stephanie's world & you just live in it: Design in Our Lives(Field Trip 3)

The designs in our life aren’t all highly functional some are low functional. But, every design has a propose in life even if its just to be used as décor or if its to have as prototype that could be improved.

To low functional art designs that we have seen in the MOMA were the “design for an overpopulated planet” by Anthony Dunne. Also “Forks” by Bruno Munari are both low functional designs simply because it cant be used at the moment maybe never. Bruno Munari work on “Forks” is low functional because what he did to the forks although it is art make them unusable to a person in a normal everyday activity such as having a meal. Than the Anthony Dunne design had me very confused. I was looking at it and I didn’t understand its function at first. Than I read its description and I was able to understand it a lot more. Its function is to extract nutritional value from our surroundings. The point to this design was to show the shortage of food due to the fact that our plant is over populated. I consider its design to be low functional it doesn’t seem to useful in our society at the moment it looks like it could be used as a prototype.

Very high functional designs are also apart of the MOMA like the “PUMA BIKE” form the puma Tribranded collection by Jens Martin Skibsted. It’s a bike that folds up small enough to be able to store in any small location. It’s also lighter than an average bike. I would love to own something like this myself. Seems to be pretty cool and an awesome prototype. Than there is the “CARNA Folding Wheelchair" by Kazuo Kawaski. It’s made with titanium, rubber and aluminum honeycomb. This design is cleaver. I consider it cleaver because the seat and backrest have balls that seem to act as support of the person who will be putting it in use.

Designs are important in life sometimes their functional and sometimes their just prototypes of a good idea. We may see things as not being functional but that’s only because we don’t understand their actual functions due to the fact that we weren’t inside the designer’s head when they created it. We see high functional item’s functional because we see their function clearly. We understand what is going to work and what is not just by the way it looks.

Everything we use in our life our life daily is coming from a basic design. Every phone, T.V., video game, is all basic design Designs help develop our world just like the designs in the MOMA one day they will help our world become a bit better. Each design just needs the function to become a bit clearer.