Treasuring Time

For this project I decided to look at treasuring time from a parents perspective. Especially from a young age keepsakes are collected and treasured as a child grows up. I drew inspiration from things like bronzed baby boots and plaster casting of hands to create my treasuring product.

The idea is that this product once purchased has a pre-paid life of 5 uses. This would be a baby shower gift to the parents. Once in possession of the present it is up to the parent when to use it. To use the gift all the parent has to do is scan or photocopy the child's hand or feet and send it to the manufacturer. The idea being that once the scan is received an impression or relief can be made from the material of your choice and sent back to you.
After the products life has come to an end, the user will have a visually chronological view of their child's growth.

Designing Dream Machines

This videos main message was the importance of the designers role in a design firm when breathing life into an idea within a client based relationship. It deatils the roles that the design takes on such as researching and analysis existing products in the market to nurturing and developing ideas and creating a prototype.

This video also highlights the industry concept of client satisfaction. To be successful in design, designers must produce products that are the culmination of good design elements, relevant to the time and the needs/requirements of clients. Client satisfaction is just as crucial as good design. As it is impossible to know exactly how a client will react to a design, constant communication between designer and client is essential throughout the design process. To avoid ultimate disaster, communication should constantly take place.

The video shows the design process from the initial exposure of the problem through the stages of finding a solution, then developing a way of communicating the elements of good design in that solution and finally to manufacturing.