Beautility Good Design Has Utility by Tucker Viemeister

In this presentation, the girls were introducing the meaning behind the word “ beautility “. From what I understood from the presentation that beautility is compensation between two words, beauty and useful. In short it means that any thing in the word that is beautiful side and on the same time its useful and functional. I think that every think that god created it is beautiful and useful. For example, flowers are the most beautiful creature in the world and its useful to make perfumes. On the other hand, bee is an ugly insect but very useful because it makes honey for us.

In contrast, I liked the part that they talked about the ugly and useful objects. Like for example how designers here improve the meaning of beauty to more practical and useful things that we use to have but they are not practical. For instance, apple laptop bags were beautiful but not practical because it is big and harm the back. Now, the designer created new bags that is more beautiful and very useful that u can hold it easily anywhere you go and it has different colors and shapes.

In addition, I liked the part that discussed the beauty and the psychology behind it. In my opinion, beauty is very important in every thing because people’s eyes love to see beautiful around them. The meaning of beautiful is different from one to another, for example, some people see that Jessica Alba is a beautiful woman but if they see Charlize Theron they will think that she is prettier than Alba. This contrast effect refers to the person him self and to what he want to see.

Finally, no thing in this world is ugly, if you want to see the real beauty, just look around you, we will know that beauty is around us and just try to use this beauty to make it more used and more practical. 

Links: 

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=beautility 

http://www.jyi.org/volumes/volume6/issue6/features/feng.htm

A Life of Luxury by Hugh Aldersey-Williams

While we were presenting our topic about “ luxury “, I was thinking about what is the thing that makes me feel luxury. Luxury is a very complicated word that cannot have only one meaning. It has different meaning according to the person and what he feels to make him/her feel luxurious. In my opinion, luxury is any thing around us weather its moral or sensory that can make the person feel comfortable and pleasure him/her senses.

For me, I think that there is many things that make me feel luxurious. For example, international medical center (IMC) consider most luxurious hospital in Jeddah. I feel comfortable and save when I interned there. The weather and the services their makes me feel as if I am in a 5 stars hotel. Also the way the servicers and nurses dealing with people is really great and make me say it is a luxury hospital that I can not find like this dealing in any other hospital.

In addition, luxury is something very hard to obtain or to have because it is expensive so not any one can have it. For instance, Maybach cars are expensive and considered the most innovative and luxurious cars in the world.

Finally, you have to find your luxury in the way that you can reach it weather it is expensive or not to be more pleasure and to feel comfortable otherwise it is not luxury.

Links:

http://www.maybachusa.com/about-maybach.php

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/luxury

Responsibility Answers Absurdity by Michael Schmidt

It is such an interesting thing that we know how we as a designer can do many a design and share it with other people in the world to get others attention to our culture. Globalization is the term which make our locally designs be an international design. In deep, I can say that globalization is when you exchange your cultures, societies, economic or any process with other cultures and become known and famous.

In the presentation, they talked about how is that really important to have the trademark symbol or register symbol next to logo design to have the right to your logo. I think that this is really important and I knew that because as a graphic design student, teachers are asking us to have these symbols next to our logos.

In addition, food is one of the main elements that make connection between cultures. For example, when I went to Malaysia, I found a lot of Arabic traditional food restaurant out there. Like I found a restaurant that sells “ many” which is a very popular food in Saudi Arabia, and most of their consumer are non-Saudi people. I think that is a big example of globalization.

On the other hand, sushi, the Japanese famous food, is become a very popular and wanted food in Saudi Arabia and in other Arabic country because of its delicious taste.

In conclusion, us as a designer are the main responsible of reaching the informant to people around us and from our designs, people can know more about others thinking and behaviors.

Link:   

http://www.malaysiavacationguide.com/ain-arabia.html