Author: Namie Nakamura

As far as the pot design was OK to the russian team, we strugled a lot with the sketches of the box; the idea of making a box to store memories is quite challenging because, honestly, very few ideas seem better than the simple plain standard box, wich doesn’t really recuires a work of design.

Here are the last sketches of the box: we thought about using a fake lid that the user could keep as wooden tray to match the tops of the pots. The real lid would work as a board between two “rails” and the user woud slide it to open the box without the use of two hands or the possibility of missing the lid.

On November 4th we had a meeting to show our initial ideas for each project and receive feedback on that. The peppers came with beautiful green paletes as a theme color for the fashion week with some sketches of the posters. We had some references for the concept of the happines catcher as well; at the end, we sent each other documents with feedback and more support material such as images and cultural aspects.

Our russian friends brought us their brief for an object that would be a “happiness catcher” for adult people, such as our parents. In the brief they explained the dificulties of keeping memories and good feelings in a material form, therefore, we are in charge of the product design for such demand.

On october 29th we had our first “open camera” meeting with team Design Peppers, wich was quite surprising since none of us could know how old were the members of the other team, must say it was refreshing seeing that we are all kinda the same age.

We presented our initial briefings and explained a few points that we realised were missing in the presentations, for example: We (the pitangers) forgot to mention important hollidays in Brazil and. seeing the Peppers talking about Maslenica we realized that important dates are quite revealing of one nation values and ideology.

Hi, my name is Namie and I’m a visual design student in UFRGS, a University in Brazil. Although UFRGS is based in Porto Alegre, I’m actualy from a small town in São Paulo State, in the countryside, so I’ve grown up surrounded by nature and a diferent cultural background from big cities.

I don’t really have any longlasting hobby besides playing with my cats (I’ve got 4 really funny cats), but I’ve tried a decent amount of activities and other stuff for some time, therefore, I enjoy a lot having conversations about any topic one might want to talk.

I’m pretty much a newbie in the design world, but I hope to be able to contribute in this experience and also learn with my colleages (maybe even make some friends ;)).

My contacts:

Instagram: @in_the_village13

Email: namienakamurasama@gmail.com

Linkedin: Fernanda Namie Nakamura