Cell phone Dissection, Sustainable strategies

LG Chocolate (touch)

Materials- plastic, silicone, aluminum, circuit plates, solder, copper pattering, lithium ion, laminates, copper-clad laminates, resin impregnated B-stage cloth, copper foil.

Manufacturing- as far as forming technology the majority of the phone is injection molded or molded. some pieces such as the aluminum components were formed using hydraulic presses.

Phone Features- the phone is small and fits snugly within your grip, it has a 2.5" touch screen coated with plastic film and an injection molded frame finished with a chrome paint. the front of the phone has three molded silicone buttons and the rear battery panel is injection molded plastic with silicone accents.


SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS 
Social media and technology hold a unique position when it comes to shaping sustainable solutions for the future or our planet. Three sustainable solutions dealing with cell phones in particular that I find most important are disaster response, education through gamification, and disease response. 

Disease Response-During the past year, HP, along with partners Positive Innovation for the Next Generation (PING) and the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), have introduced a mobile solution to disease outbreaks in two African countries: Botswana and Kenya.

HP trained health workers to respond to the symptoms of malaria by reporting potential outbreaks via text message to authorities, which takes about three minutes. The method of disease response, before the introduction of mobile, could take three to four weeks from remote regions.

“Mobile phones in the health space feels like the Internet and ecommerce in 1994 and 1995,” says Paul Ellingstad, HP’s director of global heath. “Right now, we know it’s a connection point, since 5.7 billion people have access to a mobile phone. With that sort of pervasiveness, you can provide health information, education and prevention to millions at risk of death.”

Disaster Response-Last week, the American Red Cross released a first aid app, which provides resources for responding to emergency medical situations and general must-know information. The first aid app is the first in a series on preparedness apps the Red Cross will release this year.

Though the app has just been released for the U.S., it reveals to the power of mobile in disaster relief efforts and emergency medical response around the world. People living in remote locations can access safety procedures and how-tos when there is no medical professional around.

“We’ve reached a new paradigm of communicating and sharing information, and we think we’re going to see a very measurable impact,” says Jack McMaster, Red Cross president for preparedness and health and safety services. “The tricky part is, if you bring information to people well in advance, they don’t pay attention to it. The book format is left at home on a shelf.”

Education through gamification-Gaming for good is a concept many westerners are familiar with: Some social and mobile games feature informational content about global issues.

Games for Change has taken the idea an important step forward, by creating three educational games for women in the developing world for the Half the Sky movement, started by Nick Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. Feature phone users, without high-speed Internet connection, can take part in three mobile experiences, which teach them about deworming, maternal health, family planning, life cycle events and gender equality.

"We saw that there is an emerging market in developing world, so why not go and make change that will reach the people most effected by the issues," says Asi Burak, Games for Change co-president. "This is an amazing opportunity for people who don’t have a computer, for whom mobile phones are their only tool."

TARGET

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyhE9vt8izA

^how its made video (luggage)

TARGET

department- Luggage

visual analysis- carry on luggage, check-in luggage, duffle bags, adult backpacks, children backpacks 

materials- polycarbonate (hard suitcases), polypropylene, aircraft grade aluminum (6061 aluminum alloy), polyester fabrics, 915 denier cordura, suede leather, thermoplastic elastomers (TPE)

manufactured- Everything we found out about all the products lead us to find that everything for the most part was manufactured only in China.

Brands- American Tourister, Disney, Puma, Jansport, Wenger, Ful, Target

Materials and Design Textbook

Chapter 3

Design is Design, although it doesn't directly relate to the chapter I found myself re-thinking this idea in my head as I read. I kept thinking about the design within a design process and how even within a project or situation where you are designing everything that you do, the decisions that you make, and the processes in which you choose to use are all design or a design system. What if we designed the way we designed and used those steps, choices, and ways of thinking to design completely different things or projects? What if we set out a list or chart of constraints in which guided every thing we made? Would this lead to more uniform and consistent repetition within our work or fail?

IKEA

IKEA
for this field trip my class visited the new IKEA shopping center in Kansas City. We were split into groups of two and assigned a department in which we would do an over all analysis based upon the following criteria. Overall layout, items, prices high and low, materials, manufacturing information, as well as photographing close up shots of the various materials and regular images of the environment.

