Flat Packed Present

For this assignment i designed a cardboard DIY camera for children. This inexpensive camera allows the child to spend quality time with their parent(s) building the camera, learning about how a camera works as well as the satisfaction of taking and developing real photos using the camera they made.

The story of stuff

That was quite an interesting vide although I have no idea what to say about it. What I got out of it was that we are damaging our planet really badly, but I guess it’s kind of been said so many times that it isn’t really anything new. What I did like about the video was the animations. It kept my attention even though I didn’t particularly enjoy the video as a whole. I guess since the past few generations of designers have created this system of consumerism it is our duty as designers now aware of the problem to fix it.

Product Redesign

Product

The magic spoon and chopstick for children.


Purpose

To help children keep interested at meal times and teach them how to use the chopstick in a non frustrating way.


Target market

Children from ages 3 to 6


Design features

1. Chopstick on one end, spoon on the other to allow the child to pick which they would prefer to use on different types of food.

2. Polydiacethylenes spoon head that allows the spoon to change color at different temperatures which would amuse and hopefully engage the child at dinnertimes.

3. Safe blunt tips on the ends of the chopsticks to prevent the child from stabbing themselves.


The 4 pleasures

Sketches

Embryo Chair by Marc Newson (Inspired! Design Across Time)

I loved the bubbly nature of this chair and how it only had 3 legs. It looked so playful and fun that i decided to sketch it. it also allowed me to practice sketching curves.

Michael Hirst Chair by Clement Meadore (Modern Times: Modernism in Australia)

This chair drew my attention to it because of how fragile it looked but how sturdy it really was.



Kambrook Electric Kettle (EcoLogic: Creating a Sustainable Future)

Although this kettle doesnt look that interesting, i decided to sketch it because i loved the simplicity of its design. doesnt the function its set out to do while having a very simple design.



'PV-1' Exhaust Fume Filtration Unit by Brook Tait Styles (Australian International Design Awards)

The thing that drew me to this product at first was the colours and just the physical design of the object. I had no idea what it did until after i sketched it and found out that it was used to detect harmful substances.