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Nina
I am so pleased with our presentation & the final product we've designed. I don't want to sound too pride but I personally think it's the best one :)
The easy custom configurable cabinet is great for all types of families. It's a regular closet for storing clothing, and it can be configured to hold (dirty) sports, hunting gears. We worked very well together consider the size of the group, 7 members. At first I was afraid it gonna be a messy discussion and work, however it turned out to be the best group I've ever been in. We exchanged our ideas freely, we listened well, and we worked hard. We are all learners, we are all equal. Nobody acted like a bossy man because he/she thought he/she knew better. Only one word for this experience - Awesome!!
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CR10
This is my first design class, and I certainly enjoy it. The course is pure fun, I would recommend it to all my friends who have an interest in design. From the readings to the lectures, and those assignments through out the quarter, I feel everything is well organized for all types of students.
Followings are but not limited to just whining.
The scavenger hunt would be fun, if it wasn't in winter - I'm just not that a outdoor person, and hate snow. Dear Gabe probably just tried to make it easy so we got quite a lot clues before we headed out "hunting". Personally I think the scavenger hunt would be much more fun if we were given more times and less clues - and Google is just too powerful, almost everything was done in one search.
Readings, those books are pretty cool. Especially when I brought cradle to cradle to my other classes, many classmates of mine were impressed by the its material and content. But we seemed to rarely talked about it during class besides the reading reflection assignment.
The final project probably is the best assignment I've ever got - and it's a group project! In my experience group projects are almost always a headache, but not this one! I (we) all had fun with it, the enjoyment is a huge surprise to me.
Thanks for the awesome class, Gabe!! You rock!
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J09
Anthony
Brandon
John
Karyn
Matt
Nina
It's a very pleasure experience working with all my teammates. I can honestly that this is the best team project I've been involved in, and every single person in my group rocks! I learned a lot from them --- since I'm a bio major, the only ability I can to "design" a product is to sketch things with my awkward drawing skills. They showed me what program to use, and explain a bit of the details. I'm so proud of myself when I finished my hooks and holders design by using google sketchup. The idea of this cabinet starts with a fairy simple goal - to store products especially designed/produced by Coleman. Then we think the target customers can be extended to all types of families that need a storage unit, which can be easily custom-configured to meet different needs. Everyone just brainstormed hard, we really worked our butts off for this project, and we are pretty satisfied with the final presentation.
The following images are the hooks and holders I designed.
Rotatable hooks, which coming in single version and a set of 5 version.
And holders, single & pair versions. Great for holding baseball bats/fishing poles up straight, also holds umbrella and such.
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Coleman Project
Anthony
Brandon
John
Karyn
Matt
Nina
My teammates accepted my suggestion which is that an organizer/storage especially designed for storing Coleman products, and it can also good for storing other sports wears or just regular items. Every team member just give out his/her ideas freely and then we consider together to vote yes or off. We did few sketches that laid out the basic element of the product, such like the size, appearance, components/parts and such, they ain't final but we are getting there. I start to feel like we are real designers, we ain't work along, we took ideas from our teammates and put them together. We didn't just settle but came up with more and more ideas.
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9, and the Last.
According to the book, design is controlled/limited/organized/shaped by many factors. There are numerous organizations all around the world set up standards for the designers. Government plays as a lead decision maker for design practice. Different companies have different company cultures and different concepts/goals, even some of them produce similar end-products the designers have to consider what to emphasize or depreciate. Since designers usually do not work along, should they just agree to do whatever their clients want to, consider nothing but profit, or the other way around.
The author points out that even thought the "standards" are usually set by big corporations, small individual owners can still overpower those standards if they can produce better design.
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Cobego
Cobego team's presentation is pretty good actually, with an interesting start of marshmallow tower building. And I kinda think they misunderstood the meaning of "free standing", so did a lot other people, who used the tape to hold the tower tight to the desk.
To be honest, when they talked about how many hours they spent in the design studio scared me a little bit. And they have to get a second job to keep their dream going, which I understand but cannot really agree with.
Before their presentation, I had no idea one class project would take such a long time to finish/polish, and with more than work I thought there would be. The process seems fun thought, and I do like to challenge myself to design something cool.
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Out the House
Outdoor:
Coleman
Cabelas
Gander mountain
Slumberjack
Bass Pro
Indoor:
Herman Miller
Bang & Olufsen
IKEA
Ethan Allen
ACE
Definition of "indoor good": Products designed for people use at home, have either specific function or for decorating purpose.
Home goods:
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Four Five Six
The interesting thing I found while reading the rest chapters is that they remind me of things I learned from biology 402, something about symbiosis.
