Year 12 - Design ideas

In my year 12 coursework I had to create a chair, as the first project, and a lamp as the second. The chair I was creating was inspired by Architecture whereas my lamp had to fit around an Art Deco theme. To give me an idea of what I would make for both I drew design ideas which would then lead to my development of both items. So that my images stood out I went over my images in a fine liner and also added colour to many of the ideas I had.

The shapes I created on this ideas sheet were inspired by different well known architectural buildings, one example being the Gherkin in London. Many of these designs were not realistic but could be a suitable chair once developed. My design sheets were focused on the different shapes that could be created into a chair. The chair also had to be flat packed so I had to think of shapes which could be taken apart for example. Other than it being flat packed, I wanted the chair to be interesting and stand out to other chairs. 

Chair design ideas

On the other hand, for my lamp I had to focus it around Art Deco. I took my ideas from different Art Deco pieces. Some of these being furniture, patterns and fashion.I found looking at Art Deco patterns was the best way of getting shapes to use for my lamp as they were the most decorative and interesting, which is what I wanted. Whilst I was looking at different shapes I was thinking about which shapes had the potential of being turned into a lamp. 

Lamp design ideas