Designing dream machines

Richard Seymour and Dick Powell showed the process of making stuffs from ideas to products in the video. It pointed out that relationship between designers and clients was important. Designers should communicate well with the clients and had a good understanding of their ideas. Also, It taught me the ways of solving problems at the designing process, and how to finish the product which meet the clients’ needs. At the first stage of being an industrial designer, I saw the life and designing process in the video, like seeing my future, it was inspirable and exciting.

Peers comment

Julian Chow

Jill Darbey

Jennifer Widjaja

Nicholas Walder

Cori Eom

Project 3: Upcycling unwanteds

Material: buckles, sliver cardboard roll

Rationale: Buckle can be an waste in clothes industry. The traditional way of using it was to use it as the fastener or tool for adjusting belts' length. My design was to make it a bag because there are many ways of connecting buckles, and the pattern of buckle is quite good. My way of connecting the buckle is like kniting, use the cardboard band as the thread. The reason of choosing sliver cardboard is that it can hold up the bag and the color is good. Only stapler was used to connect the band.

Video Reflection: The story of stuff

The video was showing the the process of making stuffs. And the main point I thought was the worry that put to the enviornment. I agreed with this point because production process did do something with the enviornmental pollution. It told me that when we were disigning products, we have to think of the manufacutring process and the materials we used. I think industrial designer is an important role in protecting the enviornment, because what we are doing connects the manufacturers and consumers. As Annie Leonard said, the important thing that lacks in the graph is people. Designer, manufacturer and consumer are people that can change the enviornment. And maybe in the future, we can design the behaviors of people by our products.


Annie Leonard: the story of stuff

Peer Comments

Emily White

Allisa Sanders

Hyo-Ju Cho

Christopher Hui

Jen Jun Zhu

Project 3: Postal Present

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Materials: MDF, Japanese washi paper, Wire


Design Rationale:

The flat lamp is easily made by setting the wood frame and placing the flat shade inside. The shade is made up by Japanese Washi paper and wire. For it is a postal present, I was thinking that give some surprise to the receiver. The shade was packed like a present, and it popped up after releasing the ties. The reason of chosing Japanese paper was that light is gentle and soft reflecting through the paper. It gives people a relaxing feeling. Besides, the paper is beautiful even after crumpled.


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Video Reflection: Organic design

Organic is a confusing word for me. I know that it is about nature, but when i design something thinking about nature, the things came out were not organic. After Ross Lovegrove's talk, I began to realize what is organic and how to make organic design.

Ross began with his concept: DNA(design, nature, art). He introduced his way of organic design, which is to get inspiration from nature, and explore the form and shape of natural things. In the first example, Ross was inspired by his instinctive impression of water, which was a form made by few curvy lines. He translated this impression into a water bottle design without knowing that if it was possible. The final product looked beautiful and natural, capturing the essence of water but also performing well. That was design with nature and art, and it was so succussful because it explored the nature in artistic form first and then thought about the design.

After the video, I think feeling the natural world is really important for organic design. We may have some ideas or impression of nature, like water,air,or stones. If we really feel the way they act or exist in this world, we can translate what we feel into articsic forms or by ways we think it will work. What Ross taught me was to make nature design, but not designing with nature. We always begin with the things we want, but a translated natural artistic form can be many designs for us. And the things we want are just some ones inside them. Also, organic design is not only about forms and shapes of nature, but also the ways that nature acts. Just like the "bones chair" that Ross showed, it captured the ways that how bones were connected.

Ross said, Industrial design is the art form of 21th century. What we should to is to improve our artistic sense and work instinctively.

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