating, and it has good ability of water proof and light in weight.Lift-saving box are normally placed next to lift vest, or mounted on the wall.

charette 2

Breville toster

The key problem for this toaster is heavy and big. Therefore we try to reduce the overall weight by replacing material. The original design were used aluminium, we changed it into PP. In addition, we wanted to remove some unnecessary components and rearrange some of the buttons, in order to reduce the size.

here are the components from toster

Our redesign

Charette 1

IKEA IVAR chair

Our redesign

Our solution for Ikea chair, would increase the emotional attachment of the user. Compare to the old Ikea chair, we added an adaptable backrest and seat pan to achieve the comfort need.Our redesign chair are made by treated plywood, and come in separate components for ease of packaging. They are easy to assembly, which you just clicks into the pre existing slots of Ikea chair.The redesigned chair would suit for all-purpose. From sustainable view, the costumer allow to swap parts of the pre existing chair.

Physio-attachiment

from the back of the chair, you can change the picture,

which personalise their chair, allows the costomer be creative.one-piece comfort attachment, which compensate the lack the old IKEA chair.

pysio-attachment

it is a light cover attachment, once people seat on the chair it will turn on with soft warm light,

and it is mainly targeted for children they play with,as a 'magic chair'.

by adding wheels, the chair is no longer a chair, it could be a tool or a trolley, that children can play with.and the wheels could simpling click on the chair anywhere you want.

Have you ever look at your house, do you have any electrics that you bought never use them? Do you have any clothes you only wear few times? Have you thrown the food that because of the bad taste? My answer is yes. And I guess most of us would say yes. But why would that happen to us, why are we keep buying things that we don’t really need. One reason for that would be our human desire, we never satisfied by what are we had. And the media keep persuading and trying to evoke our desire needs, therefore we keep buying stuff, the producer keep producing more products, and the marketers gain the benefit through it, and then the products are left behind become useless, and up in land fried.
That is the reality of marketing, and this reality in the video said has reach to the limit which our planet can afford. Because the people who gain the profit through production, they never think about the whole product life cycle, and environmental issues. Nowadays we going to pay the price for that, all that tragedies from global warming, natural disasters, human diseases in the video, are really heart-touching and shocking.

We can see from the diagram. I was shocked by how fast the disasters grows, especially recent years. As the technology grows rapidly, we trying to find other planet we can live with. However, so far, the only planet we can live with is our earth. And our earth can no longer afford human pollutions, to protect our earth is everyone’s responsible!

objectified

In our daily life, we concentrate on our works, families, socials. We frustrated by the pressures, we complaining about too much works, we try to put as much effort as we can to achieve our goals. In that such high speed rhythm everyday, have we ever stoped? Have ever look at the things around us? One plain ordinary chair, but can comfort us for whole day. One little memory canister can cheer you up, one good bed can relive your stresses.

“Every object has a story, if you could read it” according to Henry Ford, they are the creature of designers, designers talk though their “mouth”. however have we ever listen to the story. Like the example in the video, an tooth picker, once you break the bottom part, it becomes an toothpick rest , easy simple design. I never realise that until I watched that video, even though I can not remember how many times I used toothpicker.
This example also lead me into another question area, “what is good design?”. According to Dieter Rams “a good design should be innovative, make a product useful aesthetic design, make a product understandable, is honest….” personally, I think for a product to achieve all of these aspects are very hard, but as a designer, you need to know what is your priority, I think a good design should solve people’s problem, to satisfies human need. For example, a person who is in the middle class, wants to buy a Honda jazz, because Jazz is cheap in prise, save petrol, and less service fee, It satisfied his need, for him, Honda jazz is good design. However from design point of view, Honda jazz uses cheap parts, not strong enough, narrow in space compare to BMW, but that person would never buy a BMW.

As a designer , we have responds to design good things to customers, to bring convenience and satisfactions to them, however we also have responds to the whole society, which is the environmental issue, we need to protect our planet. The sustainability is a big issue in the future that we have to considerate.

TASK 1: Ecological Footprint