Despite not having the deepest interest in design, the concepts behind the techniques that were explained in this presentation really caught my attention. I may not be able to draw orthographics so well, or even begin to conceptualize some of things exemplified in the video, but I certainly can empathize with the desire to minimalize and stimulate global awareness through creativity.
I think it's awesome that we live in a world that can combine art, passion, and need to develop new products and processes to help the disabled, the needy, the sick, etc. It's interesting that this viewing and assignment should be brought up now in class as I've recently been coming to terms with consumerism and how I want to deal with it personally.
I absolutely hate being a purchaser and provider of wants rather than needs. I feel as though all of the jobs I've held throughout high school and now college have been so meaningless in the grand scheme of things. Similarly, I also feel that I've been much too much of a materialist when it comes to clothing, technology, and other mundane purchases. Some 98% of the things I own were probably made in some impoverished country by workers getting paid the absolute minimum wage in the poorest of conditions. The fact that I don't even know for sure is upsetting to me.
Anyways, watching this and just generally evolving some of these free radical thoughts bouncing off the walls of my mind has made me start to realize that I really need to know what I'm doing before I can do it, otherwise it'll be a waste of time and fairly counter active. And while I'm against providing services for the general public that are basically just extravagances that no one really needs, it has provided me with a great sense of work ethic as well as what I do and do not want to do with my life later on down the road.
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