chair ideas

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.