Egg Drop Challenge-Iteration #1

Total number of achievements earned: 13

• Our materials fit inside a printer box.
• Our materials fit inside a shoe box.

• Weighed less than 500 grams.
• Weighed less than 300 grams.
• Weighed less than 200 grams.
• Weighed less than 150 grams.
• Weighed less than 100 grams.
• Weighed less than 50 grams.
• We hit the butcher paper.
• We hit the 3rd ring.

• Our egg didn't break (x3)

TED pt I - Ideas worth Spreading?

1. TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is a website devoted to ideas worth spreading. They hold conferences in California durring the spring and in the UK durring the summer.
   


2. The purpose of the website is to spread ideas. The website contains videos of people speaking at the conventions that they hold. All of the videos are about spreading ideas that can help change attitudes, lives, and also the world.



3. The topics that most interest us would be technology, design, entertainment, and science.



4. The Rise Of Personal Robots- This has a lot to do with our future. Very interesting to think about because we are engineers and having robots around could definitely solve many of our problems. Singing After A Double Lung Transplant- That seems really incredible to me. She was told she would never be able to sing again but she overcame it and was able to sing once again. How I Built A Toaster--From Scracth- This video could be interesting to us because as engineers we build things and model things. Building a toaster from scratch would be pretty hard but as problem solvers we could work on it and do it.



5. Use Art to Turn the World Inside Out.

• Art is about spreading your ideas and thoughts through visual elements.


• Perfect video for the TED website because they are both about spreading ideas.


• The conflict between the Jews and Muslims has become so big that they don't even know why they hate eacthother anymore. They are just brought up being taught to hate the other person.

6. I am already involved in art. I write music. Music is also an art for where you can express your emotions and ideas about society or the world. I just need to get my music out there into the world so I can voice my opinion about things.

Reverse Engineering: Mechanicnal Product - Functional Analysis

1. The primary function of the headphones is to provide the consumer with the aqbility to listen to audio without it playing out loud.
2. I think that the product workds by getting an audio signal from the device that it is plugged in to. Then the signals go up through the wire and to the headphones and then into the consumers ears.


3. Black Box:

4. The mechanical components that are visable are that you can adjust the length of the bar that goes across your head to make it fit perfectly to your head. Also the actual headphones themselves move around.
5. The wire and the speakers inside the headphones are hidden so I can not accurately describe how they work inside the headphones.

Reverse Engineering: Mechanical Product-Visual Analysis

Top View
Front View


Side View

My produt is Skull Candy headphones.

1. Visual Analysis:

• These headphones are black.
• They are circular and have a bar attatching them together that goes over your head.
• The bar is adjustable so that you can change the length of it according to the size of your head.

2. Functional Analysis:

• The product allows the user to listen to music without playing it out loud.
• The headphones have a bass amplified subwoofer which boosts the bass in the songs that you listen to.
• The headphones go completely over your ears and also block out sounds from outside sources.

3. Target Audience:

• The targeted audience for this product would be people who listen to music obviously.
• But more specifically, people who listen to metal, dubstep, or anything with a high amount of bass in the songs.

Gamification

1.) Why is it a good idea to prepare the students for the future? What kind of future are they being prepared for?

2.) Do you think that companies are tricking people into paying for these simple games?

3.) Do you believe that some of these games could have became this popular even if it wasn't for Facebook?

Graphic Design: What's Going On In This Design?

My Partner is William Howard.

• This advertisement is from the Magazine called Wired.



• The product being marketed is Bluetooth Headsets.
  

1. Message Content: The content of the message is very descriptive and helpfully explains each of the Bluetooth Headsets. They also give pros and cons.



2. Size and Shape: The add covers up one side of a page. It's fairly big and the shape is easy to follow.



3. Readability: The add is very clear and easy to read. The text is a dark color which makes it very readable.



4. Needs the Audience: It understands the problems that people reading the add might encounter while trying to find the right Bluetooth headset for them. It even understands that people like to buy things that both look attractive and are good quality.



5. Use of Proven Design Principles and Elements:

Design Principles: proportion and scale- The add proportioned so that the visuals take up half of the page and the writing does also.

Design Elements: Color- Nice color that stands out and catches my eye. Form and Shape- The form and shape of the add is also very effective. It presents the product in a nice but easily understabdable way.

Conclusion:

1. What are trends? Why is it important to identify them prior to graphic design?

---Trends are what is in or popular at the time and what people seem to really be in to. They are important so that graphic designers know what they need to get the publics attention.

2. How does human nature play a role in how a product is marketed to a specific demographic group?

---Human nature plays a role in how a product is marketed because it is human nature to look for products that interest you. And it's human nature for people to try and create products that will most likely attract a large amount of people of that specific demographic group.

3. How is a potential audience identified?

---A potential audience is identified by determining a group/or groups of people that participate in certain activities and what not. If you are making a certain skateboard product then your audience will obviously be skaters and people who skate, or also store owners that want to cary the product in there stores.

4. What must you discover about the target audience prior to graphic design?

---You must discover the kind of things your audience likes and is interested in. And also you must find out what their favorite things about those products are so that can give you an idea about creating your product.

1. 1.) The phone has balance and proportion/scale. Both sides of the phone are balanced and look equal.

2.) The shape of the phone is rectangular and very large, which I personally really like about the phone.

1.) The biggest part of choosing a guitar for me (Besides the sound of it) is the way it looks. The shape and the color of the guitar is what I love about it.

2.) The texture of the body of the guitar is very smooth and it feels amazing. The fretboard is really easy to slide up and down.

1.) Cars utilize many of the design elements and principles.

2.) Color, texture, shape, balance, proportion and scale. When somebody is going to buy a car they look and pay attention to all of these. If you dont like on of theses elements then you most likely wont buy the car.