any and all thoughts on this chair please, thanks…
http://www.coroflot.com/zwfurniture
Looks uncomfortable - almost painful.
Nothing about it really seems to stand out.
On a side note, its not cool to show a project in your Core-folio which is almost a direct knock-off of one of my classmate’s projects (Fusion Bottle). I went to RIT also
Looks very simular to to “Neo Omish” furniture Supper Happy Bunny marketed years ago… not sure if it is still on their site… http://www.superhappybunny.com/
first off nydesignguy, i would never intentionally do a “knock-off” product, which is exactly why i posted the chair pictures to see if it already exists. My thanks to pezzy for showing me that site with the neo omish chair, much appreciated.
second, i would like very much to see your classmates bottle idea. does he/she have it posted online anywhere? did it ever make it into production? do you remember what year or class it was done in/for? sorry for all the questions but it’s just a very interesting idea to me.
On a side note, its not cool to show a project in your Core-folio which is almost a direct knock-off of one of my classmate’s projects (Fusion Bottle). I went to RIT also
…and I also designed the same chair in my freshman year at VT. It’s not that it’s a knockoff… it just doesn’t show any “design-ness” in that it obviously hasn’t offered any real solutions to the question of “sitting”.
This chair is obviously a sketch of something more… you just need to find a way to move the project along to wherever that point is.
I can’t find a way into the design.
What’s the concept?
Yeah, whats the concept? Seems like maybe we’re missing some important info as to why you designed the chair the way it is.
its designed to be knock-down, stores totally flat, no glue or hardware at all needed. MINIMAL amount of machining needed to make, ( i did it with just a jigsaw and hand drill in an hour),… so basically, the minimal amount of cutting done to a single board and least fabrication processes needed with no hardware.
Well, to that end, it looks exactly like that.
Lacking in the style department but full of function. Try incorporating some style into the forms cut from the wood. You still would have minimal cuts. It would still fold flat and do everything you need the function to do but, it would look better and be more appealing for the customer.
Maybe think of this one as the functional prototype. Now use that as a base to draw from and incorporate a theme.
I think its a great idea you have here. The visual is just a little hard to swallow.
“Sprink” bottle by Peter Kotsonis. Consumer Products I with Jim Sias and Kim Sherman. Fall 1999.
Last I heard, he pitched the idea when he worked at Tupperware. Don’t know if it went into production.
Your concept is basically something like this:
“I was interested finding a way to make a chair that:
-uses a single sheet of plywood
-takes a minimum of machine time
-generates the least amount of waste (from cutting)
-and requires a minimal amount of time to self assemble.”
In my opinion, your concept is more interesting than the outcome. (which happens a lot). This also feels more like an iteration than the final design. In fact, I think that your image would communite the concept better if you could show your iterations along with the final design.
in my humble opinion, only people who design kd furniture in flatpack fashion are ones who are very interested in it. if the point of your exercise was to create flat pack, then you achieved your goal. but, if you were desiring the effect of being inspiring, innovative, or beautiful, the chair is lacking. it has to be more attractive one way or another. more often than not if you are designing a chair to be flat, then the overall appeal will be just as flat. too bad our bodies can’t be so flat, huh. let’s make chairs that beckon to be sat in and stop worring about supplying flat chairs to the masses, via shipment. naturally, most people will just go out and get furniture locally. furniture should in as many ways strive to be as “sustainable” as possible, but so must be the time in which we spend with it.
high board yield AND high bored yield. it’s a win-win!
To save costs? For whom and why? I’m guessing you used about $30 of wood, and it looks heavy to ship–you need to remove excess material.
Meanwhile there are comfortable, stacking, biomorphic injection molded chairs that also require no tools and sell for $8.
sigh
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Im just sayin’.