Product Design 4 – 2018

Week 3

Our design was inspired by wild mushrooms, as we felt that we could create a practical and functional sculpture that could retain the original, natural form of the mushroom without too much deviation, as the theme was in relation to nature.

Originally, when we were thinking of an inspiration, we came across a natural Read more →

‘Victor Papanek- design for the real world’

Our interpretation of Flusser (The beautiful and the nice)

Concrete experience cannot be substituted for a communicated idea or concept because they are not equivalent, because when the concrete is transcribed into another medium for means of communicability, it loses its ‘essence’ so to speak. It is a personal and unique endeavour because each person Read more →

Interpretation of ‘The Infra-Ordinary’

Our interpretation of Georges Perec’s piece is that we as a greater society and as individuals have become jaded toward that which makes our lives possible living. The cogs of the system so to speak. We take the things and structures and processes around us for granted, not realizing the possibly extraordinary or Read more →