Heather Keane
MFA Industrial Design Candidate - Expected Graduation May 2013 — San Francisco, CA
Right of passage project for every ID student: the cardboard chair. The added challenge here was that it had to collapse to pack flat and assemble in under two minutes. Paper prototypes and discovery process shown. Final version is inspired by the Mad Hatter's tea party chair in Alice In Wonderland.
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Take a seat.
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Back View - Final Model - This project was for Introduction to Industrial Design at California College of the Arts. The challenge was to build a chair using only cardboard (no hard fasteners) that supported the weight of our teacher and folded completely flat.
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Experiments on weight bearing and collapsibility with paper
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More paper experimenting
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Twist and lock cardboard experiment
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Paper collapsible double chair
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Starting with cardboard
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Finished chair - Flat
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Setting up process - Step 1) Stand up the base
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Step 2) Cinch inner string
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Step 3) Tie inner string to secure accordian base
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Step 4) Use tabs to secure seat to base
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Step 5) Secure top of chair to vertical back supports using slot insert techinque
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