“Design in Our Lives”

So we paid another visit to the MOMA this time to experience another type of art, art that involved things people may or may not use in their everyday life. It seemed to make the person thing weather or not we can actually use this type or materials or objects to good use. I will discuss 4 art works, which I will use to demonstrate which are capable of being used in our lives. They will be divided into High functionality and low functionality.

So there was this Blizzard survival bag which the purpose of it is to keep a person warm in bad weather conditions. I believe that the Blizzard survival bag is one of the greatest thought about invention in the world because it can help a human survive in bad environments. Then there’s sea shelter, which is a tent that can float while they’re in the ocean, which can also be, consider a good invention. They both have in common which they can help humans survive in dangers environments. To me what makes them so ergonomic is the way they better a person and help them in needs of over coming any nature environment. For example the survival bag is very useful in cold weathers were you camping in a mountain or when it snows, the Floating tent is useful if you are a very adventures person and you like to be out doors and if one day it rained so hard the tent would be able to float in the water.

Then I have two not functional which was a rescue board made out of cardboard, I would say this is a very bad idea how can a piece of cardboard hold a persons weight it would break the idea is good but the material is just not a good idea, another not functional material which I found completely not useful to a human would be a mask with two long tubing. This two objects having noting in common and are not very useful to human nature, I would alter the rescue board in a metal material so it can hold weight better, and the tubing mask you can change and cut the long tubes shorter so you can make it into a breathing mask or something else. No an object does not need to be highly functional to be a good design, any object and be a good design in any persons view of the design. In my opinion art and design are both consider the same idea because you can attract a persons eye with an object and they can take it as if it’s a piece of art work, even the human body is a art work. Just the way an object makes you think.

In conclusion art can be seen in many different ways it really doesn’t matter of what it is, it can be an object anything that just makes a person think and see it in different ways. Many objects in the world can be functional and not but they were made for a reason.     

 Derek Ryden ( British, b.1956) Blizzard Survival Bag 1998 reflexcell, polypropylene, and rubber. Manfactured by Blizzard Protection System. 

Nikhil Garde (Danish b.1972) Elle-Mile Ejdrup Hansen (Danish b.1958) Barnabes Wetton (British b.1962) Micheal Frederksen (Danish b.1966) Sea Shelter 2004 Nylon Rubber. Manufactured by Viking life-saving equipment. Denmark. 

Hiroyuki Tazawa (Japanese b.1948) rescue board 1998 recycled paper. Manufactured by adachi shiki kogyo Co. 

Anthony Dunne (British b.1964) Fiona Raby (British b.1963) Designs for an overpopulated planet: Foragers 2009. Augmented digestive system, tree processor/digestor, grass processor, Alage digestor. Fiberglass. Gift of the contemporary arts council of the museum of modern art, 2011.