Kickboxing couch

Ahhhh finally a topic that is very close to my heart... Kickboxing

wish have one of this in my lounge room...

i wonder how hard the backing would be to stand punches and kicks..

AHAHAHAH funny

It translate.. " No i will not be your father" ahhahaah

Waste of Product

What a waste of a product, during my time is studio I have especially learn the importance of function and sustainability in the product we design..

The above product has neither..
Waste of time,energy and money..

Aqua Script- Promoting dringking water awareness

Solidarité from La Boite Concept on Vimeo.

Relli Relli sick product... the aqua script... using water as a billboard looks like magic, the stuff that we could only imagine when were just kids..

Good use of the product to link to drinking water shortage.. good on ya ppl.

Design For Life

DESIGN FOR LIFE- Philipe Starck

" Designers are force with the power to change society. With a song a singer can change the world, politician can change with law and with us with a chair and toilet brush" this quote from the show is quite deep; ofcourse we cannot take it quite literally that we can change the world with just a chair or a brush but we can slowly change the lifestyle of the society living in the WORLD.

The show presents 12 ameture designer from UK to compete against one another for a 6 month position at Starck Paris studio, the show gives insight of how these 12 designers mind work and also the mind of one of the worlds most renown designer Philipe Starck.

The show gives an insight of the design ethics and concept of Starcks mind, talking in his French voice that I find very appealing he says " we're not here to talk about trends,style, fashion. We shall try to help your tribe, society, your civilisation to a better life"

We can take his view and blend it with our own concept, so that from now on every product that we design is designed to help and contribute to a better life.

One of the challenges in the show present the contestant to choose products from a supermarket that represents certain theme to them. During this scene it mentions that Starck believes that the design industry is awash with too many product " too many pointless product- many shouldn't even exist" and he focuses by saying that " tomollow will be less, we must have less and less product."

It is true that today if you enter the supermarket your hit with hundreds and hundreds of diffrent product, some more usefull and useless than others and yes some of them as Starck mentions " doesn't want believe to exist."

We us the future of designer need to focus more on our product about the function of it ( is it really worth producing it- whats the benefit of it, negative of it) and its sustainability.

We need to focus on "the story behind the product" to make our product that we design to have meaning and uniqueness to add to the world and not to the its landfill.

But then his concept is very conflincting and confuses me. As one of the ethics Starks talks about child labour and the environment and another he ordered military trucks to escort the contestant to the shopping center, he believes the military truck is an eg of simplicity, "the only vehicle not driven by marketing and by function". But does he not realise the enviromental damage that the moster engines in those trucks are causing to the environment? In which point does the cost of function surpass those of importance in saving the environment?

MINI-me

Pretty cool camera, with 5 megapixels sensor (at 2048 x 1536 the stills resolution and the ability to record video at 1280 x 960 30fps).

Can be use to spy on people or to cheat in exam.. ahahhahaha

Less And Less

Philipe Starck Quotes that the future is about less and less product in the market, the above design is a good example of combining a sink and the toilet into one product. Its also help save the environment by reducing the water usage as the water from the sink is used to fill the toilet cistern...

Aesthetically appealing too..

Grandma homemade Sweater basket...

Remember those sweater that your grandma use to make you out or yarn.... now you can ask her make alot of neat stuff using flexible yarn and resin, it works like the basis of paper mache so you can make sick as sculpture using it..

Probly would cut down alot of manufacturing cost and energy to make these... ummm not sure bout the resin though..? lol

A world without car...

This is a stop motion video made to emphazise a enviromentally friendly world with out car... how cool is that

Cool Tracking Light

Cool light that i found while researching my LED light for my disaster project.. so cool

New Sunbeam Kettle

Lol Sunbeam Copied our charede design.. ahhaha.

I love this new kettle design, it has that modernistic feel towards it and by using a clear glass as a jug it reduce manufacturing cost for the handle and body.. the boilling buble features also makes is so so cool....

Good Use of Packaging

After watching the 11th hour and the story of cap & trade, I started wondering on how we're as designer can help lessen the environmental impact of our product. This yogurt spoon is a good use of packaging as decrease manufacturing cost, materials and energy by using the lid cover of the yougurt to be use as a spoon and deleting the use of plastic disposable spoon..

Good on ya..

Rescue Balloon

Looking into research on natural disaster and safety equipment, i came across this concept. Simple and brilliant I wish i thought of it, as you get lost in the middle of a jungle somewhere after your plan crash landed or your boat capsize. You need one of these baby to get you home...

inflate the balloon and hope a rescue plane see's it and rescue you.. OR you can just get high from the helium.. LOL

Charade 2- Breville Kettle

For Charade number 2, a group of 5 ides students deconstruct and took apart a breville kettle to be analysed closely in detail and examine each part of the Breville kettle including the packaging to be analysed in the GreenFly website.

The picture above shows all the part of the kettle grouped up to components, there are 5 main component for the kettle. The main body, the handle, the docking station, the lid and the elements.

We then list each parts of the product and their material and input it into the website with the transportation as shipping from People Republic of China.

Our first result from the site wasn't pretty the product uses too much materials and energy to be processed, most of the part are not recyclable and the shipping cost is off the roof coz travelling from china to Australia isn't that particularly CLOSE. We then had to redesign the product to be produced cheaper, cheaper transport and more environmentally friendly.

We realised that the handle contains to many useless parts especially because of where the switch button is located, it was hard to disassembled and confusing to assembled it again. Our first re-design strategy is move the on button to the docking base to eliminate the the handle part all together by making the handle as one mold from the body, this will remove the need for 4 screws and also reduce the amount of material used.

Our second re-design strategy is to manufacture the entire body from clear PP to make the kettle more aesthetic and easier to be monitored and clean, it also canceled out the need for in moulding for the water meter.

The rendered picture on the right side is our final design of the product.

Below is the graph from the website of the original kettle design and the re-design of the kettle done by our team, we also planned a recyled return policy to help customer recyled the product and we also moved the manufacturing plants to Indonesia this is due to the cost issue with manufacturing and also that it is FAR more closer than China