Friday, February 15, 2013

Bad Design Idea

Hansel and Gretles
My idea for a design that would never work is a shoe that is filled with paint on the bottom and has small holes on the bottom of the sole to leave painted footprints as you walk around. The purpose of this is to be able to backtrack and find out where you have been. Say if you dropped your keys somewhere (which it happens to everyone quite frequently) then you will be able to go back and find them. The reasons that a product like this is that the paint would run out so it would cost a lot of money to keep buying more and a lot of effort to keep refilling them every few minutes worth of walking. You also will be left with having to clean up every footprint you leave, not to mention that paint ruins carpets, but you will end up spending more time cleaning than walking. I would also assume that a shoe full of paint would be pretty heavy to walk around in.

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Good Design Idea

"Rapping" Wrapping Paper

I thought about how a lot of people in this day and age like rap music and i also thought of how everyone loves to receive gifts so I came up with "Rapping" Wrapping Paper. I also wanted to go with a more classic rap design so for my first design I used MC hammer. There will probably be more designs on the way. I will use any rapper so give me ideas or rappers that you would like to see on some "Rapping" Wrapping Paper.

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Homework 1


I honestly disagree with most of what this article is about. The article states that this is a bad design due to the capitalized "D" but I think that it grabs attention, not distracts it. The sign is simple and makes its point. When someone reads it they know exactly what it means.