ISABELLA HENRY TASK 2
CONTENTS Intro 3 Bio/Designer 4 Inspiration 5 Sketches 6-9 Renders 10 Measurements 11 For Next Time 12 References 13
3 INTRO For this assignment I wanted to look at Droog’s idea of making an anti-statement. Many of their pieces are more about sculpture and the user’s interaction with the object. I too wanted to look at this interation or rather lack there of. The piece I ended up taking into CAD looks at groups interactions with the furniture around their homes and how much of those pieces end up piled with junk only shoved aside for meals or when guests come around. Keeping this in mind I designed a table which put a much more central look at the family dynamic around dinner time. A time that, in most families, is used to discuss events of the day. It is an essential experience which too often gets overlooked. With this table you are forced to think about meals as the table is useless other than during meal times.
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Founded in 1993 by Renny Ramakers in Holland’s vibrant capital, Amsterdam. Droog’s following in the design world was one of the early adapters to DoIt-Yourself feeling furniture.
Meaning Dry in Dutch, Droog brought its designs to the world stage with their no nonsense philosphys aiming to make an anti- statement, have a respect for the existing, less is more and to design with a strong identity to its context and relevance.
Their most well known designs and designers are those who have been around since near or before the collective’s conception.
“Chest of Drawers”- Tejo Remy Premiered with Droog in 1991 at the International Furniture Fair “85 Lamps“- Rody Craumans Brought into Droog in 1993 “Tree Trunk Bench“- Jurgen Bey Has travelled in 4 collection with Droog since its addition to the collection in 1999 “Do Hit”- Marjin van der Poll Designed for the ‘Do Create’ exhibit in Milan in 2000 “Hotel Droog“ The collectives equivelent of headquarters founded in 2012
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1 2 REFLECTION ON SKILLS If I were to do this project again I would pick a more consistent theme between the pieces and sketches and try to design around or for that theme. I would start modelling the CAD aspect of the assignment much earlier even if it were only iterations of the models. Desipite this retrospct I feel that the assignment turned out well. I am happy wih the designs and sketches I came up with and how I brought it into my chosen CAD software.
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REFERENCES
Bio - Renny Ramakers. Rennyramakers.com. Retrieved 16 August 2016, from http://www.rennyramakers. com/bio/ Droog | Products | Tree trunk bench. Droog.com. Retrieved 16 August 2016, from http://www. droog.com/webshop/furniture/tree-trunk-bench/http://www.droog.com/webshop/furniture/tree-trunk-bench/ Droog presents 210 hardware items at micro exhibition. (2015). Dezeen. Retrieved from http://www.dezeen. com/2015/05/13/droog-construct-me-hardware-items-milan-2015/ Ho, L. (2012). Hôtel Droog opens in Amsterdam. Wallpaper*. Retrieved from http://www.wallpaper.com/travel/htel-droog-opens-in-amsterdam#51993 Labarre, S. (2012). Droog Offers Apartment, So You Can Test Their Wares. Fast Design. Retrieved from http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669569/droog-offers-apartment-so-you-can-test-theirwares Marcel Wanders’ seminal 1996 Knotted Chair was “a little miracle”. (2015). Dezeen. Retrieved from http://www.dezeen.com/2015/12/14/video-interview-marcel-wanders-knotted-chair-most-loved-movie/ Pilloton, E. (2006). DUTCH DESIGN & SUSTAINABILITY: Droog Design. inhabitat. Retrieved from http://inhabitat.com/dutch-design-sustainability-droog/ Smith, R. (2006). Is It Design? Art? Or Just a Dutch Joke?. The New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/30/arts/design/30droo. html?_r=0