NEW Prototype Cardboard Chair, a hybrid of my Cardboard Rocking Chair and Cardboard Low-Back Chair.
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Photographic-Material Stand
Model Renderings of the Photographic-Material Stand
Kit Rendering of disassembled parts for the Photographic-Material Stand
In selecting my model, I was drawn to the illustration of this particular piece of box furniture, as it was wonderfully furnished with still-life objects. With that, I decided to choose this piece and started on modeling some objects to accompany my version of the Photographic-Material Stand.
Photographic-Material Stand (page 192, 159 in original text), from Louise Brigham’s Box Furniture: How to Make 100 Useful Articles for the Home.
While modeling, I attempted to simulate the building process for this particular piece by building boxes and breaking them apart. However, due to the nature of the instruction’s language, I got easily confused and was uncertain of how the instructions broke down the measurements of the materials. To solve this problem, I took some artistic liberties in measuring the dimensions (including the original measurements with modeled brackets “{}” ), as well as designing details such as door hinges and nail heads. (I modeled some extra accessories just in case the builder wants to place them elsewhere!) I spent a lot of time with details and measurements, so please enjoy this lovey piece of box furniture and happy modeling!
Cardboard Chair Precedent Study
This cardboard chair precedent study is based on my research deductions and diverse search engines I utilized, including Google and UCI’s database services.
From my simple keyword searches, I was disappointed to find no definitive list/statistics on how many cardboard chair designers exist today. The Internet is vast in knowledge and information, but from the capitalist perspective, the elite class of cardboard chair designers appeared to have kept themselves elusive, hidden from prying eyes and users who could potentially infringe their designs for their own profits. This behavior is also present in the professional, student, and artist’s sphere of works, as they kept their uploaded works to a minimum. Again, reasoning with copyright and infringement issues has kept most cardboard chair designs private from the public. Above all else, there’s not many cardboard chair designers to begin with.
Nevertheless, I found a series of links that exhibit cardboard chair designs to the public from the Internet. I have categorized these links appropriately:
- STUDENT Design = Any non-profit student works on cardboard chairs, created in a college/university
- PROFESSIONAL Design = Any store / company / manufacturer / artist / architect / designer / design studio with cardboard chair products that profits from and/or caters to a niche market
- WEB Design = Any website / program / blog / article that provides free access to template/DIY/instructional-based designs for users interested in making their own cardboard chair.
[ NOTE ] The listed articles are NOT LIMITED to the diversity of cardboard chair design! Due to the vastness of the Internet, I can only provide a small, a thorough sample of what I found so far. Please enjoy!
EXCEPTIONAL LINK! – ArchiEXPO
This is the homepage for an architecture convention, which includes a exhibition category for cardboard chair designs. Each product is linked to a designer, which basically compiles a list of cardboard chair designers!
STUDENT Design
Chishen Chiu, “Flexible Love”
A famous cardboard chair by a young designer based in Miao Li, Taiwan (read more here)
SDSU – Student Cardboard Lounge
San Diego State University students build cardboard chairs for the New Children’s Museum.
design.indiana.edu – Cardboard chair designs by students from Indiana University Bloomington (more student works here)
treehugger.com – “Re-furnished”
A cardboard chair article on “green student design”, among a list of student works.The article’s website also featured works from student sustainable design schools, UQAM École de Design and Ottawa’s Carleton University. (UQAM École de Design has an exhibition video featuring a cardboard chair @00:40)
PBS Learning Media
A non-profit American organization that branches off its educational material online. This PBS article features a DIY project for children!
PROFESSIONAL Design
chairigami.com
A start-up company created by a graduate from the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute. The student-based works now profit as a leading cardboard furniture company in the market (with a TIME Magazine feature to boot!)
ourpaperlife.com
A full-service cardboard design firm that also works on cardboard chairs.
slowslowdesign.com
A Latvian designer company that exhibits their cardboard furniture as “premium class products” (or can be considered as an excellent corporate gift )
kartonart.com
A Hungarian designer company that patented a cardboard design system and exhibits their work as art pieces, furnishings, and exhibition stands/booths.
CustomBoxesNow.com – Guide to Cardboard Furniture
A professional cardboard packaging service that also provides DIY guides for cardboard furniture (may include cardboard chairs)
WEB Design
How-To-Recycle.blogspot.com
An old-school blog site that lists some older cardboard chair designs.
instructables.com
A popular DIY-based website dedicated to all things DIY. This article is one of many articles on making your own cardboard chair.
[Here’s another DIY for cardboard chair building 101]
igreenspot.com
An entire website dedicated to “green design/product”, which also includes a notable cardboard chair design with a sewn stitch feature.
makingsociety.com
A particular article from a hardware entrepreneurship (DIY) blog site, which directs readers to a list of “open source” designs.
architectureartdesigns.com
Another professional DIY website that lists 30 cardboard furniture designs. What intrigued me was the sourcing of these designs, and hovering ads that reminded readers to “pin it [the design]” if they are Pin Interest users.
MISC. LINKS – Because apparently I had fun Googling references.
jayce-o.blogspot.com – 50 Amazing Examples Of Cardboard Boxes
A list of cardboard packaging designers.
