Observing the everyday

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Observing the everyday by Mind Map: Observing the everyday

1. Where Do we Use paper

1.1. Daily Process

1.1.1. Both Decrative items and Informative items can tell a lot about the owner

1.1.2. Decoration

1.1.2.1. Wall Paper

1.1.2.2. Posters

1.1.2.3. Paintings

1.1.2.4. Photos

1.1.2.5. Doodles

1.1.2.6. Wrapping Paper

1.1.2.6.1. Unique sense of celebration and Anticipation

1.1.2.7. More evident examples of design interaction

1.1.3. Cleaning

1.1.3.1. Similar products with unique uses

1.1.3.2. Toilet Paper

1.1.3.2.1. statistic from National Geographic requires daily global uses 27,000 trees

1.1.3.3. Kitchen Roll

1.1.3.4. Tissue

1.1.3.5. Napkins

1.1.4. Packaging

1.1.4.1. Bags

1.1.4.1.1. Tea Bags

1.1.4.1.2. Fancy Paper Bags

1.1.4.2. Boxes

1.1.4.2.1. Food

1.1.4.2.2. Cleaning Products

1.1.4.2.3. Storage

1.1.4.3. Wrappers

1.1.4.3.1. Sweets

1.1.4.3.2. Food

1.1.4.3.3. General Products

1.1.4.3.4. Potential to talk about printing onto plastic causing paper to become obsolete

1.1.5. Hold Information

1.1.5.1. Books

1.1.5.1.1. Magazines ect.

1.1.5.1.2. Originated from Roman codex improving on the Chinese scroll

1.1.5.2. Money

1.1.5.2.1. Recipts

1.1.5.2.2. "Paper in its most seductive form"

1.1.5.2.3. "Most sophisticated designed paper"

1.1.5.2.4. "In sufficient quantity effectively passports to anywhere"

1.1.5.2.5. Literal material manifestation of the trust in our economic system,

1.1.5.3. PassPort

1.1.5.3.1. Tickets

1.1.5.4. Letters

1.1.5.4.1. Cards

1.1.5.4.2. Envelopes

1.1.5.5. Notes

1.1.5.5.1. Giving a completely new value to a previous disregarded piece of paper

1.1.5.6. Flyers

1.1.5.7. Calendars

1.1.5.8. Diarys

1.1.5.9. Reports

1.1.5.10. Labels

1.1.5.10.1. Price

1.1.5.10.2. Allergy info

1.1.5.10.3. Contents

1.1.5.10.4. Title of Product

1.1.5.11. Photos

1.1.5.11.1. Visual Information

1.1.5.11.2. Visual Memory

1.1.5.11.3. Essentially created a identifying system

2. Paper Quality Has Changed over time

2.1. All Paper is slowly decomposing

2.1.1. All books eventually becoming dust

2.1.1.1. Digital storage is an alternative solution to this

2.1.1.2. Information could be lost

3. Responsible for a transition from oral culture to a literate one

3.1. Regarding the passing of knowledge

3.2. Massively overlooked impact

4. Slowly depleting due to digital incline

4.1. pg 55 Stuff matters quote

4.2. Products like Kindle emulating paper

4.3. Data much easier to manage digitally

4.4. Points for why this should happen.

4.4.1. Digital files easier to edit through hacking

5. Emotional respose

5.1. certain sentimentality with papers physicality

5.1.1. love letters

5.1.1.1. added new senses

5.1.1.1.1. smells like them

5.1.2. hand writing

5.1.3. doodles

6. Playing with Paper

6.1. Folding

6.1.1. Folding technique completely changes the narrative structure

6.1.1.1. Pagination

6.1.2. Oragami

6.1.3. Packaging

6.2. Doodling

6.3. Writing

7. Responsible for an entire industry

7.1. Creates Jobs

7.2. Publishers

7.3. Print Designers

7.3.1. My preferred Medium

7.4. Authors

7.5. Editorial Design

7.6. Paper Manufacture

7.7. Librarys