http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0PZ5ctE8hw
of me assembling it.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Prying open my 3RDYE.
At last my final model. It's small, it's light, it takes just under 40seconds to put together (after a little practice) and you get two patterns out of one 1830x1220 sheet! talk about economical (see below). Key features includes: uhm.. it has a hole in the center to carry it with and uh.. it looks cute? anyway, after thinking long and hard i decided to call it the 3RDYE Chair after the song Third Eye by the band Tool. they were pretty much my soundtrack to this subject so i thought it'd be a nice piece of trivia for the kids :D
Dimensions:
Height - 298mm
Width at base - 455mm
Width at seat - 390
Thickness - 10mm
Dimensions:Height - 298mm
Width at base - 455mm
Width at seat - 390
Thickness - 10mm
Brand New.
Other branding examples include Dralion, the moomba festival and also since i couldnt find any other events coz my net sucks and blows, i did the milan festival. it's similar to tokyo venue and space wise so it was a decent option.
And here we have the context.. of the thing...
Right so please excuse the scenes my chair was shopped into. that Carpet of green stuff was the closest photo of the event i could get that had grassy stuff in it. Im having internet issues and virus problems which screwed up my search. trust me, i was very pissed off.
Anyway, it's a picnic chair. i envisioned in on a grassy outdoor area, such as my backyard (minus the pumpkin patch) it's low and stable so you can lean in any direction to drop crumbs or what have you if you aren't granted the luxury of a serviet like my mum has.
Heck, who wouldn't like to have a bite next to a giant billboard of a kid's fat leg?
Anyway, it's a picnic chair. i envisioned in on a grassy outdoor area, such as my backyard (minus the pumpkin patch) it's low and stable so you can lean in any direction to drop crumbs or what have you if you aren't granted the luxury of a serviet like my mum has.
Heck, who wouldn't like to have a bite next to a giant billboard of a kid's fat leg?I'll take the risk.
This is the 3 frames of my chair's graphic. i was kind of against just putting "100% design tokyo" randomly over my chair and found this a good soloution to be alittle arty and not so blatent. but then, i hope i don't present tomorrow and find out it i killed my chair design =
Okay, about the graphics...
I knew all we needed to do was splash the event logo over it but i kinda wanted to do something original, clever and creative. as i understood it, we could brand anything we want as long it had relevance. and so because having the curvature in the sides didn't work i figured id use the space for the branding.
the two ideas i went with was an anime character since anime is a japanese product and iv been drawing them throughout my book so i thought why not continue it here?
then because i had 3 sides to brand, and found the same image on all 3 would be dull and putting random ones would be messy so i made a 3 frame story board of a tree with the letters TOKYO like leaves and as you turn the chair around the letters gradually blow off in the wind.
the two ideas i went with was an anime character since anime is a japanese product and iv been drawing them throughout my book so i thought why not continue it here?
then because i had 3 sides to brand, and found the same image on all 3 would be dull and putting random ones would be messy so i made a 3 frame story board of a tree with the letters TOKYO like leaves and as you turn the chair around the letters gradually blow off in the wind.
I like stencil art.
And so the theory was to cut out some stencil graphics then spray paint them.. this idea was good, in theory! in theory communisim works! in theory! uh- well the idea didnt give me a clean enough finish soooo...
I decided to just use a black marker. it was alot easier i tell you. i liked the grungy grafetti look of the paint tho.. but it wasnt what i was after.
I decided to just use a black marker. it was alot easier i tell you. i liked the grungy grafetti look of the paint tho.. but it wasnt what i was after.
Vampirism?
I sliced my finger a little while making the damn thing. cut's only as big as an ant but it bled like mad. had to wear a bandaid so not spill over my chair and the carpet..
And thus! The creature shows itself!
After carefully assessing the issues of trials one and two i forked this mofo out. it's evidently the first attempt but without the arches in the bottom. i used a drill bit and turned it by hand to make the hole. carefully, coz thats what wrecked the second attempt. as well as some shoddy cutting abilities.
Let's cut some.
The story picks up a couple days later after i recovered from leg and hand cramps...
Xanita Trialing
So here i'm trialling my design out of xanita. i had an A0 pattern printed to use as a stencil but the proportion came out wrong so i had to draw one up myself.. lucky its a rotational pattern so i only made one stencil for and traced that serveral times.
Here's the outcome of the trial.. it actually worked reaaallyy well, and i got my dad to stand on it to prove its strenght. i totally could have used this as my as my final piece however... i decided to put those arc cuts in the bottom and they looked like crrap! so later that night i made a 2nd one which i also ruined so lucky i had a spare sheet to make a 3rd.
Here's the outcome of the trial.. it actually worked reaaallyy well, and i got my dad to stand on it to prove its strenght. i totally could have used this as my as my final piece however... i decided to put those arc cuts in the bottom and they looked like crrap! so later that night i made a 2nd one which i also ruined so lucky i had a spare sheet to make a 3rd.
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