2022

I find that social media/technology have strayed away from the aspect of life that they were created to provide in the first place– connection. Technology absolutely does allow us to connect to others with a lot less effort and across any distance now (think of More

For the articles I read, “Negative Effects of Technology: What to Know” and “9 Subtle Ways Technology is Making Humanity Worse”, they were mostly about the ways technology is psychologically and physically harming people. Some of the highlights are depression, neck and back pain, eye More

Did you ever find yourself mindlessly scrolling through your instagram, Tik Tok or Facebook? Pretty weird feeling, huh? When you finally realise what you are doing and snap back to the reality, you probably ask yourself – “How and why did I get there? I More

The dangers of corporatization, conglomeration, and capitalization of technology in big tech and the industrialized global economy is one of the topics I am personally most interested in. Before I was into politics and the real world I was a nerd, ripping Shrek 2 and More

(there is white text above the picture.) One of the issues with technology is is insomnia. This is something I have experienced personally with insomnia caused by technology. The combo of the light keeping you up, as well as the addictive nature of technology is More

The design issue I’d like to focus in on is the addictive nature of social media, and how it contributes to distractions. I personally relate to this issue as it affects me often in my everyday life. Every time we get a notification, it provides More

The problem I chose to address here is how many technologies promote an overall lack of physical activity and exercise. When the primary method of interaction with tech is done sitting down at a screen and typing, poor physical health is almost guaranteed for anyone More

I feel that we should keep our phones but be limited, maybe not be able to post anytime we want but how about a few times a day, or even weeks. My experience is having friends who always felt the need to post every five More

To find issues with technology I recalled upon my own experiences and asked my girlfriend for things she has noticed as well. One of the biggest negative impacts technology we have both experienced is eyestrain. After a couple hours of screen time, we both find More

For task 2, I read the articles by Insider and Medical News Today. From both of these two articles, the biggest takeaway for me was the increasing disconnect from each other. Technology is an addiction, where the average adult in the US spends merely 11 More

    From the article I looked at “The negative effects of tech” from medical news today. One issue that stood out to me was how tech affects physical health and from the many that they suggest I would pick eye strain. Eye strain is More

The article that I decided to use was the negative effects of technology. I think that there are a lot of negative effects but there were two that really stood out to me. One of them that stood out to me was depression and anxiety. More

Watching Social Delema and reading “The negative effects of tech ” article helped me realize that our phones deprive us of sleep because our activity and wants are ever increasing. Lying in bed looking at screen wastes the valuable time of proper rest your body More

When preserving and using all the resources you have, you need to contain and understand what you have, so I made a very symmetrical drawing of a spider in its web, a creature Wich traps and utilizes every useful thing Wich drops by. When preserving More

Paragraphs For this assignment, students have been asked to pick either the first-PEW research article or the other two articles provided and read through them to understand some of the digital harms techs can cause. As for me, I chose to read the PEW research More

There needs to be more access to blue light protection in people that have glasses already. As someone who wears glasses for corrected vision, my glasses don’t have blue light lens because they cost so much extra on top of original prices. I have lucked More

I have read the two articles below: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/negative-effects-of-technology#physical-health-effects   http://www.digitalresponsibility.org/health-and-technology   Both of these articles discuss different ways that technology has been affecting humans in a bad way. The first one goes into depth on how it is affecting children, especially whereas the other article More

There are a lot of mental and physical health consequences for engaging with technology in favor of other engagements. Eye strain, depression, anxiety, narcissism, poor posture, and sleep issues are a frequent downside of overuse of technology, and all of these things are recent side More

One of the harms that my mother experiences from tech is the overwhelmingness of it. She has a hard time making sense of what she is looking for or trying to understand by how confusing tech is. One such example are the displays we are More

After looking back in my personal life and wondering what kinds of harmful ways the media or digital tech has affected my life negatively, I have come to the realization that it has affected my posture really when I am sitting rather then standing since More

