Furniture Design and Construction Flashcards
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This should be deliberate or intentional and should involve careful, organized and systematic logical thinking and planning.
Design
The person who devises or executes designs.
Designer
Primary purpose of design
To fulfill human satisfaction
It is based on the principle of free association and gives no restriction to imagination. It puts quantity before quality.
Intuitive Technique
Aims at setting off the creative forces by directly approaching the subconscious creative part of the human mind. It sets no limit to imagination and purposely suspends reason and logical thinking.
Brainstorming
This technique was developed from experience with brainstorming session, aimed at increasing the output from brainstorming.
Brainwriting
This is the direct way of having 26 or more ideas that pertain to the problem. Start by listing all letters of the alphabet then for each letter, list a word or phrase that begins with that letter and somehow pertain to the problem you are attempting to solve.
Alphabetical Listing
Combines different, seemingly unrelated elements.
Synectics
Generates new ideas by solving the problem in a riddle-like or puzzle-like technique.
Delphi Method
Instead of thinking about how you can improve a situation, think about how you could make it worse.
Inversion
Instead of offering a description of something by recording what you read in the dictionary, associate it with something else, preferably something familiar.
Description by Association
Based on the principle of splitting up the problem into sub problems and solving them one by one.
Logical or Systematic Technique
Redefines the problem first to an underlying more basic problem and then split up into its elements or sub-problems.
Morphology
A technique that does not aim at stimulating the creative idea generating process but systematically examines and analyzes objects of nature for possible adaptation as solution to some technical problems.
Bionics
Instead of thinking about what an object will look like, think about what function it will perform.
Functional Visualization
This logical approach will generally have a higher level of success. A comprehensive problem is split up into more and more minute sub-problems until the whole problem has become a network of interrelated problems.
Problem Area Analysis and Functional Analysis
Basic Criteria for Good Design
Physiological and Psychological Feature
Historical and Cultural Factor
Aesthetics Consideration
This makes use of the basic outline of the furniture as a grid. By connecting structural points which are required either by construction or function, variations on form are performed.
Structural Form Development
Makes use of previous designs as basis for improvements
Morphological Form Development
Variations on geometric forms
Geometric Form Development
Nature often provides inspiration for fresh and exciting ideas
Form Development Based on Nature
Design ideas can be based on various sources other than nature
Form Development Based from Various Sources
Craftsmanship is key in this handmade folk style. It originated as an anti-industrial reaction and also stood for social economic reform.
Arts and Crafts
This innocuous style is recognizable through the use of simplified shapes, a mix of soft and smooth texture. “Modern classics/Contemporary classics”
Classic and Contemporary