Service design

Mechanical engineers have many different responsibilities, some of which are simple tasks while others require professional knowledge and can mean life or death. It is the engineer’s responsibility to test every aspect of their design to find any problems with the design. If these tests are not completed properly, any imperfections could end up becoming fatal. From these tests, there could be changes made to improve the flaws of the parts being assembled. Once any tests have been completed…

Form The corkscrew must showcase the very best in contemporary Italian design as well as look aesthetically pleasing to the consumer. Designing the corkscrew around an Italian woman should provide a ‘tongue and cheek’ product that will represent playfulness, whilst bringing out the childish side in the user. Its form will directly impact the overall performance and quality of the product. A more premium yet still effective appearance will carry a higher price because of its unique…

No place better exemplifies bricolages than a shared, college bedroom. Bricolages are “compositions designed by combining pre-existing designs” which “express their creator’s identity and worldview, consciously or unconsciously” (Huhtamo, Meeting 1, 20). Bricolages are analyzed through semiotics, the analysis of culture through interpretations of signs (Huhtamo, “Basic Concepts” 257). College is where many first experience living with people who are not family. In a shared bedroom, styles and…

Outcome 3 explores what it takes for a writer to produce complex, analytical, persuasive arguments that contribute to the conversation of existing research and matter in academic contexts. It is important for a writer, when developing a complex and analytical claim, to implement the stakes of the argument, and why the argument matters to their field of research. If the argument has no purpose, then the writers desired audience have no reason to read it. It is also vital for the writer to…

In the last thirty years, end-of-life disassembly has been taking shape and evolving the way we design, produce, and discard products. End-of-life disassembly involves obtaining a product that has already served its purpose to the consumer and disassembling the product to recycle or reuse its components in the manufacturing process. The processes and ways that disassembly has been carried out over the years have varied drastically. This is because the sector is always changing to find the…

Design Process An element of graphic design that could have a positive effect on students was design process. The design process assisted graphic designers with processing information and ideas. The graphic design process introduced how to think more like an explosion of ideas than linear line of one idea. Linear thinking was about one idea and attaching to that idea. While, lateral thinking was trying multiple ideas at once and changing and improving them over time. Hernandez and Prathibha…

“The mind map is an expression of radiant thinking and is therefore a natural function of the human mind. It is a powerful graphic technique which provides a universal key to unlocking the potential of the brain.” In simpler words, a mind map “is the easiest way to put information into [our] brain and to take information out of [it].” It can also be said that mind maps are innovative and practical thinking tools to process information. Their primary aim is to take advantage of our cerebral…

Ever since I was a child, I am easily fascinated and amazed by the structure of a buildings. I wondered how the engineers paste the glue to a block and stick it together, how they carried thousands of massive block to be placed to form a building and probably how they realised the blueprints to make it looks totally real. Now, I realise what quality is needed for driving the aspiration towards developed state by 2020. I believe in this era, world needs professional leaders to realise the…

What makes I. M. Pei’s Everson’s museum an architectural success? Based of Lebbeaus Woods definition of architecture as, “the built realization of a particular concept, or idea. …the concept, or ideas, it embodies are formulated in a unique, and not merely generic, way”, I. M. Pei distinctively develops a concept of form using brutalism. The Everson Museum evokes a spark of interest for the viewer and at first glance the museum seems anticlimactic, but as the viewer enters the space and engages…

When I went to the McNay Art Museum I chose Song of Margaret for Margaret by Carl Rice Embrey. The painting was done with acrylic polymer emulsion on panel in 1973. This representational painting has a lot of eye catching and visually pleasing points. The feel of looking out onto a field from inside a room is a life like view. One thing I noticed is that shape was used. This is because of the organic and geometric shapes found in this work. Geometric shapes are found in the windows, the square…