Featured Project: Plywood Armchair
Admissions-friendly overview placeholder: briefly introduce the plywood armchair project, its goal, and how it showcases your approach to design, iteration, and craft.
Design Idea
Intent
Describe the core intent of the plywood armchair: who it is for, what need or context it responds to, and what kind of experience you want a sitter to have.
Constraints
Summarize the key constraints you designed around: material limits, available tools, time, cost, ergonomics, or institutional / studio guidelines.
– Your Name
Process Snapshot
Step 01 – Research & Precedents
Briefly describe how you researched seating ergonomics, plywood furniture precedents, and references that informed your early decisions.
Step 02 – Sketching & Mockups
Summarize how you iterated through fast sketches and small-scale models to converge on a promising armchair direction.
Step 03 – Prototyping & Testing
Explain how you cut, assembled, and tested prototypes, paying attention to comfort, stability, and buildability.
Step 04 – Refinement & Finish
Describe how you refined the geometry, joints, and finish to reach the final plywood armchair shown above.
Fail Forward: Experiments That Didn’t Work
Use this section to show your willingness to take risks, document what went wrong, and articulate how each failure improved the final plywood armchair.
Experiment 01: [Short title]
Describe what you tried in this experiment: the idea, the material setup, and the design question you were testing.
Explain what failed, how you diagnosed the issue, and what you learned that shaped the next iteration.
Experiment 02: [Short title]
Describe what you tried in this experiment: the idea, the material setup, and the design question you were testing.
Explain what failed, how you diagnosed the issue, and what you learned that shaped the next iteration.
Experiment 03: [Short title]
Describe what you tried in this experiment: the idea, the material setup, and the design question you were testing.
Explain what failed, how you diagnosed the issue, and what you learned that shaped the next iteration.
Common Thread
Summarize the patterns across your failed experiments: recurring structural issues, ergonomic problems, or fabrication challenges that kept surfacing.
Three Rules I Formed From Failing
Final Outcome
Key Decisions
What’s Still Imperfect
Be honest about limitations, trade-offs, and what you would refine with more time or resources: comfort tweaks, structural robustness, finish quality, or scalability for production.
Reflection
What I Learned
Summarize the most important skills and insights you gained from this project: about plywood as a material, about ergonomics, and about managing an iterative build process.
What I’d Do Differently
Describe specific changes you would make to your process or design approach next time: where you’d test earlier, simplify, or push more ambitiously.
How This Shapes My Future Work
Explain how this plywood armchair project influences the kind of work you want to pursue next, and how it connects to your broader design interests.
Short reflective caption placeholder: describe what this image reveals about your process, context, or relationship to the work.
– Your Name
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