Chair Talk
talking about chairs
This is a concept for a settee by Leon Evans, an MA Product Design student here at Swansea College of Art, UWTSD.
It exists only as a CAD render, so remains un-tested and fully resolved, but it does show the power and the value that the digital tools we have at our disposal and what they bring to the arts. I quite like the off-set nature of the seat to the plinth it sits on, the asymmetrical 'awkwardness' of this helps to define it.
This is a sketch from a while ago and is the result of idly doodling when I couldn't think of anything particular to draw, so I just began to put sticks together. Now, I'm not saying it is any good, and at the moment, having revisited the idea, I don't know how it might be made or even what materials it could be from, but I think it has potential... maybe.
Also by Leon Evans, and helped him form ideas that challenge the experience a chair ordinarily brings, is this... it is called 'Dead Man's Curve' and is a piece he designed and made for his final project whilst studying for his undergraduate degree here at Swansea College of Art. It is a 'chair' (no, really) that is intended to challenge the user and intentionally provoke ideas about sitting.
Called 'Dead Man's Curve' it is an idea derived from the Apollo missions when, to land on the Moon, the pilot of the landing craft went into a brief phase of total commitment to landing - there becomes a point at which one has to 'land', there is no option to abort and 'take off' again. And so it is with this.
The aluminium spine flexes and touches the small point of contact below when the user 'lands' (and has committed) to sitting on the pad. It is a unique and interesting piece and additionally contributes to the idea of chairs and their design, not least as it is so unlike anything else.
This helped to earn Leon a First Class degree and secured him a place at 'New Designers' last year, the annual showcase for the most promising graduates from across the UK.
