Postal Presents

My postal present is a make-up organizer aimed at 16-25 yr old girls. The trouble many women have is that the most common place to store your make-up is in some kind of toiletries bag, which proves not useful at all, as you struggle to dig through and find your make-up, often resulting in ruining the make-up. With this coral inspired concept, contains your everyday make-up, such as mascarca, eye liner and lipstick in a way that makes it easily identifiable. The product with be presented "posted" semi-assembled however can easily be completely flat packed. The product is make from polypropolene and brass plated paper fasteners. It celebrates sheet materials qualities by is minimal use of "fasteners" or adhesion.

Peer Comments

http://jenjunzhu.blogspot.com/2009/08/good-design-juicer.html#comments

http://hyo-jucho.blogspot.com/2009/08/product-that-i-explore-was-iv-pole-used.html#comments

http://chelcienielsen.blogspot.com/2009/08/experience-enrichment-rationale-and.html#comments

Task Four:

Bad Design: Dulux Weathershield tin labbelling.

As you may know, I work in the paint section in Mitre 10 and for every colour we mix there is a specific base paint you need. In many situations the customer does not realise this and will often just try and bring you the tin of paint of the shelf.

In the dulux weathershield range their are many different coloured bases all uniquely labelled in accordance to the colour within the tin e.g. brunswick green has a green label. The only problem is, the black tin of paint has a white label making it very confusing partiularly when this goes against its own colour match labelling system. This can be verfy frustrating and time consuming not only for the person mixing the paint, but commonly customers just expect it to take 30seconds to mix paint so adding this extra time does not settle well with the customer.

Task Five

Ross Lovegrove: Organic Design

Ross is a very interesting character, i love how throughout his discussion you can really see the passion and love he has for design. The main point he tries to get across is this idea of DNA: design, nature, art. He says "industrial design is the art of the 21st century" and explains this in two ways, firstly by showing examples of beautiful products and how they have been photographed and turn into prints/ works of art but then also showing how the original concept sketch is also a work of art in itself, being compared to impressionism and how the "drink bottle's" design is your impression of water.

Ross then goes on to explain his love for investigating the patterns and designs within nature and how they have all evolved over time. He challenges the industrial designer to reach this level of precision and beauty within each of our design briefs. He explains exactly what is is about nature that makes its form so amazing saying that it "takes away what they don't need and produces maximum beauty". He summarises by calling it "fat free" or "healthy design" striping the object back to necessities and developing beauty in the form from its skeleton.

The Flower Toilet Brush.

I first came up with this concept after flicking through magazines, looking at stylish bathrooms and realising how much of an "eyesore" the, often white plastic tools in the bathroom are. I particularly found this interesting because tools in the bathroom are a very un-romanticised concept, such as cleaning the toilet bowl. I wanted to create something that combined current bathroom decoration with bathroom utensil, removing this "out of place" object. Hence i came up with a flower pot.

The toilet brush is designed to have the aesthetic appeal of looking like a flower in a flower pot, hiding any reflection of its actual use. The handle is made from green and white silicone rubber for a soft and comfortable hand grip and then bottom of the brush is made from brown plastic which is easy for cleaning. The bristles have been re-designed to look more like a washing up brush and for ease of use when cleaning the toilet (e.g. getting in the and around pipes). The bucket is brown tin to look like soil and thus the action of taking the brush out of the pot is similar to pulling a flower out of the ground.

The four aspects of pleasure are discussed on the poster.