Power House Museum. Product sketches

Designing dream Machines

The video talks about the design process that Seymour and powell talks through the 3 different projects of designing for a different market, they talked about the importance's of the clients brief in order to find the solutions and ideas for the product, satisfying the brief and solving problems presented by the manufacturing process.
This process is presented through our work as a student of industrial design, on what we did for all of our 3 assignments, exploring the brief, satisfying it and creating a suitable solution by presenting models and prototype.

They also talked about "creative event"or brainstorming of ideas and concept of the product design and brief through this i learn t about the important of developing your concept and your ideas to suit the brief.
The video highlights the important of being professional while handling your work, as the product that you are designing on cannot be affected by your individual appeal and wants, instead it should cover the basic brief of what the client wants.

The story of stuff. Annie Leonard

This video is very important to future yound designer, as it highlights the important and the imperativeness to create an environmentally and sustainable design s for products.

I learn that it is very important to look at different materials and resources that could be used when designing and producing our products, this video highlights how we are using most of our resources and using them fast.
When designing our products we have to consider who are we exploiting in order to produce our products, annie talks about the Corporate giants and the governments who exploits the third world country without mercy to decrease the output of raw materials and maximize profit and keep the shareholders happy, But whose keeping the environment or the third world community happy once the foreign government and the corporate giants are done taking their infinite resources.
Another thing that we should think about when designing our products is our procedures when producing these products, from waste, energy and means of productions.

The treasuring time that i have created is a magnetic souvenir holder, the target market that i have chosen are teenagers who loves to travel the world.
When teenagers travel the world their brought home souvenirs such as, for eg, fridge magnet, pictures, postcard. Being a teenagers my self i would not put those souvenirs on a fridge, my product are produced to remind us of the time that we had during our travel, its shaped as half a globe to once again enforce the good time they had throughout their travel.


The magnetic board can be used to placed post card, pictures, fridge magnets, pins and etc, The materials that i have chosen to create this product are acrylic plastic for the globe, MDF for the backing of the magnetic boards and a magnetic sheets.

I have also specifically chosen the colour of the acrylic to be pale white to represent and remind us of time, to me during my travel time catch us to me, time goes by quickly and comes in a blur so the colour white is suppose to represent the blur and the quickness of time during our travel and remind us to enjoy our journey more.

Bad Design

My bad product that I have chosen to talk about is the power plug for my reading lamp(shown on the left).
The power plug is badly designed due to its unnecessary large size, the power plug conduct 240v, 50hz of electricity. With that amount of electricity the plug does not need to be overly large.





The power plug has a manufactured size of 8 cm height and 5 cm width, this provide the consumer with many major problems such as storing, aesthetic.






However the major problem of this design is not shown until it is in used in a common power plug. The common busy household usually has a double power point for ease of use, due to its size and placement of the metal conductor of the plug when placed on the left hand side of a double power point it will block and cover the right side of the power point and prevent usage.

Another problem that also occurs is when you place the plug on the right hand side of the power point the edge is large enough that it blocks the right side preventing it of used as well, as you can see with the picture on your left that which ever way you move the plug it will continuously cover both of the power point due to its bad design.





Suggested Improvement

I have designed a power plug that can help with this problem, i have reduced the size of the plug greatly from the original 5 x 8 cm to 3 x 5 cm for smaller and easier usage. I have also designed that the pin conductor to be able to be rotated so it is easier to use.

For this Postal assignment I've created a make up box designed for the target market of young girls aged between 8-10, during this period of time girls will reach the period where there estrogen kicks in and is more fascinated and more involve in making them self look more attractive for the opposite sex, so I've decided to design this portable make up which can be transform into a bag so the girls can easily move room to room carrying their makeup while also playing.

Also I have considered that between those ages girls are likely to be more messy, this product is designed to reduced stress for the parents by providing a storage for their make up accessories.

The product is made out of one cut out sheet of Polypropylene plastic and is shaped by scoring the plastic, I've used a mushroom tag which i have designed to lock the bag into place and to hold a heavy amount of strain and weight needed for the everyday uses of young children. The bag can be easily constructed due to the numbering sticker that have been placed on the bag, the tags is numbered 1-8 and is to be matched with the slots in order to fully construct the bag.

Pegman is a uniquely design peg, design to solve the problem that occur with the current peg design. When i was researching pegs i discovered 3 main problems with the current peg design.

• The current size of the average pegs were too small, it continuously to bring problem to people with big hands and fingers.
• Also its small size means they are easily lost an must be continuously replaced days after days.
• Materials, there are 3 common materials used to manufacture peg. ( Metal, they rust easily) (Wood, easily weathered and attract mold) (molded plastic, soft and easy to break)

To solve this problem Ive devised a design that solved all of the 3 major problems, ive made the design of pegman bigger so it is easier to held and won't be lost easily.

ive also looked at some materials and decided to use plastic and stainless steel to avoid any brittleness and breakage.