EcoFurniture

Week3 Furniture design

           For our first project we are to design any eco-friendly furniture. Our group of 6 started of with a a small coffee table but eventually ended up designing for an egg chair. the most difficult part so far would be bilding the final product as the time limits constrain us slighty.

This was our initial design ideas for the coffee table. The main problem was that we kept on adding small details to the table which, eventually, made it imppossible for us to complete it on time, time flies when you're having fun, you even get carried away..

..in the end, we decided on a simple egg shaped chair like so, on top we show our design ideas, what we could include. below shows an example of our product taken from a magazine.

Trashcans for sale at a hardware store

 Our main structure will be built on 

trash cans, shaped and cut into a chair format. 

Here is an idea of what our final chair is supposed to look like. it has an egged shaped back with a wheeled base. If looked at from the top view, it would have an egg shaped feature aswell, like an oval. Sofas or cushions inside the chair would be made by clothes and tshirts which would be stuffed inside sewed shirts to give a soft feeling and pillow-like comfort.

The colour is yet to be decided but most probably, it would be a complete black or complete whit for the exterior and a bright neon colour for the interior.

Example of the texture of a chair that 

could be used in our final piece

Here is a link to our overall work and ofcourse the main page of our group, urbaneyes :D 

http://urbane-yes.tumblr.com/

Self portrait

Principles of design week 2 

Self portrait

 For our first lesson on Principles of design, we were required to do a self portrait, but this was no ordinary shading and sketching. we were allowed to use any or of art such as romanticism or graffiti. i went with nature,  although i wasn't quite sue of what it was based on, i went on with it. i used mostly leaves and grass for my facial expressions. I used two brown dead leaves for my eyes because brown is the colour of my eyes! i went on with thin green and brown grass for my hair, in reality, my hair is very dark brown and ice cream sticks to represent my ears just for the crazy side of me.

I did something different which none else had done for their face color. i had put my portrait over, covering a flame given from a lighter, when in the right angle, the paper with get brownish ash that can't be rubbed of easily, given of by the flame. i learnt this technique in form 1 during an art exam. till this day, i find that technique very cool and classy. 

Me presenting my portrait during POD class

One other background detail ihad added was the coke can. It represents 'food' as i am a food lover but to the irony, im not that into coke or pepsi or anything alike, i am more of an ' iced lemon tea or lychee person.