Survey of cardboard furniture – A PDF document breaking down the reasoning/components behind building cardboard furniture.
Cardboard Chair – lincnet.org
A PDF document that templates the teamwork strategy in making a cardboard chair. Designed to educate children on the engineering process of industrial design! (May be useful for ART 95, maybe!)
Profile Chair
Description Reference | http://www.dwr.com/product/profile-chair.do
I was given the Profile Chair to model for Project One!
BEGINNING | When I visited the Design Within Reach furniture store to look at my chair in-person, I was surprised how simple its design was! At first glance, the Profile Chair isn’t very special among the vast variety of chairs the store had in-stock. Despite its stylish appearance for its own online furniture ad, seeing the chair in-person instead of seeing it virtually changed my approach to modeling. Once I sat on the Profile Chair, the craftsmanship really shows in its framework! Thanks to the angles of each wooden piece, the chair literally “profiled” my spine, which sat comfortably in a smooth recline. Its sturdy base kept my bottom nicely cushioned, which created a feeling of confidence, relaxation and sophistication to boot! In turn, I fell in love with the framework, color and design! I was excited to start modeling the Profile Chair!
PROCESS | Upon inspecting the Profile Chair, the first thing I noticed was how flush the wooden pieces were in its framework. I admired how clean and smooth the seams were between each piece that the chair was assembled from. I also noticed some edges were set by small increments, revealing small linear details in craftsmenship that I had to emulate in my Rhino model. With that, the most difficult parts of the modeling process included – Sizing/measuring pieces accurately, filleting the chair cushion with a rounded edge, capturing the angles of each pieces, and modeling the underside of the chair. Otherwise, running through the entire modeling process was enjoyable! Since this was my first time modeling, the final model is finished but not perfect. Modeling practice and time-managing were key elements I learned in Project One!
Danielle Louie’s Rubber Ducky
Here’s my Rubber Ducky! Design was inspired by the character, Ahiru (“Duck”), from the Japanese animated series, “Princess Tutu!”
Danielle Louie
INTRODUCTION
My name is Danielle Louie, and I am a 3rd-year undergraduate transfer student with a major in Art. I transferred from Cypress College, initially as a Music major. I plan to pursue a minor at UCI, perhaps in Digital Arts and/or something else I have yet to explore. To list a few more things about myself…
My name is Danielle Louie, and I am a 3rd-year undergraduate transfer student with a major in Art. I transferred from Cypress College, initially as a Music major. I plan to pursue a minor at UCI, perhaps in Digital Arts and/or something else I have yet to explore. To list a few more things about myself…
HOBBIES/TALENTS: Cosplay (costume play; 3+ years of costuming experience), anime (Japanese animation), manga (Japanese comics), video games, violinist (9+ years of musicianship)
FAVORITES: Professor Layton game series, Axis Powers Hetalia anime series, Sherlock BBC TV series, Star Wars, tumblr.com, deviantART.com
FAVORITES: Professor Layton game series, Axis Powers Hetalia anime series, Sherlock BBC TV series, Star Wars, tumblr.com, deviantART.com
10 YEARS’ TIME
Frankly, I don’t exactly know where I’ll be in 10 years. Since transferring to UCI, I’ve been reluctant to enter the real world with my artistic talents, something I’ve been losing confidence in for a while. However, I trust that within 5 years, I’ll experience the best of the visual arts at UCI and have learned part-time job skills to make ends meet for the rough years to come without family support. I also hope to grow in both the artist community and student community. Then, in the next 5 years, I hope to establish my future with my current boyfriend, or close friends who are willing to stick around.
TECHNOLOGY
I consider myself proficient when it comes to software and hardware. The only formal software training I had is with Photoshop and Macromedia Flash during high school and junior HS. I usually work with drawing programs such as Paint.Net, FireAlpaca, and including Photoshop for my digital artworks. When it comes to learning about software/hardware, I work best with tinkering, observation and learning the basic steps that would lay foundations to my art-making process and art style. By knowing the pros and cons about each software/hardware, I work hard and keep myself motivated in order to achieve an end result.
Here is a list of software/hardware I have used:
FireAlpaca | Photoshop 5.5 | Paint.Net | SketchBookX (mobile app) | Macromedia Flash | Microsoft Paint | MediBang Paint (mobile app) | Windows Movie Maker | Free Video to GIF Converter | GIMP 2 | GarageBand | Microsoft PowerPoint
OTHER TECHNICAL SKILLS: Wood work/drafting, fashion design, character design, graphic design, music composition, beginner HTML coding
The above skills each share a common core – To visualize, organize and define ideas as something tangible.
CAD/CAM SKILLS
I believe learning CAD/CAM skills will enable me to simulate and fabricate ready-made objects or images as actual products. To me, CAD/CAM is the professor level of engineering, drafting, animating and designing. I see that by employing these skills, not only can I employ technology as part of my artwork, but I can be employed to work on art projects through CAD/CAM. Likewise, I hope I get the chance in designing complex objects that I have drawn traditionally onto a computer, whether it be a costume prop, a figurine, an installation or an invention of sorts. Rhino sounds like a great place to start! The possibilities are endless!