3322963 Kosuke Fujisawa
The product I would like to present this time is a simple peeler that is ultra comfortable to use. The most important focus about this product is, it fits your hand perfectly. In other words, the blade, handle is all in one, different from other ordinary peelers that are in the existing market. The visual shape is inspired by the Apple mouse which has a divine smooth surface and a shape that could easily fit in our hands. The blade is designed “hidden” underneath its cover instead of being exposed outside and therefore; this peeler could be placed anywhere in the kitchen (even as a decoration). This kind of blade design also suits the household open-styled kitchen with young children to avoid accidental cut.
Given the aim of this design is to create a new simple peeler that is comfortable to use, I have put most of my effort in optimizing the touch feeling on its surface and finding its optimal shape to fit into our hands. It began with drawing many sketches to come up what it eventually should look. After a lot of trials and errors, I came to current round, smooth shaped peeler. As well as exploring ideas in 2D drawings, I also started to make 3D experiments using the blue foam. This helped me a lot in terms of easier making and correcting within a short time frame. I did not notice that I should make it more dome-shaped rather than just almost flat one until I practically tried model making. So I did progress through the cycle of processes including drawing sketches, shaping foam, asking some people to feel it, and getting advices from tutors.
About the enrichment, I created the situation that when you touch the product it is nicely smooth to feel. Also, you can also experience your hand fits the peeler so that you like to peel your potato rather than doing it just as a process of cooking. In terms of visual achievement, I applied apple-like red on the surface of the peeler as the color such as red, orange, yellow; remind us of fruit and vegetables. Additionally, red color has a quite vivid visual impact to be found easily.
Hi Kosuke, i really like your potato peeler. its simple concept does work well as it is comfortable to use and it looks simple yet appealing for the users. I really like the red colour as it makes it more attractive even more. I also like your presentation as you showed us that your potato peeler does work really well =) overall, great job Kosuke!
ReplyDeleteYOur peeler looks really fun. It seems like it would sit nicely in the hand and when i was in class u showed it actually works. Was really impressed by that :) . The colour red is really flamboyant colour maybe a more desaturated colour perhaps? but overall well done =D
ReplyDeleteI really like the ergonomic shape of this potato peeler. It looks very comfortable to use! Also, the red colour stands out very well and seems that it will be found easily in kitchen like you mentioned. I think the product is very interesting.
ReplyDeleteOne improvement that I thought would be development in protection of the blade. When I saw it at first, I noticed that the blade doesn't have support on the back of it although there is large, deep empty space inside. I thought it seemed quite dangerous and may cause issues like falling off after many uses. I think it could be more durable and stronger. Other than that, your product seems very good.
first of all, colour of the Potato peeler is a little off match, however the smooth shape is very nice. Also it is too small. To Improve this product, make it a bit bigger and add some grip to make sure how to use this.Nice work :)
ReplyDeletetalking about improvement: maybe if you make your product shape more real so that when the user look at it, they will realize that it is a peeler without them taking it at the first place =) and one of my concern, would the materials use, make your peeler sly of your hand's wet? :) but overall great design =D
ReplyDeleteYOur peeler looks really fun. It seems like it would sit nicely in the hand and when i was in class u showed it actually works. Was really impressed by that :) . The colour red is really flamboyant colour maybe a more desaturated colour perhaps? Development on the form could be worked on making it more sleek and stylistic to a market.
ReplyDeletei like the color red, it somehow makes me feel appetizing and i saw this peeler in action and it worked great, however i think the shape is a bit plain and can be more dynamic
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