Symbiosis, from Ancient Greek sýn "with" and bíōsis "living". There are 3 types of symbiotic relationships, which is mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism.
The authors of the book accuse that the relation between human and the nature world is more like the parasitism, which human gets all the benefits and the environment is suffering from all kind of consequences.
I don't think we would ever achieve mutualism relationship with the nature, which both human and the environment derive benefits, at least not in a very long time due to either the limitation of the technology or the selfishness of human nature. Commensalism is the best option for now - human gets the benefits and no harms done to the environment, kinda like the cherry tree example from the book.
The authors talk a lot about what have been done, what should be done, and what have to be done. Mostly suggesting that we should consider more aspects before the action, not only designers, but every single individual who cares at least a bit of our environment.
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What Have We Done - Design & The Environment
I would say every single design in the world is centered on humans, even bird cages are designed for easily hanging/carrying by human hands. We are not aware of the damage we have done to our planet until the late 20th century. We designed monster like machines for drilling oil, mining, extracting any natural resources that can "satisfy" our lives. When we stuck in the traffic jam we curse about why there are so many cars on the road; when we turn on all the lights in the house we just do not care about the black smoke floating out the pipes of the power plants; when we finish a bottle of a water, we ignore the fact that the plastic bottle may out live our lives in a trash landfill. We are only human, change the entire industry is not likely to happen. We do have started taking small step trying to build a better world, a world would last longer. We are in need of some designs that ain't harsh to our environment, produce no/less waste, rely less on the natural resources.
George Carlin - Saving the Planet
Carlin expresses his feeling towards how people keep talking about saving the Earth, in a very comedy way. Who we are? Why are we here? - Plastics, maybe the Earth wants some plastics.
Energy: Can We Run Out of Oil and Other Natural Resources?
Natural resources are limited, the planet is not infinite. Would it happen? When would it be? Are we ready for it?
Design for the Environment
Rather designing something centered on humans, we should consider the effects on the environment. EPA promotes producing eco-friendly household and commercial products.
Design and Environment: A Global Guide to Designing Greener Goods
A book provides a step-by-step approach on how to approach DfE (Design for Environment): to design a product that meets requirements for quality, cost, manufacture ability and consumer appeal, while at the same time minimizing environmental impacts.
The Big Book of Green Design
What's "green design"? A book promotes earth-friendly designs.
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The First Second
The authors of the book obviously ain't happy about today's manufacturer design system. In chapter 1 & 2, the authors accuse the manufacturers have implanted many false concepts in our consumers' mind.
Industrial revolution was meant to bring people a better life. In some way it did and succeed. The problem is, when people in present enjoy the so called modern life, we barely consider the future generations.
Recycled products, eco-friendly design, energy star electrons, and many such things the commercials just keep repeating, all these efforts are only after the sales but no really trying to change the world. Commercials shape our minds, make us believe what the manufacturers want us to believe in, and as an individual we just sink into the advertising traps.
The authors argue that "less bad" products should never be considered to be produced unless it's necessary, but the manufacturers all go after the profits and produce them anyway. We do not have the ability to change the economic mode, we have a lot questions for the future design.
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Thoughts on the RIP: A remix Manifesto
1. Culture always builds on the past.
Past is one thing we cannot escape from. Our knowledge and perspectives are all evolved from those old ideas. Past is like the cornerstone of our culture. Cultures get shaped as the time goes by. Walt Disney adapted old stories and turned them into now forms, he's the founder of the Disney culture, and those old stories are his inspiration.
2. The past always tries to control the future.
Past as a cornerstone, everything else(the future) is built upon it. You can never remove the cornerstone without destroy everything on it. When Walt Disney transformed the stories which suppose to be part of the public domain into something new, he became the owner of those intellectual properties. With the help of the copyright law, he received every right to "protect" his property, who would think he/she might get sued for singing happy birthday song in public?
3. Our future is becoming less free.
Thanks to copyright, maybe one day when we write something we all have to cite every single word, when we cheer someone with a song we have to get the permission from the record company.
4. To build free societies, you must limit control of the past.
Control should be maintained. People certainly deserve to have a treat for his/her creativities, a little benefit would help encourage the forming of new ideas, help move forward. "Limit" becomes an important part of the process. The best(better) ideas usually evolve from the old ones. A lot of times copyright law prevents people from accessing the essential knowledges, which can somehow lead our word moving backwards.
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Colorful Environment
Do you know humans can distinguish roughly 10 million different colors?
Color is everywhere, and it is an important part of design. Psychologists have found that a lot times color would be associated with emotions. Choose the right color for the certain detail can sometimes deliver significant results.
