Article 1 “Unbowed”
Sustainable Systems: Article 1
Month: February 2015
Studio: SoHo Map
Neighborhood: SoHo
Observations: many stores local and high end stores attracting many tourists to go shopping. People come to SoHo for the shopping experience in NYC. But despite the many different stores and coffee shops I want the focus of my map to be the things you should not leave SoHo without seeing.
Proposal: to make a map of the most visited places of SoHo including high-end stores that aren’t everywhere that people would want to see for the first time, bakeries that have the best stars to accommodate their food, and other highly visited sites.
Popular Bakeries:
Dominique Ansel Bakery
Balthazar Bakery
Ladurée
Nespresso
Popular Stores:
Apple
Chanel
Louis Vutton
Evolution
DASH
Art Galleries:
POP
Wooster Street Social Club
Some research done:
Mood board:
Photos:
Time Sequence: Eating Disorder
New Time Persona: Eating Disorder
Party Persona Write Up
Ever had a crazy dream about this ravish glittery house party? The party that everyone knows of and wants to be at, and when you come into the party all heard turn waiting in your return. That is my persona’s life. Ready to party despite the outcome or the problems she is ready to drink and get the night started. She’s flashy and outgoing not caring about who is in her way. By the end of the night she is stumbling, falling, and smoking a cigarette at ease that her night is fabulous as long as she doesn’t remember. When coming back from this extravagant party while dress is torn and heels are dirty she passes out wherever her drunk mind lets her.
My persona had a rough life no body cares about her so she doesn’t care about any one else, out of past events. She goes out planning on getting Kesha wasted while knowing on the inside that she is alone in every event. She plays drinking games with a bunch of people in her tight dress and highest of heels. She doesn’t attend school but she attends the after party. Everyone knows what to prepare for the arrival for my persona, including a bunch of hard alcohol, a pack of cigarettes, and drugs of any kind. When the door to the party opens a twinkle in her eye forms and she is ready to get the night started.
Everyone knows my persona as the not giving a shit kinda girl while getting wasted where ever she wants. People know when they see her its going to be a night they remember forever because they wont be able to leave unless they are plastered and not remember their name according to my persona. Also everyone sees her not going anywhere, no college degree and nothing to show for all the years she partied recklessly. Her parents are disappointed which makes her wanna go out and get wasted even more. She realized that not caring about the ones around you, even if they are fake, she will deal with them just so she can get some alcohol out of it.
First Persona Project: Party Persona
This is the first state of my project where I had a partying persona who loved alcohol and the non-caring feeling when it comes to many different experiences.
MighTea Mug for Laura
My design intervention was based off of the week of Laura Funai who drinks tea regularly. When looking at Laura’s week she shows a very busy schedule with constantly going back and forth in the morning between commuting and school work. During her busy mornings Laura drinks her tea normally. While observing Laura’s schedule I notice when drinking her tea she forgets/doesn’t have enough time to throw away the tea bag before her tea gets stale and cold. Therefore, this help me conduct the research studies and thought process of making an invention to help Laura out.
While researching for this invention I crossed similar inventions but not quite what I was thinking. Most tea diffusers have the strainer sitting in the top where you have to go thorough that to cautiously sip on your tea. Many places like teavana sell these for a lot of money not including the loose tea. This was not my intentions. Also,you still have to dump the loose tea. My invention includes a infuser in the bottom part of the mug besides the top. Also, when the push of a button on the bottom you can flip the infuser to cut off the brewing process. While also being able to connect the string to the hand of the mug so you can still use the traditional bagged tea.
MighTea Mug
MighTea Mug PowerPoint
MighTeam Mug
MighTea Mug Poster
First research conducted on information given about the tea disposal problem.
The Silver and Black MighTea Mug.
MighTea Mug in 4 different colors.
Other tea infuser used everyday today but would still have to throw away tea bags or loose tea and doesn’t stop the brewing process.
My Week
SoHo Map
Map: SoHo
Research Question: What do people come to SoHo for?
