The making of the Artful Dodger - 1st Draft on Vimeo

The making of the Artful Dodger - 1st Draft from sam LOmingshum on Vimeo.

I am going to use Vimeo from now on, it seems to me that it is a more professional platform.

Unit1 internal assessments materials - 18 May, 2012

A diagram to explain the methodology that I have been using for designing two furniture pieces. It also reveals its possibilities to develop more different design.

The QR codes lead to the following videos:

A booklet is also prepared for further explain what experiments I have done before the unit 1 assessment.

Found furniture

I just found another piece of chair right next to my flat. It was broken but look quite nice. I hate how people easily discard their furniture these days. I think this piece is totally usable for my work.

Deconstruct a broken chair; ready for reconstruct

A broken chair for the up coming experiment with a group of participants. We might sit down for a discussion or hands on to the different found objects and see what I can make out of them.

The 6th Experiment - chair (sketches)

I then transform the information from the interview to sketches, and see how I can extract the element from it to develop my own chair design.

In a way, i am drawing the interviewees' experiences, am I going to recreate those experiences through a single objects? Why?

The 6th Experiment - chair (1hr model making workshop) (updated)

In this experiment, I try to design a chair with a group of people in a sightly different way. I keep doing the interview while I ask them to make a model at the same time.

I just try to get information in a different way and see how it influence me later.

And at the same time, I provide a direct method for the interviewee to express themselves through the process of making.

 

 

The 6th Experiment - chair (interviews) (Updated)

The question I asked:

• How have you ever misused a chair?
• What function you really like rather than just sit on the chair?
• What is the most extraordinary experience you had when you were using a chair?
• Can you tell me a story about you and a piece of furniture?
• Do you remember a film that there is a piece of furniture and which played an very important role?
• Please describe your ideal chair in teams of its functions, materials, look & construction.

Original interviews footages

"How Have You Ever Mis-Used A Chair?" (ongoing)

Below is the post on my facebook timeline:

Dear all,

I need your help!! "How Have You Ever Mis-Used A Chair?" If you have an example of misusing a chair in your flat, room or office etc., could you kindly please take a mobile picture and upload to my wall, or email to Sam125@gmail.com

The picture will play a very important role for my MA research and design, thanks a lot.

Show everyone your creativity and the way you adapt a space!!!

Below are what I get from my friend within the past two months

Interim show on Feb 2012

For the interim show on Feb 2012, I exhibited four different mediums to explain the idea of the design process of “The Ideal Table”:

On top : The sequence of the computer rendering.

Middle Speaker: The conversation recording in the interview.

Middle Box: The backlit timber finished mock up.

Bottom: The sketch I drew after the interview