Ideation

The beginning of a long process....

Design Brief

- to design a chair for State of Design's 'Design:Made:Trade'
- to be located in dining/cafeteria area
- must be comfortable for a sustained period of time
- must have quick assembly time
- possibly have a backrest
- possibly have a carry handle for portability

Event Research

Design:Made:Trade

Working Out Of A Cardboard Box

An ad agency in Amsterdam love cardboard so much their whole office is made of cardboard!

I like how visitors and workers are invited to draw/doodle/leave their mark as they please.

http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/cliff-kuang/design-innovation/no-joke-these-guys-really-do-work-out-cardboard-box

Esquisse Four - Understanding Form

Learning about structure, material and weight.

Aim:
To work in pairs to create a 1:1 'seat' using cardboard which uses minimal material effectively to create a structure that will support the weight of one person.

Outcome:
Kayo and I started off by using sketch to brainstorm some initial ideas for the form of our chair. We wanted a clean and simple design and after a few ideas, we came to a solution which we were both happy with. It uses the basic slot system comprising of 4 separate pieces. We started off making a tiny 1:6 paper model which allowed us to figure out the exact dimension of each net piece which proved quite helpful.


After that we decided to make a 1: model to test that it would work at a more life-size scale and see how it looked in cardboard form.

Kayo testing the strength of the 1:4 scale model.

We were finally ready to construct the 1:1 scale model. The main challenge in this esquisse was that we were limited to the amount of cardboard we had to use because we were asked to source our own materials for this project. So, by using a large tv box, we managed to successfully build a 1:1 chair which we were quite proud of, (give or take a few cuts along the way!).

Kayo's dog testing out our 1:1 chair with the teddy on the 1:4 scale model.

NGV Visit and In-depth Investigation

Gerrit Rietveld's Red Blue Chair, 1917

'Be4u' Furniture Design History Project

Gerrit Rietveld and Ludwig Mies Van De Rohe

Eero Aarnio and Charles and Ray Eames

Frank Gehry and Philippe Starck