In Bio402 course, we studied the BP gulf oil spill and a little bit about toxicology. Oil is in no way an eco-friendly energy source, and the spill in 2010 had brought a lot troubles to the organisms in and around the area and so to human. We have designed wind towers, solar energy board and such, why can't we start applying them in our daily lives now? Instead, BP designed longer and border pipes so that they can drain oil from deeper sea, but the pipes ain't any safer. After the spill, BP had used more than 1.8 million gallons of Corexit, a chemical component designed to break down large oil particles. It is not safe either - it can cause skin and eye irritant, damage to red blood cells, liver and kidney, and in worse cases, it can cause respiratory, nervous system disorders. We've designed more harmful materials/products than one would really benefit us. Consider the environmental impact is really important when you design/invent something.
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Trip to Walmart.
1. Try not to shop just after the working hour, the parking and checking out line ain’t fun.
2. The ground leads to the entrance is bumpy.
3. Move rental machine between the two doors.
4. So do the soda vending machines.
5. Missing people board by the entrance/exit.
6. Shopping carts for the people with disabilities are by the first door.
7. Shopping carts ain’t easy to pull separate as you might think.
8. Fresh bread section is set very closed to the raw meat section.
9. There are bottles of concentrated fruit juice just next to the sliced fruit section.
10. Bacon and such are located at the same section of sour cream & whip cream.
11. Peanut butter and jelly are put together in the same shelf, and they should.
12. Shelves for sliced bread are the opposite of the peanut butter shelves.
13. Food satisfy you, not terrify.
14. Why do people buy canned vegetables?
15. Too many brands of the same thing.
16. So many flavors of dressing.
17. People with shopping list buy less stuff.
18. “All natural” - Stacy’s pita chips – yum.
19. Are they really “all natural”?
20. Less fat, reduce fat, non-fat.
21. Are you that sacred of fat? Ya, you, Americans.
22. I refuse to buy anything labeled #19.
23. Pulp free, less pulp, lots of pulp.
24. You either like it or not.
25. They should put benches around the store.
26. Chemicals for the kitchen/bath are too closed to the food section.
27. My roommate buys paper cups and paper plates because he just doesn’t want to do the dishes, not because he’s having a party.
28. Those shoes they sell with artificial fibers smell really bad.
29. Electronic section does a good job attracting kids.
30. I kind of have a hard time to find the power adapters.
31. Electronic section does not include lighting.
32. Power adapters are found at the lighting section.
33. Since when they start selling books?
34. They should sell textbooks too.
35. They are really the nightmares to the small business.
36. They indeed sell almost everything.
37. Anything besides food, made in China, made in China, made in China...
38. Do they ever use all the checkout counters at once?
39. It’s a busy day.
40. The cashier doesn’t look happy.
41. Sorry but you are giving service, smile or at least be a bit more polite. It’s the professional ethics.
42. She dropped one of the apples on the ground, and asked me “now you don’t want it, do you?” with a cold tone.
43. I felt sorry for her.
44. I decided to take the apple anyway.
45. I saw the sign says “customer appears to be under age of 40 needs to show ID when buying alcohol”.
46. I know someone’s in his 50s, but he looks like in his early 30’s.
47. How could you tell someone’s age by their appearances?
48. They have gums and such in every counter but not lip balms? Hello?
49. They used to sell reusable shopping bags, now I can find none.
50. The bumpy ground made me worry about the eggs.
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What's Cradle?
Everyday we touch and use products that contain thousands of chemical components which could be dangerous. Many of mankind's old designs are slowly killing us.
In the introduction, the authors point out that industries and nature are kinda like fire and water, you can only have one. If we want a better future, we need to change our perspective of thinking, consider more than just benefiting ourself but also others.
More and more people realize that we are part of the ecosystem and we ain't the center of it. We evolve to fit to it but it will not change for us. In the book, people from different fields are coming and working together. By knowing as much as possible about our nature, and consider more careful about the harm and gain, we still have a chance to build a nice world without leaving too much wastes.
The funny thing is when I googled the ab. EPEA, the thing came up is European Prison Education Association but not the Environmental Protection Encouragement Agency. Why? How?
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Clue 05
Thompson Library is quite unique in its form: a 14 level stacks tower surrounded by significant lowered wings and pavilions. It indeed looks impressive but when we talked to the manager/assistant of the library, she told us that there are few inconveniences due to the special design: students find it confusing to enter the right stacks, very easy to get lost inside the building.
Ground members: Anthony anthonorris.tumblr.com & Kevin kabauer.tumblr.com
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Clue 4
Philip Johnson designed Science and Engineering Library(1992) and Mathematics Tower(1992) for OSU. Like many others of his late work, SEL also has spires raised higher than the roof.
Comerica Tower in Detroit, Michigan.
PPG Place in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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