Designing and Prototyping Your First Chair

Overview

“Finally, we will teach you how to size and make the blueprint of your chair with just paper, pen, ruler, square and bevel, and four basic concepts. You will be able to make a wonderful blueprint that any craftsman, carpenter or metal worker who is going to make your chair will understand.”

In this video lesson Muka Design Lab addresses the topic: Scaling and making the blueprint, 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

“Size and make the plane In this lesson, I will explain to you how to size our chair and how we can make a plan that can later be used to make it. In the plans there are usually elevation, profile and plan. The elevation is the most important part of a plan. It is where practically the entire product or chair is reflected. Then we will draw different elevations where we will make small changes in order to better decide and specify the design. This part will help us to correctly size the chair. In Additional Resources we leave you a template that will help you to follow the general measuremen...”

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Course summary for: Designing and Prototyping Your First Chair

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (45)
• 1318 students
• 5 units
• 15 lessons (1h 57m)
• 12 downloads

• Category

  Design

• Areas

  Arts & Crafts, Furniture Design & Making, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Product Design