Danielle Dent-Davis
The 'Gym' vegetable peeler is part of a three piece set sold by the Italian Kitchenware company, Casa Bugatti. The humanoid untensil is made of injection moulded, yellow polypropylene with a chrome-plated head and stainless steel blade.
The object has been placed on top of the 'peeled' world to convey the message of the international success of Casa Bugatti, one of the leading companies in sleek stylish kitchenware design. As well as this it represents the impact that plastic has had on society as it has become an even more dominant material in product design.
This collapsilble, plastic, rain hat was made in the 1950s from PVC. As the designer is unknown I wanted to explore the object's design influences, focusing my research on what was going on at the time the object was designed.
The 1950s was a time when many women still had a 'hairdo'. They were expensive and to protect their 'hairdo' rain hats would be worn. This is unheard of today. This rain hat was unusual even for its era. Whilst researching my object I noticed the flower and triangular motif patterning on the rain hat and discovered this was a Japanese influence. This hat also resembles a traditional; Japanese field workers' hat and an almost identical one can be seen in Hiroshige's 1833 woodcut 'Ohashi Bridge in the rain'.
I wanted to keep my interpretation simple. I am representing the hat's function by recreating rainfall, but also reflecting its Japanese design influence by hanging Japanese Geisha 'hairdos' as if they were droplets of water.
For this presentation I have focussed on the actual process of juicing a lemon. I have designed cogs, morphed into lemons, to represent both the action of juicing a lemon and the processes and outcome of juicing. My inspiration for the use of cogs is that they resemble a process, for instance, cloclwork; the first cog needs to revolve for the next cog to start to move. This reminded me of the process of actually twisting and turning a lemon on top of the juicer. On each cog I have taken three stages of juicing: the lemon before being juiced, the Ahoi lemon juicer juicing a lemon and the final stage, lemon juice. These three stages in the process are exhibited on three pedestals on top of the lemon cogs.
I chose to represent the Oye Oye radio in this way to show how music can be taken in its simplest form and converted into music of a more lifelike form. My design tells the story of how written music transforms into broadcast sound, and how this is only accomplised by the Oye Oye radio being at the heart of the story.
