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Week 15 – Final Thoughts

Over the last 15 weeks I have learned about all kinds of design and what they all mean. I think the future of design continues to work on more of the useability for the consumer and not just the asthetics. With the way things have been going I also for see a lot of the technology continuing to grow along with the amount of things that are touchscreen. For me I plan to major in marketing and math along with a minor in graphic design/visual arts. This means for me design will continue to change everday. The way we appeal to the eye and the way design leads a consumer across a page or draws them into a store is going to be a very large focus of mine so I will notice that more. Also one of the other things I will notice with my job field is the interior design aspect of things since I will be working in a n office setting. The usability of an office is something that will also affect me for the rest of my life. One thing that I have noticed about myself after taking this class about design and really looking into things is that I love old vintage advertisements. I do think this connects to design because it is that idea of design asthetics and such.

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Yeah, so I could vacuum up your idiocy.

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Week 11 – Communication Design

I don’t think I have the eye to be able to put design in my mind all the time I have a very business orientated mind. I am design orientated when it comes to colors and how I lable for my classes like green makes me think science or blue makes me think math. Then there is the way I display things in presentations I have to have it appealing to the eye or the colors have to make sense or the graphs have to be perfect. When I look at advertisements I look at how and why they attract consumers that is when my design parts kick in, I think about the colors and how they affect us and if that’s why we feel a certain way when we look at this advertisement over that one. But when I look at a company I don’t look at their outfits or the way the menus are displayed I look at the way the company is run. When I see a commercial or hear something about a business the first thing I think is how many times have I seen this commercial is this a waste of money for that company because ive only seen this once and I will never remember it after tomorrow. So in a sense I will always have that design outlook on my profession but in the long run I have to much business and strategy running through my head to develop it in all parts of my profession.

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Week 10 – Communication Design

Working together towards a common goal of making things easier and a better place to live and work is what I think when I’m asked what I think of the statement The world is our common design project. I feel like we are all designers in our own way, the way our rooms our layed out or the colors we paint our houses with and where we hang our family pictures on our walls. We are all our own designer. We all live in this common place called Earth and everyone wants it to be an easy and peacfull life one that we can live in and be safe. But in order to achieve such goals we have to work together work as a team towards it. Every day new things come to light to help us move closer to this and everday we are able to work as a team to do big things to move closer to having a more userfriendly world. Some of us have more say and power in this such as or president and congress but we all have ideas about things. Teachers however don’t seem to have as much or as great of a job as most think but they design how we learn they design the way we think they design us from tiny humans to adults they bring us to be presidents and congress people. Design is all around us and to make this a better place we as teacher president congress peolple average people all need to work togther to get there.

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1951 Femineered Kitchen- International Harvester Refrigerator on Flickr.

International Harvester Refrigerators Color keyed to your kitchen They’re femineered! Ten brilliant colors to choose from changeable door handle make your kitchen sing with color"

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Week 9 – Design & Cultural Context

Brooks Stevens was born here in Milwaukee in 1910 and he was in the field of industrial design. I think that it is hard to leave a place you were born or grew up in and so I feel that that influenced a lot of why he stayed here but also because Milwaukee had and still to this day has so much potential for industrial design and so much inspiration for work. Stevens followed closely in his fathers shoes and one of his interests lies in motor cycles. I find this a conicidence because one of the larger Harley Davidson museums is here in milwukee. Brooks Stevenes was a big part of Milwaukee and the industrial design field and I think that for him his hear just stayed here in this city.

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this is amazing

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1956 DeSoto ad

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Napoleon wants you to know that he could have won Waterloo if he had only had a Coke.

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Week 5 – Design Thinking

New things are designed daily and some products are redesigned to make them better and new again. Most people are all about the “if its not broke don’t fix it” saying well that’s not the case sometimes things should be fixed even when its not broken. Take for example the iPhone the first generation ones could still be made and they would still get the basic funcitons and things done but that doesn’t matter unsted we have moved on to the iPhone 6s. Its not because people didn’t like the iPhone 1 but it was the potential to make life easier to make communication and technology easier and more usable as technology progresses and to keep up with our ever changing lives and needs. Tim Brown the author of Design Thinking touches on the topic of empathy and how its an observation into insights and these are products and services that will improve lives. This is true being able to understand others and the way they feel about products can really make you into a better designer. Due to this you can appeal and focus on those needs to make your designs more user friendly. For example the TV remote the person that designed that had to have other people and their needs in mind when they desinged that for the tv remote is to make life simplier and is what others wanted. Instead of people having to get up every time they wanted to change the channel they can now stay seated and do it with a simple button. Design isnt just about the designer and what they like its about all of us and how our lives work.

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Week 2 – Design in Context and History

John Heskett wrote a book called Design a Very Short Introduction. The word design can have a hundred and one different meanings, its all how each indivicual sees it and wants to interperate it. That’s the beauty of design. In the reading he begins the book with “design sits uncomfortably between these two extremes. As a word it is common enough, but is full of incongruities, has innumerable manifestations, and lacks boundries that give clarity and definition” and I think that that fits perfectly with how I see design. One thing that we can all agree upon whether we are designers or not is that design is to help make life more usable, more appealing, and more enjoyable as a whole. Design is such a important part of our everyday life, for example my laptop that im typing on or tumblr in which this is about to be posted on; all parts of design. Even this text; the way the letters look, without the little feet on the T or the M, this is the most basic and used text “Helvetica”.