These are a few examples of my chair
designs; trying to create a variety of different chairs while working with
plain A4 paper sheets. A few of the designs were inspired by some of the mood
Baard of variety of unique chairs already made and usable. What I did to make
the designs of the chairs was watch a few tutorials from youtube. Which showed
me examples of origami chair designs to create and also giving me the step by
step guide on making the designs; but after the first outcome of the design I created,
I decided to come up with my own unique designs as following the tutorials lead
to me having the same outcomes as my classmates as they followed the same idea
of watching tutorials on making the origami chair designs and landing on the
same videos and tutorials as the rest of the class. This lead to a load of
chair designs all looking the same, which was boring. A few of my designs were
made by mistake/ improved from mistakes I made while trying to create a few
original designs; so I changed around the mistakes to then be able to make a
chair, improving the designs rather than starting again from scratch. I made a
lot of mistakes because coming up with my own designs was a bit difficult, but
the outcome of the designs were better than expected.
What I also like about my designs is
how each individual outcome is very different and how each design has its own
element that made the chairs have its their
own unique designs that interest different people. If I was to create the
designs again, I would not change much about any of the designs. Although I would
make more varieties of the designs, and also experiment around with the
designs, trying to merge some of the designs together to make a completely different
chair that has a mixture of qualities from two chairs.
In class we
made a macette cardboard cut-out of a chair designed by the artist “Frank Genry”.
We were all given the same pieces to cut out, so that everyone had a part in
make the chair. Eventually after everyone had finished cutting out their
individual pieces, we started to place the chair together. Once glued together,
the chair started to form a miniature sized chair version of Franks originally
designed chair, capable to be used on display but not to be used to sit on as
it’s not strong enough to hold someone’s weight. The materials we used was a
scalpel and cutting mat along with cardboard macette. A few others used scissors
as it was easier for them to work with and use; but I preferred the scalpel as
it was very effective and easy to use for me since I’ve had experience with the
equipment enough to handle it. The outcome of creating the chair helped me have
more experience with creating a chair design while using cardboard macette, so
it was very useful towards my project as our aim is to create a chair. Although
working with a cupboard maccette can be easy, but also hard to work with
depending on what you are trying to make. For example, working with cupboard
could make your outcome quite scruffier, shabby and untidy. Which is not always
a great look on your work depending on if you wanted the design messy; but
during the process of creating the model chair, since everyone was working on individual
pieces that we were going to place together later on. The outcome of the chair
was not all equally the same, as some parts were too short, too wide and not
perfectly cut to how everyone else had theirs. So there was a huge difference in
the effort put into the cut-outs to be neat so the outcome would look better. Overall
the outcome was to standard as you could clearly see the chair forum as well as
it being able to stand up without a problem. So overall the outcomes was as
expected, but could have had improvements.
