Task 2 & Task 4 comments

task 2

http://lilynguyen1506.blogspot.com/2010/08/my-design-career.html

http://baejin.blogspot.com/2010/08/task-2-my-design-career.html

http://elbobbino.blogspot.com/2010/08/my-design-career.html

http://bjcyc.blogspot.com/2010/08/my-design-career.html

http://guyuliang1990.blogspot.com/2010/08/my-career.html

task 4

http://viviensides1013.blogspot.com/2010/08/task-4-design-excellent.html#comments

http://baejin.blogspot.com/2010/08/task-4-design-excellence.html

http://elbobbino.blogspot.com/2010/08/design-excellence.html

http://bjcyc.blogspot.com/2010/08/design-excellence.html

http://guyuliang1990.blogspot.com/2010/08/studio.html

Project 2 comments

http://linst90.blogspot.com/2010/10/font-face-font-family-arialfont-face.html#comments

http://khor-ba.blogspot.com/2010/10/project-2-upcycled.html#comments

http://z3332715.blogspot.com/2010/10/hero-shot.html

http://snailmina.blogspot.com/2010/10/ides1031-project-2-upcycling-2010-10-26.html

http://lizgrayburnsblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/project-two-rationale.html

Project 2: Upcycling

The Upcycling product I have designed is a fruit plate, and the materials used are carpet and keyboard keys. First attempt was to drill holes and wire it together, but it fails to hold together tightly. Therefore I used another method of melting the keyboard keys and cool it down while placing keys together, but it appears the keys start to deform and change shapes, which is not allowed in this project according to the brief. So I used PVA glue to stick the keys together, which worked well.
The fruit plate I designed is from the idea of 2 hands placed together holding a fruit, at first the idea was to make a circle bottom, but if I do that, there will be a hole in the middle of the plate, and when the plate rolls up, it will not look like a hand shape, so I used a carpet to give a firm base.
The fruit plate is made from 133 square keyboard keys, which requires two keyboards to produce one fruit plate, the base is 7 x 7, and the extended arms are 3 keys high, the overall dimensions of the plate is 175 x 175 x 50 mm, which is a small plate designed to hold medium size fruits such as oranges, apples etc.
I have experimented the plate with actual fruits, the extended parts are strong enough to hold fruits, however, they are not designed for hard impacts, therefore it will crack if it is fallen or hit with hard force. However, the plate is a nice piece of design that can be placed on a dinning table.

Task 6e: Design for Life

The video “Design for Life” by Philippe Starck is a series divide into episodes, and as we can see from the video, working in the real design world is just a as much pressure, if not, more pressure than university students, the students working for Philippe Startck must be feeling the pressure they receive from all the complains, but on the other hand, I can also see the passionate filled in each and everyone of them, all of them loves the job of design, and is willing to receive the pressures from design.
As I have expected, the video shows the toughness n hardness a designer needs to go through, compare to other university subjects, design seems to be easier, but the pressure and future for them are not to be known, designers might seems to be not working all the time, but in fact, their brain are working 24/7, always thinking about new things, new designs. If they do not keep up to date or even think ahead of others, they cannot survive within the field of design.
Design can be easy, because everyone can design, even a children can design, for what people understand, design is just drawing, but there are lots and lots of deep thinking inside every design, all designers have to work with pressures and stress, they have to come up with good designs, and not designs that the designer thinks it is good, but a design that everyone can accept and like. If it is just a design the designer knows and like, the design is a fail, no matter how good the design might be.
After watching the video, I have seriously questioned myself… “Am I going to reach their level?” even now, I still don’t have a clear answer, but what I know is that I need to work hard, and experience more, because from what I believe, is that all designs come from experience, and the more you experience, more things a person knows, and understand about other people, so that more people will accept the designs.
I wish I would work for a design company that allows me to do everything and look at how other peole do things, so I can gain experience and learn what it is like to be in a real design world, because from what we learn in university, it is still base on books, without really experiencing what the real field is like.