{"id":444,"date":"2010-01-27T20:25:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T03:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/?p=444"},"modified":"2010-01-28T23:28:29","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T06:28:29","slug":"designing-a-simple-object","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/?p=444","title":{"rendered":"Designing a Simple Object"},"content":{"rendered":"

During our first class, we were asked to criticize ourselves in the realm of a designer.\u00a0 My answer was reduction.\u00a0 I have a tendency to complicate my design process by interjecting new ideas.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Instead of working on perfecting the one feature, I move on to develop new features.<\/p>\n

My challenge was to design something simple.<\/p>\n

I designed a cup holder for the subway.\u00a0 Not as a permanent addition.\u00a0 As a small, carried item. I left them attached to poles for the duration of my commute to school. No one utilized one. It was 2 PM, so the number of carried beverages were significantly less. My new goal is to document strangers using the cupholders.<\/p>\n

I originally sketched the design for a subway cup. \u00a0Said design included a telescoping body to flatten into concentric rings. \u00a0It also included a collapsable rail clip. I realized that it was not a simple object. It was simple in use but not in design. <\/p>\n

I reinterpreted simple to apply to the ease at which it could be reproduced by another. <\/p>\n

\"IMG_7785\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"IMG_7781\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"IMG_7778\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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After speaking with Digital Noah & Angela Chen about my design, they both mentioned a similar project called “pop-up lunch<\/a>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During our first class, we were asked to criticize ourselves in the realm of a designer.\u00a0 My answer was reduction.\u00a0 I have a tendency to complicate my design process by interjecting new ideas.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Instead of working on perfecting the one feature, I move on to develop new features. My challenge was to design something simple. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,44,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-new-yawk","category-the-softness-of-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}