Event Research: Chosen Event / Brief

I have chosen to design a furniture piece for Design Made Trade in Melbourne. I have been to this exhibition before and found it to be the perfect event. It looks at working with cardboard in a strong way, as well as having a need for extra seating.

Event Research: Analysing Each Event

I have began to look into which event I would like to choose to design a chair for. To begin with I individually researched the three events given to us.

Esquisse Four - Understanding Form

I enjoyed making this piece, although by the end, although it didn't work out quite like we had planned, and was a lot harder then we imagined, it still held weight and we learnt a lot of lessons from it.

‘Be4U’ - Furniture Design History Part 1

‘Be4U’ - Furniture Design History Part 2

Esquisse Three - Locking Systems

I found this esquisse quite interesting. At first I was a bit stumbled and did not know what to do, but after some sketching, smaller scale mock-ups and minor adjustments over time, I was able to come up with a system that locked together perfectly whilst also holding over 100kg in weight.

The system involved two separate pieces coming together as one. The first was a triangular like connection which folded to form two triangles of maximum strength. To join this together and to add maximum strength a bounding box is incorporated through a slit cut to produce the final piece shown above.