Furniture Design to Fabrication | Kelly Parker.

If you want to design and build your own furniture, you need both design techniques and practical skills.  This class focuses on equipping you with both.

Centred around a series of exercises based on design briefs that one might get from a client or perhaps a family member, you will learn to evaluate scale, form, and function as you design several furniture pieces.

The final exercise will be to design a piece of furniture of your choosing, incorporating all the skills you have learned in the earlier exercises.

The key learning points of this class include the following:

• • Design ideation & sources of inspiration
  • Sketching and drawing techniques
  • Intro to design and drawing tools: 
    • French curves, drawing bows, T-square, compass, adjustable triangle
  • Quarter-scale modelling:
    • Form exploration in MDF, cardboard, rigid foam, foam core
    • Photographing models
  • Plan & elevation construction drawings 
  • Manual drawings by hand
  • Exploration of materials, hardware, embellishment, and finishes
  • Leveraging cut lists, learning how to price, evaluating build time 

We encourage you to challenge yourself for this project!