A Picture A Day ( Week 11)

Presentation

This week we are instructed to present our product, which is the final outcome of force connection technique, incorporate with SCAMPER during creative thinking class.

Group 2

After briefing the ideas came out in the class last week, now we are trying to convey that how SCAMPER works and how practical our final product to lecturer and classmates.

Sketch 1

Sketch 2

Although it's a pity that we can't construct it to a real product to make it more convincing, but I have faith in our presentation which is persuasive and understandable. I have a conscious that besides of conducting a good idea and product, we must be equipped well with presenting skill to convince other peoples to agree with it. 

Benjamin's group presentation as the reference and branch of learning to imitate as the idea and presenting skill is excellent.

Synesthesia

Synesthesia is the production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body. In other words, people with synesthesia can hear color, or taste shape or smell sound or so on. 

Senses of human 

Hear color

Taste color

Smell sound

Shape and color of appointed food

So I practice Synesthesia by utilizing these pictures. I try my best to think of pictures as though it were colors, temperatures, textures, scents, flavors, or even physical movements. 

Sound: 

Machinery sound

Touch: 

Soft and smooth as silk

Sight: 

Seems like cotton candy

Smell: 

Smell like rotten eggs

Taste: 

Tasteless like cotton wool

Sound: 

Nursery rhyme 

Touch: 

Warm as torch light

Sight:  

Seems like orange and other fruits

Smell: 

Smell like fresh tomato 

Taste: 

Taste like candy with various fruits flavour 

Sound: 

Country song 

Touch: 

Warm as fireplace

Sight:  

Like a large and warm blanket

Smell: 

Smell like fresh vegetables 

Taste: 

Taste like hot coffee 

This is really interesting and fascinating. There are so many forms of synaesthesia drawing me in to see from another person’s perspective to get inspiration from them. I wish people knew about and subsequently shared their synaethesia more, as it’s fascinating how many different combinations there are, and how that effects lives. I believe that synesthesia is a unique way that can indirectly trigger our minds.

A Picture A Day (Week 10)

Force Connection 2

IKEA has made its name by supplying furniture in lower price. Why can a mega-store selling cheap furniture and home furnishings in 300 stores around the world become a beacon of sustainability? This is owning to nicely designed and durable products they have created. And the products produced by the design collaborations become a part of IKEA’s global product range, which conventional furniture stores are still trying to come to grips with.

The innovative product composed is actually the results of creativity and boldness of collaboration designer. By getting inspired, they bravely interconnect something which can be totally unrelated to the product. Thus there's a concept of force connection which we have learnt before and this technique have been incorporate well even with the furniture design

Showroom in IKEA:

Force Connection

Paper + Bulb

Force Connection

Rattan + Bulb

Force Connection

Plant + Various container

Force Connection

Pillow cover + Formula or game

Force Connection

Dining table + Glass

Force Connection

Colorful beads + Drawing

Force Connection

Container + Text tube

Force Connection

Hanger + Wall decoration

Force Connection

Wood + Metal

Other amusing furniture that invented using Force Connection. 

From the fascinating furniture, important insights have been revealed: How IKEA’s unique philosophy on and approach to design. This incidentally informs us that the way of thinking really influences us deeply in our daily life. We must try our best substitute, modify and improve even trifling elements in our daily life to pursuit of fulfilling our mission: 

“to create a better everyday life for the people.”