Designing a Flatpack Chair

Seattle, WA 2022


Industrial Design: Ten weeks were spent learning about industrial design, including topics such as divergent thinking, geometric structures, and ideation. The goal was to create flatpack furniture through basic sketching, form-making, and 3D modeling.

THUMBNAIL SKETCHES

PERSPECTIVE SKETCHES

EXPLORING CHAIR DESIGNS

Using Fusion 360, we began designing chairs using basic planar surfaces. The assignment stipulated that we were restricted to only four planar surfaces: square, isosceles triangle, right triangle, and rectangle. 

IDEATION

PROTOTYPING

FINAL RENDERS

CONSTRUCTION

FLATPACK ASSEMBLY

FINAL PRODUCT