Hello and welcome, I have not spent much time on this blog as I have my other blog,
But I would like to think that this blog deeserves some time and energy in getting it started. While I was driving home yesturday evening, I was thinking of a way for me to get into the designer frame of mind I will write some design appreciation.
It will feature a design item I have come across and then have a look at its past as well as where this design may be in the future.
Anyway enjoy,
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I am a very indecisive person I want to to everything, and as a result I have done many things, but not gone very far in any of my pursuits.
This is not a bad thing but personally I would like to have cover some ground in one feild. And the Feild I am currently in is as A designer. I have studied a certificate IV in design, which helped me grasp illustrator, indesign and photoshop. And from there I took up another course in Diploma of product design as it was the only thing available at the time. This opened my eyes to techincal drawings, autocad, solidworks 3d printing, and model making, history of design and sustainable design.
But how to keep me on track, how to keep this wild mind in the one direction? well I am putting a 5 year cap on design. After that I am free to change career direction. curently I am at the 2 year mark this July 2016, and will reach the 5 year mark in mid 2019. when I will be 28 years old.
I have printed out a calendar and I am crossing days off. it is so much easier to grasp time and have direction when I can visually see it.
Hopefully this keeps me on track as I am loooking for internships here in melbourne.
14 July 2016 – by Tavi Johnno
what to do with all that plastic? this is a question I keep asking myself.
over the last few weeks I have been researching and coming up with ideas to make new cheap products, like maybe collect a lot of bottles and build housing for the homeless, make funky stools by grinding up and melting down milk bottles (hdpe) to have a colour specked stools, with legs of alluminum from alluminum cans that have been smelted in a home made foundry.
I like those ideas and would like to explore them. but it wasnt until I actually melted a few things down that I came across other uses. Plastic bags for instatance. they can be melted and reshaped at 250 degrees celsius. I made a small chair out of a big collection of bags. one of the legs came of and I gave it to my dog to play with. He loved it as a chew toy as it was reasonably hard and also could fit in his mouth to chew on easily as he is a small dog.
okay so I have made something new relativly easily out of something that would otherwise go to land fill. but two questions that still need to be answered is it safe for my dog? and after he is done with it how would it then be disposed?
I have searched many dog toys and the plastic ones are made from hdpe. And plastic bags (ldpe), so are PE also. so i’ll contiune to observe how the dog interacts with the toy.
now once it is done where to I throw it way to? in victoria, australia there is a recycling collection bins outside many chain supermarkets called Redcycle bins. and they are collected and then made into outdoor objects such as park benches and board walks. so that is one option and since it is in a smaller shape it wont take up as much room in the collection bins as a bundle of bags would have. what I wanted to know was can it go in the recycle bin now that it is in a different form, why/why not?
Planetark says that as in bag form they get stuck in machines, but as a solid object this wont happen. so now something that that could not go in the recycle bin, can now as it is in a ridgid form. 🙂
recycling sources:
http://recyclingweek.planetark.org/recycling-info/plasticbags.cfm
a lot of food and fruit is composted but not oranges egg shells or onions. So what do I do about that?
http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/composting/ingredients/citrus-peels-compost.htm
it says it is okay for worms and to be composted. just takes a long time to break down.
firstly I will look up “ergonomic shapes” to get an idea of what would work well with the body.
http://tinylittlelife.org/?p=317 in this link there is a home project tht someone made an ergoniomic keyboard that bends upwards. I don’t know how well it works but it looks interesteing.
http://www.innerdesign.com/blog/products/Luno-container-by-Martin-Jakobsen this is a bottle with a wide opening and minimalistic design.
https://www.typing.com/blog/read/gettin-crazy-with-the-keyboards weird and creative looking keyboards
http://www.cyclestyle.com.au/brands/memobottle-australia/ this was made by swinbune student who designed a flat water bottle.
-also spanish architect antoni gaudi.
-melbourne sewearge plant being one of the best in the world as it moves waste from one pond to the next ponds have reeds and plants, and the natural purification from the air and water help rid the sewage of harmful pathogens.
what is the future of toilets. here are a few designs
-history of design. I need to gather more research on the toilet.
toilet paper, squat toilets, hose, bedday,
-in france the king build a summer palace 6 km down the road because of the smell of poop would be really strong.
-we use fresh water, toilet paper machines turning wood pulp, sewage treatment plant, pipe lines, porcline toilets, plastic, there is a lot involved in just going to the bathroom. toilet brush, scented smells air fresheners, fan, bleach.
is cleaning toilet with cola better for the environment then bleach?
