Ch 9-10

I never thought that clients or employers really such an important role in design. They really put most the constraints on the project that designers are working on. So if a designer doesn't design thing that fit fix what then client or employer does then it is pointless and the designer will loose. Designs have to fit what a company makes or know for. If a company want to change in to another field that what is normally does than it is better to make a slow shift to the new market. So that the companies name stays in contact and expands to the future market. It is a balance where it comes from and where it is going to.

Journal 8

Group Members: Adam, Jeremy, Stuart, Telina

 

I think this is a cool project idea to introduce the design process to everyone. What thing of the Coleman brand or relate to them. We talked about who we are looking for to buy the product. We have been brainstorming different thing that we could make. Ideas such as: heater, fire pits, air purifiers, dehumidifiers, and deodorizer.

I thought of making a storage locker that combines the deodorizer and dehumidifier. It would be used for gear, shoes, and even wet gear. I also started researching way to deodorize and dehumidify. I think that we as a group will have to put it sometime out of class to get a good finished project.

Week 7 Class Review

This week was really fun. I enjoyed hearing what the guest speakers had to say. They inspired me to work even harder on getting in to the the design program next year. I think it is really cool that they formed a company just out of college. I also am planning on getting in to the design groups here on campus. This was a great week to re-inspire the class after having the few classes over legal issues.

The online hunt

Outdoor and Rec. Sport

MSR, Kelty, NSR, Mountain Gear, Jackson Kayaks

Outdoor and Rec. Sport Trade Shows Photos

Source http://flickr.com/photos/glasgows/432945997/

Source http://www.advancedexposolutions.com/

Source http://www.steamboattoday.com/news/2010/aug/08/steamboats-smartwool-big-agnes-honey-stinger-atten/

Home Goods

Home Goods, Ikea, Target, Bed Bath and Beyond,
Pottery Barn

Home Good Trade Shows Photos

Source http://houseware-expo.ru/eng/news/index.php?divid=1&id=545

Source http://www.displaydesigns1.com/gallery/index.asp?showname=home%20textile&showfolder=home_textile

Source http://torontoist.com/2010/01/going_pro-rug_at_the_interior_design_show.php?gallery0Pic=11#gallery



So what is a home good? A home good is a product that a consumer can use or show off. It can show the persons personality.

Here are a few images to showing home goods. The two on the right are ones that I made.

Letters

Design and the environment

Design and the environment is where sustainability comes to play. Sustainability is what we need to strive for as when we are designing and planning anything in the world. Sustainability can also be know as Eco-friendly or Green to an extent. Sustainability is need to further are life on earth because if we keep on the path we are on we will kill the earth.

 

Gray to Green talk about why sustainability is important to re propose materials. Reusing trash from one thing to be used or built in to something else.

 

Deeper Shade of Green get in to how sustainability is no just one person or group of people. It take the society to change. Start sustainability in the developing countries and the rest will fallow. The factors that play a roll in sustainable designs.

 

Greening the Federal Government we have to keep building and advancing our technology. While making them more efficient. We may have to learn how to use and understand these advances.

 

Architecture 2030 is a global challenge that is for everyone and everything being built no matter what industry. This challenge is to decrease the carbon foot print and by 2030 have carbon neutral buildings. There are low tech and high tech was to do this and if you have to buy energy buy renewable resource energy. Tax breaks should increase for building and renovation greenly.

 

The Green Apple cities greener than living in the country. People more or take public transportation. Recycling helps some but also makes problems.

All of this are podcast the full length episodes are even more in-depth and intriguing.

Cradle to Cradle Ch.1 and 2

Chapter 1 I was as were we are now and how we came to be in this situation. That as a society we don't care about the environment as much as we should because we are only concerned with the here and now not the future. The assignment that was given in the chapter was really a great was to show that we don't think past the moment as the society.
Chapter 2 brought up some issues about recycling that had never thought about. I always thought that recycling was a good thing and didn't add more pollutants to the products. I wonder if there is a way to reduce the pollutants add to the materials being recycled. Also if there could be a way to separate the materials more before recycling so that the materials are as pure as possible.

Week 6 Class Review

This week was fun. The video was very informative about copyright laws and interesting to watch. It made me think about all the products that I have used with permission. It made me think about in the future when I design product how would I protect them. The CC is a great idea I hope it work. It has the ability to change every thing in the way the world works.

RR05

The book Cradle to Cradle in the Introduction under the section Toward a New Industrial Revolution. McDonough raises major questions about enivormental issues. Issue that effect everyone and bought up the idea of limit are consumption. This made me think about how much I through away that could be recyled. And was that I could change my self to help the environment. I am now going to try to recyle more and us reusable bottles for drinks and try to cut the amount of trash I produce each each day. I would like to try to cut at least one or two ideas out of my daily trash to try to help. And in the future design products that cut down on waste.

50 Things

50 thing found in a walk about.

1.       One side of the street has more snow than the other side.

2.       Concrete is cut/grooved about every 3 feet.

3.       Houses on the corners may be oriented to face the side-street or main street.

4.       Bus stops are every few blocks.

5.       A truck is parked with the cap for the bed turned horizontal to the bed.

6.       Telephone poles there are a few on each block.

7.       More trash in yards closer to campus.

8.       A lot of houses are multifamily homes.

9.       Cars are parked along the street.

10.   Some cars have parking passes for the street closer to campus.

11.   Fire hydrants are on every block maybe opposite sides.

12.   Most houses have porches.

13.   Few houses have fenced in yards.

14.   House with fences are mostly wooden privacy fences

15.   The lots the houses are on are small.

16.   Distances between houses are tight.

17.   Most trees have been cut back or have storm damage of some kind.

18.   Parking signs state what day that side of the street gets cleaned.

19.   There is one house with a slate rough most of the others are asphalted based shingles.

20.   Most the house look ran down from aging.

21.   The houses look older that the 1970’s

22.   Every block a few houses look similar in their design.

23.   The west side of the street has small tree by the road.

24.   Within the blocks there are alley ways that divide up the blocks to smaller parts

25.   There are more stop signs than stop lights.

26.   The direction that of traffic on the side streets changes because they are mostly one way streets. If on street goes east then the next goes west.

27.   About have way to campus from my house is an emergency pole that with a blue light.

28.   The grass is mostly brown and dead from people walking on it and not maintaining it properly.

29.   Wildlife is less fearful of humans.

30.   Rent signs on houses.

31.   Broken post from sign in sidewalk.

32.   Houses on the block are almost the same distance from street.

33.   There aren’t that pine trees.

34.   Some cars are parked better than others.

35.   A lot of the houses are made of brick.

36.   Sewer drains are on the corner of the blocks.

37.   The most streets end after they cross over Neil Ave.

38.   Mail boxes are on the house not by the road.

39.   There is a curb in one yard next to the sidewalk.

40.   Bikes are locked to bike racks and pouches.

41.   Shoes hang from some power lines.

42.   The houses have more colors the closer to campus.

43.   Landscapes are run down not if there is any in the yards.

44.   Most retaining walls are rock or brick.

Week 5 Class Review

I enjoyed the topics in Wednesday's class. About designing green and Bio-mimicry. The one thing that it made me thing about is the Sun chip bag the were biodegradable. The idea was great but the public didn't like them because the noise that the bags made. The product was changed back to the old bags to make the public happy. I think that designers can and will design more green products but if the public doesn't change as a whole to except more green products than no matter how hard designers try to change to  greener products we as a society won't change. This inspired me to try to make any design that I come up with to be as green as possible.