Object2_Chair

Following on from our initial research into the our chair we had to illustrated 20 different and alternative uses for the chair. I made a small cardboard model of a rocking-chair and used that to discover new uses. It helped to have a physical object to move around and look at from different perspectives. I tried to keep the shape and structure of the chair as similar to reality as possible - separating the chair into components or adding to it's structure seemed almost like cheating to me. I bound my images into an A5 book (spent about 20 quid on the photocopier, clown!).







































We also had to show 10 different connotations for our chair. At the end of the 'Object1' project I had began messing about making models of rocking chairs and also people to sit in them, and I decided to continue this for the connotation images. The models were quite effective because many of the connotations I came up with were simple stereotypical characters.

Object1_Chair

Finally a completely new project, no image kit or any of that jazz. This project was a research project in which we had to choose one design/type of chair and research when it was made, who designed it, how it was made, where it is/was used, who it belonged to and what it's made of, but present the information in a visual way and take it where we wanted. I got stuck into the rocking-chair, researching why we like rocking, cradles and rocking-horses, primitive visions of rocking, different types and origins, design history and stereotypes and more.