- Nagaoka’s “non-designing” design practice starts from analyzing materials and functions of vintages, then to recycle and redesign new products from the olds. When recreating new products he focuses on making a “long time” product that could classic with good quality which people tend to keep for a longer time.
- My opinions of “good” design are the same when compared with Nagaoka’s. If a product has only an appealing appearance but with no good quality and function, the product is only an irresponsible design where it does not think about sustainability nor customer need. On the other hand, if a product has both qualities of materials, appearances, and function, then it qualifies to be a good and long-time design. Good designs are important because designers somehow dominate the taste and sustainability of the markets since customers are not as knowledgeable as the designers.
- I will agree with Nagaoka’s statement because of the trend of buying vintage goods. Consumerism has earned its success at expanding its market by providing a lot of options of goods, but when people are being provided with over the number of goods, aesthetic fatigue happens and minimal materialism becomes popular. People no longer feel a need for having too many materials, rather, they wanted quality goods that they can rely on and truly loved. Selecting second hand and vintage goods that have had a history or that have specific aesthetic provides special feelings to the customer is becoming a new consumer behavior.
- For Millenials like me having something that helps to identify my own individuals is important today. Millennials want things that can speak to themselves where they can feel a connection between their personality and goods. When we own different goods and products that share similar traits of our individual differences, the aesthetic of products and the belief from the identical company become as important then attract young people for purchasing. We look for designs that have qualities of appearance and materials at the same time which we value the most during product hunting. Young people could not resist buying a design that has good quality yet connect aesthetically with our personality and identity.
- I agree with the host’s statement. When there is great competition happening in the market, making goods with care is a good strategy to gain loyalty from the customer. While the company has a standard of producing, customers will do the same as to take care of their purchased goods.
- I admire how the girl grew and make everything for her final shirt project, it is such a difficult thing to do. However, it gives me the idea that if everyone grew and make their own clothes and products just like the past, it will make such a sustainable world.
- I do consider myself as a long-time designer when I design. Since I only purchase products that have both qualities of materials, functions, and aesthetics; I required myself to do the same when I was designing. As I grew older and have more control over my life, I realized that having too many things makes you feel stress, at the same time it gives you guiltiness for wasting. The act of sustainable start from designers being responsible to design new products, so that when products enter the market people can have better choices to reduce profligacy.
I think these criteria of long-time design are valuable. I love how these criteria ruling everything in the market strictly, setting a responsibility standard for the design, the production, the company, and the user; educating everyone to be responsible for the environment. They are definitely very useful as they point out the responsibility for each part of the production line. I don’t have any other criteria that I would add to this list. When I buy something, I usually consider beauty, quality of materials, quality of function and lastly the amount of time that I need it before I finish my purchase. Every part of the criteria assists in meeting the challenges created by climate change since every part of the criteria play a role in the effort of being sustainable.
- Yes, I do consider how temperature would influence how my paint would appear but did not think about how time would play a role. I consciously made the decision on giving traies of bacterias higher temperature for a more defined outlook, and the other a lower temperature a less defined color.
- I used every peri dishes because I wanted to see the differences when there are given different variables.
- Components of peri dishes, temperatures, can be varied however the number of bacterias must stay the same.
- I used a brush to apply my bacterias when using a brush to apply, the lines of my pattern might look less consistent because watercolors usually fade at the end of the brush stroke.
- I drew in an asymmetrical pattern to control the amount of paint distributed.
- I think that my work can keep growing, something that could make the paint “die” might be overheating or starving the bacteria inside of dishes.
- My hypothesis is two of my dishes will have a clear pattern with strong colors and the other two will be less strong colors and less clear patterns.
- I am enjoying the lab so far, although I am not very clear about how different filters will have different outcomes.
- Having more informative sheets provided would be great because it was easy to lose track of all the new scientific information.
