Object 2 - alternative uses and connotations

still with the wiggle side chair, had to think up 20 alternative uses and 10 connotations. only putting a few on, you get the idea. the brief did say to show a set of ideas, not "resolved imagery"

alternative use: for heat
alternative use: game (lean it against something, like, a wall)

alternative use: cat dorm

connotation for chair: bum magnet

Object 1 - the 60 drawings project

We had to do 60 drawings for this project, I did them all (and on time), but it'd be crazy to put them all up so i'll just put 3 or 4 per category (6 categories).

"When was it made/designed" -1972- 1st one: "christmas bombings" in vietnam, 2nd is George Carlin's "7 words you should never say on television": he got arrested for it that year, 3rd is the avalanche in Mt Fuji that killed 19 climbers, 4th is bloody sunday (Ireland).

"Who designed it"- Frank Gehry, so famours now he can b called a "starchitect": he did the guggenheim in Bilbao which I saw last summer: amaaazing!!! so here he is all famous in front, then there's his "dancing house", then he was featured in the simpsons (shows his way of working/getting inspired) and then last one is the "star wood hotel" he designed.










"How it was made": going back to how cardboard was made, fast growing trees, (pulp mill kraft process etc not scanned) then 3 layers of kraft paper to make corrugated cardboard, then there's young(er) Frank Gehry about to "play with it, to glue it together and to cut it into shapes with a handsaw and a pocket knife" (quote from 50 chairs that changed the world book I mentioned in the previous post). Then he finds out what happens when u layer the cardboard- then decides to cut out 60 of these wiggly shapes in corrugated cardboard, + two in hardboard for the edges, n assembles them with glue, hidden screws, and puts white lacquer on the hardboard edges (optional though).

"Where was it used" Powerhouse Museum Collection (Sydney), Design Museum (London), decoration (they made a "mini" version), and the MoMA (New York)










"Who did it belong to"- 1st one is Rolf Felbhaum chairman director of the Vitra company (belongs more to the company than to him, so I also did one with just the company logo but not very interesting obviously), 2nd is Frank Gehry again, 3rd is some guy called Edgar Smith, not sure he's the right one as there are tons of Edgar Smiths, but apparently one of them gave a wiggle side chair to the MoMA collection (New York).








"What is it made of" cardboard, some glue and hidden screws. read all about the carboard manufacturing process and went back to the raw raw materials. + the screws.

Wiggle Side Chair by Frank Gehry

here's the chair I chose for the "object 1" brief:

"Wiggle Side chair" by Frank Gehry

and that's a quick drawing of the book in which I found out about it (at the design museum), it's part of the 60 drawings in the "where was it/is it used" category

NY drawings