“Design in Our Lives”,

   Design is always present in our daily lives. We don’t notice but it’s there. There’s design in the way we eat, the cloth we dress and even our homes. The Museum of Modern Art showed us a lot of different types of designs. Some of the objects for in this museum are made for the real world utility and others as ideas for the real world. In this essay I will be describing some of the works I found to be high functionality and low functionality.

   One of the objects that I found to be of low functionality is the Social Tele-presence. It is defined to have visual and auditory senses operating live non- virtual location remote. When a person wears it, it removes their eyes and ears from the body’s location to operate somewhere else. I chose this one as a low function because you cannot always have a machine talk for you. It takes away who a person really is. For example it says that this robot can be used on a date for people who are shy. It’s better to confront shyness than hide behind a machine and let it do all the work. Even though the object is of low functionality, it has a good design. It is very creative and of interesting use.

  Another low functional object I found was the Good Grips Jar Opener. I mean why continue making different types of jar opener, when that invention is already made. In my opinion is not such a good design because it doesn’t seem original.  It doesn’t have any type of creativity compared to other designs. I don’t think it was the best object to choose to design and improve because the original one seems to work well for me.

     I found The Garden in the Machine to be of high functionality. It is amazing and should be invented for the future. The fact that it has many rooms and high buildings. The way it is designed has no comparison to the other objects. Not only this object is highly functional but it also has good design. Any person would love to live in a place like that. It should be created now that the population of humans is growing and we need more space. This one was one of my favorite objects that I admire.

     Another object I found to be of high functionality is the Nature City. It’s really beautiful and would be a very famous place to live in the future. It reminds me of the white house in Washington D.C. It’s interesting how a neighborhood to live could be made in the middle of a forest. That hasn’t been seen but it is a good idea. This object doesn’t need to be made more ergonomic than what it already is. The only thing I dislike is that we have to destroy the environment of other animals to make a new one. As long as not a lot of these objects are made I guess is not such a bad idea.

     I really enjoyed going to the Museum of Modern Art again. These works of art are all creative and grab a viewer’s attention. I hope one day in the future some of them could be in use so I can try it. I didn’t know how much ergonomics could influence our lives, but now I know that it is even in our future. It’s everywhere and decisions we make are always surrounded by these designs.

 

WORKac

‘’Nature City’’

Medium: wasn’t mentioned

2012

Studio Gang Architects

‘’The Garden Machine’’

Medium: unmentioned

2012

Smart Design

‘’Good Grips Jar Opener’’

Stainless steel and synthetic rubber

1989

James Auger

‘’Social Tele-presence’’

Acrylic plastic, aluminum, electronic media, Sony Glasstron glasses

2012

Illustrate a story

This story reminds me of my relationship with my grandfather. Just like the two daughters in the story, I love my grandpa Victor. I remember when I was twelve years old, I went to Georgia with my cousins and stayed there with my grandparents over the summer. My grandfather always use to take us fishing and do community service. I have a lot of memories there back when I was younger. Now my grandpa is 80 years old and I always talk to him on the phone. Sometimes he doesn't remember my name and there are times he does. He always tells me to follow my dreams and that everything I learn nobody can steal it. My grandpa is also funny like the father in the story. I will always love my grandfather and God bless him.

“MoMA PS1: The Good, the Bad, and the Misunderstood”

     I have never visited the Moma PS1 museum, it’s a really nice one. I went there with my friend and her cousins. I really enjoyed the viewing the artworks and taking pictures. It was hard to choose which one I liked because most of them were really beautiful that I had a hard time to choose.
    One of the paintings that I misunderstood was the one called “American Beautiful” . I do understand that there is an American flag but I don’t know if its an animal under it or a human. it’s a bit confusing because I know is there is a deeper meaning than calling America beautiful. The artist is also trying to say something else. To me it jus looks like a animal covered with the flag of the United States on top.
    One of the artworks that I disliked is called “The Madmen” by Enrique Marty. The reason I don’t like this piece is because its really scary and creepy. I don’t like things that scare me and it reminds me of my nightmares when I was a little girl. I always use to dream of a tall zombie with an egg head chasing me. This artwork made me remember my nightmare, which was a bit disturbing.
     One of the paintings I admired was called ‘’The Long Jump’’. Before people use to play basketball for the passion and love they had towards it. Now some players play it for the money. This painting also reminds me back in the days when I use to love in Brooklyn by a small park. I always use to see my neighbors play basket in that small park and I enjoyed watching them. The basketball player in the painting even looks like one of my neighbors named Corey. His skin a really dark color, tall and handsome.
     In conclusion there is no bad painting because every painting has its own meaning. The artist of the artwork did his painting that way  for a reason and sometimes the viewer but not get it but makes its own interpretation. Good artwork doesn’t necessarily always needs to give us all the answers but catch out attention in some form that keeps our eyes on in. It also makes us wonder and ask questions about it, which makes it more interesting.

David Hammons
 “America the beautiful’’
Lithography and body print.
1968

Henry Taylor
 “The long jump”
Acrylic on canvas
2010


Enrique Marty
“The Madmen”
Sculpture and watercolor on wall
2002