Designing Dream Machines

This vedio shows that the important for designers to understand their design briefs and what they are tyring to achieve.

Designing Dream Machines reflects the importance of the process and the communication between designers,but we should always communicate with our clients or target market to check that our ideas can meet or not.Also designers should know therir

Being an industrial design student,Seymour and Powell influence me that communication could improve our ideas, personal skill, and satisfy our target market.

Peer Comments

1.Gleb Labazine
2.Nianci Liong
3.Menglei Zhang
4.Lucy Zhang
5.Mitch

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Video Reflection: The story of stuff

This vedio remind us to stand up for a change, for a change that is crusual for the sustiability of the earth which led to survival of human being. It reflect the modern lifestyle which produce a lot of unneccessary waste and cost a lot of damage to our environment and people in third world country. If there is no excessive demand, then there will no be extra pollution done to our environment.

The consumer in the developed country will not know how our NEW lifestyle will have impact on the third world country, because all we see is what we want, which is the finish product, the final product which don't show the pollution,suffering of the people in third world country and destruction of the natural environment that is being made during the production line. Because of our excessive demand for goods mostly which we only use for less than 6 months. Yes, we must admit that we need the goods to survive, if we said that we don't need any goods, then we must go back to the stone age which is not very realistic. So we must consume responsiblily to reduce the pollution and destruction cause to the environment. At the same time, we must also promote
green and sustiable product to save the planet for further distruction. For example, solar energy product, recycle paper, ethanol... At such, we will be able to break the current linear material economy line.

It is very interesting where Annie said that the government job is to watch out for us and to take care of us, it is their job! This is very important, government should not just helping the major corporation when making policy, they shall put the genaral population into consideration too.

At last, the survival of the earth and human being is in our hand. It all depend on how we use the earth resources and how we adjust our life style to ensure a better earth tomorrow.

http://www.storyofstuff.com/

Peer Comments

1,Fanru Wang
2,Cho HyoJu
3,Maria EunJi Park
4,Susana Li
5,Jonathan Biet

Project Two: Postal Presents

Ross Lovegrove

Ross Lovegrove- his philosophy is DNA- Design/ Nature/ Art. He is the translator of modern technology to the products we use everyday using mostly organic materials and related them beautifully with nature.

He believes in paying respect to the things we dig out from the earth and use them wisely. He even thinks of making things with flower, sugar, polymer, wood chips or even human hairs. This is a very interesting idea because if human can use all organic materials in making products, then the pollution problem will be resolve. He also look into the details of everything: the structure of the bones, how plastic molecules are form, the structure of the silicon etc. Just like how nature design by taking away everything it don’t need and let it develop it maximum beauty. Ross tries to create energy in invention in his studio everyday to deliver new idea to the world. He deems that passion for design is very crucial to the success as a designer. That is true, because no great achievement can be achieve without the injection of passion in it. There aren’t many designers like him who will follow his instinct in developing idea. Ross work purely with his instinct, even if he known with the currently technology, some shapes, form or products are not possible to create, he will still create it if his instinct tells him that it is possible. This might make Ross create some fabulous and unique products but it also makes him a bit unrealistic sometimes. For example, when Sony asked Ross how to beat Apple, Ross tell them to get into bio-polymer and Ross idea was denied. Because with the high cost of bio-polymer, the products make from it will be more expensive and it will not help to compete in the market.

Overall, Ross is correct that designer shall follow their instinct because instinct has no limit and boundaries, design is about uniqueness and special and instinct is one of the elements to achieve that.