“Use slow and small solutions”   Our ability to make adjustments to the system is greatly enhanced by using small and slow solutions. A small solution, tailored to a particular context, is implemented instead of a large cookie-cutter approach. This principle stuck out to me More

I ended up choosing the 6th principle of permaculture, “Produce No Waste”. I decided I wanted to do a mock logo of a hypothetical used clothing or ‘pay-per-pound’ thrift or consignment shop. The theory with the ‘pay-per-pound’ being is it takes a large portion of More

For my Task 1, I chose to revitalise and modernise the brand image of a formerly popular, but now very obscure and long-discontinued, single-malt whisky named Duffy’s, and imagine what its identity might look like if somebody were to return it to production, a prospect More

Firstly I wanted to go with principle #7 – Design from patterns to details, but when I started brainstorming I couldn’t come up with any good idea. So I took it the other way around and start with graphic design and tried to apply some More

I chose this principle because it is vital to the preservation of the environment and nature in many different ways. There are many adverse consequences of improper waste management including contamination of air, soil and water pollution, and also animal deaths caused by the ingestion More

I chose the Use and Value Diversity principle for this logo, because diversity is an important principle in my life as well. In nature, it might mean that stuff like biodiversity is a good thing, since it keeps the cogs spinning in the ecosystem. In More

I chose the principle of “use small and slow solutions” because I think that in a way it gives us feedback on how our plan develops in a shorter period of time, and I just think that the risk is lower, even though we are More

(logo is transparent the text “Observe and Interact” circles it in white) “Observe the results, then plan your next the technology’s next interaction”   I chose the phrase “Observe and Interact” because I thought it would translate well to a logo. It had a simple More

I chose the permaculture principle of catch and store energy. In nature, plants are perfect at catching, converting, and storing energy. I wanted to capture this in my logo. I think that more humane tech would better utilize energy like plants do. Humane tech would More

I chose the second principle to work with because I really care about the environment and climate change is something I have always been interested in addressing. In terms of nature catching and storing energy happens all the time through out weather patterns and life More

The first thing that came to mind when thinking about “small and slow steps” was something that had to resonate with nature but also have the functionality of some technology. Instantly I thought of a tap in a tree harvesting sap. I have very minimal More

Out of the 12 principles I chose Integrate rather than Segregate because I found it easier to combine somewhat opposite things into a common goal that can solve a growing problem. In nature terms we need to evolve and prosper with the new technologies that More

  Out of the 12 permaculture principles I chose value and diversity. I chose value and diversity because these two things are very important to me. I picked this principle because it is very important to respect,include and value anyone/anything that is not similar to More

NMD200 Logo- Morgann Critchett I chose principle #2 catch and store energy and to represent that I chose to draw a little jar of fireflies. I knew that I wanted to create something around the idea of natural light. The idea of catching energy infers More

Logo design. I chose number 1 to base my logo off. Number one was observe and interact. I decided to make my logo an eyeball and instead of a normal eye I put a thought bubble and a heart as the pupil. I thought this More

I wanted to create a logo that worked into the social media community around popular dances around tiktok. For example, in 2019 there was a lot of controversy about how people were taking credit for trendy dances from black community content creators. It really brought More

I selected Principal #4 of Permaculture, “Apply self-regulation and accept feedback.” This one stood out to me as self-growth and improvement have been important parts of my life. It is impossible to improve if you do not take the effort to start, nothing happens without More

This is my logo. I chose the creativity and respond principle. I enjoy abstract art and making it myself. I played around with shapes and converted text into vectors and played with them as shapes as well. The colors I chose weren’t exactly on purpose. More

I chose permaculture principle number 9, “Use Small and Slow Solutions”. My logo is a small snail in a circle with sunbeams coming off the shell and a small road dotted line inside its shell. My colors can be almost anything whether that be black and More

This logo embodies permaculture principle #12, creatively use and respond to change. I chose a ‘space’/sci-fi esc theme because I believe we as a species are moving closer and closer to a world in which space flight/travel becomes somewhat of a normality, and with new More