Saturday 20 November 2010

What a weird table!

So, after bring in my rocking chair and having no clue what to do with it, as I said in my previous post that once I got it taken apart it might come to me and you know what... IT DID!
I took my rocking chair all the way apart and was sat looking at the bits of what makes up a rocking chair, when I just started playing around with the different pieces and I started to balance the legs and the seat on top of the legs and what do you know!! A table was formed! This has to be the simplest table ever built; it involves only 11 bits to put the whole thing together... 2 legs, 2 leg braces, 1 table top, 4 screws, & 2 nails. And that's it!

BEFORE:


AFTER:

I even had enough bits left over that I made a foot stole to go along with my new table,

So, from one little old rocking chair, came the birth of two new objects!


This was a pretty enjoyable brief to work to, but this coming weeks brief is, how should I say it... out there!

Our new brief is 10x10x10..... and that's all she wrote. I need some serious help thinking about what could 10x10x10 mean/be. I have already thought about it being a cube... but I need more ideas, no matter how far fetched they seem to be! HELP PLEASE!!!
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Saturday 13 November 2010

Reading Week

We have be given this Remake-Reinvent project for the week, and I must say... I'm finding it hard to think of what my rocking chair can become. I feel it will come to me once it no longer looks like a rocking chair but at the moment it is hard to see it as anything but.
I have researched all of the following artist in hopes of gaining some kind of inspiration:

Martino Gamper- 100 Chairs 100 Days
*Collected chairs that had been discarded all around London Streets, for about 2 years.
*His intention was to investigate the potential for creating useful new designs by blending together stylistic or structural elements of existing chair types.

Konstantic Grcic- Designer
*Industrial Designer, born in Germany and moved to the UK to study at John Makepeace School of Craftsmanship at Parnham College, in Dorset. Mastered at Royal College of Art.
*Later moved back to Germany where he opened his design studio.

Nacho Carbonell-
*"I like to see objects as living organisms, imaging them coming alive and being able to surprise you with their behavior. I want to create objects with my hands, then I can give them my personality. I turn them into communicative objects that can arouse one's sensations and imagination. In short, what I want to create are objects with a fictional or fantasy element, that allows you to escape everyday life."

Piet Hein Eek- Furniture Designer
*Everything in his shop is hand made.
*Because everything in his shop is hand made his production is limited.
*Well known in Holland, UK, Italy, Spain, France & Japan. He is up and coming in the US.

Future Systems- Design
*they are a company that specializes in architectural and design practice producing highly original work.
*Their work is innovated, visually striking and functional.
* Their inspiration comes from nature and technology.

Tom Dixon- Raw Material
*He is noted for his use of raw materials and his ability as an
*Interior Designer,
*Furniture maker,
*Accessories and
*Design in Lighting.

Zaha Hadid- World wide Known, Architect.

Thomas Heatherwick- Designer & Artist
*English Designer and Artist. Known for innovative use of engineering and materialism public monument and sculptures.
*He opened and heads Heatherwick Studios.