Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Sustainability




When talking about Sustainability... the world originally comes from Latin "sustinere" and in modern day of Italian "sostenere" meaning to support or sustain, has been change in the past twenty years.

It divided into three systems. One is the eco part, which is retaining the natural resources. The second is the chemical cycle and how there are constant changing of the matters. And third... the economy.

All of these tie into each other and how we are using up the natural resources to make things for the people and with that we need energy to keep going with all of these process. Not only that we turn the natural resources into things that are not recyclable like plastic. We can renew it. But most of the time, we dont throw it in the recycling bin and those plastics get toss into a landfill where they basically will remain there for the rest of time.

The Definition of Sustainable from dictionary.com:
sustainable |səˈstānəbəl|adjectiveable to be maintained at a certain rate or level : sustainable fusion reactions.
-ecology (esp. of development, exploitation, or agriculture) conservingan ecological balance by avoiding depletion of natural resources.
able to be upheld or defended : sustainable definitions of good educationalpractice.
The intention of sustainable design is to eliminate the negative impact and future negativity with the usage of design skills.
There are many definitions of sustainable design, such as production without non-renewable materials or none-biodegradable with the least minimal impact to Mother Nature or enlightens the people to the issue of sustainability and how we can make it better.
There are different beliefs when it comes to this issue. Many believe that we can use materials that can be biodegradable or using cottons that dont use chemicals or use leathers that use natural dye. But with that, the issues comes up with things like... during that process, are you sure that it really is sustainable? Because though we are using natural leather, the process that the manufacturing company is using could be bad.
DID YOU KNOW THAT THE LEATHER INDUSTRY IS ONE OF THE TOP INDUSTRY THAT CREATES POLLUTION WHICH IS DESTROYING OUR OZONE LAYER & OUR PLANET?
Or
did you know that the cotton industry uses 1/4 of the world's pesticides?
There are so many things when it comes to the principle of sustainable design:
1. Using materials that will affect the nature the least. In the natural ways, the one's waste is the other's food. So we need to keep that cycle. If we create things that cannot be recycle then we will keep making it and all it will do is go deep into the underground of our planet.2. Using less energy, because if factories are using more energy, where is that energy coming from??? Natural Resources, of course.3. Design for reuse and recycling. Reason being is number 14. Design for carbon footprint.5. Design for needed
Sustainable Materials are materials that fulfills the Green requirements such as organic cotton that doesnt use any pesticides and knowing where these materials come from. Bamboo is a great way to use make actually structural objects and also, it can be use to make fabrics which are actually quite soft.
Others like myself, when thinking of sustainability, I think of not using pure materials. I would not want to make a Green object with pure cotton or using bamboo. But I would like to use materials that can be find at junkyard or landfills.

Thursday, April 8, 2010

2nd Model and Marguette for my Hype Helmet






































This was my final design for it.

My concept is about how our skin... our exterior is what protects us but it gives us our weakness.

I was inspired by this show that was on E Online!! There was a girl who had dwarfism and people with tumors and the tree man.

It makes me think of how people sees us. So I want a helmet that covers most of our face, a feature that people focus on. But... I made it where you can see part of a face because... I want people to think... I see their face... but is the rest of them going to look like that or is there something else that is underneath that surface?

It's about seeing things that are more than skin deep.

With the pattern and texture, I went back to the skin part of our body. And I wanted the patterns to be inspired from the cells of the skin. Cells are structured but it also is organic and is moves freely just like roots of the tree. So I didnt want the helmet to be completely solid but has some spaces to show that it is branching out like cell structures.

1st Model For the Hype Proj




This was a hot messs

Monday, April 5, 2010

RememberDiana Eng from PR season 2??/


Mobius Strips are strips that when you cut in half... they make the strip actually longer... sooo seee her magic

OHOH

Talking about flat pack things


Miss thang has her line of laser cuts tooo

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Pics of the AVM project

To explained what happened. I basically had to whip this up in 2 days due to certain circumstances...

My problem was being cold. And I wanted to make 3 piece. These were inspired by cells. I wanted to make something that was squared based because in cellular structure... there are guanine, thymine, adenine, and cytosine. And those simple 4 makes up the DNA.

So i wanted to go with a square... First one I had was about more scattered pieces because cells are scattered pieces that make this beautiful thing and that its a little bit more organic. and in the back it has a d-ring to tie it together

skipping to the third, it was a more structure like DNA because dna gives us structure. And i wanted to bring that. and also... it has the dring for putting it on easily.

going to number due... i wanted to make a piece that in between. so it has the structure in the white and the red is a little bit more distressed.

and there are my 3 pieces!!!

Here are the products.







Thursday, March 18, 2010

the start of my materials proj


i messed around with some stuff... but its a hot mess if i have to have it flat pack and shit... so its a bit of a problem but its worth trying






Here are the Sketching and the Marquettes for the lighting project

I started with these cuts and drawings but... i didnt know what the fuck I was doing.





So my professor wanted me to just trace and look at the designs






Then from those... i did some marquettes and this is the first one





But its a little bit too... structures and cells are not structured. and i could do one big piece nd have a tab in the back

then i did more marquettes.





Then the next marquette is




The problem that i found out was that it wasnt equal on top sooo if i was going to put a shape in the middle to hold up the light bulb... its a problem.. and the problem in the bottom is that... it doesnt stand evenly... its tilted

i like it when compositions are balanced... i mean... this could be balanced if its a 2d piece but its not balanced for 3d... like as a design and the standing of it.

so this is how the the last one came to be




the dark lines and medium shade line and the light mean... the light and med and dark vectors that i will be putting on it to give the 3 d look. and if it doesnt show during the light on.. its fine but when its off... you can see that.

a good lamp has good designs while on or off...

this is what it looks like when its lid up