peer comments

Gleb labazine
Greg shar
Christopher hui
Vivian Shao
Fanru Wang

Postal Present

For my postal present i wanted to make something that could be enjoyed over and over again instead of a single use object. The product i ended up making was a oil burner.
The oil burner was made out of aluminum at .5mm thick with a laser cutter the design was inspired by Asian architecture and objects.
There were other reasons for this particular design, as this design could be massed produced with little waste in production. Almost all sides are flat and there is no material removed from the product when cut out of flat material.
The user is expected to follow the instructions to make the product as shown the end result will be a oil burner that looks good and keeps the space around you filled with a calming aroma.

Ross Lonegrove: Organic Design

The information supplied by this video shows designers the importance of sustainable designing and that there is hope for and success in sustainable ideas and design.
The only challenge faced by this direction of thinking is the large corporate companies themselves, who refuse to recognize the state of our natural resources and laugh at the idea of using sustainable products. Lonegrove found this out the hard way through talking to 'Sony' who were too determined to take on 'Apple' and beat them so other materials were chosen other than sustainable options.

The products in the video were impressively designed but not nearly as impressive as the way in which the were designed. The ideas behind the designs and the process in which they got to the final design was interesting and exciting to understand. The final design itself captured the essence of water in all its glory but the bottle would be nothing without the process they took in order to get it. I find it similar to painting were a painter might be able to paint a picture really well but with out a surrounding idea of how the painting came to be the painting would be meaningless and useless.

Although this video was centered more around 'captain organic' instead of information on sustainable design and materials, the video was inspiring and showed great potential for future designing of sustainable products.

Bad Design - Liana Head deck

Peer Comments

Jill Darbey
Kiran Kashyap
Danny Kim
Daniel M. Kotzen
Gleb Labazine

Experience Enrichment

This product is for people who are on the move enjoy exercising and don't carry a towel when running. I hoped that this product would be enjoyed by either gym goers or Sunday morning runners who meet up with friends at cafe's. This gives them a chance to wipe themselves down before getting to that cafe.
The product was designed to be for comfort so that the user would not feel like carrying the bottle as a chore but as enjoyable. It was shaped to fit snugly in the hand of the user with its obvious curves. The outside of the bottle is wrapped in a highly absorbent material or a 'shamy', this material could not only be used as a small towel but also to keep the contents of the bottle at a cool temperature.

Yves Behar - Designing Objects that Tell Stories