Overall the trip for me was awesome because I had never before seen an IKEA store or been into one. The place was incredible, they had full scale room mock ups, about a million different departments and best of all everything was very reasonably priced. I think that what IKEA is doing is very remarkable in the sense that they design and they do it well or probably one of the best and they design to sell, they want people to have things that look and feel very nice. It allows someone with a smaller wallet to live and feel good about their own environments.


Department- Wall Decor




Items- Mirrors, Clocks, Picture Frames, Tapestries, Canvas Art, Prints, Framed Art, Frame Shelving







Materials- Compact wood, aluminum, stainless steel, plastic, canvas, paper, glass, mahogany, clear plexiglass






COST
high-$160
low-$5

National Geographic (megafactories sink)

Watching the factory process from stainless steel sheets to finished sink was very interesting. The beginning process was taking a sheet of stainless steel through a series of hydraulic presses creating the sink indenting. From these hydraulic presses the sink went through punches to create the drain, spout hole, soap hole, and a third add on hole. The most interesting part of the sink process was the face that all of the polishing and edge smoothing was done by hand, I feel that theres always something to be said when a step in a machine manufacturing process is done by hand. it adds a sense of craft and delicious detail.

Sketches of Frank Gehry

FRANK GEHRY... This dude is pretty cool, I mean he literally has people doing what he's thinking for him. The thing I found most interesting about Frank was his process, he didn't start by drawing he starts with building by using random objects, paper, plastic, trash and anything he can find to search for form and shapes. Once he has found them theres still no meaning, he creates what looks good and what he finds interesting. Overall I find Frank awesome, he just creates.

ELECTRONIC WASTELAND

This film was extremely alarming to me by the fact that I knew all of our electronics would obviously become waste at some point in their  life span but never knew the danger and undercover operations that they encountered. The amount of secrecy behind disposing of our electronics is incredibly astonishing because the people went to extremes to hide all of their methods of sorting and removing all of the hazardous materials within electronics. This is very bad because the ways these materials are being removed are dangerous and harmful to the workers and the surrounding environment and land. ultimately these dangerous processes are destroying the life of these people.

Function and Personality

One of the most fun or enjoyable elements of good design is function and without personality the function might not be as much fun or interesting. In the design process one of the last two elements I feel should be function then personality. its important that the function of the object comes first so that knowing what the object accomplishes or what tasks are carried out can lead into the personality or looks of the object.

What influences product design.

After reading this chapter I feel that ultimately there is soooo much more that goes into a product than we realize and sometimes the actual design is over looked or not as important. Todays designers seem to be recreating design or design shape because its what were used to. If a phone didn't look like a phone or a car like a car people would be come confused. Its interesting to me the designers that do take the leap and create objects that function in the same way that we already know but look entirely different and new to people. I find it interesting in the sense that a new experience has been created and new ideas, feelings, and conversations can be created by a single object.

Design and thinking a documentary

This film was ultimately inspiring. The field of industrial design is a growing field and its growing quickly, but how do we make it better and useful. This film covers some of the main obstacles and challenges industrial designers face today and how they are taking steps to assure that their design is useful and not just aesthetic. Design thinking is a very big topic and how that can relate to design is by applying the design dilemmas to a very big list of problems, situations and standers we live up to and in in todays world.

Manufacturing processes book (METALS)

Ferrous

• Mild Steel – Carbon content of 0.1 to 0.3% and Iron content of 99.7 – 99.9%. Used for engineering purposes and in general, none specialised metal products.

• Carbon steel – Carbon content of 0.6 to 1.4% and Iron content of 98.6 to 99.4 %.  Used to make cutting tools such as drill bits.

• Stainless Steel- Made up of Iron, nickel and chromium. Resists staining and corrosion and is therefore used for the likes of cutlery and surgical instrumentation.

• Cast Iron – carbon 2 – 6% and Iron at 94 to 98%. Very strong but brittle. Used to manufacture items such as engine blocks and manhole covers.

• Wrought Iron – Composed of almost 100% iron. Used to make items such as ornamental gates and fencing. Has fallen out of use somewhat.

Non Ferrous

• Aluminium – An alloy of aluminium, copper and manganese. Very lightweight and easily worked. Used in aircraft manufacture, window frames and some kitchen ware.

• Copper – Copper is a natural occurring substance. The fact that it conducts heat and electricity means that it is used for wiring, tubing and pipe work.

