Accessible Packaging Week 2

Feedback from own tutor: Scott 
Feedback from Peer 1: Aki Wei
Feedback from Peer 2: Emma Sun
Lessons from listening to other tutors: Mar


Reflection and plan of action for this week: 
My flour package is not actually solving the problem I found out from the research. And there are many problems about this design, how the flour can be replaced? how the closure works? For this week, I have lots things to do, an mockups. More research about the closure and handle, make them more suitable for vision impairment and arthritis. The most important is to solving the problem I found from my initial research. 

Accessible Packaging Week 1

Concept 1

Concept 2

Concept 3

 Feedback from own tutor: Scott Feedback from Peer 1: Min Stephanie, Cai
Feedback from Peer 2: Ting Ting, Wu
Lessons from listening to other tutors: Mar

Reflection and plan of action for this week: 
For the concept 1, there is be a problem of storage, because the cap is not fully close. Concept 2, Flour package is a problem, even though for normal people. But the shape  I designed is not strong enough to support vision impaired people. Concept 3, Butter package,   the solution I did is too complicate for a package, and people can not adjust the size of a butter. I think I also need to think about reuse, sustainability, delivery, save material and cost.  For this week, I should push the concepts further, and develop concept 2 and concept 3, make them more suitable for vision impairment and arthritis. 

PROJECT 3: A Sense of Place

PROJECT 2: Peer comments

1. Patrick

http://patrickdunnindustrialdesign.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/buttaway-packaging-rational.html?showComment=1336980511678

2.  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.

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.

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.