Assignment 2

Abstract

Taking as “Everyday Design” my theme I will research ‘what role do everyday objects such as toothbrush play in today’s world?’

 I choose ‘Everyday Design’ as my theme for my research because in our ‘everyday life’ we come across plenty of designs for ‘everyday use’ and we don’t even realize how important they are in our lives. The design of ‘everyday use objects’ plays important role in our everyday life. The world is developing day by day and so does- our ‘everyday objects’. The need for our actual ‘everyday object’ remains the same but somehow there design is changing, leading to many choices for a person for example- a brush, as it use to be a normal teeth cleaning brush but now it has developed to electronic brush with many choices. So with this, a person meets his/her needs, but has choice of design with it.

I have chosen this as my research question because people use everyday objects without realizing how important role they play in our lives. Without everyday objects it will be hard to continue smoothly the routine life. I want to examine what role has ‘everyday use objects’ placed in our lives.

I will research ‘Nicholson Baker’s’ reading ‘The Mezzanine’ about, how little everyday objects affects our lives yet we don’t even realize it. It was Nicholson Baker’s reading which inspired me to choose “Everyday Design” theme. I will also look ‘Ben Highmore’s book ‘Ordinary Lives: studies in the everyday’, in which Ben talks about the things we come across every day.  I also found a journal by ‘Lisa Kocaurek’ on ‘Everyday Objects, New Aesthetic’. I might have a look at another book ‘The authority of everyday objects: a cultural history of West German industrial design’ written by ‘Paul Betts’.

The possible outcome to this research question, according to me will be that the everyday objects plays a vital role in our everyday life, without which the routine everyday life will become hard for today’s world. So we should do realize the importance of even little everyday objects in our lives.