Monday, May 28, 2012
Monday, May 14, 2012
PROJECT 2: Peer comments
1. Patrick
http://patrickdunnindustrialdesign.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/buttaway-packaging-rational.html?showComment=13369805116782. Rowena Goodall
http://rowenagoodall.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/sparkler-packaging-rational-booklet.html
3. Lubar Han
http://lubar-han.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/studio-assignment-2-rationale-booklet.html?showComment=1336981617621
4. Shermen Li
http://laichorming.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/project-2-booklet.html?showComment=1336982382021
5. Edric Verbeek
http://edricides1122.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/project-2-society-packaging-and.html?showComment=1336983033090
PROJECT 2: Socially Responsible Packaging
From the research, premixed drink is one of the most popular alcohol drinks for bing-drinking. Their major market is young people and women.The resasons they like pre-mixed-drinks are they easy to open, the colour is attarctive, and is convenient. In order to decreasing the risk of binge drinking, without damaging their target market. I am thinking to change the bottle inside rather than change appearance. Besides, according to the research, the tips of reducing your drinking are set limits for yourself and stick to them, drink slowly. Take sips, not gulps. However, it is difficult to those people to control temselves when you started to drink. Therefore, I was thinking to create a piece inside of the bottle, which lock the liquid comes out when you drink fast.
Sunday, April 22, 2012
VIDEO REFLECTIONS:Who Killed the Electric Car?
Who Killed the Electric Car? A documentary that investigates the birth and death of
the electric car, as well as the role of renewable energy and sustainable
living in the future, and is educate and enlighten audiences
with the story of this car, its place in history and in the larger story of our
car culture and how it enables our continuing addiction to foreign oil.In 1996, electric cars began to appear on roads all over
California. They were quiet and fast, produced no exhaust and ran without
gasoline.This movies shows how the U.S. was ignorant of hybrids and electrics
back then. It's a good thing we're starting to ealize what gasoline is doing to
the world's atmosphere.
Writer-director Chris Paine informative and entertaining documentary, which
makes an explicit link between carbon dioxide emissions and global warming,
traces the evolution and eventual marketplace failure of the innovative
vehicle. Filmmaker Chris Payne explores the many factors that played into the
ultimate failure of the electric car to catch on with consumers, even as gas
prices began to skyrocket, in a thoughtful meditation on the increasingly
important role that renewable energy plays in modern society. Introduced as a
means of providing an alternative to increasing oil consumption and reducing
pollution in 1996, the electric car was all but a forgotten memory only a
decade later. More, It is really impressive that electrical car exsisted in the
different period of times.On the one side, It must have enough reasons of why
the electronic car is been designed.Otherwise,there were no market and
designers were not even think about to design it. Who Killed the Electric Car? the car
company,oil company,consumer,government etc might be guilty. Car company cares
more about earning money.Besides, for electric car,it is a kind of big
challenge compared with petrol cars.Because for designing an electric car, you
need to design a totally new supporting system to it.
Friday, April 13, 2012
VIDEO REFLECTIONS: How it’s made? Giving packaging a new life
How it’s made? Giving packaging a new life
Cardboard boxes
Cardboard boxes are the special types of boxes made up of the corrugated fiberboard. A corrugated cardboard consists of two layers, one is known as the liners while the middle part is usually known as the fluting. Cardboard boxes can be printed in any custom color, shape, size and quantity. One of the major advantages of cardboard box is that they can be recycled and used later on for the various other purposes. Besides, cardboard is a nice way to promote your company and information. On the box, you can provide all your company details.
Tubes
Now a day, people use tube in many different areas, for instance: toothpaste, glue. The metal tube is air tight and impermeable.properties give superior protection to contents, keeping them fresh and uncontaminated through long periods of intermittent use. Internal linings applied to the metal give it added compatibility for products that are highly alkaline or acidic.
