James Dyson is an industrial designer most famously known innovating the vacuum cleaner and dryers. As someone with the philosophy of making change one single step of a time, Dyson is one who does not yield to the classic designer schema. With every prototype, he learns from his shortcomings and develops more ideas as he progresses, even making 5000 prototypes for the vacuum cleaner of 1983. Furthermore, Dyson takes on a rather artistic perspective to resolve issues. Rather than understanding the science behind something, Dyson observes, prototypes, and experiments to understand what he works with, often developing another way of making something. For his most famous work of a vacuum cleaner, it’s from the experience of being angry because of how loud the noise from a vacuum cleaner is. It was through Dyson’s close observations of how the vacuum bag works that his designs continued to evolve from there.
For products, I felt that the lamp was interesting in terms of how it is mimicking nature and trying to bring the natural to industrial design. Having features of tracking the lighting and time to reflect the source of light as well as adaptation of light level, the Dyson lightcycle offers new ways for modern era humans to experience the world around them. Being a photographer, I observe and study the sun’s movement whenever I complete my jobs. I understand how light works so I can also know the change, but it is also this natural observation of light that it’s ingrained into our nocturnal cycle. Likewise, I feel that the Dyson lightcycle offers a product that can normalize our circadian rhythm which is something I really enjoy about it (aside from the minimalistic classy design).
On the other hand, the airpurifier headphones are something that I would say that I’m curious of. Currently, I do not have a positive or negative opinion on this product, but this product is one that sticks out to me due to the reality I could see that this is worn. Being someone that really cares about the air I’m breathing, especially, being slightly germaphobic due to bad experience of being sick, I feel that this product is something that I might use. At the same time, I wonder how accessible this will be in terms of reusing the products. For example, in the case that the earphones don’t work anymore or the airpurifier doesn’t work, I’m not sure how I can imagine using this product.
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