Jack Moore - Product Designer

For A-Level DT we were given a completely open brief of "make whatever you like" however show that there is a need for it. In other words this isn’t a year to just make something you want (or as it was more bluntly put by my teacher “don’t make a guitar!”).

 

This meant a greater onus was put onto research. Now generally my passion around design, if I am choosing what I can make, is furniture of one kind or another, so I knew that this would be a good starting point for my project.

 

At the time my best friend had just got married and was living in a small one bed flat. This wasn’t going to be where they planned to live for much longer as they were looking for a house. It was, however, where they called home for the time being. I wanted to see what kind of furniture I could design that would work equally well in their current flat, but also when they inevitably moved. I wanted to design and make furniture that could move with them and work just as well in different locations. I wanted it to appear as if the furniture seemed to be made just for the place it sat, wherever it sat.

 

This led me on to creating a set of modular boxes of different dimensions, some for specific items, CDs, DVDs, books etc. and some for miscellaneous items. The furniture does not have to merely act as shelves, but could act as a room divider or the base of a coffee table.

 

Screwed together they could become one single unit, be it sitting on the floor or wall mounted. Some were installed in my friend's house and used in their lounge as a unit to hold books, DVD player etc. but some were also installed in my bedroom and used for clothes storage with the addition of some live edge fronted draws that I made for them. Two were also used either side of my bed as bedside tables. 

 

These examples show how this item of furniture can be used for a number of different functions but also anywhere that they need to be applied.