Professional Practice Module Presentation

Hi!!!

In this post I want to talk about the presentation that I did for the Professional Practice Module. We worked in teams and I did my presentation with Alan and Manami.

Although we are graphic design students, we were also interested in product design. So we decided to focus our presentation in designs that we liked and as both of us were from different countries we found interesting to talk about some designs that were characteristics from each country. We also realised that we were all want to talk about designs that consider aspects like sustainability, the traditions and the social dimension.

Alan is from Malaysia and he talked about Royal Selangor a Malaysian pewter manufacturer and retailer. He emphasized the fact that the company recycles old pewter items to produce new ones. So it remains the durability and sustainability of the product.

Manami is from Japan and she talked about the Japanese designer Takumi Shimamura. This designer used to work in different kinds of design. However, she wanted to talked about the he create new products with traditional methods, using local resources and collaborating with students, professional workers and local people.

I am from Spain and I talked about Curro Claret, a Spanish designer. He used to worked with recycled materials and with different institutions trying to help people in risk of social exclusion. I talked about a project called "La pieza" (The piece) that was realised with a Arrels Foundation. The real designers were people that are or have been living on the street. They made furniture with materials that they could find easily on the street and they assembled them with the piece that Curro designed.

As a conclusion we explained some features that we consider that every good product design must have:

- Universal: design thinking in all kind of people.

- Social: design thinking in what could contribute to the society.

- Traditional: trying to preserve the traditional design culture.

- Durability: design thinking in long-life products.

- Resources: use low impact materials thinking in the environment.

- Considering the 3 “R” rules: REDUCE, REUSE and RECYCLE.

I really like working with Alan and Manami. It was really surprised because we were agree since the first time about the topic the we wanted to talk about. And I found it absolutely interesting, I hope that the rest of the international students liked it as well!!

Eva