Objectified

The film was really impressed and inspired me about what is the design and who is a “real” designer. Through the document, Gay Hustwit gives different designer philosophy and opinions, thus we can learn and understand deeper about what we are doing right now in the course.
Design is not just simply by its meaning creativity of new thing that we make people go “wow” and “ohh”, it is much more than that. A good design requires many things from its designer. The designer must really understand the object they are going do for, they must have a feeling for it. Or in other way, there must be a good communication between the designer and the object. I even really believe that “Every object tells a story if you know how to read it”. As there is a communication, the connection between designer, their design and consumer is just so close because it is understandable.
When the designer starts with their design, doing research for more understand of the objects is necessary. Designer usually searches for what people are thinking of and wanting to have. However, a really good design is often thing that people even have not thought of or in other way they are dreaming to have. I know it is hard to do, but yet it is a job of a designer.
As Hella Jongerius has said that it is better to have a unique product rather than a repetition and mass product of the design in the market. It is complete true. Why? A unique and good designed object make owner feel a connection to it, make them appreciate for its own beauty, so then it would be kept for longer use. It is meaningful to the object as it can last long life, so do environment. There will be less trash to be thrown away as we have awarded through “The Story of Stuffs”.
After researching different perspectives from the market, the designer starts their work. Experiencing different sketches or materials are necessary to lead designer to a better understand of their work. We think this way may work better, but who knows when we experience it, it is the way around. Material is just a secret field that there are so much things we are not known about, research and experience are only ways to help us to achieve a better communication to our design.