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This post, im would like to talk about sustainable design, which is the topic i supposed to continue after ecodesign.

So, what is sustainable design?

From the term of sustainable, it means supportable as well. Sustainable design also called environmental design. From Wikipedia, the intention of sustainable design is to eliminate negative environmental impact completely through skillful, sensitive design.

There are some principles of sustainable design(retrived from The Green House):

1. Optimizing use of the sun.
2. Improving indoor air quality.
3. Using the land responsibility.
4. Creating high-performance and moisture-resistance houses.
5. Wisely using the Earth's natural resources.

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There are some other topics similar with environmental design. They are ecodesign and sustainable design.

What is ecodesign?

Ecodesign is a approach to design of a product with special cinsideration for the environmental impacts of the product during its whole lifecycle. - retrived from Wikipedia.

What does the term of 'lifecycle' means in the statement above?
- Well, i found out that 'lifecycle' is having the similar meaning of 'the guidelines of ecodesign'.

What are the guidelines of ecodesign?
- Firstly, i want to say what is the purpose of those guidelines.
- The purpose of those guidelines, or we can say the existances of those guidelines is to comprehend the benefits or the harms of a product impacts on the environment.

There are 7 guidelines for ecodesign.

1. Do not design products, but lifecycle.
- From this statement, we can understand that people should not only have to consider about the design, people also have to consider about the lifecycle as well.
- For example, Do not design 'green' products. Instead, people should design environmentally sound product lifecycle. People should think about what are the materials they should use.

2. Natural materials are not always better.
- For example of some products are made from wood. They cannot be recycle, but plastics can often be recycled.

3. Energy consumption: often underestimated.
- This means the total sum of overall energy of the process on the product being produce is worth than the total sum of each part of the product being process.
- Maybe this simple example can clearly interpreted.

a. 10kWh electricity needs 2kg of oil.
b. Making 1kg of plastic needs 1.5 to 2.5kg of oil.
c. A coffee machine uses 300kWh electricity during it's lifetime, equal to 60kg of oil.
d. For the production of the machine less than 1kg of plastic of used.

- People normally underestimate the environmental impacts of energy as you cannot hold electricity or gas in your hands.

4. Increase product lifetime.
- The way to increase the lifetime of a product is make it more durable from a technical point of view, or make it upgradeable.
- For example, allowing the product to insert latest chip in a computer, washing machine or television.

5. Do not design products, but services.
-Here, the statement for this guidline: A service rather than a product can be the right solution.
- People do not always want a product, their intention of buying a product is because they want a solution for a certain problem, thats all!

6. Use a minimun of material.
- Minimize the weight of a product, which means less fuel consumption.

7. Use recycled materials.
- People always unstatisfied. Why? It is because people nowadays keep searching others materials to make a product recyclable. Why dont they just use recycled materials as much as possible?
- As i mentioned in second guidline, use the material which can be often recycled.
- If there is a demand for recycled materials, the supply will follow certainly.

Well, the last thing i would i like to say about this ecodesign is, people can make a huge improvements by simply asking the very obvious "WHY?".

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What is environmental design?

Well, when these terms came to me, my thought was design something related to the world, something related to the surroundings and the term of environment friendly pop-up in my mind.

From Wikipedia, the definition is more formal, environmental design is the process of addressing surrounding environmental parametrs when devising plans, policies, buildings or products. Classical prudent design always considered environmental factors.

Some examples of environmental design:

Nanyang Technology University, Singapore ArtSchool.

Kandalama Hotel Sri Lanka.

Culter Anderson Architech, Washington.

ACROS Fukuoka Building, Japan.

There are more environmental designe buildings, here.

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Concept store is not fuctioning like retail store. The range of products in a concept store can be defined. For instance, Padini concept store, applied the concept of one-stop-shopping, which is all brands in one store.

The Brands in Padini concept store are Padini, Seed, Vincci, PDI, Padini Authentics, P & Co, Miki Kids & Miki Maternity.

There are much more concept store can be found in Malaysia. For instance, Sasa, Croc, Elle, Shinma, Le Sac Shoppe and etc.

In the nutshell, concept store is a convinence store that let people shop with a fruitful results.

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phew, i have been a long time never blog about what i am doing recently, kinda feel like i have lost my orientation of 4w1h-design. When i am designing a thing, 4wh1 was the first thing came into my mind. They are: what should i, which should i, who should i, when should i and how should i.

So, now is the third week of my second semester, some assignments were briefed, and i started to do some researches on video productions and environment design( ass again, lol~ ).

In the mean time, i also got a freelance job from my kakak @ ex-classmate from TarCollege( : Kakak asked me to customize her friends into cartoon potrait, so for me it is kinda easy to draw, i dont think that will waste my time and money, neither( :

here, i want to share my cartoonized portrait and wish to get some feedback from whoever read my blog~( :

and this is kakak's friends,

my sketches, kakak asked my to draw them into some kinda partner,

so, i drew it became...

after that, i traced my sketches into an A4 paper, adjust the figure nicely, composition and blabla~

and, lastly.. i will update my illustrate cartoon potrait in this coming friday~ *paiseh, heheXD*