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FURNITURE DESIGNER
Group members :Charles Teh
JackTang Fu HongTan Vin Nie
Tay Siew WenZoe Yong
ICI & ITD Project
Name of tutors :Ms Ann See Peng
Ms Hasmanira MokhtarMs Ida Marlina MazlanMs Normah Sulaiman
Introductionto Furniture Designer
Furniture designers produce designs for items of furniture and related products. These designs may then be mass produced or made in small batches or as one-off individual pieces.
Scope of Work
• studying, researching and planning various styles of furniture design;
• finding ways to improve furniture items already manufactured;
• keeping informed about design trends and developments; • selecting suitable materials, which might include wood,
metal, plastic and textiles; • discussing designs with clients for custom ordering or
with manufacturers; • generating sample designs using computer-aided design
(CAD), card models, sketches or hard prototypes;
Qualities &
Skills • Creative and artistic skills. • Flexibility to adapt designs to suit clients'
needs. • An understanding of production
processes. • An understanding of the different materials
you might use to make furniture products. • The ability to change ideas into a three-
dimensional design. • To work to deadlines and budgets. • To keep up to date with changes in design
and furniture technology. • Knowledge of design-related software.
Working Tasks
• Pricing and contract negotiation• Shop drawings, templates, and working
prototypes• Fabrication• Delivery and installation
Pricing and Contract Negotiation
• When the designer is not the fabricator, the most important thing the designer can do to promote the eventual success of the proposed work is to take an active role in determining the right fabricator for the job.
Shop drawings, Templates, and Working Prototypes
• Shop drawings might lead to a mockup of a detail or indicate the need to review and modify the contract drawings. Shop drawings should always be reviewed and approved by the designer.
• Templates and forms are often made in order to fabricate a working prototype.
• Working prototypes are useful in testing and resolving aspects of form and structure. They mark the last phase prior to producing the final work.
Fabrication
• Designers spend between 30 and 35 percent of their total time on this phase of work. The designer’s role during this phase is to observe and monitor the process, describe the process to client, and assist in problem resolution as issues arise.
Delivery and Installation
• Coordination with designer, client, and fabricator for the delivery, installation, and final approval of the completed work marks the activities in this phase of work.
• A suite of furnishings that includes case goods and casework can take several days to transport, deliver, and install.
• Delivery and installation is an important phase of work that needs to be carefully planned and included in the overall cost of fabricating the work.
Drawing
• transfer information from the design team to the construction team and present the information in a user friendly legible format.
• ︎ability to represent your ideas by using effective visual method such as sketching opens doors for better communication between designers and clients
Function of Drawings
Computer-aided Design Drawings (CADD) is a computer graphic language that is used to communicate ideas, furniture drawings, furniture plans and furniture blueprints from the creative design stage through production
Assembly Drawings
show how different parts go together, identify those parts by number, and have a parts list, often referred to as a bill of materials
Computer Rendering
•is the process of adding realism to a computer graphics by adding three-dimensional qualities such as shadows and variations in color and shade.
• to speed up the process of developing ideas to their customer.
References
Book : • “Furniture Design” by Postell, James Christopher. Hoboken
Website : • https://cdn.fbsbx.com/hphotos-xap1/v/
t59.2708-21/11192441_870198883023244_1860109993_n.docx/Furniture-Design-Process.docx?oh=2c6d4a992298051adb92767e20841c4a&oe=553D8C44&dl=1
• http://antelopedesign.co.uk/what-we-do• http://www.whitemountdesign.com/FurnitureDesign.htm