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LiCha Packaging

LiCha is a tea brand based in Taiwan, the design of the packaging inspired by ‘the affection of gifts’. They have the idea of people buying and gifting to others the tea by creating a western-styled design, classic packaging. They also used this idea to promote the fine tea available in Taiwan. (Communication, n.d.)

They have a really good idea in responsible design as it helps the people to save money on buying additional gift packaging to put the tea into it. Instead, they have already designed a package for the customers that is already presentable enough to be gifted to others as a whole without any other additional thing.

Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far by Stefan Sagmeister

This book is about designer Stefan Sagmeister his diary ‘Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far’ also "Worrying solves nothing" and "Trying to look good limits my life.". He use this book to tell people that what he wants to tell people then people also can learn some education from yhis book.He use art and design mix together then come out a visual audacity and sound advice.( This book consists of 15 unbound signatures in a laser-cut slipcase. Shuffling the sequence of the signatures will produce 15 different covers. He use discursive design to tell people. It is attract me to see this book.

The book titled ‘Things I Have Learned in My Life So Far’ included several lines that the designer Stefan Sagmeister stated. The lines stated by the man himself is so rightful, where he’s tried to say that people constantly seek for happiness, but it is so hard to find happiness. The designer himself also converted the lines he said into typography and put them on billboards in France. (Popova, n.d.)

This book has definitely caught my attention in the way of it trying to convey message with discursive design included in it, telling people with the sentences he said, which would let people think deeply about it, and make them rethink about their life.

The Mood Coffee Packaging

The Mood Coffee Packaging there are five different hand-drawn, vintage-inspired and slightly realistic monkey faces. It shows people the coffee come from different places and countries also the emotion is to show that what is the coffee taste.This design are interesting because people can use eye to see the design then they can feel that what is the taste for the coffee. Because she use a hard drawn so the visual look very simple and vintage-inspired.

On the coffee packaging, it showcases a total of five different types of hand drawn monkey faces. It may seems to serve no purpose at first, but it actually does. It represents a different coffee from a different region in the world. Not only that, it also tells the complex flavor characteristics that coffee drinkers are interested in. (Bingelyte, n.d.)

The design like this is really clever, as it uses the hand drawn monkey faces instead of written words to represent each of the different coffees. It somehow gives people a visual imagination of how the coffee would taste like and before they consume it, it triggers coffee drinkers’ curiosity of the taste, turning them into buying it.

Calendar 2018 Puzzle by Katsumi Tamura

Tease your imagination with a 3D calendar that resembles a puzzle. Includes 6 calendar pieces (square) and 12 joint pieces (circle and triangle). Assemble them into any shape you like. Have fun! Quality designs have the power to modify space and transform the minds of its users. They offer comfort of seeing, holding and using. They are imbued with lightness and an element of surprise, enriching space. Our original products are designed using the concept of Life with Design.

Calendar 2018 Puzzle he designs idea come out with ' Life with Design'. this calendar has surprise, enriching space because it can modify space and transform the minds of its users so it have many shapes. it also can tease your imagination because it is a 3D calendar.It is attract me this 3d calendar because it can help me to clear my brain and think a new design idea.

This Calendar 2018 Puzzle is basically a calendar that is split into different pieces and can be put together in many different ways or forms. It has triangles, squares, and circles pieces for the user to put them together in the way they want it to be in. (A'Design Award & Competition, n.d.)

With this kind of uniquely designed calendar, it really attracts my attention as this gives me the feeling that I am able to control my day like how I make my calendar looks like at the end of the day. It would also trigger me, as a graphic designer, to think that what sort of design could I use in my project, or in other words, inspire me to design something that I’ve never thought before.

Amphibious Garment

The amphibious garment, called Amphibio, created by Jun Kamei is basically an equipment that is designed like the gills of a fish, which would eventually allow human to breathe underwater. Amphibio is created at first to allow humans to survive from the possible sea levels rising up and the submergence of the Earth. (Hitti, 2018)

It gives me a deep thought that is this a design trying to tell the public that, if we continue to pollute the Earth like none of our business, we might have to put on this and be like a fish that lives underwater, which is the last thing we would want to see. It gives the people a big warning that we could end up losing our house, and our life in the end, just because we are constantly polluting our mother earth.

Yellow Spot is a portable protest toilet for women

The portable protest toilet in yellow is a portable toilet specifically designed for women, and that’s not only the case. It is also designed specifically to convey the message that the public toilets available to men compared to women is so big of a difference. And even if there is enough public toilet for women, they wouldn’t use it like how women would use in their own toilet at home. (Winston, 2018)

This sort of protest is really a good idea to tell the message of what is really happening now in the social that almost none of us is realizing it. Instead of protesting it like a crazy person on the street and gain no feedback that is beneficial for anyone, a design like this doesn’t speak, but it tells the truth without speaking.

