Sunday, 2 March 2014

3DD- Project Four

For this project, each student was given a "client", which was one of our classmates, and we had to design something for them. Each client completed a questionnaire, where they had to choose what they prefer for instance, autumn/summer/winter/spring. After that, we had to chose some of the words and research pictures that remind us of it. The words I picked were summer, wood and abstract. For my final product, which would be a double-seat deck chair, I decided that I wanted to incorporate an element from each one of the words. Firstly, it would be made out of wood, therefore I researched into suitable woods for outdoors and I decided that it would be made out of monkey pod wood. The reason I chose this specific one is for its light color and the interesting 'water' patterns it has. I chose to reflect the word summer through the net which would be placed where the people can sit. The reason behind this is because nets remind me of sail boats, the sea,fishing and are also comfortable to sit on. Finally, I thought I could reflect abstract by having a colored net, instead of a basic white one, which would be inspired by the colors of sea corals and blue for the sea. Even though I like my idea of a double seated deck chair, if I were to do this project again I would have done some things differently. For instance, I would have researched a bit more into the words my client chose so that I could have had more material to work and experiment with. In addition, I think my design is quite simple and not abstract. Instead of just having a colored net, I could have also experimented with the shape of the structure, in order to create something more unique. I did not really enjoy this project however, it has made me realize that when you work with a client, you have to take their likes into consideration first, so that you can present to them a product that they will want to buy. 













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