Video Reflection C

Who killed the electric car

The Video “Who Killed the Electric Car?” is a video that gives a lot of information to industrial designers, because as electric car has actually been invented for a long time, but yet it has yet to be used widely by everyone. And this video explains the limitation of electric car, which allows us industrial designers to explore ways to redesign a way to make them more common to the general public. And as an industrial designer, I realize it is very important to us to watch this video, because as a driver myself, I realize the petrol price has risen dramatically over the past few years, and that is due to the reason that there is a lack of resources. And electric car is definitely one of the ways to solve the problem.

One of the messages I got from watching this video is the importance of renewable energy, and the importance of us giving an act now. It is actually quite a frustrating video to watch, because the way to solve the environment issues has been solved, but yet no one really paid much attention to it. For example, the EV1 should have been a biggest achievement that more people should know about, and I only realize the existence of it after watching this video. And I would wish to live in a world where 0 carbon emissions is possible. Therefore, electric car is one of the solution for me to reach the goal.

“Who killed the electric car?” explores the future of vehicles, and technologies, which I have never thought of before watching the video. Technologies such as hydrogen vehicles, which gets me to rethink the role as an industrial designer. Because my original thinking of being an industrial designer is to make things look better and improve the appearance of everything in the world, hence making it a better and more comfortable place to live in. However, after watching the video, being an industrial designer is not all just about making things look nice, there are a lot more to it. Which is the environmental side, we all live on the same planet, and industrial designers has the responsibility to make things look better and more environmental friendly. And I would like to focus more on the topic electric car, and figure out a way to make this product work, and more commonly used, because as designer, it is a real disappointment to have designed a great product and no one is giving them credit.

Peer Comment

http://linst90.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/cereal-is-healthy-choicefor-breakfast.html?showComment=1347281211065#c8540755175189084694

http://pluwia.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/cormack-submission.html

http://lilynguyen1506.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/project-1-legs11-ecoyum-ready-to-feed.html?showComment=1347282043207#c7178491439856433018

http://stellaanddesign.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/coco-cocoa-powder-final-presentation.html

http://ides3b.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/project-one-cormack-packaging.html?showComment=1347283003192#c8432982258211342512

Project 1: Cormack

Product:

Vitamin tablets container

Name:

Vitaball Mammal Head

Target market:

Aged 3 to 8

 Tablet shapes:

Sphere

Refillable:

Yes

Rationale:

The Vitaball Mammal Head is a vitamin tablet container designed for children between 3 to 8 years old, and the reason for the vitamin tablets containers to be redesigned is because of children’s lack of self control, which leads to 5 main design problem of their current design.

• ·         Spilling
• ·         Lack of attractiveness
• ·         Risk of scratching hands
• ·         Grip hard to open
• ·         Overdose

And the Vitaball Mammal Head container can solve the problems, the main feature of the container is the push head design, and that can solve the problem of spilling and children do not have to put their hands in the container and can avoid the risk of scratching hand, and the mouth will open as the head is pushed down, though the use of bone pieces, the mouth will pull back and shut itself.

Also, the animal figure can attract children to take the tablet, however, it attract the children to take the tablet, and the children lock can allow the parents to lock the container and avoid children from overdose of tablets.

The Internal package has a pattern that allows the sphere tablets to roll to the mouth part, and a tablet will roll out by pressing the eye, also, the change in eye indicate the state the package is at, and interact with the children.

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