it's everywhere!

Branding

tada

so I changed 1 or 2 things about my design and finally it all worked.



there are only 2 instead of 3 parts on the top. With 3 it was too big anyway and now it also works better with the curves.
Now there are also slots in the seatparts to keep it all together.
And this time there are semicircles in the middle.



flat:


layout:

first try

ok,now I know what Justin meant when he said,we gonna need more than one try.....

first it all seemed to work pretty good.....


but when I was putting it all together I had kind of a feeling that I will have to do it all again...


there is no way in slotting in the third part of the seat, because it's a curve.aha!
and when I thought I could just leave out the semicircles in the middle parts,because you won't see them anyway,well I was wrong,because the seat will crack.
It also could be quite hard putting the seat into the endbits, unless you have 3 or 4 hands.




did I already mention,that the whole thing just didn't work? interlowhat system?!

layout drawing

second mock up

this is my second mock up.It still has the curves but the whole design is now based on a system. It's already very strong in the thin card.
In the final stool,some details are gonna be changed.the seat won't overlap.



this is what the seat will look like



some more tries



1:1 of the edge in X-Board

another try with X-Board

here is another try with X-Board.
I like that you see the edge of the material on the top.

first 1:1 mock up

this is my first 1:1 mock up. I stuck with the idea of concept II putting the X-Board in an organic shape. Well ok,this was TOO organic and didn't work at all.

some try in Xanita

concept III

Milan 2009

here are some pics a friend of mine took this year in Milan

concept II

concept

sketches

Salone Satellite Milano - research

Salone Satellite is part of the annual Milan Design week. Only designers under 35 show their work on this event.
I've unfortunately never been there so far, but some friends of mine and they were enthuasic about the great young energy there. One thing that makes this event unique is that there are not only great things going on in the exhibition centre, but all over the city of Milan.
So you should be prepared for walking long distances.

That's why I want to design a stool that is foldable,portable and light in weight.
Visitors can grab one and walk around the city with it, so they can rest wherever and whenever they want to.
But you should not feel uncomfotable carrying it around, so it might have the size and weight of a handbag.

Esquisse IV

Esquisse III

Esquisse II

Between the folds

http://www.greenfusefilms.com/

Here is a link to a documentary i found.
It is about different artists and scientists who work with paper. There is also Robert Lang in it, who we saw in our last lecture. But unfortunately there is no screening of the movie in Australia.

Esquisse I

Marcel Wanders

Marcel Wanders (*1963) is a contemporary dutch designer.
He founded his own design office "Wanders Wonders" in 1995 which became the famous label "Moooi" in 2001. He also works with a lot of other companies like Moroso, Bisazza or Droog Design.
His first famous design was "Knotted Chair" in 1996. A chair made of carbon ropes, impregnated with epoxy and then hung upside down to get it's shape.
He uses a lot of old fashioned patterns and combines them with the latest technology.
The lamp "B.L.O." for example looks like a candle and can be switched on and off by blowing.

Frank O. Gehry

Frank O. Gehry (*1929) is a canadian architect and designer.
In the 70s he began to emerge his own style in architecture. He moved away from the conventional way of planning a building and created a more artistical way.
He begins his work with sketches and models that may look chaotic to other people.
But out of these sketches and models he and his team begin the constructive part of the work.
His architecture and designs look deconstructed and the buildings more like sculptures than buildings.

Verner Panton

Verner Panton (1926-1998) was a danish architect and designer. He began his career in Arne Jacobsen's office.
His first furniture designs in the 50s looked very typical for this time but he soon developed his own style.
The improvement of plastic in the 60s made it possible to realize his designs. He created the first inflatable chair for example.
The colourful furniture and organic shapes fit into the 60s lifestyle and look more like sculptures.
He came up with the new idea of the abolition of traditional structures of a room with walls, ceilings and a floor. Instead he wanted to create one organic room.

Charles and Ray Eames

Charles Eames (1907-1978) started his career as an architect. He met his later wife Ray Kaiser (1912-1988) when he became her design teacher.
Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen developed together a new technique of wood moulding, that made it possible to form plywood into three dimensions.
During World War II they used this technique to produce splints, stretchers and parts for airplanes for the U.S. government.
The main idea of their furniture design was to find a form that perfectly fits to the human anatomy.
Therefore they were working with a lot of different materials.
In 1948 Eames joined a competition about low cost furniture. His original design made of metal was too expensive so he decided to work with fibre glass. At this time fibre glass was used for radar screens. This material made it possible to produce seats in one piece.
At the same time they used wire for their designs because you can also produce three dimensional one piece seats with it.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) was one of the most important architects of Modern Architecture.
He spent his early years in Berlin where he got influenced by Neoclassicism.
World War I changed his attitude towards architecture and similar to LeCorbusier he developed the idea of creating functional buildings.
He became famous for his so called "Skin and Bones"- architecture. Skin describes the glass facades and bones the steel pillars. He also came up with the idea of open ground plans.
He not only designed the buildings but also the furniture for most of it.
Because of the Naziregime he left Germany in the 30s and spent the rest of his life in the U.S.A. where he realized a lot of skyscrapers with glass facades.

Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier (1887-1965) was a french-swiss architect.
When he started his career, architecture and design in Europe were characterized by Art Deco.
In the beginning his style was influenced by that but soon he developed his own ideas on architecture and design.
Based on new movements in art like Kubism and new materials like reinforced concrete, his designs became more clear and strict.
His buildings were based on geometric forms like circles and ashlars.
Beeing an architect to him meant creating functional and economic buildings. Therefore he used reinforced concrete, steel and finished parts to realize his projects.
Also for his interior designs he u
sed these materials and mass produced articles.
He only did a few furniture designs but in these he also stuck with his ideas of purism and function.