I’m moving on to third and final year this coming term at Kingston University doing Product and Furniture Design. Taken a break from sketching on the regular and would like extra motivation to get back in the groove of it.
Am currently working on cable management solutions - wanted to look in nature for inspiration in forms.
Found the shape of a sweetcorn to be quite charming so wanted to de-construct that simple form in wrapping cables around the form…
More sketches coming along.
Everything is in a bit more detail on my tumblr so please have a read:
It’s got bits of work I’ve done with companies and just some ideas floating.
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After a lot of research I came up with two insights I really wanted to pursue the area of children’s toys and furniture.
Creating Space: I found that children love to create their own space within the home so having a more considered solution that blends between the child’s fantasy and the adult’s environment is an interesting direction.
“I want to do that too”: As children are becoming ever more intelligent, they are very eager to be able to do adult chores. So creating a solution that enables children to do these chores and on top of that having a product which transforms as the child ages - is an area I would like to develop further.
Ideas of being able to create a sweet and charming product that both children would enjoy and adults could also look back and be able to reminisce about their own childhood made it very appealing to me.