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.
February 18th, 2015
by Wayne Liang
Chair 01
Wayne Liang, January 2015
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.