Furniture Design: week of 10/25/2011

Not much has happened this week in the woodshop. I am working on milling my wood and getting it down to its finished dimensions. I'm still really undecided about how I want my wood to be jointed. My professor showed us the jig for doing finger joints, which are nice, but I don't think its fits into what I am trying to do. I think it detracts from the sleekness of the original design concept. I would like to do a miter joint which structurally it isn't the soundest and its very complicated to do but I think it is the most pleasing for my design. The jury is still out but I feel like I will have to settle for finger joints :/ Since there isn't much to blog about this week I decided to look around and find a new interesting product that's in...

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Furniture Design: FIELD TRIP!!!!

The highlight of this week was going to neeeeeeeeew york concrete jungle where dreams are made of.... you know the song... Despite my hellacious week leading up to the trip & the fact I feel asleep during every miniscule moment of down time, I still had a great time! Uber-inspiring and almost made me want to move there (ALMOST).  Material ConneXions Our first stop of the day. Material ConneXions is a materials resource library. As per their website: "Built on the belief that Every Idea has a Material Solution™, we are the trusted advisor for Fortune 500's, smaller forward-thinking companies, and government agencies seeking a creative or competitive edge through strategic material selections." Its a pretty inspiring...

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Furniture Design: Finalizing My Design & Wood Shopping!

This week I finalized my design, did some color investigations, and went wood shopping!!!! I made my working drawings and figured out my dimensions. I want the table to be 20" tall, 10" wide with a 1" trim. I want to do a two-tone design with the interior being a contrasting color to the outside. I would like to keep the outside a wood-grain tone to showcase the wood and add a zing of color on the insider for interest and pizazz.  Plan view of 2 pieces   Front & Side Elevation Originally I was going to do regular fingers joints to join the corners or my table but the more I looked at images of them I didn't like how the 2 toned nature of the end grain showed. So I started thinking maybe I can use that to my advantage...

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Furniture Design: Process Work Week 5

Sketch Up models of table Design.... how I love and HATE you all at the same time! This week I toyed with my table design. The more I drew it, made models of it, and just looked at it.... the less I liked it. As my professor said to me, forms such as my table look most striking from the side but head on are pretty lifeless. I wanted a way to make the front view more interesting so I went back to sketching... Here I am still experimenting with the side view. I started to think what if I changed the design completely. What if I made the table more like my object? The eraser is made so that no mater what side you turn it on it stands and is functional.   This iteration is a table that can be turned in multiple directions an on...

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