Kúla

So some of you may have seen my previous chair post. After some great suggestions and realizations, it became apparent that the sphere chair design wasn't fully resolved. Even though it was just a concept rendering, realistically something like that would be expensive to produce. So drawing inspiration from the inner bent wood, I came up with the kúla chair.
The intention behind this one was to make it relatively cheap and easy to produce. Two bent plywood (bamboo) legs, two bent metal supports and one formed plastic seat (with ribbing underneath). Idealy the entire thing would be held together by 14 (ish) wing nuts on bolts, thus making it easy to disassemble.
Feel free to comment, I am not entirely sure if something similar already exists on the market, if so please msg me I would love to see how they resolved it!

Chair

Screw it, against my better judgement I am posting the teaser. The patent's pending anyway. A cool chair concept I thought up while seconds away from falling asleep. This is getting rather annoying. I would prefer inspiration to hit while fully conscious. This was originally supposed to be a rocking chair. I think that will come next. Seriously, I am putting next to no effort into this post, its 25 degrees and sunny out.

O yeah, plastic with curved ply wood (birch) inside. Enjoy.

Jeff Pinard

Product converting

So this is just a few of the products i have began to model/render for the graphic novel project. Most of them are lacking heavy detailing. this is because the styling covers most of it anyway. The trick is to get just enough detailing that you can see it, but not so much that you bust your ass for nothing. Eventually I will post a few shots of how they turned out after converted. Stay tuned.

Furniture

Throughout our school year we were required to design and build furniture for various places. I don't have much more to say on the subject, except to enjoy... Actually I also want to note that some of these, ie, the Joi chair and mechanical lamp (right) were group projects.

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