22/3/09

here’s some art deco

my abstract ideas

Evaluation of flat pack side table Baby Ele

In this project my brief was to design and make a flat pack side table influenced by an African animal of my choice.   I chose the African elephant because I liked the look of it and it is a well know animal. I started off with looking at all types of side table’s flat pack and non-flat pack. I then came up with the decision that that I wanted my side table to look good next to a sofa.  I then started look at the elephant and I liked the look of the face and the back feet, I thought they would look good as table legs. Even though my table was supposed to resemble an African animal I didn’t want it to look African I wanted it to look modern to I came to the decision that the legs would look like an African animal and to top would look modern.  My teacher said to me that my table didn’t have to look like the animal it was influenced by, however I want people to look at my table and automatically see that it looked like an elephant.
I developed my initial ideas using card to make small models to a scale of 1:5. That’s when I saw that I would have to cut small section of the top of the table legs to make sure that the top of the table would be stable. I also saw that to make sure that my entire table was stable I would have to sand my bottom of my table flat. So after devolving my table
I made my table out of MDF, which was a very easy wood to work with. The only really problem that I came to was cutting the X on my table to my tabletop, mainly because I have never done any thing like it before. However after my teacher showed me how its was done was I done ok with but I did mess up on one of my corners which I never realised I did until I had finished the whole thing. If I had another chance to do this I would make sure
The most important thing when work in the workshop is health and safety for my peers and myself. I always used goggles when using machines and made sure that no one else was in front of the yellow tape. I also made sure that I was standing up when using tools or machines. Also when using tools I made sure that there was nothing on the table apart from my work and the tool that I need on the table.

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