A Glasses Design 1st Presentation for Design for Living

Cheng Ning 09182679

Beliefs !   Life

!   The end of the world

!   Other Spectacle

!   Let things go

Ideas on Design !   Simple

!   Light (physically, visually)

!   Glasses provide user a new spectacle to life, to everything that they look through the lens.

!   Purifying

ZEN !   The meaning of Nirvana is given as nothingness

!   in a perfect state of neutrality.

!   Mu ="emptiness " or "nothingness".

!   Nothing ever remains unchanged.

!   Desire = Suffering

Shortcomings - Ordinary forms - Unable to do the rough brush texture with certain materials e.g. acrylic, paper, wood, bamboo…

Through one’s hand

Draft with hand -  A hand holding a circle of zen for

user -  Light & thin form -  Unbalance in weight,

uncomfortable for users

Seeing through one’s hands

Funny, meaning seeing through different people’s hand = different spectacles Might be too big and too heavy, but balanced.

Final Draft

!   Material:

Thin Acrylic for upper 4 fingers

Thicker Acrylic for eye area.

!   Texture:

Smooth, Glossy

!   Improvements:

Material exploring

Wearable substances (height, weight, finger forms)

Q&A