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ART NOUVEAU

Moulin Rouge: La Goulue 

lithograph 1891

Artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

In the Art Nouveau style, prints tend to have women as a theme. These prints were mass produced. This poster was publicity for the Moulin rouge cabaret in Paris, France. 

ART DECO

Chrysler Building

NY, USA 

Completed 1930

Architect William Van Alen

The stepped structure of this building is classic of the architectural designs during that time. The crown of this building shows the geometric forms characteristic of this style as well.  

LATE MODERNISM- DECONSTRUCTION

UFA Cinema Palace

Dresden, Germany 1998

Architectural studio: Coop Himmelb (I) au.

This picture is an example of a “WOW” also known as a workstation on wheels. These computers are new to my department and came with our electronic health record system change that we experienced almost two years ago. Prior to this change we did not have medication or patient scanning in our department. We simply printed out our medication order, went to the pyxis, obtained medications and used our paper order as our way of verifying the patient and medication safely. Changing over to the new electronic health record system EPIC was a big change for our department and staff members and these Wow’s didn’t help due to one main reason, the scanner was attached to the computer.  

I would have to go back to the identification stage of the design process as I was able to identify the problem within my first couple of hours of my shift when we were using this new system of scanning the patient and medication. The scanner is attached to the computer with a short straight cord. You must be close to the patient to be able to scan them and then the medication. The problem is that emergency department rooms are small, and patients are usually bed bound and may not be able to move their extremities to assist you in scanning their bracelet. There were and still are many times that my computer either comes rolling into my patients’ feet at the end of the stretcher, or into a visitor by accident due to me pulling the scanner closer to the patient. When we identified this problem to our management team, we asked why we didn’t have wireless scanners like the rest of the WOW’s in other units do. We were then given longer, spiraled cords due to the amount of cost it would be to change out all the scanners in our department. If our nurses were involved in the identification stage of the design process this could have been something that was foreseen, and we could have acted on this design prior to it being instituted into our department, saving the hospital time, and money. 

With the SCAMPERING method in mind I would use SUBSTITUTE toward a solution to this problem. I would substitute the scanners in our department to wireless scanners. We have an overabundance of computers and we can take the eight computers that are used by nurses daily for scanning and slowly start to change them over to wireless scanning. This would improve our employee satisfaction and may also improve our scanning percentage that at times suffers due to the amount of limited space and fast paced environment we work in. Some nurses chose to “click off” the medication versus scanning, or even scan the patient’s bedside labels due to the straight and spiral cords that do not allow the nurse to reach the patient. This poses a threat to our patient’s and patient safety that could be corrected by simply changing over to eight wireless scanners. The cost of the wireless scanners should never outweigh the cost of patient safety.

ART NOUVEAU

This is a picture of a 30 foot stained glass window that was installed at the Yale University library by the Louis Comfort Tiffany’s Glass Company in 1889-90. This window has characteristics of the Art Nouveau era with it’s dramatic curves, asymmetry, flowing lines, as well as dramatic and bold colors.

ART DECO

This picture is of a dress from the Art Deco era and is represented by it’s angular lines, geometric patterns, and simplicity. While this picture is in black and white, it appear that it is made with flashy, bold colors typical of this era.

PUNK

Baroque

This period was the European style, showing itself in the architecture, music and fine arts. This style was improving due to the increase in wealth and resources in Europe. This era started around the 16th or 17th century, and lasted till the end of the 18th. This period was very extravagant, ornate and grandeur. Baroque style often incorporates waves & soft edges in design to create a motion and flowing pattern.

This picture depicts the Fountain of Apollo at the Palace of Versailles. The image shows the Greek god Apollo rising from the sea with his chariot. Charles Le Brun created this piece of the fountain.

Rococo

This style was used primarily in furniture and art pieces. Some unique parts of this style include asymmetry, theatrics, and moldings which contribute to the extravagant and dramatic design. This design focuses more on emphasis and heightened sensuality.

This picture shows an extravagant coffee pot made in the 17th century, incorporating Rococo moldings and bright pastel colors. This design is currently from the Bow Porcelain Factory.

The hospital where I work at has this toilet design that a lot of our patients find convenient  but most chose not to use it becasue they’re not comfortable using it. The patient rooms are very small, and therefore we don’t have enough space for bathrooms. I personally wouldn’t use this toilet if I was a patient there. Our rooms then become even crowded because patient always request bedside commode and that takes extra space. We have patients who come for peritoneal dialysis and these patients can’t use those rooms, so they’re sent to B-side where bathrooms are available to prevent them from acquiring infection. A patient told me that it feels awkward when she washes her hand on that sink, “I feel like my hands are dirty even after I wash them because there is a toilet under the sink”.

Backpacking trips require a comfortable, well ventilated, durable backpack with plenty of storage pockets. My Osprey Atmos AG 65 backpack is amazing as it has AntiGravity suspension, easy to use stretch mess pockets and stow-on-the-go trekking pole attachments. The problem is that it does not have front pockets to hold a water bottle. I have to store my water in the backpack itself, which requires me to don and doff my pack when I need to hydrate. This slows me down, requires energy and can get annoying. Aspelund (2015) states that inspiration for designing can come from a creative, technical, emotional or situational side: my inspiration would come from a technical side, as the problem stems from its technical use. Inspiration is the first step toward a design solution, and my final solution would hopefully lead to a water bottle pocket in the front, on the shoulder or hip straps, so that you can easily access water. Although the pack does have two hip pockets they are not big enough to hold a water bottle.

Picture 1 shows the shoulder and hip straps. This is where I would like to design a water bottle pocket.

As anticlimactic as this may be in the world of bad design, it was a HUGE source of frustration during this holiday season.  

What you are looking at is the tree stand that I bought (for a great price, I might add).  The problem, you ask???  Functionality....

This stand couldn’t hold a normal sized tree for any reason because it is way too small in circumference at the base.  The piece of wood below it indicates how we decided to solve this debacle.  Mind you, our tree this year was only 5.5′ tall!  The tree, itself, fit quite nicely in the stand, however, it was about as stable as a child learning to walk.  We secured the stand to this larger piece of plywood to give it the larger base that it needed to maintain it’s upright position, while also lending some protection from our calculating cats, who attempted several times to destroy it.