talk with Donald

I had a talk with Donald today about my project 1. I explained my concept about using the concept of fetishism in the contest of how people and especially men, put special meaning on objects or identify with object due to their aesthetic aspects and or function, to design a line of cooking tools for men.

My original intent with the project was to create a line of cooking utensils that were designed specifically for bachelors. I have dropped the bachelors bit due to my seeming lack of ability to find any conclusive demographic data, or rather any usable demographic data really. The plan with this data was to find out what the major interests of a specific age group was, ie.: most liked bands/musical artists, TV shows, sporting events, ect.. and look at these things and try to pull a visual language out of these different elements and meld them together to use to inspire a the design of this line of cooking utensils. Since this has not worked out I have turned to looking at hand tools and other masculine objects.

Donald and I talked about using the esthetics of hand tools and some how using the aesthetic of the gun. I am not quite sure about pursuing using the aesthetic of the gun putting on the back burner for now and maybe pulling something out of that pot later on (…..hehehe I made a cooking pun)

We talked about my trip to Jerry’s and Heartwicks and what my findings were from that which I posted on my previous blarg entry. One of the findings I posted was that in a product line of cooking tools, all of the tools had the essentially the same handle with very minor adjustments here and there depending on the tool, and the tool heads all matched the aesthetic of the handle. So the plan was to derive a handle that I liked and then design a few tool heads off of that.

Donald thought this was a good way to approach it, but that if I took this approach and stuck with the tool handle idea it need to be much much bolder, which I agreed with. He suggested I look in to more heavy industrial tools like airplane mechanic tools. He also told me that I would need to design at least 3 of the tools out of this product line………….. soo I kinda need to hop on it and get to work…..

Oh I made a kinda shoddy prototype on Tuesday to mass out the my ideas and see what the actual size of the object would be.