Tetrapak
Tetra Pak basicly made by there layers: 1.paperboard 2. Polyethylene. Commonly used plastic. 3. Aluminium. Package designed to store food without refrigeration also contain a thin layer of aluminium foll.Packages are mostly made of wood, which is a renewable material. Renewable simply means that the supply regrows naturally. Tetrapak.
Recycling
We can help to reduce this waste by reusing and recycling certain items. They often separate trash into paper, metal, plastic and glass.
Aluminum cans
Producing recycled aluminium saves 95 percent of the energy used to make aluminium from raw materials. Aluminium is the most cost-effective material to recycle and there are a numerous commercial metal recyclers operating in Australia that accept aluminium cans.
Glass bottles
Typically, glass bottles are created in a factory using an automated process. There are two main steps when it comes to making glass bottles. 1. Molding the molten glass using an iron mold and air. 2. Reheating and cooling the glass. Glass is recycling and reuse of returnable, and glass constitutes a good barrier for oxygen and carbon dioxide.
Plastic bottle and jar
An advantage is that plastic does not shatter, is transparent and lightweight. Unfortunately, plastic takes forever to break down and can be hazardous to the environment.
As a designer, we should take environment issues seriously. Considering about using recycling material, in order to creating more environmental friendly products, and providing new life to products.
Monday, March 26, 2012
Sunday, March 25, 2012
PROJECT1
Rationale
The jellyfish inspires this design. From the research of jellyfish, they have a basic body structure, and they are not even vertebrates. The Jellyfish body consist of over 95% water; most of their umbrella mass is a gelatinous material. This causes when jellyfish come out of water, they become flat. According to jellyfish’s nature character, I am thinking that I can design something in order to solving the problem of lack space. Also, base on the shape of the jellyfish, it looks like a container and a strainer. Therefore, I am start thinking that I should make this container soft enough to fold, also is hard enough to be a container. Then I started with some sketches about how the container looks like. Then when I get a general idea of it, I decided to research material. Polypropylene ropes, which is cheap, strong, unaffected by water, and safe for food. Then I was working with lots of mock-ups, because this material, you cannot draw the sketches to show actually how it will looks like. The way of knitting this, I basically follow the structure of jellyfish itself. Moreover, this design also can be a basket strainer. The way of knitting those squares around the side is helping people to hold it and filter for water.
Saturday, March 10, 2012
VIDEO REFLECTIONS: THE 11TH HOUR
The 11th Hour is a documentary video which highlighting the serious issues of environment. Many politicians, scientists, and environmental activists interviewed in the video. The 11th Hour demonstrates the grave problems facing the planet’s life systems. Global warming, deforestation, mass species extinction, and depletion of the oceans ‘habitats are all addressed. Through the video, I realized how worse our environment turning to be. Besides, we always encourage people saving the environment. But we always misunderstand, the environment will always survive but it’s the humans who would be at the risk of extinction. Therefore, according to the video, it is very crucial to find the way maintain a balance between human society and nature. Because our human lives are totally dependent on natural resources, so as we are destroying our environment, we also destroying ourselves. The 11th Hour searches for what would be the greatest obstacles for our times, and solutions for restoring the planet’s ecosystems in order to creating a sustainable environment.
In the film, almost every scientist agrees that the global warming is an immediate threat. As Leonardo DiCaprio said: “Global warming is not only the number one environmental challenge we face today, but one of the most important issues facing all of humanity ... We all have to do our part to raise awareness about global warming and the problems we as a people face in promoting a sustainable environmental future for our planet.” Those scenes about global warming which shown in the film shocked me. As a industrial designer, we need to consider about what should we do to create some products can help balance us and environment? William McDonough, Architect, William McDonough and Partners mentioned about: “We’re at a point in History, with 6.4 billion of us that we have to imagine what it'd be like to redesign design itself and see design as the first signal of human intention, and see we need new intentions where materials are seen as highly valuable and need to go in close cycles, "cradle to cradle" instead of "cradle to grave"... So the design itself changes from mass production of things that are essentially destructive, to mass utilization of things that are inherently assets instead of Liabilities." Now we should think about using more sustainable material, good for design, for environment and ourselves.
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