TIMELINE: 2023.3 ~ 2023.4

CONTEXT: Individual Product(with Urban Forest)  |  Client Product: Object  |  Sophomore Design

TrashCAN is a reusable trash bag for outdoor activities. Unlike plastic garbage bags, which is disposable, TrashCAN can be easily washed after using and reused. With enjoyable textures, users can have pleasing experience, so that they may not feel annoyed when collecting garbage. Moreover, the size of TrashCAN is relatively smaller than normal garbage cans in order to hold users back from producing too much garbage. Trash can also do great things if we take good care of it, because it's called TrashCAN, not TrashCAN NOT.

Research

Shadowing

Conceptual Reference

Bag, as the interface between people and garbage, can reflect how people treat garbage. It can also give new meanings to garbage.

Market Reference

However, it seems like people have amounts of specific bags for different usages with considerate designs EXCEPT trash bag, which shows that people don't realize the significance of garbage.

Solution

Product

Trash can also do great things if we take good care of it. Because It is called TrashCAN, not TrashCAN NOT.

Story Board

HIGHLIGHT: Acting as an educational product, TrashCAN aims to stimulate users to pay as much attention to trash as it deserves. Since a huge market for trash bag is still missing, there are opportunities to use trash bags, as the interface between people and trash, to educate users, which is exactly what TrashCAN intends to achieve.