Currently working on

Well most of my time since breaking up university this year has been time spent on placement hunting this has been the lack of updates to the blog. I have recently started getting back into project work and currently collecting some designs for a competition at dwell to design a piece of furniture that would fit into their shop. More updates to come!! but here is a quick concept of a chair I think would fit into their shop.

How its made brit insurance awards

here is dune 2010 modular outdoor furniture for eternit this furniture stood out to me because of the material used, the smooth pebble like shapes from the furniture

Furniture Award Winner 2011: Branca, Industrial Facility. From a distance I thought it was just another nice chair. But from a closer look at the joints used to make the chair it grew on me. The chair is a lot lighter than it looks as well which surprised me when trying to pick it up. But the most interesting bit is the manufacturing I think being able to see this piece grow and slot together each time. See how its made

Those interested in prototyping will like how the Endless chair  is made by Dirk Vander Kooij.I would like to use this type of manufacturing as the products can be easily made once the design is drawn. Could be used to make different types of designs including the dune chair shape with more structure to it maybe

another fun how its made is the tape installations by nummen. This inspired a group of us to create our own type of installation in the studio of our trip to the design museum.

more to be posted on the trip to the design museum soon!

First uni project

The brief was to make a piece of seating out of a sheet of material that later became sheets. To create the seating we were told to first crumple up the paper and draw/document every shape we made from what was in front of us. This then developed into finding shapes from our drawings and using colours to make them stand out. I carried on folding and creating shapes until I came up with the cone like final design.

Olivier Mourgue inspired seating

Ply wood version

Trying with other materials

While practicing with bending ply for the first time to create Olivier Mourgue's Bouloum Lounge which looks like a human body. There was left over bent ply from other students that were not using and decided to take it home and try creating another piece of furniture from it.Although it isn’t finished needing some support for when someone’s using it I like how this turned out and will try improving the final design.

Frank Gehry inspired seating

The shape of the seating was inspired by Frank Gehrys DZ bank

Models of the seating

Attempt at making the design in Auto Cad

One half of a restaurant college product, which was inspired by your favourite designer. This part was to include a piece of furniture/ product into the restaurant as well as the layout soon to be posted as well.