Task 5: Week 4 Reflection

This weeks talk was from Yves Behar on how objects tell stories. He starts the talk off with his childhood memories and explains to us that these memories from our childhood are everlasting. He recalls these crazy carpets with graphics and a huge towering shelf. Yves belives the humans have experiences with objects, and thus we need to design to match the human need. Objects bring value to the user, and so we have to create the right values.

Through looking at his past projects we are able to undertand his take on design. The first one, the leaf lamp was designed so that the user would have a whole new experience with a light. The leaf lamp was designed with two light settings; a glowy relaxed yellow, and an intense work white light. This really inspired me as this object matched human cycles so well, work and rest. He then moved on to Jaw bone; a bluetooth headset which he had designed to suit the human face shape which was very facinating. The Y water was the next project which was designed from the foundation of wanting to make a healthy fun alternative to the now standard soda's and soft drinks that children have now. He then moved onto the One laptop per child project, the XO laptop. This laptop was designed for children in poor countries so that they could learn effectively with new technology. It was designed to be low cost and durable as well as fun and interesting for the children, the story of how it was designed really touched me.

All in all this was a great talk reminding us to keep in mind the value of work we do. He also left me with a quote to remember:

"Advertising is the price companies pay for being un-original".