The Desk

Usually the primary products such as a pen, chair, desk , light and bed, and they have, or we have a basic idea of their form, for example, desk has a four or three legs and one flat panel on the legs. Nobody can imagine exactly same form, same color, and same material, but everyone might imagine those basic ideas. I think those products are necessary and integrated into our everyday life. This reading reminds me that daily product, which is an element of the life can be changeable to variety of form and altered to suit each environment. I could see a kind of derivation beyond one of common product, desk. Also this article shows desk has been changing its form and adding functions suiting each environment, every time when new technology come into our world, the desk also has changed such as the desk which has the place for the computer. However, one thing that I'm interested is the product which is not the desk, but it's related between desk and human, Personal Skies by Naoto Fukasawa. I have an opinion about it, one is this challenging affects to the products which suit to the technology. Many of desks are well thought about how the user use the desk through their purpose. However, Personal Skies is focused on the emotion of the user using the projector, and this gives a mellow feeling or relaxation to the user. I think, the psychological effect is a new root of design the desk. Through the reading, one says the desk memorizes what the user did, the other says the desk could be a multipurpose and be in anywhere. Then I thought, what the people feel beyond their purpose, I felt there's something losing and this could be one of design topic.

Reading;Myth Plastic

I think the position of plastic in hierarchy of material is not specified since its property of use. There are varieties of material in the world such as glass, stone, metal, cray, paper, fabric, and plastic. Each material has a merit and demerit in each situation. However, the plastic has a diverse of use, because the plastic can be transformed easily and treated as a solid material after transforming, also the plastic can be used as a fabric, so it can be used for the clothes. Moreover, some kinds of the plastics has an impact resistance even though it's can be a soft and light material. A lot of merits of the plastic actualize many product easier. However, those great merits make the plastic to be lower position in the material hierarchy, because the plastic is reasonable and cheep. The most of material, which is used in the product is the plastic, people use them a lot in households but they don't use them in their special goods such as a accessory, dress, and luxual product, because the people don't want to use a cheep and reasonable material so much in their life. In other words, the people want to use expensive and rare material so that they feel rich. Finally I thought we indicate that "plastic" is lower level material.

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