Omdesign 2017 Packaging

The self-promotion packaging is trying to reinforce their respect for nature and their commitment to the future. They are inspired by the devastation that happened to the Portuguese forest back in 2017, whereby the forest fire that caused by the extreme drought at that time. It causes the Portuguese to suffer from lack of hydraulic resources. (Lin, 2018)

This reminds me of how important it is to balance the natural resources in the world. We shouldn’t use up any of the resources that the world has given to us, but since we are given the opportunity to use it, we may take it as a chance for us, the human, to create something that is great for everyone, and most importantly, the Earth.

Katie May Boyd’s installation turns plastic waste into beckoning cats

Katie has collected the plastic waste throughout the duration of 9 months in Central Saint Martins, and used the plastic waste collected to turn them into the beckoning cats that are mass produced in China. The reason why she did this is to draw the attention of everyone on how inefficient it is that the way of plastic waste recycling is going. The beckoning cats is chosen to symbolic the UK that send the plastic wastes to the China since UK itself doesn’t have the disposal infrastructure for it. (Yalcinkaya, 2018)

It gives us an insight of where most of the plastic waste that we throw every single day is going to. In this case, China. And even though we always hear about how good it is that the plastic waste recycling is going on now, we don’t really dive deep down looking at how it is actually going on, is it really efficient enough to compensate for the amount of plastic waste we throw every day now?

The Happy Film

The film is basically talking about how the actor in the film, which is the designer himself, use different ways to examine the happiness level of himself. He uses three different methods that would help him to feel happy. And to indicate how happy he is after doing these three things, he uses a glass and water to represent it. At the end of his research, he found that drug would give him the most happiness out of all the methods he had tried, and it even overfilled the glass with water, indicating that the happiness can’t even be described with words. (Heller, 2016)

This film gives me the thought that, we are constantly seeking for happiness, and yes, there are many ways of seeking happiness, but is the method you are using, the right method? Is it only for your own happiness, or others as well, would you harm others while you’re gaining happiness for your own sake?

40 Days of Dating: An Experiment

This book tells the two friends who are also graphic designers, decided to try an experiment by dating each other for 40 days, since they said that the old adage says it takes 40 days to change a habit. And they would want to see, is it applicable for love as well. Throughout the 40 days of experiment as a couple, the recorded all their experiments using all sorts of ways, from photographs to artworks. (forty days of dating, n.d.)

It is a very unique approach of trying to proof that whether the 40 days would change a habit thing is true. It shows how adventurous they are in order to get this experiment done. It pushes me to do more things without limiting myself, and I should always tell myself to go ahead if I wanted to get something fixed or done.

Reference

1.Communication, U. V. (n.d.). LiCha Packaging. Retrieved from designerrs.org: http://designers.org/design.php?ID=61349

2. Popova, M. (n.d.). Things I Have Learned in My Life So Far: Sagmeister's Typographic Maxims on Life, Updated. Retrieved from brainpickings.

3. Bingelyte, S. (n.d.). The Mood Coffee Packaging. Retrieved from designers.org: http://designers.org/design.php?ID=66654

4. A'Design Award & Competition. (n.d.). Calendar 2018 Puzzle by Katsumi Tamura. Retrieved from https://competition.adesignaward.com/design.php?ID=48986

5. Hitti, N. (2018, July 17). Jun Kamei's amphibious garment could enable humans to breathe underwater. Retrieved from dezeen: https://www.dezeen.com/2018/07/17/amphibio-rca-graduate-jun-kamei-breathing-underwater/

6. Winston, A. (2018, July 9). Yellow Spot is a protable protest toilet for women. Retrieved from dezeen: https://www.dezeen.com/2018/07/09/yellow-spot-design-academy-eindhoven-portable-protest-toilet-elisa-otanez/

7. Lin, D. (2018, Jan 10). Omdesign 2017 Packaging. Retrieved from Packaging of the World: https://www.packagingoftheworld.com/2018/10/omdesign-2017-packaging.html

8. Yalcinkaya, G. (2018, July 3). Katie May Boyd's installation turns plastic waste into beckoning cats. Retrieved from dezeen: https://www.dezeen.com/2018/07/03/katie-may-boyds-installation-turns-plastic-waste-beckoning-cats-design/

9. Heller, S. (2016, September 5). The Happy Film: Famed Desginer Stefan Sagmeister's Wild, Unsettling Pursuit of Bliss. Retrieved from WIRED: https://www.wired.com/2016/05/happy-film-famed-designer-stefan-sagmeisters-wild-unsettling-pursuit-bliss/

10. forty days of dating. (n.d.). Retrieved from 40 Days of Dating: http://fortydaysofdating.com/about/