Globalization and Designers
The world is shrinking, markets are expanding and manufacturing industries have decentralized. New industrialized nations have risen; global economies are shifting and changing. This idea that the world is becoming a “smaller” place is from Thomas Friedman’s book, The World is Flat, in which he describes how the world flattened before our eyes and is now a level playing field, where all competitors have an equal opportunity. Geographical, cultural, financial and economic boundaries are gone, and countries, companies and individuals must adjust to remain competitive in the global marketplace. This shift has been described as a “globalization,” characterized by the rise of emerging markets and the simultaneous economic crises in developed countries. Due to economic downturns, developed countries began moving production to emerging markets to take advantage of lower labor costs and more lenient regulations. However with this globalization technology continues to speed forward at an exponential pace (Ray Kurzweil Ted Talk). With the evolution of the world around us the role of the designers has evolved along with the changes of global development. Multinational corporations, who once sold the same product they developed for consumers in their home market and launched it in the global marketplace, now enlist designers to develop new products that will appeal to all the multicultural consumers of the world. The goal of the global designer is to identify the common denominators the function and form, of an object, despite cultural differences around the world.
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...ion. Shipping lines, freighting and airlines depend on moving vast quantities of consumer goods on a daily basis, providing Western markets with items manufactured in the Far East and all over the world. According to experts, this could all be about to change. A potential threat to the logistics industry, 3D Printing has the ability to revolutionize production techniques, allowing the use of more automation and thus saving on cost. The rise of 3D Printing is expected to cause a decline in the cargo industry, reducing the demand for long-distance transportation such as air, sea and rail freight industries. Despite the potential loss other industries that take advantage of this asset will benefit through reduced costs of shipping and fabrication and as production moves closer to it’s end market there will be benefits such as cheaper transportation reduced pollution.
With the massive rise in the quality, lower prices and availability 3d printers anybody anywhere in the world now has the ability to produce almost anything they like. Websites like https://www.thingiverse.com/ offer millions of models for almost anything someone needs to produce. Websites like https://www.upwork.com offer online consulting for 3d modelers that will design anything you need. Prior to the availability of 3d printers anything that was designed had to be manufactured at professional production facilities at huge costs relative to 3d printing it. 3d Printing lowers the barriers of entry into a market that was previously dominated by a few people because of the cost of prototyping.
...uct commercialization and to fill emergency orders; custom manufacturing for jewelry and hobby applications; parts for machinery and aircraft, where strength is a major issue; emergency shipments of parts; and situations where inventory carrying costs are high relative to production costs. A secondary promise of 3-D printing lies in separation of product design from product manufacturing. As 3-D printing evolves, consumers will be able to purchase designs online and then build products at home. Appliance companies can also contract out the manufacturing of spare parts to third parties, which will then build parts based on CAD software provided by the appliance manufacturer. Since no inventories will have to be kept, parts costs could decrease. Spare parts availability can also expand, as it is less costly to retain old designs than excess inventories of spare parts.
...to other parts of the world. Of course, globalization does not have unvarying outcomes or create a more homogenous world but it does have diverse outcomes – usually not expected. This not necessarily positive or negative, it is one or the other for the different parties involved. As a result we have seen a global audience for things such as the video game industry, Japan’s anime and manga industry, and Japanese film productions and the cell phone business as well. At times, this technology is conflated in terms of where it was designed, who manufactured it and where, who is using it, and the end result is a blend of multiple cultures. Today cultural boundaries are gradually eroding and cultural differences are no longer invented through exports and imports across national borders but are produced by the acts of consumption in which citizens of the world participate.
While 3D Printing has been around for many decades, patents had not allowed the booming technology to grow to its full potential, now with these patents becoming old and coming to an end, will allow one of the hottest technologies on the market to reach levels that many did not think were possible. So now with the major patents that have limited the 3D printer have fully expired or about to expire will give this industry the push they have needed. With the major one being that now once a product is made from a 3D printer it can now be sold as “finished” and ready for the consumer. While in the past this was not possible.
Imagine a world where low-cost productions are created at home with a push of a button. You can create you very own personalized designs with out the need of the manufacturing factories. As manufacturing goes digital, the fundamental of economy will change new technologies will be explored as we roll into the third greatest industrial revolution. As society evolves the economy will shift, allowing people to produce their very own products from home. Using three-dimensional devices “3D printers” with the aided of open-ended software will allow people to manufacturer printed goods. In the new era, individuals will be able to print anything from batteries, mobile phones, auto parts, medical implants, and guns in what many are calling additive manufacturing. This is good thing, as society needs a better green strategy for 3D printing that help promotes recyclability.
The first decade of the 21st century has seen globalization and identity emerge as the most critical challenge to society. Globalization has seduced consumer appetites. This has led for those consumer identities to be exposed to global advertising focused on the designer car, the latest clothing or the newest piece of architecture.
