Technical drawing resubmit- nokori track

Project 3: Nokori- Play, Study, Rest area

o    Nokori-
Inspired by the idea that given the same object, people tend to vary the way it is used if not told specifically what it is or how it is used.
Nokori has been designed to cater to young people by allowing them to play with the blocks, to students studying outdoors by providing tables, chairs, and the ability to move the seating to another side of the area for more privacy, to working aged people as general public space seating whether they're eating lunch, waiting for people or simply taking a break, and to the elderly as somewhere to rest when out and about.
Nokori is a series of trapezoidal blocks vertically standing, running on a track using a locked in rod system. The blocks can be used as seats, playground equipment and also as an added feature, a table which raises when the top of the seat is wound.
Nokori is made out of powder coated aluminum, extruded so that it is hollow inside and not too heavy for the general public to move around. The design of the track that it runs on depends on the size of the space intended, and so is the colours used.
For example, a public space such as in the Fairfield City area, may choose to make all the upper parts of the blocks all different colours, to reflect on the cultural diversity of the area.

Project 2: Peer Comments

 Daniel Foo
http://fooides.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/project-2-southern-cross-packaging.html

Christina Le
http://christinaale.wordpress.com/2012/05/14/rationale-booklet/

Christine Chau
http://christine-x.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/socially-responsible-packaging.html

Richard Trajcevski
http://richardtrajcevski.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/packaging-rationale-booklet.html?showComment=1336980612820#c1137538476235311451

Jacqueline Bui
http://jacquelinebui3377777.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/project-2-rationale-booklet.html

Project 2: Packaging Rationale Booklet

Project 2:Packaging - Mock ups

Project 2: Packaging: some research

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Large tubs of yogurt use pinch&peel lids, as well as a primary lid for use and storage

 

 

 

 

 

 

Small individual tubs of yogurt also use the pinch&peel lids, but do not have a primary lid because of it's single use.

The only yogurt packaging that didn't appear to use the pinch& peel type lids were the large yogurt tubs by 'yoplait'

Project 2: Packaging: initial concepts

Pop off lid as seen on some medicine bottles (but not intended for medicine bottles)

Yogurt tub tab

Video Blog B- How it's Made: Packaging

How it’s made: Packaging

In the six How it’s made: Packaging videos, covering Aluminium cans, cardboard boxes, glass bottles, plastic bottles and jars, packaging tubes and tetra paks.
I believe that these six videos are incredibly helpful to future industrial designers that may one day find a career in packaging because it gives designers an idea as to what kind of technology there is existing already in the packaging manufacture industry, what kind of ideas people have thought of to achieve certain goals, and what kind of things must be considered when designing for packaging.
How it’s made: Aluminium Cans- After watching this video, I had learnt so much that I didn’t know before about how aluminium cans were made, such as the hydrofluoric acid washes that they use to clean the cans, and the de-ionised water rinses. Another interesting point that I noticed in the video was how many different protective coatings of different things they sprayed for the aluminium cans, both several layers inside and outside. And quite amazing how fast the protective layering processes actually are especially the product printing process. An advantage of aluminium cans is that they can be recycled continuously, an infinite amount of times, thus cutting out the step of mining and refinement of virgin aluminium.
How it’s made: Cardboard boxes- An advantage of cardboard boxes is that they can be made from mostly recycled paper and that even cut-offs from the manufacturing process are collected and reprocessed at the paper mill again. The manufacture of cardboard boxes use glue made of water and starch to stick the liners to the flutes, this is good because then there are no toxic chemicals used in the glues and thus none in the cardboard boxes.
How it’s made: Glass Bottles- Glass is an amazing material because they are made from completely natural materials that are abundant and also that glass is 100% recyclable.  An interesting idea that I saw in the video was the idea of passing the glass bottles through flames after they have been blow moulded just so they don’t cool down to quickly and shatter from thermal shock.
How it’s made: Packaging Tubes- The impact extrusion process in this packaging type was very interesting,
How it’s made: Tetra Paks- The tiny ideas such as the strobe light being used to inspect the printing on the tetra paks is an interesting idea. An advantage of these tetra pak containers is that they are entirely recyclable even with so many layers inside them.
How it’s made: Plastic Bottles and Jars-  All the ideas are amazing when you think about it, because it makes you wonder, just how much thought has gone into processes like this, having all the machinery working together so precisely and even having water running through the mould tools so that cooling of the plastic bottles once they have been blow moulded is instant.

