So the chair saga is finally complete - here is what it looks like.

Some more images - 

Also, find images of the construction process HERE in an ealier blog entry. 

Last semsester I was the Teaching Assistant at the Design Lab in the Department. Part of the lab is a collection of antique American wood typefaces - The Rob Roy Kelly Collection. The images here, are some of my first experiments with letter press printing. I used discarded sheets of paper to print 'notices' for the lab. The fun in these experiments was working with a prescribed format (the discarded sheets of experimentation from other students) and superimposing upon them to create a new thing. 

Of course - the intricate methodology that setting up the typefaces for printing was - was is own learning and joy.

 

I've been working on constructing a bent laminated chair in my class in Wood Design. Its been a great diversion from the work i do towards my thesis - and an immense education towards the value of iteration and process in design. Not that I needed to be convinced - but, a lot of my process in design (after all these years) tacit. Working in wood - a material I definately did not have a lot of hands on experience with before - made the iterative process and my learning curve very EXPLICIT. 

Its certainly a labour of love (and hate, frustration, annoyance, tears, giddy headedness - scratches, blood and fear).

 

The completed birdhouse! Up for auction, with others from the class as well, at ivoteforgood.com. Yea & Eeps!

(image courtesy ivoteforgood.com)

The result of my first assignment in Wood Shop - A cross laminated - egg shaped (though more like winnie the pooh's honey pot) - hand shaped and sanded - birdhouse in pine wood. All in all quite pleased with the result - especially since it was the first time I was using any of the equipment and methods. Foolishly neglected to document the thing fully finished with top lid, hanging hook and drainage and ventilation slits.