Design Activity Deliverable 9/8/2026

Name the artifact

• I bought a sweatshirt at a concert
  • I was very excited and liked the design, and in a long line I decided I wanted a sweatshirt to represent my passion and to remember my experience with after the concert.

Map the system

• It was expensive…
  • The sweatshirts were likely mass produced on the tour and printed from factories likely with low quality work conditions. In my purchase I definitely payed for the name on the sweatshirt, and not the quality of the sweatshirt.

Identify cost

• There is likely a lot of waste involved.
  • The first thing that comes to mind is “when the tour ends, the sweatshirt becomes irrelevant.” The demand is likely going to drop and there will be a supply still left over from the concerts. I think that there is also a lot of waste involved in quantity over quality, and the money spend is likely going to the artist or corporation, rather than the workers who made thousands of the same sweatshirt.

Make one change

• A change I would make would be on the customers end. I believe that within the community of fans that went to the concerts, there are likely many artists. I would much rather spend money and remember the experience by supporting a small artist with similar interests to myself. I think a change that could be made is a closer fan community and supporting individual designs rather than a mass produced design that will become irrelevant after the tour ends. I understand that it would not make as much money for the tour itself, but I do think it would build the community stronger and would be a much more personal and longer lasting form of memorabilia.