fake products

1. Concept: What is the concept for the product line? What is the point of view? What is the name of the product? Which historical community was it inspired by?

-Haight-Ashbury 1960’s
-Far Out
-Haighter’s
-Hippies-Psychedelic Movement during the 60’s

2. Product Line: What are each of the individual products (name & short description of each)? and who is the designer for each?Does each of the products connect to the main idea with visual and conceptual consistency?

-Tiffany-iCloud9: Experience an acid trip without the risk of a bad trip.
-Caitlin-Groovy Grunge Makeup Palette: make you look strung out without even having to risk using drugs
-Sam-HendrickLicks: Strips of LSD on a poster and you can just tear some off and go
-An-JopPops: Pez dispenser, LSD coated candy
-They all involve drugs, but then two talks about using the objects without having to take drugs, and the other two are taking the drugs

3. Target audience: who is the target audience for this line (contemporary/historical? age, etc)? Include the research that you did re the target audience, here. What did you discover in user testing and what improvements or changes did you make based on your discoveries?

-At first, we made it gold to make it appealing so that rich people would buy it to look like those in Haight-Ashbury in the past, who were poor
-At first we were going to make flower gun, shirt, shoes, and glasses to connect with protesting violence and war, but changed to makeup, poster, glasses, and a pez dispenser to connect to-Modern day people can be part of the Haight-Ashbury look and experience what they did if they wanted to

4. Historical object: what is the historical object you researched and how did it inspire your project?

-just typical “hippie” items like glasses, drugs, psychedelic colors
-drugs were a reoccurring topic in different articles, and how the drugs’ influence, influenced other perspective. so we kept that idea along with our products

5. Process: describe the process of working in this team: How was the work divided? What was the team dynamic? What were your roles/responsibilities in the team? What did you learn from this process? Reflect on how your own personal design process has developed, throughout the first semester at Parsons?

-Came up with the objects together, but separately made it
-Everybody did what they were told-no problems of who did what
-Sam:Poster:Put everything together
-Tiffany:Glasses:The display of the exhibition
-An:Pez Dispenser:research
-Caitlin:Make-up:research
-Rebeka:Ticket
-I learned the peace sign was a sign N and D for nuclear disarmament, the hippies were initially a protest of the vietnam war and its violence.-It’s not just about rainbows, music, and peace signs. They didn’t believe in authority/ political authority, violence, and when the state was about to make LSD illegal, they protested with LSD in front of the police.
-They lived in cheap rent houses, drug users would live nearby one another, and it’s easy access to drugs, that it’s hard to get off them
-They used so much drugs and couldn’t afford health insurance, someone built a free clinic for those who were addicted(bodily harm; physical and mental)

6. Branding & Exhibition: explain the concept for the way you chose to present the work. What are the ideas behind the design of the brand and the exhibit? After our last class, add images of the final exhibit here.

-The projector: to get the feel of the psychedelic visual
-psychedelic colors