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   We watched four video on class. I watched it again when I went back home. The four videos are Janine Benyus's 'Biomimicry in action'; Michael's 'water filter turn filter water drinkable'; Jane chen's 'Warm embrace that save lives'; and William McDonough's 'cradle to cradle'.


   In conclusion, these video are talking about how design relate to our natural resource and lives, and how can design products can save our lives. I like the idea from Jane and Michael's video. Jane and her group design a warm embrace, which can save the life for the unhealthy new born baby. Especially in the poor country in the world, people do not have advanced medical facility, this easy product can help the baby to keep warm, and it is really easy to cary can used. As for Michael, he designed a water filter machine. This can be used especially when the earthquake and serious natural desaster happened. People can easily get the drinkable water from their place, but not waiting for the government to get clean water from other city.  William McDonough with the Cradle to Cradle concept talks about choices and provides 'Love of all children of all species for all time' as a postive conscious choice. He provide us a method to save the world and reduce the pollution by designing the right things in our life. It make me think that design is not only for merchandize or making profit, it should improve our living environment and the benefit to the creatures that around us. 


   As for the lecture on Monday, we talked about the color. I think the Bezold effect is really interesting. And it can apply to a lot of places. I remembered that I had read a book about the color and the psychology. It talks about how color influences people's mood. For example, the fast food usually use red or orange for their wall. It is because red and orange make people excited and eat faster. These examples and applications are really interesting.