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Industrial design / Jana Pfaff 2022

about me

Can clouds be called the glasses of the sun?

I believe that imagination knows no bounds. And that boundaries invoke a lot of Phantasy. Maybe it's striving for natural balance in a controversial world, I'm not sure:)

Hi,

My name is Jana Pfaff.

27 years ago, I was born and raised in a family of musicians in Berlin. Five years ago, I moved to Israel and discover myself now in the last year of industrial design studies.

The growing awareness that design is a tool that can give people feelings like joy, relief, and connection, serves as a problem solver and more is a serious responsibility for me.

I love Design very much, all aspects from discovering the multiple facets of design, model building, concept development, research and observation, problem identification, and self-reflection to the last strokes of morphology.

I consider the development and understanding of clear boundaries, that each project requires as a positive challenge that pushes creativity and unconventional thoughts. I am curious by nature and very resilient. It is important to me to work with love, being open to every turn, to approach things playfully, and always think about the people therefore it has to be comfortable, practical, and good-looking.

Thank You for your attention, hope you enjoy the trip through my thoughts.

projects

QhTraditional coffee cup

2022 summer semester

Mu-li

2021 wintersemester

‘Drone as Blood Sample deliverer'

2021 wintersemester

Stoneage pottery

2020-today

'qahwa' Arabic coffee cup

No Form course

2 Months duration

Mentor: Yoav Zvi & Keren Noyman

The main goal of the project

The creation of a new material look and a logical combination to a known product.

I wanted to translate a dispersal and blurred feeling into a material.

Our journey

what happens if everything blurs together?

The first steps of the course were a Journey to the old Jaffa city in Israel.

The feelings I experienced on this tour, lead me through the whole project.

It was really warm, everything blurred together, and the smells dispersal through my whole body.

This led me to these questions:

What happens if everything blurs together?

How does it appear in a Material?

How can dispersal and blurring be useful in a Product?

What happens if everything blurs together?

If everything blurs together it can cause many effects, it can cause noise and color-change through visual overlapping. It can cause a desire to hide something.

And I believe many more.

How does it appear in a Material?

I started to add organic materials like spices, sugar, coffee, and sweets to anorganic materials like epoxy, hot glue, and melted plastic.

Through observation, I discovered the beauty of the natural arrangement of organic substances by adding liquid. The importance of the surface roughness on the appearance of contrasts of the inside and outside brought me to the question: how these results can be applied logically to a Product to undermine the blurred perception in a useful context.

Maybe I can retouch the residues of black coffee and lip prints on cups with my material report?

'qahwa' Arabic coffee cup:

capacity of 60-90 ml

dimensions: 6.5 × 6.5 × 5 cm

Materials connected to the Arabic coffee drink tradition

1. baklava

2. silver dish mesh

3. ground coffee

The Imitation of Baklava in the material fused together with the coffee as something sweet and cherishable

The integrated mesh acts as an illusory distortion of the appearance of the liquid itself.

Use of Coffee density as a pattern on the bottom and top of the cup to fake the perception of dirt

Details

Mu-li

the friend in front of me

TOY design course

Wintersemester 2021/3 months

Mentor: Yoav Zvi

Who is Muli?

MULI is a toy for children from 3 to 5 years.

A Fusion between an Acrobat and a Clown. This is an interactive Toy.

The main goal is to awaken curiosity, train fine motoric skills, and have much fun.

Main inspiration

Sketch by Nami 3 years old

Long feets so much freedom in expression, this drawing by my daughter is the main inspiration for my project, this led to the following steps.

First mockups

Concept development

Through observing children playing with the mockups, I could decide what was important to them. They loved the Waterflee and the pull and shake Mockup.

I recognized that shaking, pulling, and throwing things make them really happy, this led to the decision to combine these verbs into one toy.

chosen concept

Description:

Woodentoy. Four long legs. On the feet are wooden beads with magnets that are individually connected with a string. All four cords connect through the body in the trunk (or nose). This connection makes it possible to pull all the cords at the same time. The magnets can be attached to the body in different places.

Researching Priority

through the principle of exclusion

Surprisingly children start to play together
and explained the toy to each other
They were seeing in the toy an elephant or a bug
One girl saw a camera

The kids were really impressed with how they could pull and connect the magnets to different parts of the toy body. A problem that arises was the cord with the wooden beads.

Observing the play, grasping, and holding of the toy helped me determine the uncomfortable sizes and shapes.

In conclusion, I learned what needs to be improved and replaced. fewer feet, a simpler shape, and a clearer character. flexible material enable freedom of Movement.

Shape-research and refining through observation

Children play together by tossing the acrobat like a ball and laughing happily when the toy land on his feet and arms. We could discover loopings in the air.

It was surprising to see that the children imitated the appearance and movements of the toy

Taking off the shoes is understandable for the children, they were always trying to pull something out and off in my observation, and now when they saw the new haircut by taking off the shoes, it was a funny surprise

Measuring the Play Value

The shape and morphology allow the toy to rock back and forth, put it on your shoulder (I didn't expect that to happen :)), and walk around with it.

The flexible TPU Material showed me that it is the right choice now the Playflow is not limited.

take off Mu-li's shoes and discover that he's getting a new hairstyle

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle(UAV)

‘Drone as Blood Sample deliverer'

Industrial design advanced course

Wintersemester 2021

How might we help to adapt new-technology of UAV blood sample delivery to a normal medical center?

The supply of blood samples is an indispensable part of our society, it happens every day and it is an extremely important factor that determines the standard of medical life.

The drone I developed delivers blood samples from the point of collection to the laboratory and flies back again. In the course of the research, I specifically referred to the integration of the new technology into the old embedded system of blood sample delivery (outside the hospital).

At the end of the course, the symbiosis of the concept resulted in which I combined the well-known vacuum delivery with the new drone. This decision allows to increase the compatibility of the drone in an ordinary medical center.

The innovation in the drone system is the use of the ducted-fan-drone technology in which two propellers are brought instead of more and the capsule (with the blood samples) that traverses the first propeller. These decisions were discussed and approved with someone who knows the area, so that in theory, even if that is not yet possible, it may be possible.

Research

Observation on the ground

The Observation of the workflow in a medical center in Ramat gan taught me about the everyday procedures of the workers. The tools they are using and the times they have to obey.

'I can only make one delivery from the medical center as I can't make two trips due to traffic jams' (Supplier)

''We prepare three deliveries a day, the first two contain one basket and at the end of the day there are often two baskets.' (Nurse)