Thursday, March 3, 2011

Your Ecological Footprint



As human beings alive on this earth, we all live different lifestyles and cycle through a different habits of food consumption, energy consumption, as well as waste production. As a student I live in small family housing with a relatively good sized yard for my parents to grow their own greens. The family living is extremely simple and only use what we need, and most of the waste we produce are often returned to nature with mum's mini worm farm and compost maker. All members of the family leave the house early as soon as sunrises, so consumption of electricity is often low, but as a result of living quite far from the city area, going to work or uni is a long drive or trek on public transport, which causes consumption of petrol and fuel quite high.

Although we are considered a low energy consumption family and keeping living at a minimal ecological consumption, the rest of the world in total are unaware they are living in a range of high ecological consumption and are contributing to a depletion of the earth's resources.
So what is your Ecological footprint?


Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Video reflection: Designing dream machines, Richard Seymour and Dick Powell



Designing dream machines is an insighting video presenting to us the show runs as designers,mainly the ups and downs and the smiles and frowns that designers face in the workforce, and also bringing us into the gloomy back stages that hide behind the scenes of beautiful products we see in a design gallery or on the market.


This video also showed me patience and obstacles I must walk around once i graduate, whether facing demanding clients or even working as a design team there will always be frustrations and moments we are bound to encounter in this career. I have also finally understood how important it is to gain constant feedback from your product users and how this can build up the quality in your next product into the optimum dream product.

Video reflection: Story of stuff




Humans produce a flow of materials and creating a linear system of products that enhance the satisfaction of our lifestyles. But what happens at the far end of this linear system?....the answer is Waste.


Toxic gases, processed emissions, residues of manufacturing, Waste is exponentially being created and horrifically intoxicating our earth and on this planet of finite resources, this linear system is slowly depleting our once resource abundant Earth. As Industrial designers, it is an absolute for us to understand how this system plays in our environment and be able to not just dispose the pounds of junk we create, but put our junk to use or even decrease the these impacts by designing products that would turn this linear system into a circular system. Lets create something new...

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Project 3: Upcycling Central Fruictus District







Weaved with tradition methods using Modern unwanted waste, this table centre piece is crafted from discarded ethernet cables that have missing or damaged filaments and intertwined with thrown out wool from an alterations company. This piece upcycles the ideas of networking and farbricating, and Metaphorically its is used as a centre piece to display a connection between people and a celebration in the sincerity of sharing.

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Project 2: Postal Presents




Collapsable Plastic bag dispencer