Duration: 9 Weeks
Group Project: 3 Members
Interdisciplinary Fabrication Project
Focus: Iteration, Modularity, Fabrication
Meet Bloom, a handmade side table thoughtfully designed over the course of the spring semester. With solid mahogany and sleek acrylic, its organic shape and innovative construction offer a creative platform for displaying plants or other trinkets.
Created by a team of designers, one from each major. Abbey Fricke in Interior Design, Bryce Patterson in Visual Communication Design, and Mark Boyd in Industrial Design.
Right to left shows the progression of our concept
Before bloom came to its final form, our process began with an acrylic prototype, evolving through iterations that explored varying wood types, shelf sizes and orientations.
We then began learning the lathe and how to create beads that worked towards our final iteration. As well as other tools that would be of use to us including the drill press, and CNC which are displayed below
Above displays a part of the process of creating the final table
Above are two orientations of Bloom. On the left is Bloom with plants in place of the Mahogany disks in the acrylic, and on the right is bloom in its original placement.
The final poster created to display alongside the table