Comments for breakthemold.co.uk http://www.breakthemold.co.uk Get your product designs to market. Sun, 03 Jul 2011 11:05:34 +0000 hourly 1 Comment on Chairs – A Product Designers Right of Passage? by Amos http://www.breakthemold.co.uk/2011/06/get-to-market-blog/chairs-a-product-designers-right-of-passage/#comment-62 Amos Sun, 03 Jul 2011 11:05:34 +0000 http://205.186.147.239/?p=1076#comment-62 To a certain extent... I agree. However, chairs are a kind of right of passage for designers... and they just have to be done. They have such an iconic status that designers feel the need, often during uni, to take on the challenge of 'the chair'. Seemingly with a 'fresh on the scene' point to prove. Different designers want different things. *Some want to make beautiful things... *Some want to make things that solve problems and create solutions beautifully... Identifying which you feel more in tune with will make you a better designer, help define your designs and fundamentally create a more market viable product. So designing a chair is fair enough in my opinion, so long as your doing it for the right reasons and you can prove so. What ever it is you design...If it is good deign and aligned correctly... it will EARN the tag. "You can sell that!" To a certain extent… I agree.
However, chairs are a kind of right of passage for designers… and they just have to be done.
They have such an iconic status that designers feel the need, often during uni, to take on the challenge of ‘the chair’. Seemingly with a ‘fresh on the scene’ point to prove.

Different designers want different things.
*Some want to make beautiful things…
*Some want to make things that solve problems and create
solutions beautifully…

Identifying which you feel more in tune with will make you a better designer, help define your designs and fundamentally create a more market viable product.
So designing a chair is fair enough in my opinion, so long as your doing it for the right reasons and you can prove so.

What ever it is you design…If it is good deign and aligned correctly…
it will EARN the tag.
“You can sell that!”

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