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.