After watching two short videos of ‘story of cosmetics’ and ‘story of bottled water’ has educated me in acknowledging a different aspect in the product industries such as consumer’s behavior, manufacturing demand, the power of advertising, the broken legal system and so on. Every Single year by releasing hundreds tons of plastic bottles into underground, and Daily cosmetic products contains toxic chemicals, all of our human behavior are constantly damaging and affecting our earth and trashing our own body health system.
As a 3rd year industrial design student I think it’s particularly important to cover the awareness of what is happening around the world and around us. Good designers should take the responsibility in inserting green and healthy philosophy into products. By doing this the fundamental key is to understand the situation and then turn problems into sustainable solutions. I was very angered against the bottle company, not only because of their actions of false and misleading advertising to increase their manufacturing demand, but what causes it has lead to a disaster of environment life cycle. I believe designer have the power in improving and reducing the level of pollutions that has been done. By mass producing bottled water is certainly not the most efficient way in satisfying the consumer’s need. Instead of relying on manufacturing plastic bottles, we can avoid these by introducing product for example clean water filter for each households or eco-fountain for the outdoors.
As a 3rd year industrial design student I think it’s particularly important to cover the awareness of what is happening around the world and around us. Good designers should take the responsibility in inserting green and healthy philosophy into products. By doing this the fundamental key is to understand the situation and then turn problems into sustainable solutions. I was very angered against the bottle company, not only because of their actions of false and misleading advertising to increase their manufacturing demand, but what causes it has lead to a disaster of environment life cycle. I believe designer have the power in improving and reducing the level of pollutions that has been done. By mass producing bottled water is certainly not the most efficient way in satisfying the consumer’s need. Instead of relying on manufacturing plastic bottles, we can avoid these by introducing product for example clean water filter for each households or eco-fountain for the outdoors.
Story of cosmetics highlights the broken system of the cosmetic industries. Talking about selfish and irresponsible products, down on the marketing side they do make profit but question, do we really want to put toxic chemicals onto our skin and into our body? Video shows an average America women uses 12 bottle of chemical products per day, as my daily cosmetic products excides over 17. As Annie Leonard have motioned those ingredients because many harmful symptom even cancer and most importantly our new born baby can even get pre-polluted. All of the above facts encourage designers to gain more considerations in human health impact in selecting their materials. Therefore we need to understand the true meaning behind the words ‘natural’ and ‘organic’, By research and experiment on materials and ingredients that brings minimum side effects to consumers, because not only saving them we are also saving our planet and our next generation.
