Universal Bathroom Design

Peer Comments

Sarita Parto
http://saritaparto.blogspot.com/2011/04/nice-n-easy.html?showComment=1303394859943#c7023303981961624834

Hae Lin Kang
http://liah90.blogspot.com/2011/04/project-2-southern-cross-packaging.html?showComment=1303395179195#c240371530854423557

Benjamin Chan
http://bjcyc.blogspot.com/2011/04/assignment-2-south-cross-packaging.html?showComment=1303395485652#c1119073390860627263

Packaging design

Sheet material- aluminium

Upcycling

I named this piece "Schmetterling", meaning butterly in German because the book i used for the butterflies was a book about second world war in Germany. Each butterly tells a story.

Peer Comments

Monica Lu

http://monicayllu.blogspot.com/2010/10/upcycling-pvc-conduit-pipes.html#comments

Shenea Huang

http://whereisthecake.blogspot.com/2010/10/upcycled.html#comments

Dio Antonio

http://d-antonio.blogspot.com/2010/10/project-two-upcycling-unwanteds.html#comments

Ella Setiamiharja

http://id-ella.blogspot.com/2010/10/upcycling.html#comments

Jock Sinclair

http://idesweblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/blog-post.html#comments

Experiencing enrichment

Salt and pepper grinder has been the same since…. Well, ever. Since the invention of salt and pepper mills, very little has changed about them and as a part time waitress, I know using an ordinary salt and pepper mill can be very uncomfortable having to twist your wrist over and over again.
Where there is salt, there is pepper.. But having so many things on your dining table or kitchen top could look messy, especially when they are ugly and unrefined for the contemporary houses. I am targeting my product to young couples who has just moved into their contemporary home and needs stylish utensils to suit their living standards.
So I came up with an idea! A salt a pepper grinder, that looks good and works well with the hands! The design I have came up with is unlike any of the existing salt and pepper grinders. Instead of having a cylinder for its body, I replaced it with an asymmetric, elegant, ergonomically shape that is soothing to the hands and works as a beautiful table decoration when not in use. No one would have ever thought that the sculpture on your table was a salt and pepper grinder.

Peer comments:

Monica Lu

http://monicayllu.blogspot.com/2010/09/experience-enrichment.html#comments

Chien Ming Lee

http://leechiehmin.blogspot.com/2010/09/experience-enrichment.html#comments

Hae Lin Kang

http://liah90.blogspot.com/2010/09/wharvo.html#comments

Andrew Bae

http://baejin.blogspot.com/2010/09/experience-enrichment-lamina.html#comments

Sarita Parto

http://saritaparto.blogspot.com/2010/09/experience-enrichment-hex-dron-tape.html#comments

design for life

Watching them at facing Stark at the end of each week presenting their work really reminded me my own presentations, lots of nail biting and anxieties. I was literally on the edge of my seat watching the contestants being criticised or praised by Stark whom I feel is a person that is contradicting and unpredictable. To make matters worse the tasks that Stark sets out for them are very vague which leads to confusion and lack of direction of the project.

In the “final” project in episode 3, due to a misunderstanding in the term “first draft” all the remaining 8 students were thrown off course and were completely lost in what they are doing and came down to the result of a very unhappy Stark. The critical feedback of other people telling you what is good and what is bad, often hard to accept and often upsetting is something all designers need to learn how to channel into something positive and is certainly something I have learnt and experienced in uni studio. Seeing these students facing Stark in presentations I find myself feeling exactly that.

“At one stage I was just thinking maybe I shouldn’t be a designer maybe I should go home and do something else.” -mike

I have thought about the same thing many many times; “do I have what it takes to be a designer?” or “maybe I should consider something else for a career” and many doubts, struggles and uncertainties at my ambitions. However being someone very stubborn, like Ilsa I hate not finishing what I started.

I actually anticipated that Ilsa would win by around the 3rd or 4th episode. I feel that she is very determined, sophisticated and like Stark said “ambitious”. And by the 5th episode when we first saw her prototype of the walking stick, I was sure that she was going to win. I was just surprised how in such short time, she transformed some sticks really to a very elegant support for the aged. Even though half way through the project, Ilsa like everyone else had a poorly designed product, but it all came together for her in the end.

This reminded me of my own projects, remembering the despair halfway through a model or drawing thinking “how on earth am I going to get this done” or “how am I ever going to make this look professional?” But looking back, nearly all my projects came out okay, like the Piranesi drawing for example, “there is no way I can finish an A1 drawing , in the way that Piranesi drew as well as be creative whilst having to do other projects at the same time” – or so I thought.