Why?
Well, I'm embarking on a new adventure. Although I have built furniture before, I've never thought about going all the way and making it commercially available. With this blog I'd like to share/document with you all this process, of making something out of nothing. Now this is something we do as Architects all the time, but we don't do a good job at showing those around us (cause its usually really really late @ night). So I want to share "How I Think", and all the thoughts and decisions that are going to go into each of these 9 pieces of furniture...
The truth is, I've always been mystified by the design process too... I still think its so neat that I go into a design problem not knowing exactly what is going to be there, I mean there is nothing there but a set of requirements, rules laws, budget, demands, limits, time, wishes, likes, dislikes, etc, then all those weeks and months later and boom! You have something... Best way to describe it is like creating a child: a little of this a little of that then blam! Sleep less nights, nothing but worrying, extreme highs and lows, etc.. Then suddenly as if by magic this incredibly satisfying feeling washes over you and you realize you made this incredibly complicated "thing", that has a life of its own...
This blog is going to document the process of me doing just that: sketching/designing/naming, building scale modeling, computer modeling, producing shop drawings, and then building full scale prototypes of a collection of 9 pieces of furniture with these two hands of mine... I'll be writing without giving too much detail (at first), 
not until I've filled out the Design Patents, so you'll all be held in suspense until then! I will say this: I know what they look like already, I know what some of them are named already, and I've already built a few full scale functioning prototypes (much like Architecture they become your little children)... I'll be showing you all blurry pics, and scraps of materials, in order to reveal (slowly) the immense effort that goes into putting together this line of 9 pieces all by myself (oh yeah and hopefully a money guy)... I'll maybe share the names of the pieces or maybe the concept... Who knows... I'm gonna have fun with this, and you all are welcome to join me on this journey either up or down who knows...
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