I in envision that the future of green retail store is going back to basics…make stations for all your graphic purposes and strip all printed packing into a simple biodegradable container that houses the product. These images are too fancy…well the stations are right, but the individual packaging containers has too much waste on it…. of course you know what “technology” will do for us in five years, let alone what made chemical scientist will think up next.
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via bookofjoe: Play More Desk Pad — Take your trash to the next level.
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While we were having a difficult time disassembling the Kindle 2, the rear cover of the Kindle was removed. Looking down the inside of the Kindle, the engineer said, “The cost must be very high. It’s really filled with components.” In fact, with a number of parts crammed in the small space, it gave us the impression of “a heap of parts.”
Looking at it more carefully, there was another substrate mounted on a part of the main board. It was an SD memory card slot. This is the only “two-structured” and thick part of the main board. In fact, the back side of the Kindle slopes along this part, making it look “distorted.”
“I think they designed the chassis after designing the board,” the engineer said.
In the mean time, the back cover of the Kindle 2 was taken off after some struggles.
We finally took off the back cover of the Kindle 2, sometime after removing the back cover of the Kindle.
“Oh, this is very tidy,” said the engineer who participated in the teardown. “They completely revamped the design.”
The exposed main boards of the new and old Kindles were clearly different from each other. While the old one was crammed with components, there was no double that the new one had much fewer parts and was well organized.
To analyze the main boards in detail, we removed them from the front covers of the chassis and looked at the back sides of the boards. The back side of the new Kindle’s main board was mounted with no part. In contrast, many components, including Samsung Electronics Co Ltd’s 256-Mbyte NAND flash memory, were found on the back of the old Kindle’s main board, reinforcing the impression that the old model is complicated and the new model is simple.
This concept can take care of your plants safely during your long absence at home. The modules are supplied with a tank of substratum and the capillaries moves to gidroponica with the help of a pump controlled by a computer. The built-in computer of the modules is able to control the submission of a substratum, power supply on accumulator and the user interface. You can take out the plat instead of dragging the modules with the easily movable tray for replacing or washing purpose. Three sizes of the modules are available for different plant sizes from violets to a palm tree.
Designer : Minina Tanya
awe how cute. now we don’t have to forget how bad our milk is getting, but there is a problem. the user’s method…milk changes in length of time to expire, if you fridge is as cold as mine you could push that milk an extra week. so could we get scienctist to make reactive paper when in contact of the milk instead of reactive by the air? pic is the link
For those in the boston area, and can’t seem to decide on the right asian grocery store or in need of japanese face / hair products…
or just one of those designers that need INSPIRATION for packaging, organizers, tools, perfect stop to do that type of product research. cause i really don’t think a picture is as fulfilling than the real deal. LINK
pic links to the New York Times article.
so America wants the old package back, and i don’t blame them. the style of the new packaging is of course atheistically pleasing and a designer hurrah! but come on, did the designers forget America’s style and culture. i think they were heading into a good direction but people in America are not as sensitive towards the tiny details maybe in a few more decades when the kids who likes these graphics are adults. And i think they miss the picture of our culture style in the packaging cause i see this looks like Swedish packaging not American.
If you can navigate between the various different types of flavors of orange juice in the new one then you have great eyesight but don’t forget the silvers out there drinking orange juice for their health and they have the worst eyesight. They are not as picture literate as one would think. For me all the orange glass pictures are the same, why did not do graphic changes of color or texture in each glass instead of using the same pic through all the various orange juice flavors.
Below is a good example of how small a detail the company went into their logo, the pepsi logo swirl line gets thin for diet soda and fatter for more intense like pepsi max. so if i did not pick is detail the moment i saw the new branding, i can even image my mom figuring it out unless i tell her.
side-note: what i think is American culture. It is true we are very diverse in our style taste but the more i think about it, we are “lazy” in style. what i mean: Americans will not blame themselves if a product malfunctions on them, they will sue the company for faulty product. In other countries the citizens will consider it their stupidity for not knowing how to use or operate the product. And this applies to everything from company services to payments to brand imaging/packaging. (I grew up with a forensic engineer lecturing me of faulty products)
tropicana branding was design by Arnell Group. No figures, for everyone out there just don’t go to arnell–to work there is just …. you will want to scream.
just to let you all know, i have been thinking about creating slides of great books i either own or love, so that other people can see and probably convince themselves that they need to have it.
This is a full collection of japanese packaging, mostly in the food and comestic arena but there are some packaging in electronics but not many. I hope you all enjoy the slides.
This has occur to me when having frank conversations with a 70 yrs old engineer.
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G – no, we do all sorts of design. I have worked in all sorts of areas of product design even the electronics…
70 – Packaging?
G – No! not packaging making the electronic buttons to appear flawless and integrate with the interfacing of the software.
70 – No, no, you are still putting a “packaging” over the hardware of the device. The skin or shell whatever you call it. That is what you guys do right?
a moment
G – yeah…. we do packaging. I see your point.
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I could have argue with him further, but understanding his point of view made a point that can not be ignore….. packaging? serious industrial designers consider that is a graphics designer’s job to make graphic box packaging for the products. But come to think of it, we are package designers for the components of the hardware inside. Another point why the line between the different areas of design is fading. There is a closeness between graphic design, architecture, interaction design, industrial design, and computer graphics.
