SUPER MICHELLE ROCKS THE WORLD

1. Design is currently a major source of pollution. We are not being responsible for the proliferation of unnecessary artefacts that respond to no real brief, rather than appear as variations on a theme- visual configurations (conceptual design) material exploration (new articulations of the same) stylistically driven outcomes (design signatures) or the preoccupation to focus on the minutiae of details (design as art).

2. The modern design now has been over active, we need to stop and think of how to consider what can design contribute and find practical ways to enhance the quality of life. We have to re-examining our values and identity when designing. It is about reconnecting with the emotional value and well being in our everyday actions.

3. Creating a responsible design is not about doing nothing, but its about dong the right things. There is a need to create a long term acquired value, instead of short-term gain and profit. The need to build a future on contentment rather than on greed, about care and attention, about making a difference rather than making more things.

The designer’s lifestyle is no longer acceptable in buying afresh, trendy and unnecessary products of design when people are starving and without the basics of food and shelter and resources. Are we here overheating, blown by ecologically and socially justifiable? In fact, our real needs is the longing for simplicity, time and convenienence. We need modest, sound ideas, responsible products, intelligent products and consuming what we really need, rather than what we believe we want. The act of design is extremely powerful human intervention, but we must do it lightly and we must think more coherently before we act.

4. Design is hence all about satisfying needs, solving problems and attracting us towards new experiences. Which is the best possible way for companies to meet this, and how shall they work strategically with their design development?

5. It is hard to see the big picture of design without of a holistic sustainable point of view. We throw away the long term products while it is still functioning? Designers need to maximze the trail where people seek, understands, accepts and finally sticks with different products. The sticking part is the most crucial. “emotions make us buy, whilst feelings make us keep”, says design researcher Kristina Borjesson. “incredible resources are wasted on objects and products that are thrown long before their physical as well as technical function is over, sometimes even before they even have been used.”

Sustainability has to be integrated into the DNA of design, not left on the surface. Yet, if sustainability is to be accepted into the DNA of design, and not ultimately rejected as something alien, it must evolve into something that, directly and intensively delivers value and well being itself to users, citizens, consumers. This bridge, between the contraints of the environment and the needs of modern humans for expression, creatively, exuberance- life- is the gap that innovative design must bridge”, says sustainability designer John Manoochehri.

To not design just for the sake of designing, but to keep the producer and later the consumer in mind.

It is not making design better but making design matter.

(hopefully i can manage to find time to read up more about the design trends and characteristic and blog abt it :))