Saturday, 24 August 2013

Reflection on videos


The videos actually opened up a whole new territory for my understanding of design, sustainability didn't come into my design concepts ever just before watching those videos.

The Greenfly Video and the concept they built on the website is just fabulous. Considering about material and technology, it is never easy for one designer to cover all the facts of different manufacture methods of particular materials, let alone make comparison between each of them. Although the idea is brilliant enough to tell the designer what's better to be used to increase sustainability of their concept, I personally reckon that actual production must and will always differs from simulation. Hence, I actually see it more like a place where designers can broaden their horizon.
The other five videos from Autodesk are also great for designers to know about the very factors that have impact on sustainability. I particularly liked the idea of light weighting as I have never thought about the weight of a product will matter that much in environmental. However it do require industrial designers to master more engineering skills in order to guarantee the quality of particular structure or composition. Also, knowing about the whole life cycle of the products actually helped us to decide which part of the product to emphasize on and to know which part to put much effort in.

In short, there is much more for me to learn.

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