Forced Connections

Forced connections is basically a technique used when you're running out of ideas. It is to design things by taking two unrelated concepts and combine the relationship of their characteristics between two things you have chosen. It helps to solve problems by challenging yourself to brainstorm out of the box to come out with something,targeting your problem faced. It's a kinda of new method I've learn to help in designing besides S.W.O.T etc. You have to understand the situation and also the characteristic before you can start designing. And you'll be amaze at how you could simply connect two unrelated things that you'll never think can be related being put together and come out with something new. A new and good idea could come out just like that.

Water bottle being designed as a weight so that people can exercise and drink water after exercising. Thought with the characteristic of water being heavy.

Idea of a spoon and a folk and a knife combined together so that it's easy to bring for camps. Bringing these utensils for travel and camps are really a hassle if there are too many so by combining them makes it easy.

Pencil and clothes peg being combine together. Both are made with wood so designer make use of  similar material to combine together.

Apple came up with the design of apple watch which makes it a watch as well as a phone

Designer combine a cutter and a wire bend together so that person who use it doesn't have to keep changing, making it as a 2-in-1

These coffee company came up with a 2-in-1 coffee so that buyers can just enjoy a cup of coffee simply by adding hot water to the packet prepared. Having that both sugar/milk can be similar to coffee powder

Computers are now also designed such that it can be a drawing tool too for designers or even taken out as a tablet for easy accessible.

Portable charger are also designed with the addition of torchlight so that it has a few functions instead of being just a charger

aroma diffuser and humidifier being used as one to help to save space, both having the characteristic of helping to cleanse the air and the smell

Staple and scotch-tape design as one tool 

Item: Candle

Sad: Skull candle that will eventually melt through the eyes and mouth to convey nothing in life last forever, the skull starts to bleed and tear as it melts.

Passionate: A heart getting struck by lighting and burning to show that it's passionately burning for something that struck it's heart

Brave: lion simply signifies brave as everyone knows so having a lion candle burning to indicate its bravery

Creative: Humans think through their brains and we need to think to create things out of creativity, out of the box and so I choose a brain with three candles, showing that it's thinking more than the usual.

Greedy: A human in a coffin being filled with jewels, gold and cash. Showing that the person has been greedy his whole life and even till death, he has to die with all these valuables that he earned in his life. The candle will be the cross above the coffin, his greed has rule over his life.

Hardworking: Elephant on a treadmill running candle. Elephants are known to be hardworking animal and having it running on a treadmill simply shows the elephant being hardworking.