Fixtures and Fittings

Carrying on from last week, we had to develop  our sketches into actual products or architectural design.

I developed this for the cable tie lines into a chair




I developed the paper curved forms into an architectural pavilion.


I made a collage with left over prints of my cable ties and decided to make it into a cracked mirror with frost over the top.  I enjoyed doing this because it showed my that one mans scrap was another mans forturne.

I chose the paper based one as I felt there were so many angles I could approach it from such as turning it into a hairband/scrunchie, a door handle, jewellery, the basis of a shoe design.

I initially started off by seeing it as an architectural design for an outside space, almost as though a pavilion with different sections, entrances and exits to it. But then through development I decided against this and chose to go with a chair design.

When using CAD I found it hard to make the model on photoshop and found that my outcome did not look very realistic when placed in a normal environmental setting which is something I have found that I need to work on.
But I enjoyed the task as I found myself researching about different types of chairs such as the evolution timeline on the design museum website, to the criteria of what made a chair a chair, look at the best sorted materials which I felt for me chair would possibly be layers of bamboo.