Custom Furniture Design

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Finishing another quarter at the Art Institute of Seattle constituted created some custom furniture.  It was enjoyable to learn a new skill set to say the least.  I also finally made use of the new abilities of Adobe Illustrator CC's live trace function.  It has improved quite a bit.  I wanted to share the evolution of illustration - raster to vector.  The use of a laser cutter to scribe.  Incorporating the use of illustration at an angle to make a full composition.

Here are basic concept illustrations to begin with... The idea of using the perspective drawing to make a composition and artistic drafting as the build concept.






So as you can start to see, I was in the process of actually detailing the concept on cardstock and I realized since I have to build the actual scale model, I should detail it all out and use the original to make "veneers" by using copies.  Here are some process photos of the scale model and the placement concept.











Here is the finished 1/3 scale model.




I was very skeptical at first on whether I would be able to recreate a vector file for use in the laser cutter with the amount of time that I had left to finish the project, but I used the ability of Adobe Illustrator CC's live trace and was able to find a good setting for the laser cutter.  More process photos.








I ended up using a white-out pen and a black felt-tip pen to do the highlights and the shadows and then used linseed oil to coat the piece for the finish.  I placed all the pieces for the custom furniture design class together for my final presentation.










In closing, it is now clear to me that a laser cutter would be beneficial in creating amazingly intricate work for furniture design amongst other industrial design applications.







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