Coat

I always like to design my costume, that doesn’t mean I want to be a fashion designer, it means I have my own taste. Sometimes I have a feedback from friends about the cloth I wore ''I look funny'', ''they don’t understand me'', ''that’s not a lady outfit'' and so on. When they say such a thing I would say to myself ''yes, you did a good job Tali''. During the last summer I was thinking maybe I can design a coat that keep me warm in winter and cool me in summer. I started my research about the material that I have to use, the weight of coat and also is there any possibilities to change the design of that time to time?  The research is still onand not finished but I guess that can be an option for my final year project!!!

Technology technology

Technology has made a big distance between people. Although we are virtually better connected, we physically don’t see each other so often. We are not patient enough to listen to each other anymore. We like each other from behind the screens. We like to know what's going on in their life but not hear from them directly. That doesn't mean we are not close to them anymore because we follow the news about them in facebook and Other social networks. We still feel those senses and emotions from what we read on websites and we make them in our imagination. We are in the way to get used to live alone, although not alone in the virtual world, the perfect world that we are making to escape from all those daily tenses.
I know there is no way we stop the technology's wave and understand the effect of that in our life. 

My dog

"I wish I could understand what my dog says or what he wants" I heard this quite a few times from friends and others. People think they do understand their pets but sometimes you see it's such a challenge for them to understand their pet has toothache or it's not well or even needs something.
There must be ways to make better connections with our pets. Imagine each times they go to have they go to their food plate, they hear our voice speaking to them or seeing our pictures playing with them. I think they would be less board while they are alone at home.

Fake it, fake it more...

A few years ago people didn’t like to have fake stuff in their life; they did not wear fake brands. They did not accept to have beauty plastic surgery because they believed natural looking is better. The more technology improves the more people seek happiness and joy; to pursuit this joy they do whatever they can. Why not having a very perfect dolly nose, sexier lips, chick bones, bigger breasts, younger skin, slimmer body and many other surgeries. Fake is coming to our attitude, fake smiles even when we are deeply sad inside. At some point we call it etiquette, at other points politic… but let's face it. Are we not cheating ourselves?

Have you seen those classes named better mind or beauty mind to think positive or control your anger (brain washing sessions)?  Well good news, we don’t need to waist our time any more, sooner or later we will be using fake brains, one of those programmable to enjoy our life more!!  But how can we fill our lives with real happiness, joy and satisfaction without faking it? There should be a way to be happy as a human without faking, to be happy as we are.

Transitional period

Sometimes I think we live in a transitional period. We have the ugly face of adolescence; we do not live in childhood (physical contact life like before 90's) or maturity (full virtual contact life). We are somewhere in this between, moving towards living in virtual world. At this stage, we are looking at the virtual world trough those little electronic displays. Many people spend most of their time in front of these screens looking at this virtual life and contributing in it through these interfaces. By completion of these stages people will live in virtual world possibly unaware of the existence of physical life.
Sometimes I wish either I had my youth in 60's and 70's or I would be born in a100 years when this stages are passed but… what if we are already in one virtual life trying to move to another one? What if this is not a real physical life but one of many virtual lives we have already passed?. Oh come on I don't want to think about it too much it drives me nut!!

Design mistakes

There is a very interesting project in my mind since two years ago and I never gave up thinking about it. I always thought I could make more out of it. It was the final year project of a design student, named design mistakes. Her main idea was about those mistakes happening accidently during the manufacturing and what the producer does with the faulty product. She was trying to find ways to use the faulty products. She had researched on how perfectionist the society is (manufacturers, producers, sellers, costumers) and how annoying is when importers have a standard to import fruits and nuts in the UK. Fruits have to have the same size, weight, life time… otherwise there is no buyer for that, people do not take different size oranges from a basket, no matter they are mouthwatering.

She didn't try to change the rationale behind the idealism in people's mind. Instead she tried to find ways to use the defect of the products to make them unique. (i.g. she made some ceramic plain plates that  when they chipped off,  a beautiful colour appeared form the underneath of the plate surface) So, the damage changed the value of a plain plate and perfectionist people will wait for the next scratch to see more beauty of the plate

Inspiring essay

Who knows about the future, who exactly knows when we are going to be out of our resources?  Running out of resources and not thinking about the next generation scares me to death. That's why I like to think how we can live more sustainable.
In first year of studying in goldsmiths I worked on an essay about how to use less paper and cut fewer trees. Main point of that essay was focusing on some solutions such as, recycling, reusing and going paperless whenever possible.
Well now here I am with tones of research, trying to figure out what would be the best way to get rid of those store's receipts, bank letters, junk mails and many ways to have a paperless life, however, this needs we cope with technology. Are we all able to do so? our older generations for example. Besides, we want to go greener for the sake of humanity and our planet so we have to make sure we do not sacrifice our humanity and do not make machines out of ourselves. What could be the best way?