CR10

I thought that Design 200 was a pretty cool class. I enjoyed learning about design, but I was expecting something else. I was hoping that this class would help me with my decision of going into interior design or not, and unfortunately I am still in the same place I was before. I was hoping to touch more on interior design, and when we did it was all public places. I would want to design homes, because it is so much more personal, and you really have to understand and get to know your client. I also felt like some of the lecturers were boring, but I guess it is the most broad design class. I may want to continue design, but I have some thinking still to do. I also liked that we did not have midterms and a final, and that we had an AWESOME teacher!

J10

Allie Fisk 
Alicia Wyatt
Anne Deis 
Catalina Hernandez
Zach Bobich


J08

J09

At the end, our team basically worked on putting the final ideas and pictures in the power point. Decisions were made by mainly one person in our group considering that if we put our input in it then we would get shut down. I think the team did not work well at all, both organizationally and personally. We had a lot of tension between certain members in our group, and only the minimum was accomplished. I know for a fact that we could have had a better presentation, if people learned how to take in account others' ideas.

The roles that I fulfilled were bringing initial thoughts and ideas to the table. I also answered the questions on the "User", but it ended up not being in the slide show. I revamped the power point, and tried to make it look better, but again it was not used. I think I did well at clarifying things, and researching information. I could have done more by speaking up to a certain group member, and saying that the power point looks like crap. Then I could have redone it with the other members. I think the project was cool, I just would have rather done it with maybe less people or with people who would listen to others.

J09

Allie Fisk 
Alicia Wyatt
Anne Deis 
Catalina Hernandez
Zach Bobich


There has been a lot of controversy,  but we are meeting today before class and wednesday before our presentation. I really hope that things get resolved. If I have time I am going to send Alicia with some slides, and information about the "User." We have been heading in all different directions, I think that our team just has very poor communication. I personally have been just finding bits and pieces of information that we could use in our presentation. 


I have notes, but all of Anne's pictures are being sent to Alicia for the power point. Also Catalina is working on some packaging models. Allie has pictures on her digital camera of us working, and we will probably put that into our slide show. 

RR08

I think that the three contextual influences are key to design. It contains the organization of design, the business context, and the government policy. This could ultimately decide whether the product is going to make it or not, and may even cause some legal problems. The future chapter really had me thinking about what is going to happen. Are there always going to be a need for new designs? I think with the way things are developed, and our need to make things eco-friendly and not "less bad" that there will always be room for designers in the future. Time will only tell what will happen, but I think things will just keep getting better and better!

J08 Coleman For the Home

Allie Fisk
Alicia Wyatt
Anne Deis
Catalina Hernandez
Zach Bobich

My team has been mainly working on the product itself, although today we figured out both the packaging and kiosk. We came up with an idea to serve food that would stay at the desirable temperature. It would be on a platter that can carry all the containers at once. The design started off as a shamrock offered by Catalina, but is now more square so it can be used at any time. I think together as a team we are getting a lot of things done, but I think there is a little tension going on. I noticed how hard it is to come up with something that incorporates 6 different ideas. I think I have been doing a good job of putting my input on things and also clarifying things for the rest of the team. Over the weekend I came up with a pretty cool kiosk design. We are actually going in a different direction, but still including some of my ideas. I think I could be more patient, because I get annoyed easily when people do not get the picture. We have a lot of pictures drawn up beautifully by Anne, that have not yet been scanned. We also have notes and ideas written by everyone in their journals.

RR07

A cradle to cradle model is when something happens and then there is a reaction to it. It goes back and forth. Having a product go back into the environment is what they are trying to do. I think that certain designs belong in different environments. I like reading this book, as a designer it gives me different ways of thinking. I now think of more ways to be eco-friendly, and try to think of products that could be better for the environment.

CR07

On monday it was interesting to hear about the design program from other people. Right when I was thinking that I am totally done with design they re-inspired. They allowed me to think that maybe it won't be so hard to be an interior designer, and that I could really do it if I put my mind to it.  In class on wednesday we watched videos of Charles and Ray Eames. It was really cool to see their design process and seeing their short films on how things worked.