Time for a break

Everyone continued to work on their models and chairs on Monday. A few of us have metal components to our chairs, so we attended an orientation at the foundry with John so that we could use the facility to construct our chairs. There is so much equipment and so much you can do over there, it is kind of a shame that our department doesn't take advantage of it more often. Anyway, everything seems to be running smoothly in the shop so far, and while it's kind of a bad time to take five, that is just what we are going to do, five days that is! Hopefully Thanksgiving break will give everyone some time to relax and reflect so we can come back well rested and ready to finish out the semester on a good note!

Stage One Complete

On Friday, while everyone was working in the shop, Jami finished the first part of the exhibit. The three sculptural walls are assembled, standing and ready for the next stage to be added on.

We got wood!!!

The wood that we ordered finally got delivered today! Everyone who is building their chair at full scale for the competition has been anxiously awaiting the arrival of our materials so that we could begin construction. It feels good to be back in the shop working again. Although, I think the next couple of weeks are going to be pretty hectic!

Black or brown? Color or black and white?

We spent more time today talking about the exhibit posters. The discussion focused on whether to use brown or black paper or if the images should be in black and white or in color. Also, it was decided that the band at the top which unites all of the posters will now be an abstract collage of images having to do with chairs instead of four specific images pertaining to each topic. So, which one do you think looks best?

What if we do this...or this...or this?

There continues to be much discussion in both studios about how the final exhibit is going to look. Renee and Maurshell have come up with some great designs for the graphics so that they will all look cohesive. However, everyone has their own ideas about how each detail should be and we have spent a lot of time discussing and debating as a class. Today we spent a long time figuring out which font looked best, after talking about it for a while I think the majority of the class was in agreement.

Construction begins!

Jami brought in the materials for the first stage of the exhibit today and we began putting the walls together. We got the back wall up in just a couple of hours and then Jami stayed the rest of the day and got the side wall together and cut down the pieces for the front wall.

Exhibit Design Continues...

Renee and Maurshell have come up with a layout of the exhibit in our studio space. Everyone who is planning on building a full scale version of the chair made a scale footprint of their chair to go on the plan. Everything seems to be going well with the exhibit design, I can't wait to see it all come together in the end!