-what we flush down could affect marine life. I was under the assumbtion that sewarge treatment plants were meant to deal with most of the pollutants. this article below suggest that pharmacutical pills are affecting marine life when flushed down the toilet.
sir john harrington invented the first flushing toilet in 1700s
history of the toilet here in australia, how people throught that it was the smell that was making people sick. and the dual flush was invented in australia.
http://www.abc.net.au/local/videos/2010/05/27/2911299.htm
this is a toilet museum in india http://www.sulabhtoiletmuseum.org/
https://www.gatesnotes.com/Development/Reflections-on-the-Reinvent-the-Toilet-Challenge
the above link is bill gates blog where he discusses how the modern expensisive first world solution to the toilet is to complex and expenisve for third world countries.
I find it hard to stay focused just becuase I am not paying attention. waISTING TIME doing other things, chatting to friends. the day slips away so fast.
I eat a lot of pasta and was wondering if I can recycle it or reuse it in an interesting way.
I have two plastic bread bags. idea- turn them into dolls, freindship dolls I cannot be recylced just like this friendship. hold onto me and rememeber that I have made a big impact on someones life weather I noticed it or not. feel free to pass this toy on as an effection of another bond formed.
http://dabbled.org/tutorial-fusing-plastic-or-how-to-make (fusing plastic bags together to make a plastic sheet)
http://etsylabs.blogspot.com.au/2007/05/long-overdue-fusing-plastic-bag.html (fusing plastic sheets together)
advangaes – can be used to make gifts and reduce the energy create to produce store bought gifts. used in the lining to waterproof bags, make a sun hat, festival tarp. single layer plastic pattern to fuse onto tee shirt.
disadvantages- mlting plastic is bad, and the energy from the iron.
http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf/Green_Living/Reusing/Uses-for-Plastic-Packaging.html
clear hard plastic supported by wire coathanger frame to make a tarrarium/minature glass house.
http://www.lilblueboo.com/2009/08/my-new-favorite-fused-plastic-belt-and.html (belt made from fuse plastic sown to fabric)
https://zween.wordpress.com/2013/08/21/the-plarn-project-plastic-bags-transformed/#comment-1396(plarn, plastic yarn)
update 1/3/2016
So I am thinking about doing two bags in different techniques the first fused plastic sown to tee shirt rags to make a bag. the plastic will be the inside waterproof lining. the second will be plastic yarn – aka plarn. and I will croche that into a bag.
other ideas with plarn, make it into a belt, a bum bag, or better yet make it into the traps for the teeshirt/plastic bag. hippie belt pouches,
now to decide on what bag design I want to work towards. I would like a backpack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDNC2ZkET5A (this video totorial shows how to make a rucksack backpack) but it seems a little to compicated for me at this point I will search for a more simple design.
bucket top. this seems a little more simple but it has ring holes need which I don’t have,
macrame. a friend suggested that this would be easier to weave with than crochet.
http://redcycle.net.au/redcycle/how-to-redcycle not sure if plastic wrap can be recycled with them mainly because it would have liquid or food resadue on it. but in the video it is said that they do receieve plastic cling wrap. so how if it is going to land fill. what other alternatives are there to plastic cling wrap?
here are a few alternatives http://mightynest.com/blog/3-eco-friendly-alternatives-to-plastic-wrap
question to think about: making new product out of waste product?
-worm tee: using a worm compost for fruit and vegiatbles to inhance a garden, and sometimes grow vegitables and fruit from those you threw away. Another benifit is letting food produce decomose and go back to the earth, as in landfills it does not decomose and create methane gas buildups. (findings from personal experience/knowledge about landfills)
-what things are building up in land fills that could be put to simple better use?
http://www.ejnet.org/landfills/ (basics of a landfill)
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/06/26/2286487.htm (using volcano to dispose of rubbish concept)
-http://www.citymetric.com/skylines/9-building-materials-made-entirely-waste-products-932 ( several waste materials in use)
IDEA turning old wrappers into sketch book covers. sun shade
Looking at the mound of homework,
it can be done, I just have to do it,
don’t get bogged down, just trudge through it
Monday it’s due, I will persue it.
Start your day, get out of bed,
turn on the computer, clear your head,
clean up the dishes, back things away, make the bed,
doing things now, It’s the only way to get ahead,
research, assignments, notes, sketches,
follow the brief closely, do as said,
procrastinate not, and you will never feel assignment day dread.
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