Final boards

I am happy with the way my boards have come out, i wanted to show the story or theme behind the chair design and i think ive done that well.

Presentation board attempt

this was my first attempt at doing my presentation boards, ive since decided to use the felt i used to show colour as my texture so have re done my boards. i also dont like the font or colouring of this board.

Dimentions

Rhino

Im happy with the actual chair design and the colours of the felt however im not completely happy with the way the texture has been applied to the chair unfortunatly i dont know how to change it an hope this gives a good enough idea of what i want. The dimentions are hard to see so im going to redo them on photoshop :) other than that  im quite proud of what ive achived using this software and love the outcome.

Been playing with some colour combinations of felt. i think the second and third ones are my favorite.

Felt

Ive been researching felt and the best felt for me i think would be an artificial felt (don't like the idea of animal skin/fur whatever!) these need to have a minimum composition of 30% wool fibres with the rest being artificial fibres. it would be difficult to produce a stable fabric with a ratio lower than this. This type of felt is needle felted.

Finalising my design

feedback

Feed back went well and I think I'm going in the right direction to finalising my chair...from the drawings Ive done  one design stood out the most as having potential, the one with the bright centre (core) fading out to a lighter colour, I came up with this design looking at the photographs of explosions and adapted the centre of the explosion and the smoke around it into this particular design. Speaking with Neil Ive come to the decision felt would be an ideal material to use...

this laser cut style is the inspiration for the two mushroom cloud laser cut chairs i have designed

WHAT AN AMAZING ALTERNATIVE TO THE BASIC TATTY OUTDOOR CHAIRS I LOVE IT! APPARENTLY IS SUPPOSED TO REMIND YOU THAT YOU WILL DIE BUT I DONT THINK ITS SO SINISTER MORE PLAYFUL TO ME!

THIS IS SOOOO SCARY!!!

urggghh

random doodelings

soooo cute!

never mind

I dont know what got me thinking about DNA but....i was and that then got me thinking of what aluminium would look like if it was a molecular structure, ive had a look at the images that come up on google when you search aluminium elements and its just a lot of circles inside each other that i dont really understand and isnt as pretty as the DNA :( sooo i think i had a quick little brain wave that sadly didnt turn out to be much use!

some chairs already made of aluminium

sputnik materials

on 4th october 1957 sptnik 1 successfully launched and entered earths orbit. this began the space age.

this historical image shows a technician putting the finishing touches on sputnik 1, the first artificial satallite. the presurised sphere was made from aluminium alloy.

mushrooms.......

important events in the 50's

sputnik 1 the worlds first satellite launched in 1957

the escalation of the cold war, soviet and american nuclear weapons

the korean war 1950-1953