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.