Designing and Prototyping Your First Chair
Developing the idea
A course by Muka Design Lab , Industrial design studio
About the video: Developing the idea
Overview
“In this lesson we are going to teach you how to select the best idea and how to size it so that you can make a comfortable, proportionate and real chair. Also, we'll go over how we usually draw design details.”
In this video lesson Muka Design Lab addresses the topic: Developing the idea, which is part of the Domestika online course: Designing and Prototyping Your First Chair . Learn slow design techniques to build a wooden chair for artisanal production.
Partial transcription of the video
“Development of the idea In this lesson, we will teach you how to select the best idea. In addition to the concepts that Lucas has designed, I have contributed some, like here and here, so now we will select the newest concepts, more attractive, easier to produce. Here, for example, Lucas has given me some stickers in the concepts that he liked the most. Then we will discuss why you liked them. Now I will put some stickers on the concepts that I like. We usually have a debate between Lucas and me and we choose the idea that we like the most. Now I will explain why we selected some ideas. Her...”
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Course summary for: Designing and Prototyping Your First Chair
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Category
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Areas
Arts & Crafts, Furniture Design & Making, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Product Design

Muka Design Lab
A course by Muka Design Lab
Founded by Lucas and Laxmi, Muka Design Lab is an award-winning industrial design studio specializing in furniture and consumer product design. Under the premise of slow design, the studio creates furniture and spaces with unique identity and character, working with local workshops and artisans to design everyday objects that reach people.
Their work has been featured in AD Architectural Design, Fast Company, Archi Expo, Dezeen, and El País. The studio’s projects have won international awards at exhibitions in Milan and Los Angeles, as well as a German Design Award and a RedDot Award for Design Concept.
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