• Brass – A combination of copper and zinc, usually in the proportions of 65% to 35% respectively. Is used for ornamental purposes and within electrical fittings.

• Silver – Mainly a natural substance, but mixing with copper creates sterling silver. Used for decorative impact in jewellery and ornaments, and also to solder different metals together.

• Lead – Lead is a naturally occurring substance. It is heavy and very soft and is often used in roofing, in batteries and to make pipes.

Alloy
-a metal made by combining two or more metallic elements, especially to give greater strength or resistance to corrosion.

Iron- A chemical element which is crystalline in nature. To metalworkers, pure iron is relatively a soft metal so it is combined with other metals.

Steel-Simple steel is an alloy of iron and carbon containing no other element. Commercial steels, however, are plain carbon steels containing manganese and small quantities of silicon, phosphorus, sulfur, and traces of other elements. Its carbon content is from a few hundredth of a percent to 1.4 percent. Plain carbon steel seldom contains more than 1.4 percent carbon. There are, however, steels which contain up to 2.0 percent. Aside from carbon, various other elements are added to give steel different properties suitable for different applications:

Aluminum Alloys- A very light metal which is gradually taking the place of iron in many application. This metal is malleable, ductile, and a good conductor of heat and electricity. It is a cheap substitute to the more expensive copper in many electrical installations.

Magnesium Alloys- Magnesium alloys are mixtures ofmagnesium with other metals (called analloy), often aluminium, zinc, manganese, silicon, copper, rare earths and zirconium.

Titanium Alloys- Titanium alloys are metals that contain a mixture of titanium and other chemical elements. Such alloys have very high tensile strength and toughness (even at extreme temperatures). They are light in weight, have extraordinary corrosion resistance and the ability to withstand extreme temperatures.

Zink Alloys-Used extensively in dry cells and batteries. It is used as sacrificial anodes attached to the hulls of sea-going vessels and in coating iron to produce galvanized iron.

Copper Alloys-Another very useful seddish-brown metal. It is malleable, ductile, and is next to silver in electrical and thermal conductivity. It is extensively employed in many electrical applications. When copper is alloyed with zinc, brass is produced. When alloyed with tin, bronze is produced.

Nickel Alloys-  nickel alloys are used extensively because of their corrosion resistance, high temperature strength and their special magnetic and thermal expansion properties.

Lead and Tin Alloys-Very malleable and can be rolled into very thin sheets. It is used in coating insides of pipes used for conveying drinking water. It is also plated insides cans used to conserve foodstuff due to its high resistance to tarnishing. One of the densest metals. It is soft and can be cut with a knife. A two millimeter thick sheet may be bent or straightened with bare hands. It has been used extensively in plumbing but it being replaced by other metals. One popular application is the galvanized iron roofing, where lead washers are used.

Precious Metals- gold, silver, and platinum.

Hallmark (lawrence kansas)

Hallmark Cards
what- cards. Greeting, birthday etc.
materials- paper (94 bright), bleached paper, flitter, flock, virko
finishes- embossed, foil, muli color foil.
processes- silk screen press, rotary press, glue printing, die cutting

• The Lawrence Greetings Production Center opened in 1958.
   
• The facility is 650,000 square feet, including 94,000 square feet of warehouse space. It is one of two primary U.S. manufacturing facilities supporting Hallmark Cards, Inc.
• The facility specializes in producing and packaging all of Hallmark's domestically produced greeting cards and about 98% of all envelopes for Hallmark North America.  
• Hallmark brand greeting cards with specialized processes, such as die cut, flitter, flock and foil stamp, are produced in Lawrence as well as the Shoebox humor line the Sunrise brand and cards for Hallmark's DaySpring subsidiary. Hallmark stationery and boxed cards also are produced in Lawrence.
• The Lawrence Greetings Production Center employs about 700 people.

Berry Plastics (Lawrence Kansas)

Who- Berry Plastics
What- Plastic containers, cups, company oriented
For Who- mostly commercial companies such as mcdonalds, country crock butter etc.
materials- plastic, ink
Processes- injection molding, pressure molding, ink rolling, screen printing

Over all- Berry plastics is pretty cool because it is taking someting so simple or overlooked and shedding light on all that goes into a single lifeless butter container that will be disguarded as soon as the contents are gone. The fact that they do everything is also pretty cool and of course its awesome that they are local!

