As the introductory project to our Think and Make class, the
purpose of this project is to teach us the basic principles of design without
necessarily giving us a hard list of rules and saying, “If you break these,
you’re wrong.” Thus we’ve learned about many designers who have come up with
lists of consistent elements in renowned designs. Deiter Rams has given us a
list of ten design principles to live by, Don Norman has explained the
psychological link between good design and happiness, and we’ve been given a
crash course in values, hues, and chroma.
To display
the knowledge our class has absorbed, we’ve all created our respective blogs
for reflections and begun a most precarious task… picking out a well-designed
object and creating a poster for it. We started out with five and began
narrowing down the list through activities like peer evaluation and comparison
to the rules we’d received. The final product is one object and many reasons
why it’s the winner. The reasons we put to use on the product posters we’ve
created to show off it’s essential design elements.
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