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In Quarantine: Last of Physical Development

The semester is now done. I can no longer go into the shop to fabricate what I had left to build. My coat rack and new lounge chair must...

Design Week T.O. - Full Scale Prototype

I forgot to take pictures when visiting exhibitions at Design T.O. and the Interior Design Show (IDS) a few weeks back. I visited Still...

Prototypes - Tentative Final Designs

This past week has been a whirlwind of building. I spent the week working on the full scale prototyping of my chair design and testing...

Reflection: Semester One - Final Critique

My last critique of the first semester was on December 12, 2019. This is a reflection of that critique. Firstly, I had put the majority...

Material & Joinery Study

I spoke with many of my peers this week, fourth year, third year and second year. In a few of those conversations I was made aware of how...

Midterm Presentation Reflections

I believe that I could not get my concept across enough to be easily understandable. There was a feeling of incompleteness that set in;...

Non-Stop Ideation

This week was spent ideating, sketching, modelling and researching. A new technique to help with the ideation phase is to write down a...

Annotated Research Summary

Curtis Mohrhardt Kirsten White & Vanessa Jackson October 10, 2019 Windsor Philosophy: A Chair’s Values Through countless hours of...

A Revelation in Windsor Philosophy

I can only read a few pages of "Beyond Good & Evil" by Nietzsche before I get caught up in how he compacted so much information into a...

Preliminary Ideation

This week I began the ideation process for the Windsor chairs as well as a few other pieces that I could potentially build. It is always...

A Union of Physical & Metaphysical

Objective: A journey into the heart of the Windsor requires a look into what it means for anything to survive centuries without losing...

Capstone Beginning: Inspiration & Philosophy

I'll begin where, and when, my fine furniture's career seed was first planted. James Krenov was not a particularly ground-breaking...

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