Rational

 

 

 

Weekly Process Report(Week 4)

Summer Cao
The format of the rational is not linked with each other. The style of the each page could be more related. The design of the label need to be more.

Tianyu Zhao
The information about the user intake could put into the rational. The analysis of the table and date is good. However, more perfessional information need to prove in the rational.

Sam
It is good to drawing the user guide to teach the user. User guide can be used on label.
Describe of the picture is fine and the anaylsis is not enough. Some more drawing need to include.

Weekly process report (week 3)

Lucy
The idea of two linked drawer is new. However the handle on the right hand side is quite weak.
It would be good to make it more strong, may be change the hard material.

Zikang Chen
 Linked drawer is fine. The drawer is to flat which is not work with the body part.
The merge on the back of the main part is to disgusting. It should be put inside.

Sam
The improve of the idea is nice. The two drawer is not work well in the model. Need to think more about the material or some other detail. It would be better to put some more mark on the label which can remain customer how much they take.

Video Reflection B

This four video bring me lot information. It uses the simple image and interesting explains the manufacture crisis in our society.

The story of stuff gives me the general idea of what crisis we facing of manufacture. It shows the relation between the environmental and social issue. A quick look of product’s life has been given in the video. It started from extraction to production to distribution to consumption to dispose. I am in shock of how we take the dioxin from the whole process and what we done to the environment. As a designer how can I make the change to this situation?  This need to take into consider in my future design.

Electronic product is common stuff in our life. It is also represent the crisis of the manufacture. The electronic product used the great number of different type of material.  The workers need to work with dioxin during production.  The safety of the employer cannot be protected. All these dioxin also bring to the user. However, the lives of these products are quickly end in the Chinese recycling shop. Every year, there has 25million tons electronic product be wasted. This huge waste is unfriendly to our environment and unsustainable. 

Compare to the electronic, the cosmetics are connect with our body directly. It has been used directly on our body everyday and more one type. I know it has some constituted is not good. However it still scared to see how it damaged our body.  It is such serious crisis to everyone but as the designer I have no idea how to change it. That’s a horrible thing that you still need to use those cosmetics on your body even you know it may bring the cancer.  The marketing give you no choose of it.

Not like the cosmetics which damaged our body, bottled water not influences our health direct. However, it is waste of the material, energy and has nothing better than the tap water. Although I never realized how serious problem the bottle water can bring to our society, I am not the one who supports the bottle water. Now, I am pride that I am not the one who likes the bottle water. The every process on the bottled water manufacture is creating the waste.  Is that’s necessary to using the resource and energy to produce the bottle for these water and using the energy to transported the bottle water for less than 10mins drink?

Making the change to the world is the thing I expect in my design.  The problem we facing is the entire thing that I can challenge. Knowing the problem, facing the problem and fix the problem.

Three take home message:

-The manufacture should be sustainability, equality, green chemistry, zero waste, closed loop, production, renewable energy, local living economic.

-The consumption habit can be changed.

-To increasing the life of the product reduce the waste of the product need to be considering into deign.

Weekly process report( week 2)

Summer(Cao)
The idea of Can is challenge and not easy to process.
The idea of the cereal box is good to improve more.

Ling
The cereal box is interesting. However it is not good idea to control the intake of customer. The liquid bottle for the elder is a good idea, but the design is weak.

Sam
The topic of food waste is common. It is good to reseach more about the packaging. Change the open method is not the only way to control the quanlity. On the other hands, the intake for different people may be different.

Research

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Concept 1

Video Reflection （A）

Giving packaging a new life

These video bring me a new world of the recycle. It let me comprehend the different recycled method of different material.  The recycling process feels like the magic transferring the rubbish into new product or packaging. Automation separate system is most amazing part. The rubbish is separated automatically by the system even the small pieces. The milk box was the one I thought could not be recycle or not easy to do. It is made by polyethylene, paper and aluminium.  However, the video shows how simple and easy to deal with those box.  This makes me know how incredible the design can bring to our life. I was thought that recycle material can only make the pipe or newspaper.  Therefore, I am shocked when I realized how great numbers of the recycling material are used in our life.

However, to be a designer I need to think something more than praise such as using all this information when I design a production.  For example, when I consider the material of my design I need to consider the recycling process.  Composite material is one of the materials I need avoid to using it. Because of it is not easy to be recycled.

How it’s made: packaging

Watching the video makes me like a primary school student. It has so much information in it. The video shows that recycling material has been used in common.  Most of the goods in our life could be made by recycling material.  The most common material from recycle is PET and aluminium as we know. PET can fully recyclable for other uses such as product that containing plastic.  The recycling of PET could have no waste. It is same as the aluminium. Aluminium cans can recycle back into new roll and make into new product or cans. The machines for making the packaging tubes are also attract me.  Owing to I never think about it is made in this way.  However that’s not the best information I got. The best part is about glass bottle.  It is green, no trees are dying to made it, natural ingredient, endlessly recycle, make it using less energy than metal and plastic.  Moreover it’s a beautiful material for the designer.

This video inspires me a lot of thinking of my future design. It is a useful video for design student to learning the produce process of product. As a designer, the project we created is not an art work. It’s a product. We are not the artists who create the beauty for the world. Designer will more care about the use of the product. To know the manufacture process is the way to learn and know the product.

To sum up, the material is the most important thing of a design. It could affect how it look, what is the price, the service life and something more than itself, such as environment. To using the recyclable material is significant for the designer. However, we also care about the price. Therefore to knowing the property of different material is necessary.

 

Three most important take home messages:

1. Comprehending the material before I choose it to knowing does it recyclable and how it can be recycled.

2. Working on the manufacture process when I design a product.

3. Public need to working more on the garbage sorting.  It is also a work for designer to find out the better way to solve it.