Day 5: Designeritus

It was a good day in the shop with a quite a few people coming in who had specifically hunted down the show and a few interesting passers by.

As far the design process is going its been a day of rational triumphing over *designeritus. I’ve made some decisions the first being a obvious one, to change the 12mm ply to 18mm thus improving the stiffness of the furniture and also to increase the thickness of the leading legs of the chairs, increasing the cross sectional area resulting in further increased stiffness and strength.

Im also going to remove or reduce the radius from the outside edge of the chairs as this will reduce the danger of the chairs tilting backwards.

The main decision today is to reduce the height of the table this will solve a number of problems, improving the ergonomics, Improving the table and chairs stability and reducing the amount of material used thus reducing the cost and the weight.

This rationalisation process is all good, but I have to careful not to go too far and keep the furniture’s quirks and charm.

*Designeritus: Comes in many forms, but in this context, being totally blinkered about a decision you have emotionally invested in and being completely bloody minded about it. A remedy for such an affliction is dam good rational telling off, this normal results in a period of sulking and eventually the patent will come to their senses and will wonder what all the fuss was about.