Thread: Design

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Originally Posted by silentC

a load of bollocks.

Originally Posted by LineLefty

Oh ye of little faith.

For example, I've read of some furniture makers making quick screw and glue pine/mdf prototypes of chairs to experiment with different proportion, how many people would do that!?

I would never start a major piece of furniture without making a mock-up first. Just because a piece is functional doesn't mean it will look good (to me). By making a mock-up you can at least get an idea if the proportions are OK, as well as perhaps heading off some construction problems that may come up.

As for what is functional, I guess it depends on the designer's aim. For example, if it was to produce a comfortable looking, inviting chair, then I guess the red/blue chair fails, but if it was to produce a usable chair reduced to its simplest elements, I think it's a success.

Originally Posted by Alex

if it was to produce a usable chair reduced to its simplest elements, I think it's a success

I don't know Alex, I think I'd have to disagree with you there. It's far more complicated than his Zig Zag chair. But if you want simplicity and function combined, you can't beat a log chair made with a chainsaw

Probably three examples of simplicity, Darren. The r/b chair has lots of pieces, but they're all square/rectangular. The zig zag chairs have very few pieces, and present some structural challenges, but are probably easily made, while the log chair may have no straight lines, only one piece of timber and require quite a bit of skill to make. I wouldn't want any of them at my dining table.

It's interesting that when people start talking design, chairs are always the examples that are used. I guess it's because so many different things can be sat on, and very few of them can be sat on comfortably for very long. IMHO there are three things that make a comfortable chair
User able to put feet flat on the ground (or rung)
Lumbar support
Room to wriggle around

Originally Posted by silentC

I just want to make it clear that I have never consumed Emu Export.

same for me consumed heaps of Emus but no Emu export

Hagrid

How

How can this still be going.
the waffle just keeps on going.
Lets make it easy i will agree that function matters if you all agree from does as well.
On a side matter whos coming to the show on sept 3-5

Hagrid, it's only up to 5 pages. That's paltry compared to some of the ramblings here. Just remember, opinions are like asreholes - everyone's got one. And I'm always right.

The Canberra Working with Wood show? It's not that far from here but I have spent all of my money and browny points for this year I'm afraid....

Originally Posted by PaulS

A South African museum is to open an exhibition of 17th-century Dutch Master paintings all hung the wrong way around with the artwork facing the wall.
Andrew Lamprecht, the curator, said the exhibition, which will open in Cape Town next month, represents "a conceptual art intervention".

And it just this sort of dickhead "Ooooh, oooh, oooh I've just had a brilliant idea" artistic stupidity that gives all art galleries a bad name. I mean honestly, why even bother to have the old masters there? Why not save the money and just have blank walls that you have to imagine the paintings on?

Originally Posted by Bob Willson

And it just this sort of dickhead "Ooooh, oooh, oooh I've just had a brilliant idea" artistic stupidity that gives all art galleries a bad name. I mean honestly, why even bother to have the old masters there? Why not save the money and just have blank walls that you have to imagine the paintings on?

Now that would be art!

Originally Posted by Bob "idea a minute" Willson

just have blank walls that you have to imagine the paintings on

Coming to a gallery near you

HH


Now look at that chair you posted before is that not Art.
i would not even know if it was cumfy or not but it was made for form.

Turning a painting around is a stupid thing to do but then so is using a log as outdoor furniture.
Hagrid

Hagrid,

Do you mean the one I posted in the "David Marks Projects" thread?
If so I'd say no to art, rather IMHO I think it demonstrates his skill as a craftsmen and his description of the chair is...

"The curves and tapers of this contemporary chair create an organic blend of form and function. "

Also the seat looks shaped for comfort to me.....

HH

I wondered where those tomato stakes went!

HH

As to comfort it would depend on the size of the person in the seat.
for someone my size i think it would be a pain in the back.
Skill now that in it self is Art ( The creation of works of beauty or other special signiicance.
So again looking at form it is a beautiful chail as for function well that depends on wheather you fit into the design parrameters that he made it for.

Hagrid