After watching "Objectified" in class, I realized how little I've known about design. I could see the volume of people actively changing our world by reinventing our stuff. I admired how excited the speakers were about the projects they were working on. Apart from the British designers, everyone was involved in something interesting and new to me. I was extremely impressed with Apple and their ideas about product composition and human interaction. They think the components of a product should only be apparent when necessary, such as the battery power lights on the edge of the MacBook, only visible as a glow through a seemingly seamless metal casing. The designers' goal is to slowly transform the machines they're selling us into sleek, shiny works of art with an organic flavor.
goal is to make our lives better through slight alterations in our tools. They tried
lots of different potential handles for everyday gardening tools, hoping to decrease our
effort and increase our comfort when trimming the hedges.
One man is working to improve the objects we use so much we forget we’re using
them! He wants to accommodate us subconsciously by enhancing the things we have
trained our bodies to do through repetition.
The British designers, along with the twins who make new and exciting chairs, weren’t very
interesting. I don’t need an assortment of robots with weird, pretty useless abilities. I
did agree with the long-haired gentlemen who viewed objects as the stuff we attach to
ourselves so other people will see us how we hope they see us. I'm not sure what he had
designed, but I enjoyed his thoughts on our relationship with inanimate devices. In his
view, even though we all keep buying things, nobody really cares what anyone else has.
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