Tuesday 23 August 2011

Video: Annie Leonard

After this video, I found that when we buy a product, we only attention the exterior and the function of the product, we didn’t think that much of the history of a product, in here history not mean the design or the evolution of a product, it mean from the Extraction --> Production --> Distribution --> Consumption --> Disposal.
In this history of a product, most of the steps are hide, in my own view, I think it is intentionally, by teaching the wrong things to the children, in the video it point out that in 1950’s industrial designer is to design how to make the things break early, but to keep people still buy more stuff. Start to teaching the children, only let them see the better half, to hide the rest of the bad. Parents buy lot’s of stuff to the child, start from Gameboy, GBA, NDS, PSP, to wii, Xbox, after the child get a new toys, they know is to throw the old toys, it give them a bad habit.
However now day, some of the designer try to save the earth, save the nature, they try to use the things that people throw out, for example, schamburg and alvisse, “Recopol”, but this is address the symptoms, not the cause, to do it better it need to start from the factory, factory make things that are more tough, things can use longer, then can use less material to make things that can use longer time, start recycle from factory is better than recycle from family, to make things better we need to start from the begging.
Government become the tools of the consortium, product design become the assassin of the nature pollution. The government and the consortium because of money, to destroy the earth, to teach the people wrong things, designer design better things is not to give people a better or happy life, is to give people pressure, a harder life, people need to work harder, to but the same function things for a few times, however after all that they don’t have much time to use it.

No comments:

Post a Comment