Tuesday, 12 March 2013

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.  

No comments:

Post a Comment