Eldorado inc.

who- ELDORADO INC.

El Dorado Inc. is a commercial, residencial, public art, industrial, and planning studio all grouped in Kansas city. 

ELDORADO STATEMENT

"In addition to traditional architecture, we now offer our clients an expansion of our fabrication services: the option of architect-led design build. In this simple, streamlined process, el dorado serves as both the architect and the general contractor. From the first concept sketch until the completion of construction there is one team, one contract, and one goal–to provide our clients with the best building possible for their budget. The process takes advantage of our design capabilities and our understanding of construction. Communication is improved with an integrated team, allowing us to troubleshoot issues on site before they get out of hand. We have completed Design / Build projects in many of our studios, with some recent examples highlighted below."

Materials- tube steel.

overview- The visit to El Dorado was frustrating for me, not because of the actual place but because of the experience. The facility and work space was great, it was very personal close nit and energy flowed freely. I did not like the tour because we didn't really learn a whole lot about El Dorado as a whole and most of the tour was distracted by the late arrival of some classmates. I wish the tour had been longer and more meaningful for the drive that we all had to take that day and gas money that was spend, but over all I was interested to see the area of kansas city that the El Dorado got to see and be apart of every day. 

HUHTAMAKI

Huhtamaki, Inc.

Huhtamaki, Inc. produces the most recognizable consumer goods packaging and foodservice products, as well as the CHINET® line of premium single-use tableware.

what- food service products, cpg packaging, retail products

Huhtamaki technologies convert raw materials into finished goods and incorporate the following: 

• • Shaped paperboard – Paper cups, containers, lids, paper plates and trays, and folding cartons
• • Molded fiber – Made from recycled materials such as newsprint and paperboard; Select Chinet® molded fiber products are compostable
• • Plastics – Cups and food containers, bowls, and unique lids with color printed graphics and in-line printing

Huhtamaki has invested in cutting-edge machinery and processes that have helped our company create a number of competitive advantages, including: 

• • Equipment systems enabling you to form on-site/on-demand reducing transportation and warehousing costs significantly
• • High output and efficient production
• • Unique ability to work with multiple materials
• • Wide range of shapes and closures
• • Custom design options to make your product stand out
• • Creative design capabilities to put the final touch on your packaging

Our focus on technological excellence translates into cost savings, superior products, and ease of implementation for our customers.

Lawrence Paper Company (lawrence ks)

Who- Lawrence Paper Company

What- Corrugated cardboard anything!

For- LPC creates cardboard displays ect. for many major brand names to be placed in stores such as walmart, dillons, etc.

Processes- corrugating and tinting, printing and labeling, folding and glueing, die cutting.

Materials- Corrugated Cardboard, Ink, glue.

Dimensional Innovations

DIMMENSIONAL INNOVATIONS

While there are other companies that may appear similar to us, we don’t fit neatly into any category.

We are a strange bird. Combine a team of architects and graphics artists with brand strategists and filmmakers, then take interior, interactive and environmental designers and connect them to a team of digital engineers, throw in an innovation lab, then bolt on a 70,000-square foot modern workshop where we can build just about anything and, well, you’ve got us.

We are DI. We are a curious and creative bunch of people who believe in good, old-fashioned American craftsmanship. Our teams hail from California to New York, but our approach embodies the kind of common sense native to our Midwest roots. It doesn’t matter what industry, scale, or audience.

Materials- DI works with any thing and everything to make the aha happen! They even have a solid surface business within their business, that has created a material the can be manipulated easily to create seamless and solid surface products. DI works with aluminum, steel, wood, polycarb, acrylic, solidsurface, and the list goes on.

Who?- Di works and creates for many demanders including start up companies branding, athletic environments, business's, private, and basically anywhere that an experience can be created.

ZAHNER (kansas city)

who- ZAHNER

Zahner is an engineering design consultancy and fabrication shop known for realizing the visions of architects from Frank Gehry to Zaha Hadid. Since its establishment in 1897, the company's engineers and fabricators have been at the forefront of innovative design and fabrication for a variety of artistic disciplines. From the use of aerospace engineering of curving facades to developing and applying patented technologies, innovation is at the core of Zahner. The museum-level craft and engineering that Zahner consistently provides can be found in North and South America, Europe and Asia.

materials- GB-60, Ti-Coated Stainless Steel, Solanum Steel, Roano Zinc, Hunter Zinc, Angel Hair, Star Blue, Dirty Penny, Aluminum Mesh, Extruded Aluminum.

