Multi function package design research

Multi Function Package Design

Design research and proposal for a senior capstone project

by Liujingzi Jianghttp://jiangliujingzi.com

Multi function package serves a second function besides packing, to cut down house hole material waste

Industrial Design Program http://www.id-uarts.org

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A final deliverable for IDES 431 Design Theory + Capstone Prep - Fall 2012

coordinated by Jason Lempieri and Jonas Milder

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Looking in to the household trash, I realized that a lot of things people throw away are packages. Some packages are kept for other use, depending on either the users or the designers, but most of them are thrown away or recycled.

I want to design a package that functions more than a package, to cut down material waste in house hold and expand the object’s (the package) life spend.

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In commercial place, people follow the instruction on the trash can and put trash in the right place.

People leave the bottle on top of the trash can or on the ground on the street, even though the trash can us next to it.

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There are variety kinds of house hold trash. It contains some big objects, such as big shipping box or milk package.Restaurants or retail stores have these kinds of big size trash as well. Most of time they are bagged or boxed.

In industrial, recycle companies re-catalog the trash.

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Share Sell

Give to someoneDonateRecycle

Throw away

The ownership changes, but the original owner still has access to it.

The original owner does not have access to it, but it is still in use.

Become another thing or waste. It is the end of the product’s life cycle.

How to expand products’/objects’ life spend?

“Scores of old files, letters and mementos have been recycled. Bags of books, clothes, coats, shoes and linens have been donated to charities. New and hardly used kitchen equipment has been given to those who need it more than I do.”

By JANE E. BRODY

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How people get rid of thingsWhat people get rid ofRecycle and throw away actually means the end of the products’ life cycle, while the other ways mean the object is still alive.

Community Attention Rate of Recycling

COMMERCIAL PLACE HOUSE HOLD STREET

GOOD DEPENDS BAD

Objects in the Trash Can

Mostly things this place sales or provide.

Tissue paper, cups, packages, bags.

Variety of house hold trash. Material ranging from paper, plastic, mental, food.

Less one time use trash than the other

two place.

Paper cups, tissue paper, plastic bottles, newspaper,paper or plastic bags. Mostly one time use trash.

Clearly labeledLabeled

Not labeled

WHAT PEOPLE THROW TO TRASH CAN

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Other facts• 90% of the products are shipped in cardboard box• Cardboard is 100% recyclable• Cardboard recycle rate in 2007 was 78.3% and 75% comes from industrial waste.

WHAT BECOME WASTE

Food waste Material waste Objects Container/package

1.3 billion tons of food ( 1/3 of world food production) is wasted in 2011

organic not defind not defindnot defind

compost recycle not defind

eating shop/manufacture not defind not defind

not defind

back to materialcompost not defind not defind

material

recycle catalog

from

to

facts Cardboard is used to ship 90 percent of all products in the U.S.

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The decision of whether the package is kept or throw would be made by either the designer or the user.

OBjECTS CONTAINER/PACkAGE

material

recycle catalog

condition

reason

all material glass paper plastic wood metal cardboard etc.

bad/good bad

need to be disassembled

throw away

not functioning any more(the original function)

not functioning any moreno longer need

replaced/updatednot fit(moving/out of storage area)

good

keep

still functioningreuse/re-purpose

emotionally attachtoo precious to throw away

refill

throw away end up

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Person 1

keep all packages of digital products(computer/ printer/ camera..etc.)

stack together with nothing inside

protect the piece when moving and digital products always have nice

package

Person 2

keep a lot of shipping boxes(big and strong ones)

laying out on the floor with a lot different things inside

storage

Person 3

reuse/re-purpose small size containers

use glass bottle as a flower vase

beautiful enough to be kept

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Packaging : the science, art, and technology of enclosing or protecting products for distribution, storage, sale, and use

•People keep package for their very personal reason.

•Designers try to do some design on the package to give it a second life/function besides packing.

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Research with existing package and solution

Package involved with?Activity + product

Talk to package designers/companies

Research on the product and the activity

Defined target user and market

Observe and interview on package reuse in general

Observe and interview on certain product and activity

Dec. 15thWinter break

Feb. 10thJan. 22ndBeginning of Spring 2013

Feb. 1st

Project plan and time line. Talk to professionals in this field and observe more people during winter break.. Redeclare capstone with a more clear direction at the beginning of Spring 2013. Star prototype at middle Feb.. Have a testable prototype at middle Mar.

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Prototype and test Feed back and refined prototype

Look for partnership and out sourcing

Finish prototypeResearchFinish Book

Market research

Apr. 10thMar. 11thSpring break

Apr. 1stMar. 1stFeb. 15th

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FickeS, Michael. “Making Better MRFs.” WasteAge Dec. 2011. Web. 8 Oct. 2012.

Brody, Jane E. “Personal Health: Progress Report on a Decluttering Project.” New York Times May 2012: 7. OmniFile Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson). Web. 12 Oct. 2012.

Dong-Uk Park, Seung-Hun Ryu, Shin-Bum Kim, Chung-Sik Yoon. “An Assessment of Dust, Endotoxin, and Microorganism Exposure during Waste Collection and Sorting.” Journal of the Air & Waste Management Volume 61 Apr. 2011. Web. 8 Oct. 2012.

Kissing, Steve. “The Urge to Purge.” Cincinnati 41 no12 S 2008. Web. 8 Oct. 2012.

Cox, Nigel. “What kind of Clutter are you?” Oprah. Mar. 2012. Print.

Discard Studieshttp://discardstudies.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/visual-culutre-of-food-waste-data-theaters-of-proof/

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