Illustrator “Katie”

As we found our direction to making product, we had to make a mark for them first.
Most of marks we found during few weeks were useless.
However the ironic thing is they still works well as apart of design (called information design). So we decided to follow that process. (useless mark with useless product)

Here’s our new mark.

After class, we went library with Adam to find the book we want but it wasn’t there so we searched on website.
He helped us to get an inspiration of making product.
Until that, my idea for making product wasn’t clear enough so I needed to get some motivation of the work.

What I was thinking to make my product was just redesign the existing product in different way like parody.

This was my first idea to make product.
My first idea was that make a box of tissue like Kleenex.
I wanted to change the name of the existing product “Kleenex” to Greenx and put really bad quality of tissue in the transparent box so make people think of bad quality product.
However I changed my idea again because it doesn’t agree with the point of our product that is uselessness.
I’m trying to make something not really necessary for people but moves people to sympathize.
Thankfully,Adam helped us to find a good and funny example of product, which shows uselessness called ‘chindogu’.

Chindogu came from Japan and means the art of uselessness like something we can use but isn’t necessary to live.
Here’s some example of chindogu.

Hay fever mask

Umbrella headband
http://www.chindogu.com

I think it is really creative idea we should look at because it’s not an idea from nothing but from familiar things in our life.
Although the works of chindogu look funny so it seems like nobody wants to use that in daily life, they might be something we need and used to think of.

There’s only two weeks left to submission.
Now I got an idea of my product, which I used to want.