Technologies- Zahner's list of technologies is almost endless!

The Zira™ Visualizer process is an adaptive system developed for transferring your image across a metal surface. Translate a single image across the entire surface of a project as a 'pixelated' mosaic with the Zira™ Process.

The ZEPPS® Process simplifies the construction of curving forms and complex facades. This is the curving wall panel system used on projects by Frank Gehry, Randall Stout, Cesar Pelli, Moshe Safdie, Rojkind Arquitectos, Kieran Timberlake and many more.

Zahner offers several Building Envelope Systems for both walls and roofs. Zahner systems improve moisture and wind control, and provide aesthetic improvements upon industry.

The patented MetaSystems™ include several processes for bumping, perforating, and embossing the surface of the metal.

Tessellate™ Kinetic Facades provide a moving surface that is visually stunning and ecologically sound, providing energy savings with a unique aesthetic.

Matthias Pliessinig (Hallmark)

Matthias Pliessnig

Matthias Pliessnig’s fluid, skeletal furniture forms are made using traditional steam-bending techniques with oak. His interest specifically with bending wood first developed in 2006 after making a boat. As a sculptor and woodworker his training developed during his studies at Kansas City Art Institute, earning a BFA in sculpture, at Rhode Island School of Design earning a BFA in furniture design and at the University of Wisconsin Madison, completing his MFA in wood and art in 2009. Human interaction imposed by furniture intrigues Pliessnig in his one-of-a-kind designs for benches. This interaction provides an additional consideration in the design process, one that is drastically different from considerations in creating a sculpture.

Pliessnig has received national attention for his work and is considered one of the top artists/designers working with wood today. In 2008, he received a grant for his MFA project from the Joan Mitchell Foundation; in the same year he was given the Best of the Year Award for lounge seating by Interior Design Magazine. In 2009, his work was purchased by the Museum of Art and Design’s permanent collection and he received a grant from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation. In 2010, he was awarded one of the most prestigious artist awards given today from United States Artists for $50,000. Most recently, the Smithsonian and Renwick Gallery chose eight pieces of his work to be included in the prestigious Renwick Craft Invitational. Pliessnig was one of four artists selected who represent the forefront of contemporary craft and design.

 He starts with a computer generated draft or render to decide and lay out a shape or frame.

Next a frame is created to move the parts along and support each element. All of the connections are purely created from wood essentially creating a solid piece when all is said and done. After the frame is created strips of wood are placed in a steam bath basically where the wood is softened and leaves a short period of time for manipulation.

Show & Tell / How its made

Martha Stewart Circle Cutter Cut perfect circles for your craft projects with this handy circle cutter from Martha Stewart Crafts. Guide marks printed on the transparent disc help with plotting different sizes of circles in 1/16" (1.6 mm) increments, from 1" (25 mm) to 5-7/8" (149 mm) in diameter. The double-sided blade allows cutting in both clockwise and counterclockwise directions. The Martha Stewart Circle Cutter comes with three blades and a blade attachment tool, all of which store neatly inside the handle.

Why- This circle cutter is one of my favorite tools. It is simple, the design is neat and to the chaise, and above all else it's super easy to make the perfect circle in seconds.

Materials- injection molded plastic, acrylic, and steel razor blades.

Star Signs

Who- Star Signs (lawrence ks)

What- signs, logos, wording, mainly Star Signs create signage of all sorts and sizes.

For who- business's, colleges, private, local. (star signs is everywhere around us)

Materials- alluminum, polly-carb, acrylic, etc. automotive grade paint

Technologies (forming, Cutting, Joining, finishing)
Star signs use many standard tools you would find in an ordinary metals shop such as finger breakers, slip rollers, jump sheers, as well as cnc machines.

Overall Impressions
Star signs is a very interesting and projective environment, its another one of those local business's that you never knew existed and had no idea that you see them everywhere you go. Star signs makes many and most of the signage in the lawrence, kansas city area. I was surprised of the size of the work shop and the volume of work that they had on their hands when we visited. The coolest thing I think was seeing just how far signage can be pushed and the possibilities that Star Signs brings to the table.