[hackpgh-discuss] Re: cardboard furniture -- Friday night project sometime?

We did similar projects in design as well, it's a really good exercise for learning about things like material grain and balancing visual design vs. structural design.
The goal isn't really to design a chair it's to get you thinking in new ways and seeing objects from new perspectives. 

On 6/21/11 10:20, Ken Buttery wrote:

The architecture students back in uni made cardboard furniture all the
time: rocking chairs, end tables, couches - all sorts of stuff.

Us engineering students would always sit in them, or predict how many
times you *could* sit in the flimsy ones. All in all, it works well if
you pay attention to the structure :P

Oh, and good thing we have a scroll saw now!

-Ken

On Jun 21, 2011 8:42 AM, "Ed Paradis" <legomaniac@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:legomaniac@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
 > I've got a huge stack of cardboard from Ikea trips and what not.
 >
 > On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 5:15 PM, gwen <gwenix@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:gwenix@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
 >> I discovered some nifty idea for DIY furniture:
 >>
 >>
http://www.curbly.com/gilboonet/posts/3209-how-to-make-a-cardboard-furniture
 >>
 >> Cardboard furniture!!!!
 >>
 >> I know that Derrick and I get a lot of cardboard piled up due to our
 >> online shopping proclivity, and I'm sure many of you have the same
 >> issue.  I'd love to get together with hackpgh folks some friday night,
 >> and hash out the ideas from this site to make our own furniture, and
 >> see how it works!
 >>
 >> Thoughts?
 >>
 >> As a note, I'm proposing this, and then I'll run off to Origins
 >> Wednesday-Sunday this week, so forgive me if I stop answering email
 >> during that time.  And more sadly, I'm busy every Friday until the
 >> last one in August... but I thought I'd get this idea out there while
 >> I had it. :)
 >>
 >> --
 >> Gwendolyn R. Schmidt
 >>
 >>
 >



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