Tea Party

• The tea infuser I used was simple and really sturdy. I had a small round, ovalish container for the tea and a long hand coming from the top of the container. The handle and the top of the container screwed off to put the tea leaves inside.


• I believed overall all it worked well because it was easy to use, manage, and it did what it was suppose to.


• There were only one or two changes/adjustments that I think could be made. At the end when I was ready to clean the infuser, it was hard to screw the top from the bottom, but Im not sure that was due to how it was made or I had jammed it. I finally go it though. :) Another thing was the way the infuser sat/rested in the cup. It was sorta at a slight slant, but again Im not sure if it was of my cup or thats how it was. I guess I would need to see someone else use it.


• ROUGH ROUGH paint drawing for you guys can get an idea of which one I used. I promise my graphic stuff is better, haha.

Article: Emotional Design

I found the article to be amusing and interesting. I agreed with almost everything in the article, especially how many artists/designers create things for the moment, for the trend, but once the customer buys it, it seems to go "out of date". I especially liked the passage about how the juicer wasnt intended to make juice. Although I'm not sure I would buy an item like a juice just for display, I liked that its intension was to start a conversation. Personally, Ive watched my mom buy lots of kitchen items and I dont even know what for and she always says for decoration. haha... Well when people come over the house, they admire the things she buys and after thinking about it, it really does start a conversation! Point is, lol, is that I think the article had a lot of good points and I loved how even the writer kept the reader interested to continue reading (or maybe it was just me)..... I was curious about how the Te o strainer looked like since the images were too dark so I looked it up and i LOVE IT!! lol..

Response to article

I want to address the first point in the article:

"Why must information be presented in s dull, dreary fashion, such as a table of numbers?... So Why not display the information in a colorful manner, continually available in the periphery of attention, but in a way that delights rather than distracts?"

As an artist, I do agree that a lot of data and media outside of my major would be more appealing and interesting if it were shown to me in a colorful, attractive way... Because this is what I know. My notes for biology are often decorated with doodles and sketches. But I do not think that all information should be presented in that way. The article argues that by making information more attractive, that people would be able to absorb more from it. But what kind of people are they talking about? Artists. What about the rest of the population? The non-artists. I know a lot of people that have no understanding in the point of art and get nothing from it. I also know there are people out there that get really really distracted by bright colors and cannot take in information unless it is all in black and white. Of course we all wish, as artists, that art and design could be a part of EVERYTHING we do, but me must consider the rest of the people we share a world with. Black and White is universal. I'm not saying that this shouldn't happen at all, it would make things more fun... just not to number charts and scientific data. Thats not our territory haha

emily d.

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