TASK: 2 OBJECTIFIED

Reflect on society’s complex relationship with manufactured objects and the people who design them. What can we learn about who we are, and who we want to be, from the objects with which we surround ourselves?

Products essentially make up our daily life without us even knowing they exist but through the video it explains how much effort is used to design products to connect consumers to their products which ultimately shape the consumers way of life. In this video it takes us deep into the designer’s way of thinking and their philosophy behind designing products.

“The way we think of design is that we put great design into everyday things and understand how to make these gadgets perform better “. Dan Formosa

This quote from Dan implies designing a product into consumer’s everyday life and improving it without them even knowing it. So designing a product to suit all users, you would have to look at the boundaries of all users of the product and if it is successful then the average person will be able to use the product without noticing the difference at all.

As a designer my philosophy is fundamentally none disposable and somehow trying to offer products you want to keep, products that you feel most importantly will stand in the test of time”. Marc Newson

Marc wants to design a product that form such strong connection between the user in a way that it makes it so valuable to them that it could last a life-time. Combining different materials implementing personal attributes to the product can bond the user and the product together which make it sustainable for a life time no matter what the product is.

“Am I playing a game to show that I can differentiate or am I actually doing something that is contributive because it’s such a big issue with design is, are the things we doing making an effect and making change?” Karim Rashid

This strong quote suggests that are designers just designing products because they can? or are they designing products so that are actually useful, practical and sustainable. He believes that products shouldn’t be just produced if they are going to be sent to landfills because they break, wear out or isn’t effective because thought wasn’t put into the design.