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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Furniture design"”.
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A Nomadic Furniture Design for College Students
… than other groups of people. Heavy, large bulky furniture, clothes and many other items take a lot of time and energy to move. Moving typically involves removing items from the chest-of-drawers and closet, packing items in boxes, suitcases, bags and other containers and loading them in a vehicle …
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Dogs’ participation in human social life: Furniture design for dogs
… the combination of ""puppy"" and ""puzzle."" The design goal is to create a modular dog furniture system. It has eight types of components for people to choose from to customize their own ideal dog crate/house/bed which can be adjusted. A wide range of patterns and colors collection are available …
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Children's relationships with their physical school: Considerations of primary architecture and furniture design in a social and cultural context
… to prove its contribution, the discipline of Design continues to be identified as a facilitator of educational transformation. Results to date, however, are mixed and there is an evident failing at the design briefing stage to understand how children interact with their educational settings …
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The Bending of Wood With Steam
… studio. Thirdly, steam bent wood is related to furniture design in terms of the craftsman's approach to the design and to the problems inherent in this process.
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ADAPTING THE OFFICE WORK CHAIR TO ACCOMMODATE PRODUCTIVE NAPPING
… thesis offers a unique concept of office furniture design - an office work chair that accommodates the human need for taking short naps. The purpose is to search for opportunities to increase productivity among white-collar workers. The process of design development has been developed …
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Defining Sustainability Through Bentwood Lamination
What does sustainability mean with respect to furniture design and fabrication? How has technology - created and subsequently clouded - opportunities for new thinking? This body of work explores these broader questions and, more specifically, the efficiencies of bending wood. Historical precedents …
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Sigrun Bulow-Hube : Scandinavian modernism in Canada
… (1913-1994) was an architect and industrial designer who came to Canada from Sweden in 1950. In 1953, she formed the AKA Furniture Company which specialized in the design and construction of Scandinavian Modern furniture. This thesis focuses on Bulow-Hube's furniture design of the 1950's and …
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A Treasury of Comfort: A Study of Elite Comfort in the Long Eighteenth Century
… of the physical comfort afforded by advances in furniture design, for instance, as well as considering the comfort of the elite family from both within but also outside of the confines of the country house. With this broader coverage of comfort and its interrelationship with the various aspects …
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A Machine Learning Model for Understanding How Users Value Designs: Applications for Designers and Consumers
… developing a machine learning (ML) model of how designs are valued by their users. The model can be used to better understand the implications of furniture design decisions, as well as for commercial strategy. Existing ML systems have been trained on the physical and aesthetic features of …
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Design for the environmental emergency: Plastic chairs and the transition to low-carbon product design
… between plastics, environmentally-conscious design, and consumption through a focussed study of plastic chairs, this dissertation casts new light on best practice for sustainable furniture design. Plastic chairs are ubiquitous but remain objects of constant innovation and experimentation by …
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Policy and practice: Design education in England from 1837-1992, with particular reference to furniture courses at Birmingham, Leicester and the Royal College of Art.
… an examination of policy-making and practice in design education in England from 1837-1992. It takes a longue durée approach to the history of the development of design education to provide a new narrative which shows a pattern of recurring debates concerning the purpose of design education and …
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Design art furniture and the boundaries of function: communicative objects, performative things
… has appeared that has come to be termed 'design art': highly expressive furniture and domestic products that are created as self-initiated, often limited edition designs, sold through galleries, exhibited in museums and collected in the manner traditionally ascribed to art. To date no …
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Part of the Furniture: Envisioning Furniture Futures Through Qualitative Research and Design
Furniture is a bridge between our bodies and the world. Through furniture, we can live in a way we wouldn't otherwise be able to. Since we’ve evolved into humans, we've become designers and consumers of furniture – from the rocks in ancient caves to King's thrones to the millions of couches …
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Sculptural Furniture
… to apply the imagination of my senses to the furniture object in order to satisfy other human needs aside from comfort. These artistic requirements remove the piece of furniture from the realm of neutrality and tastefulness and expect the viewer - user to experience visual communication.
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SuperFicial: An Exploration of Decoration, Fashion, Taste, Camp, and Trends
… taste makers—politicians, celebrities, artists, designers, curators, and even social media influencers who have the power to shape, change, or wholly subvert established tastes. Those who can cleverly subvert the establishment by performing with an exaggerated ironic humor exist in the realm of …
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