Video Blog C- The lightbulb conspiracy

The Light Bulb Conspiracy

The documentary, ‘The light bulb conspiracy- the untold story of planned obsolescence’ gives us insight as to what planned obsolescence is and how it came about in the 1920s.
Planned obsolescence has been a crucial factor in the world’s economy, by giving products a set life span, this helped to keep the world’s economy running because consumers would often have to replace products that have come to the end of their life span, the regulated need to manufacture and sell these products also kept unemployment rates down.
In the 1950s, planned obsolescence came back around, but in another form. The idea was that by promoting the concept to consumers they should keep renewing their products just to keep up with times and styles even when the previous product was still fully functioning, this created an economy based more upon ‘desires’ rather than ‘necessities’.
At the origin of planned obsolescence, in theory it made sense in order to keep the economy running and unemployment down, but also at the origin of planned obsolescence, people lived in a world where they thought the resources used both in the products and the processes making the products were abundant. Almost a century later, we find out that people in the 1920s were terribly mistaken, we live in a finite world and it is astonishing that it took this long for anyone to realise it and speak up. In this present day, we now have to inform the rest of the world about terrible consumer habits and pay attention to our future waste and existing waste.
A new idea called cradle to cradle could possibly be the key to saving our planet from the past century of damage, this idea is what humans now have to try and adopt when manufacturing new products, this cradle to cradle idea imitates nature itself and how nature does not create any waste, matter in nature just changes forms from nutrients to seed to sprout to plant to tree to leaves to leaves on the ground and then to nutrients again.
Warner Philips raises a very interesting point as well, about factoring in not only the profit margins of companies and how if they sell more products that that automatically means they’ve earned more money, but that isn’t the case, with an increase in products being manufactured and sold, there is also an increase in expenses, and so factoring in all these expenses alongside these profits, there would be a fairly similar result in profits for that particular business, so in conclusion, if companies just made planned obsolescence obsolete itself, and create products that were made to last as long as possible, this would reduce costs, but most importantly, reduce the amount of waste in the world.

Peer Comments for Bioinspired project 1

http://ginnykwok.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/moon-flower-jewellery-box.html?showComment=1332744329276#c6433772645618246691

Ginny

http://janraymondgerardino.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/studio-2a-project-1-bioinspired.html?showComment=1332745973120#c3992094482256000284

Jan

http://ides2161yvonnesha.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/favum-new-kitchen-storage-experience.html?showComment=1332745167722#!/2012/03/favum-new-kitchen-storage-experience.html

Vonnie

http://ides2161-group2.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/user-manual.html?showComment=1332745069193#!/2012/03/user-manual.html

Daniel Kim

http://richardtrajcevski.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/silver-fern-water-recycling-disk-rack.html?showComment=1332744033873#c3587320082008096043

Richard

Arachni in the beginning

Arachni- Key holder + reminder paper weight

Rationale: Arachni- Key Holder + Reminder paper weight

Arachni, is a magnetic key holder both ornamental and also functional with an added paper weight feature for keeping memos or reminders under, because the key storage would be a place that receives a moderate level of attention daily in a household, it can be used by members of the household to remind themselves or other members of the household about things-to-do, shopping lists etc.

The Arachni key holder is inspired by the wolf spider, in the way that the wolf spider is a species of spiders that carry their offspring on their backs until they are old enough to survive on their own, this happens because the wolf spider is very protective of their young, leading to the conclusion that their offspring are very precious to them and not wanting to lose them. The ideas of keeping something very precious and not wanting to lose something, gave me the idea of designing a key holder that resembled a wolf spider and the keys resembling the spider’s ‘offspring’.

 Arachni is made up of three main parts:  The key holder which resembles the body of the wolf spider uses a series of magnets integrated in the body for holding up the key rings of the keys.
The paper weight which resembles the head of the wolf spider is actually separated from the key holder for easier usability of the paper weight.
The final part of the Arachni is the supporting base which helps to keep the key holder and paper weight together.

As for the colour scheme of the Arachni, the key holder and paperweight are both black to maintain a more similar connection to spiders as most species of spiders either have a dark brown or black body colour mostly for camouflage, but just so that the Arachni product itself isn’t camouflaged or lost, the supporting base of the Arachni is a sharp red outlining the body of the Arachni through such contrast.

Hero Shot Poster

Product usage poster

Technical Drawing

The 11th Hour- presented by Leonardo Di Caprio

This documentary presentation is compiled from a series of interviews conducted, asking scientists and other industry experts about climate change and their opinions on climate change.
One of the segments that I found particularly interesting was the segment talking about ‘current sunlight’ and ‘hidden sunlight’, and how prior to the industrial revolution and the discovery of ‘hidden sunlight (fossil fuels)’ the world’s population, dependent upon ‘current sunlight’, could only maintain a world population of about 1 billion people due to the limit of energy attained from the current sunlight, thus having a limit as to how much food/crops could be grown each year roughly. But as for fossil fuels, this was considered ‘hidden sunlight’ because it was an alternative source of energy thought to be energy from the sun trapped away over millions of years, after the discovery and global increase of fossil fuel usage, the world population hit 2 billion by 1930, and 3 billion between 1930 and 1960.

Another point that I found interesting was how human beings have changed, we’ve lost touch with nature and struggle to live in harmony with it most of the time, we mainly gain our knowledge in this new era from the different man-made media that we expose ourselves to, and we no longer learn from natural experiences we have exploring the natural world.

The third point that I found interesting was about the air pollution and ocean pollution that has accumulated over the past centuries and the result of climate change and global warming. After so many years of global warming, the evidence has been made clear, and we have lost the battle against global warming for the past 30 years, but what is stopping change? Human Behaviour.
There is a percentage of the world population which is attempting to change the fate of the earth, the scientist, environment conscious designers and anyone else who has taken the time to think about the future of the earth, another percentage of the world population are world leaders- they should be leading the world to commit to change for a better earth, but instead are being held back because of economical reasons, which leads me to the next percentage of the world population- corporations, large global corporations especially petroleum companies have the power over world leaders because they have the fossil fuels, and which is what most of the world runs on and has been running on for the past century. The remaining percentage is the rest of the world population, which is simply are too lazy, unaware of, or think that their contribution to change is too small and will not make a difference.  The worst part about all this, is that as human beings, we have a tendency to not realise what we have lost until it is truly gone.