A well designed object

I recently had a package design class in which we were talking about how the next step to a great design is to make it seem like part of our everyday and natural life. We talked about how the I pod and other apple products have done this extremely well. The actual Ipod is simple but it has rounded edges that that fit your hand, and it's size fits right in your hand or pocket. I think that the ipod in general is an extremely well designed object because it is useful and is becoming an item that fits into our natural life.

Better Than Free Response

I found this article to be extremely correct. We do pay more for immediacy, personalization, interpretation, authenticity, accessibility, embodiment, patronage, and findability. I think that these things that we pay for are second nature to us. This article just pointed them out to us, which I really enjoyed. Of all of these extra things that we pay for I believe the one that stood out to me the most was immediacy. People are always waiting in line to the midnight showing of a movie, or for the new ipod to be released, and it is true that the first of something is better then having it later and we will pay more to get that.

Mechanical Reproduction of Art Response

I agree with Walter Benjamin in that I do believe that Art work becomes less valuable if it is mass produced. I think that Art work is one of those things in the world that if there is less of it people will appreciate it more. It's kind of like when there is one piece of art that has not been recreated it is worth a whole lot more than if there were a large quantity of a piece of artwork. So again I do think that people will appreciate artwork more and have more of a response to it if there was less of it is not mass produced.