Undergraduate & Graduate
6weeks & 13 weeks
During my education at Florida State University, I was enrolled in two furniture design courses. During my undergraduate furniture design course we completed several projects including the design and fabrication of a functional, load-bearing children's reading chair made entirely with cardboard. My graduate furniture class explored the digital fabrication processes found through the use of a laser-cutter and CNC-router.
FURNITURE DESIGN
The concept for the cardboard chair was selected from the book that the chair was based on. A xylophone was a large part of the story and became the concept for the chair.
This project consisted of randomly selecting a children’s story and then de-constructing elements from the story in order to create a functional chair made entirely out of cardboard.
By abstracting the elements of the xylophone, the structural components of the chair were formed.
This project taught me to think in the 3rd dimension and create a functional, structurally sound, load-bearing cardboard chair.
The first part of Graduate Furniture Design consisted of creating an inspiring piece of wall sculpture to be auctioned off at a local Cancer Research Fundraiser. There was extensive construction of various woods including maple, cherry and ash. The concept was derived from the inspiring notion of a bridge.
This table was designed on AutoCAD and digitally fabricated on a CNC Router at the Facility for Arts Research in Tallahassee.