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I have LOVED the videos we have been watching the past two weeks in class! Where to start? The shopping cart video completely amazed me. I thought they were putting way too much effort and though into something as simple as a shopping cart. But once I saw the final design and what each part of the model represented, it was awesome. The way they worked around the entire cart being a useful thing to steal, and how they created the removable baskets so you could travel through the skinny aisles without getting in the way was so incredible. I really liked how they ran their office as an open thinking environment where goofing off and crazy ideas were welcome and even encouraged. This past week though, the environment and design videos were simply inspiring. I have always been a huge nature buff and love anything and everything that is working to support a greener lifestyle and help planet earth. The video on Biomimicry taught me so much about where product design, architecture and technologies today are going! I loved the idea that nature, with all its complex systems and organs, can run smoothly and functionally and still survive. So why not model our own designs off their natural creations? The bug that lived in an environment with no water, but collected the molecules from fog off of its body to turn into drinking water was something I had never learned or heard about before. But the fact that designers are working to create entire buildings to do this type of water collection for a city of humans is fascinating. The other mimicry I liked was the shark. The evolution of his skin and having the uneven pattern of diamonds which helps him stay sanitary and disinfect himself from the constant flow of bacteria, which in turn designers have now mimicked in hospital floors too battle the use of antibacterial sprays which are becoming less effective. All the inventions and ideas at the environmental TED conference were outrageously cool.