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Cardboard Chair
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Industrial Design
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A chair built from two sheets of cardboard, no glue or tape, engineered to hold body weight and collapse flat for shipping. The form is a study in perspective — a normal chair from across the room that reveals itself as a bench up close — with a woven recycled-tire blanket marking where to sit.
About the Chair
Given two large pieces of 36’’x72’’ cardboard, we were tasked to make collapsible chairs able to support our weight without using any connecting tools like glue or tape. My original goal was to make a chair that looked like it was floating, but I soon realized that wouldn’t be possible with cardboard as my medium. I changed my goal to make it look like a normal chair from a distance, but a bench as you approach it resulting in a study on perspective. A special requirement our professor gave us was to incorporate recycled bike tires into the chair. I chose to weave a blanket out of tire rubber strips in order to act as a cushion and indicate where you should sit on the chair.
Its final dimensions are: 3’ tall, 6’ long, and 1.5’ wide. It dissasembles into a very thin shippable form factor of 3’’ tall, 6’ long, and 3’ wide. In order to demonstrate its strength I stood on it, thereby proving it could support at least my 160 pounds.
Made in California College of the Arts Industrial Design Pre-College Program
