CR05

There was a lot of things to pull from this week of class. First off, I found the color presentation to be both very interesting as well as informative. Granted I learned most of that stuff in art class in the 3 grade, learning the terminology to analogous and slit complimentary were good things to take away from the presentation. I also had never known about the advancing and receding of different colors (warm and cool) but it does make sense and now that I think about it cool colors do typically make areas look more spacious. As for eco awareness and design I thought I was at least more or less on the ball with that previous to class. But from the powerpoint the idea of built for disassembly really stuck with me. Most of the things that we consume are not capable of this, maybe for aesthetics or purely because the company just wants you to buy more of their products when they do inevitably break. Whether for monetary reasons or lack of research making things repairable not only takes away the production consumption disposal cycle it also creates jobs for those who repair them and makes companies think more about quality instead of quantity. Really the key to making eco friendly products work (in the sense of design that doesn't go straight to the dump) is the shifting of the societal norm away from massive industrialization and back to artisan work, work that was of quality and that people typically came back to for that. The instance that seems to do the best job at this is the Aeron Chair, designed to be the most ergonomic chair on the market. It takes recycled materials (94%), comfort from the many knobs which can adjust pitches and angles of nearly everything to the lumbar adjustable pad which can be moved up or down and in or away from the curvature of the back to be at maximum comfort. Overall I believe that concept of being green in design is a huge step that we should be moving toward in the future, as we move away from quickly made, cheaply produced and horrendously designed pieces with one thing in mind... money.