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