Instead of choosing my products from specific designers or design firms, I started researching with three criteria: educational, form suggests function, and the most importantly, design concerned with living wellness.
The products I chose, Bento Triangle, Noodle Dispenser, and Eat Better Drink Better, are all food-related. Bento Triangle, resembles the food pyramid, aims to echo the healthy diet. Noodle dispenser, which limits the amount it dispenses, suggests users the appropriate diet portions. Eat better Drink Better was instead, designed to prevent the fast eating habits for dogs. Interestingly, all of their designers took similar approaches: form suggests function. Here the forms do not simply work aesthetically but also functionally.
The simple shapes are meaningful by acting as messengers to users. The intentions that designers wanted to to provide a better living can be seen through the products. Users are guided at a comfortable degree which shapes their behaviors gradually. The behaviors are actually, paths designers believe toward a better living.
1 comment:
It is a very clear value set that you have represented here. Is part of that value set (or perhaps a tangential interest) food - or was that a coincidence -- in other words, was that a constraint that you put on your list of products?
This is a good way to start to define your own approach to design. Your articulation of the approach will need refinement, but it is a great start.
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