Objectified

After viewing the documentary "Objectified" I came to the realisation that truly everything around, and in, our lives was at one time designed and then created by someone.

It may sound ridiculous to say, but this simple realisation never occurred to me until after I had finished viewing the film. It is still mind boggling to think of how much time and effort is put into each and every object we see. After watching the film, I became inspired to create something that is widely used, but that could still be given an interesting or new look. I chose to create an alarm clock. I created the alarm clock while thinking of classes that I attend later this week. This gave me the idea of an alarm clock that not only will wake you up, but it will also notify you the amount of time you have before your next class begins. I chose to not only have the standard analogue clock face, which tells the time, but to also have an additional two analogue clocks that count down the time until your next class.

If someone were to own this clock the would enter in their class times for the week -- an example being that they have a lecture on Monday that begins at 10:00 am -- the clock would then have record of the times of classes for every day of the week and give the owner a countdown on the smaller analogue clocks of how much time they have left before their classes begin on a certain day. My overall idea behind this clock was that a student who is attending either a college or university would not have to worry about setting a different alarm for every day of the week to wake them up, instead the alarm clock would wake them up as it has record of their class times. When I chose to make a clock which is an item an item that almost always looks similar to every other clock, /i wanted to give my clock a simplistic, sleek and retro design to make it truly stand out among its competitors.

(Original Concept)