Perch
Role: Industrial Designer
Date: 2015
Duration: 6 months
Student Project
The Perch project was a scholastic exercise in both pure form development and manufacturing methods. The goal was to create a vanity stool developed around a theme of speed, aggression, and beauty. This project was an opportunity to gain a greater understanding of a broad variety of production processes, as well learning how to communicate design intent to outside contractors.
As a hands on learner, I performed as many processes as I could myself, working from initial sketches through dozens of models to create the final piece in true production materials. Along the way, through user testing and interviews, I gained deeper insight into the makeup vanity ritual that I was able to incorporate into the ergonomics of the stool.
Exploring form and structure, striving to communicate a level of poise, elegance, and élan.
Building on earlier handmade models, 3d prints helped ground computer developments in reality.
Full size mockups, with approximate materials, helped evalute ergonomics and structure - emphasizing what needed added, and what could be taken away.
When learning to TIG weld, free aluminum is best aluminum. Until you learn it is 7075 alloy.
