Design Futures

Today in class we watched a video of the design process in which the camper van evolved from over the years. it showed how the camper vans design now hasn't changed much form when the first came out and were big in the 70's. The museum decided to get designers from the USA, Japan, England and Australia to come up with new ideas and create a new design of the caper vans. This video show the creative process involved from evaluating, investigating, to the ideas bought up. When we started looking at the lamps we followed a similar patter and evaluated pre-existing lamp, investigated and thinking of new ideas, this all id part of the design brief. The fours camper vans went on show to the public. One of the camper vans design was rocket looking and very modern. The designer form Japan created on with big opening sides to create more space. One comment was that each countries designers camper van was designed for their own countries climate. the Australian on was open and spacious and you spent most of your time outdoors because of the heat. the English one was more designed to be comfortable inside as in England you would spend most time inside the camper. The Japanese designers, design opened up hugely and had a massive livving area similar to the tea garden which is part of their culture. This video was interesting as it showed how their ideas and materials changed because of price and weight. it also showed how the designs went form on paper to a 3D drawing to a polystyrene model, then to a small model then finally to the final product.


My own design of the lamps in nearly finished and once I have put the dimensions in, I will be ready to construct and make then on Monday.

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