Evaluation.

For this project i looked at several ideas working around and eco-freindly theme, i started by looking into up-cycling and from that moved onto three main ideas which were extremely different in there approach to what i wanted to do. I ended up set on an idea about taking old everyday re-cyclable items and turning them into furnature. I had the intent to use a variety of materials such as; paper / card, plastics, metal and glass. I started working with old newspapers by using them to create simple frame works in the shapes of tables. after re-viewing what i had made it came apparent i would end up taking the use of old newspapers to another level and only work with the newsprint for the entire project. I researched into many different designers who had done projects using the same material which gave me a lot of inspiration to move forward with my ideas and designs. I ended up with two pieces that both have structural strength as well as being aesthetically pleasing but i think that if i had anther chair to add to the set it would make it a little more complete. I put a lot of hours into making each piece but i think that hand making each "cell" produces anomalies and therefore it creates a far more pleasing aesthetic. If i were to do this project again i would like to have another piece in this set and to create a completely different set to show other ways of creating a table and chars out of newspaper. I think that i could have developed my idea further so i could create something more impressive and creative, but over all i am very pleased with my chair and table as they for fill my criteria that i set for this project.

Final products

These are a few ruff images of my final products. The real ones will be displayed in a similar way including the cup and newspaper. I will add images of my final display after hand in. 

finished table

Here i have cut to size a piece of perspex to fit over the top as the table top, in this image i have left the plastic covering on to keep the perspex from getting damaged. 

Putting my table together.

I generously applied PVA adhesive glue to each and stacked them, I then wrapped cling film around each end to hold it together during the drying process. 

It took about 2 days to dry but i left it for a little longer after i thought it was dry just incase as the edges and corner pieces have less surface area glued to the next due to the size of each piece.

this is an over view of the table minus the table top.

Table.

Here i have rolled up whole newspapers (around 65) to create my table. This is the way i made my newspaper tubes. 

 I simply rolled up each newspaper to an average tightness and then used PVA adhesive glue to hold them together.

Yasmin Sethi

I found yasmin's work on the internet and looked at her paper chair and table project, she has made acknowledgement about the everyday usage of newspapers but an individual newspaper has one primary use and no other, yasmin set out to explore how newsprint can be reused in new and interesting ways. Yasmin's furniture is biased on the principle that cylinders of hand rolled newspaper have much greater vertical strength than individual sheets of paper. She has attached whole rolled newspapers together to create her chair and tables. 

I really like the table she has made but of completely rolled newspapers rather than the centre having splayed out pages. The glass on the top completes the piece and gives a greater surface area. 

I Smothered each "cell" in PVA adhesive glue and laid in a square form until it was the right height, i then took it out with cling film wrapped around each end to keep together and in shape.

It took about tow full days to fully dry, There were one or two areas that needed to filled to make the edges flush.

Chair.

This is how i put together my chair, i first made my "cells" i used around 40+ newspapers in total.

 I measured out one or two of the cells and cut them to a length that got rid of the weak ends but kept the length, I then drew on a piece of card the length of the the cells will be cut too.

 I then laid out flat hand gulls of the "cells" and positioned them to fit the centre of each line and drew a line across each ready for cutting to size.

Inspiration.

I saw these marble seats outside and inside the bullring which gave me inspiration for the shape of the chair i am making. i think that the round tubes in square shape will work really well together and create a both functional and aesthetically pleasing piece.

The age of stupid, stupid!

I found a designer called 'franny armstrong' who had done a project celled "the age of stupid, stupid!" which was created for a documentary featuring Pete Postlethwaite as a man living alone in the devastated future world of 2055 looking back at old footage from 2008 asking why didn't we stop climate change when we had the chance, franny aided the construction of a series of chairs for VIP's at the the premiere in Leicester Sq from recycled newspapers. Rolled up, taped, bundled into rigid blocks and then assembled, the chairs were a simple and effective solution to the brief for the film.
I love the simplicity of the design but i would like to use my thinner tubes and a more permanent and elegant way to attach them together.

Liam Hopkins

 I found this designer out from watch a programme called "four rooms", he had created a range of furniture all made from corrugated cardboard. I loved the fact that it was not decorated or altered from its original design except been cut and folded into purely structural shapes that in itself brings aesthetic design.

I further looked into some of his work and found that he had made almost a room from the same card and this showed me that there is a lot of potential of a single material and with mine i just needed to find and utilise it.

Here i have quite simply played around with some paper shapes to toll and come up with some more substantial tubes.

I have found that doing this i either have to use a lot more paper sheets or the length of the tube isn't long enough, so i think i will stick with my original way of producing the "cells"

expanding my idea

I have tried playing around with small scale models to come up with some possible design ideas that both complement the thin tubular shape in aesthetics and structural properties.

 With this i would have it on a much larger scale and have a woven top as the seat panel, the only problem with this is that the "cells" are only of a certain length so spreading them out will loose considerable height over all.

This is similar but has a back section, again this would have some weaving to add strength.
These two forms look interesting but there are many complications with them as fixing them together would be very messy looking and structurally not that sound.

 For this piece i would create a cone form to then use to lay the "cells" on and then layer for height and then the top piece would be reversed for the seat.

 This collection was taken from one of my original tables, i like the form shape and aesthetics of many small tubes as well as it being structurally sound.

This is similar to the one above but the tubes are on there side which creates something simular but i do not thing that the sides will be quite as solid and could collaps. so due to this i will try out some other methods of rolling paper and see if i can get a stronger tube.

"Cells"

During my tutorials the individual rolled up sheets i tightly rolled up into tubes were focused on a lot, I had used them in the weaving process but i did not like the look of that piece and looking at inhabit design's way of using newsprint, so i feel that i should use the thin tubes as my point of reference and starting point to make my chair.
This is a step by step process on how the "cells" are made;

inhabit design

I was looking online to see what other designers were able to come up with, working with newspapers. I found this design company called inhabit design where they had come up with a bench which had no frame work and showed that individual leaves of newsprint treated with an adhesive had the strength to carry serious weight and this is something that i want to achieve.

I think that i would like to make something along the lines of this example but i will change it to fit with some of the elements i have made from previous testers.

first chair

I tried making a small fold away chair, where i used the frame work to hold the weaved paper. i simply covered the existing frame with newsprint but i wasn't sure that this was a good idea and that it should be completely paper. When taking my chair to a tutorial i got the same response that it should be completely made from paper and that it did look craft. From this i had a really good idea about what i wanted to make.