KithKin Presents » visual language

Stereotype

Daizi Zheng — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 22:02:48 +0000

The series of food packaging were created from the observations on personal behaviors. Using the recognizable stereotyping packaging would make people feel more physically and physiologically connected with those daily objects. By giving the good food a little make over, it could contribute the availability of healthy food and encourages people to make a change for their everyday life.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), unhealthy diet is amongst one of the leading causes of the major non-communicable diseases. Can design encourage people to rethink their relationship with healthy food to gain a balanced diet?

Domestic Science

Harry White — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:10:17 +0000

The catastrophic decline in interest in science at school and college has been the stimulus for my work. The pieces featured here form part of my ongoing work ‘Domestic Science’, where I have been exploring different ways of using design to embed science in everyday objects, using the established user experiences to communicate relevant scientific concepts.

The measuring jugs use the product language of the family kitchen and the laboratory to reveal elements of scale, risk, arbitrariness, volumes and numbers that are present in science. ‘You’re one in a million’ is a poster for the home with a million dots, one of which is yellow. It makes super scale tangible in a world where most science is too big or small to see.

Etiquette Set

Ed Vince — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 22:43:44 +0000

It combines the semiotics of a plastic Airfix model kit with the implied luxury of an à la Russe table setting, using what is essentially wastage from the mould to structure the pieces in the correct position.

The set retains the detailing, form and visual language of the ornate silver cutlery and ceramic plate, and forces these values into the context of mass production and contemporary consumer culture through manufacture, material choice, packaging and method of use and disposal.

The design and realisation of this product is intended to comment on the loss of tradition, heritage and craftsmanship evident in the consumer culture of which we are part, and to question how and why we assign value to the different objects that surround us.