Project 2: postal presents

Money box

Target market
For my project 2, I designed a money box, it’s for children who are in the age of 7~10, in this period of age, children start learning things, going to primary school, therefore it is good way to teaching them saving money.

Design
In responds to surprise the target markets, I thought the object I am making should not only a money box but also could be a toy, something that children also can playing with, therefore I designed the money box in an animal shape, with moving wings, because normally children like little cute animal shapes, but I wouldn’t say it’s a bird or a chicken, which could leave a space to let children to imagine. And I used the 3 primary colors: red yellow and blue, in order to make the money box looks colorful and bright. And geometric shapes are formed the money box, its One of the important elements, which aimed to help children getting to know different geometric shapes.

Material
I used polypropylene, which is easy to form the shape, good balance between toughness, stiffness, and hardness, flexible, and low-cost.

Function
Children put coins by through its “mouth” and the mouth will close automatically(by the property of polypropylene), it’s just like a process of feeding animal, as long as its stomach got full, you can open the bottom of the money box to get all the money.

Task 5: video reflection

The story of stuff

I learned a lot from this video, I got the general idea of how the product are been made, the processes are not simply follow what its says in dictionary, there are a lot more, I was surprised by the complicated inner processes going on, they were interacted by the cultural, people, economy and so on.
The main centre point of this video is environment issue, the composer used a lot of data to indicate the serious problem on our environment, and this make me question, what is the aim of designing? As the composer said, people were designing things for dump, for perceived obsolescence, for fashion. In the end, some of the products are useless and increase the pollution, in my opinion, as a designer you should design things have a real value and good for the consumers. We really need to consider about our environment.

Task 5 : vedio reflection

Paul Bennett: design is in the detail

As an industrial design student I always questions myself what is a good product should be. And I think Paul Bennett gave me a good answer, a good product is something that really brings to life, help people solve the problem, and brings people together, it doesn’t have to be grand gesture.
To design a good product, one thing is really important that I was inspired by Paul is you have to put yourself into the consumer’s position, to feel what they feel, like in the video, they were take a position of being a patient, lying all day on the bed, they feel what the patient feel, in the end came up a lot good ideas. On the other hand, to get good fresh ideas, we should always having beginner’s thinking and “look around”, Because sometimes there is something that we didn’t put attention, actually have huge potential.

Rationale: project one

My target markets are mainly for female adults, who have small dog as a pet, they enjoy their leisure time, live in health, take out their pet regularly. However their have a common problem on scooping dog’s poop, most of people using paper or plastic bags, it’s not a pleasure process and not cleaning. Therefore the product I designed is an improvement of scooper by using thin metal stick shaped into a rectangular, and what you need to do is put the bag around the stick, hold the handle to scoop the poop, and then throw the bags into the bin, its clean, never touches waste, no clean up, and its designed in a way of space saver, which you can pull the stick into the handle, and colour is milky yellow, blue, in order to give a feeling of cleaning, healthy, and looks cute.