josh williams r&d


I am a Product Design major at San Francisco State University. I am on track to earn my Bachelor of Science in Industrial Design with a concentration in Product Design and Development.

I am wowed by the timeless architecture and design of the 50’s that still remains relevant and modern today.

I am inspired by everyday situations that pose interesting or unique problems and change the way we look at our surroundings. I like the feeling of a new discovery or respect with objects that we use every day.

I am influenced by my friends, colleagues, and professors. I look up to anyone who is willing to take creative risks and submit themselves to public critique. I recently watched Objectified and want to buy a Banzai tree to be more like Dieter Rams.

I am thoughtful, hopeful, patient, resourceful, indecisive, and restless.
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EcoTip: Coffee cups - spilling the beans : TreeHugger

“With energy you’d have to use the ceramic cup 640 times before it would equal a polystyrene cup and 294 times to equal a paper/cardboard one. With air pollution it takes 1,800 uses to beat the polystyrene and 48 to thrash the paper/cardboard. Likewise you would have to drink 126 and 99 cups respectively for the ceramic to compete with polystyrene and paper/cardboard on the waste issue. And water? Sorry, just the use of a ceramic cup totals more than the entire life cycle water consumption of the other two.”
Long term use the ceramic cup wins out - but really will anyone ever use a ceramic cup enough times to justify the means? I really doubt it. That’s why many bloggers suggest buying them used, rather than new.



July 13, 2009, 5:47pm