This second chair project is a continuation from the first. The differentiation between the second from the first is that it is more thorough in its investigation in the first three topics: MEDIA, HISTORY and TYPOLOGY. It is to be adapted into a book and posters to tease an upcoming product of a brand of which I am currently developing: Rare.

The media portion looks to examine chair in culture. The first spread is a look at chairs in some recurring or important moments in films, and television. The second spread contains eighteen different online articles from different media outlets  regarding chairs. The third spread depicts various political figures, businessmen and celebrities that have key relationships with the chair that they sit in.

For history, I created a timeline detailing different periods and styles from the Egyptians to contemporary work. It is clear and effectively demonstrates the style articulated throughout history.

In typology I montaged 160 chairs together of varying uses and designers to formulate the diverse nature of how chairs are understood.

The back of the pamphlet are brand principles and manifesto of Rare.

Video: http://vimeo.com/117357339

11″ x 17″  -18

Street Posters

This collaborative project delved into exploring environmental activism in the form of producing video content and posters. Both mediums serve to demonstrate the kind of responsibility that BP has shirked and the trauma suffered both by the community of people that live there and also the wildlife impact. Needless to say, the project utilizes humor in its video while the posters serve as a sobering serious reminder of the effects of the BP oil spill event. Our filmed together and made individual posters. My contribution to the posters number 18. The series aims to examine political, and social economic perspectives in combination with the environmental impact to wildlife. The posters look to emulate and use existing BP ad slogans and aesthetics to generate engagement. Some posters utilize quotes from BP executives during the aftermath and some others are layered with personal stories of the victims in the spill. The environmental posters focus on the impact on birds, turtles and dolphins.

The posters are to be posted on walls at the pedestrian level.

5.5″ x 8.5″

This project is a part of an exquisite corpse. The image is derived from a 2” x 2” square portion of a previous image. I first manipulated the geometric forms within the image to appear in blotty forms akin to camouflage. I then added additional colors that highlighted the original palette. The entire image is then repeated several times in different scales and orientation to compose a final pattern. The image resembles geological maps of volcanoes I have seen and also brings to mind of the rainbow spectrum of pollution in water. There is no meaning behind the image but it does represent many visual cues to guide the conversation. The end result of the piece appears to serve as a potential examination of the Anthropocene and environmental issues.

The front and back images are inverted colorways.

17″ x 118.5″

Digital Final, printed

This project was exploring the different aspects of what is encapsulated within a chair. It starts out to define the parameters of what is commonly thought of the chair in its object form and transitions into four other sections: media, history, typology and production.

The media portion examines the chair in the format of online journalism and the objects connection to mass and pop culture:

-Fast Company looks to future design solutions for factory workers that stand too long without a seat

-The Onion questions whether the world needs more chairs

-Jacobin sounds out an opinion of why chairs and sitting are bad

-Slate seeks to answer why chairs are difficult to produce

-Vice examines how one dies in an Electric Chair

-Designboom demonstrates the kind of outrageousness that chairs may possess

-The Huffington Post writes about a chair designed to cure loneliness

-The New York Times analyzes office chairs

-The Verge reports on a near-future workout chair that doubles as a lounge chair

This one portion of the  project illustrates the kind of  perspective I am examining the chair.

This format is adaptable to be in digital format and poster format.

For each project, please follow this order.

Text:

0. Project title (type on the post title section above)

1. Your Name, credit if you collaborated with others

2. Dimension, material, year

3. Project website link (if you have)

4. Project description (minimum 130 words)

Images: include captions.

1. Process (sketches, mockups, etc)

2. Final Product: consider how you can show actual experience of your zine

–Printed matter: cover and inside
–Web / App: screenshots of multiple pages
–Video: screenshots of multiple frames
–Environmental: final piece itself plus installation views

3. Distribution

–Web/ App platform: screenshots of feedback
–Event, installation: multiple views to clearly show people encountering your zine
–Staged proposal: multiple views to explain possible interactions

*This is an example of inserted media.

type your caption under each image