Ultimately, considering the nature of globally renowned designs in this day and age; skyscrapers, the wheel, prisons and smartphones, it can be determined that design responds to social change simultaneously to social change responding to design. It can be drawn that both social change and design are dependable on one another and hence form a continuous cycle. The social changes in terms of materials, demands, desires and beliefs on a global scale, have all prompted designs equally as much as skyscrapers, wheels, prisons and smartphones have instigated social change. The analysis and evidence mentioned has made this evident.
Traditional letters, circulars, handouts, posters are going to shut because of the use of internet gave birth to e-mails. At n...
Today, many companies enter the global market, and some companies have become extremely successful in the global marketplace and others still struggling. In Theodore Levitt’s article “The Globalization of Markets”, he states that a well managed corporation focuses on selling standardized products with high quality and low priced instead of focuses on selling on customized products with high cost. Levitt defines the differences between multinational corporation and global corporation, and adopts many specific examples to proves his view. He defines the multinational corporation who operates in many countries and adjust its product based on the taste of specific region. This will result in a high cost to produce the product because company have to input more resource into each individual product. However, global corporation sells similar product worldwide at relative low cost. According to Levitt, the cultural differences are becoming more and more “homogenized”; therefore, becoming a global corporation will lead to the successful of the company in the global market.
To understand the conflicting issues brought about by this new technology, one must know the basic functions and concepts of 3D printing. The key idea of 3D printing or additive manufacturing (AM) is "using computer-aided design (CAD) software to design a three-dimensional image of what you want to produce" (Ranaldi). Once you have the CAD software, 3D printer purchased from manufactures, and a design file, all that's left is to purchase the material needed for your design. Although the process described seems very costly, some advantages from 3D printing such as greatly reduced production time, low waste production and easy accessibility makes up for much of the initial start up costs. In short, " [Additive manufacturing] simplifies the manufacturing process by building pre-assembled systems: a clock with all its gears in place" (Haxel, 5)...
...ained briefly in this report. In conclusion, 3D printers will be used to begin in many areas. Despite concerns of users and governments about gun producing, many companies are already using the technology to repeatedly produce complex components of their design. As I mention, medical and automotive and aviation industries is commonly used techniques for develop their design. As 3D printers become more affordable, the small scale manufacturing will impossible to avoid use this technology which obtain them a change against large supply manufacturer for many types of product. Consumer units for home use will even become feasible, allowing end users to simply download a design for the product which they require and print it out. Because of its advantages, it will became more popular in recent year. I guess that everybody will have a 3D printer in future in their home.
I will never view the clothing label, “one size fits all” in the same light again. While that may seem optimal for several people, the sizing of those articles will exclude a range of persons, possibly those individuals who have larger frames and those who have smaller frames. So, the more accurate wording is probably “one size fits most.” To use the word “all” serves as a generalization, which is a universal statement that is not necessarily true, because it indicates that a group of people or things equally satisfy the condition.
Globalisation is a phenomenon that has led to abundant connections between cultures and people, which has in turn stimulated the reception and the export of all types of artistic and cultural features. It was commonly believed that these cultural flows were simply a form of imperialism and domination by the Western world over the non-West. Nevertheless, as Chris Barker states in Cultural Studies, “Globalization is not constituted by a monolithic one-way flow from 'the west to the rest'” (163). In many cases, the West becomes the target of this flux of exchange, and it is influenced by the ideas and perceptions that are imported from other parts of the world. Some
Globalization encourages worldwide business. Globalization is an efficient process by which all the nations of world will commonly try to set regular universal standards & regulations (both created & recommended) which will encourage business around different nations. Business around nations or elements crosswise over different fringes is called universal business.
With every passing day the world is shrinking, and the globalization process is taking place. Advances in communication, transportation, and computer technology have all played a role in making the world a smaller place. With the right equipment, people can talk to friends and family from the other side of the world. Traveling from America to Europe, which once required days at sea, now only takes hours in the air. Computer networking and fax machines allow world businesses to conduct negotiations within a matter of seconds. Images and personas such as the McDonalds’s golden arches and Mickey Mouse are recognized worldwide. When Saddam Hussein was captured, nearly every country knew about it within a matter of hours. Yet, while globalization is taking place, it is not doing so without dispute. Many countries, in fact, feel threatened by Western culture and consequently, are acting out to preserve their own identities. Differences in currency and standardized measuring units indicate hesitancy and possibly even an inability for people to accept the conformity of a singular global society. Also, characteristics of different cultures are in such a way unique that to alter them or blend them into other cultures would, in some people’s opinion, destroy both of them. After all, one would not expect to find tacos served in Italian restaurants, nor would one expect pasta and breadsticks to be the major selling items in Mexican restaurants. So, while globalization is taking place on different levels, fundamental differences in culture and pride in one’s own heritage both exist as strong forces preventing the emergence of a homogenized world society.