Seats in the Square!
Initial research stages - A collage of photos and sketches. Ethnographic research.
Post-it concepts - Post-it fun to generate ideas for the "Take a Break in the City" brief.
Developing ideas - An initial development showing a outdoor seat, designed to move along a track to form a bench.
Moving benches - A continuation on the last picture!
Flip 'n' Sit - The shelter seat, which can rotate 180degrees.
Further Flip 'n' Sit ideas - A follow on from the previous picture.
Mechanism considerations - A spring handle for a shaft.
Folio work
Folio work
Folio work
Seats in practise
Folio work
Working on the first models
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Street Interactions 2009
In third year I was tasked with redesigning street furniture in Glasgow. This individual project was my first attempt at combining all the skills taught on my course from market research, concept design and prototyping through to materials considerations, manufacture and sales.