Blu Dot Lounge Chair
The design brief was simple, and prompted for a flat-pack furniture piece designed for adults for the modern home furniture company Blu Dot. This design explores a new meaning to the essence of flatpack furniture design by introducing organic form to a product category with conventionally more geometric and rectilinear designs.
Industry – Furniture Design
Duration – 15 weeks
Role – Concept Development, Design for Manufacturing, Prototyping
concept development
The Flat Pack Market: Away from "DIY"
Conventional and convenient flat pack solutions have rendered the market stagnant.
How might we move away from "DIY" and towards the elevated luxury found in Blu Dot's design style?
How might we move away from "DIY" and towards the elevated luxury found in Blu Dot's design style?
Lounging Your Way
Ambiguous forms for Ambiguous seating positions
Process
Ideation
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3D exploration
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Form Refinement
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Rapid Prototyping
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Full-scale Production
