Archive for the ‘MA Project’ Category
Jonas Lyndby Jensen
Photographs by Peter Hartley
Jonas Lyndby Jensen, 33 years old, Denmark
Graduated from the Danish design school in 2009
Department: Furniture and Spatial design
Specials: Wooden furniture
Design background
Cabinetmaker and 6 years at The Danish Design School including internship at Fritz Hansen design department
Important lessons learned during your education
ECTS points are worthless. If you know which direction your education must go, then make it so – regardless of what the school, the rules or anybody tells you to do
Did you do anything prior to your education to strengthen your skills and to get into your school?
Drawing courses
Project title
Nordic Furniture
Length of project
5 months
Concept
The inspiration for the project came to me after a fabulous dinner at the Danish 2-star Michelin restaurant Noma. Their name is a contraction of Nordisk Mad (Nordic Food) and this is the base for the dogma that is the restaurant’s trademark: All the raw materials come from only Nordic countries (Scandinavia and the North Atlantic islands). I asked myself: Is it possible to transfer the dogma to furniture design? Can I make a series of furniture which exclusively uses materials from the Nordic countries and builds on, but also seeks to renew, the Nordic furniture tradition?
Inspiration
Gourmet restaurant Noma, classic Scandinavian furnitures and nature
Materials
Smoked oakwood, chair seat is upholstered with woven horsehair and the chair back is covered with salmon skin
Keywords for the visual design
A contemporary collection of furnitures with roots in the classic nordic furniture tradition – made in nordic materials
How is your work process when you design?
Sketching, sometimes scale modeling, 3D drawing and full scale prototyping
Which part of the process is the hardest for you to work through?
It can be hard when you feel the good ideas do not seem to come to you anymore. And I have to work faster, not taking too much time making the decisions
In your experience, are there specific skills that would be helpful to master?
Always good to be hands-on with materials and full scale modeling to see correct proportions.
For my part the 3D work and it-skills could be improved
What are your strengths?
Wooden furnitures, prototyping, a sense for shapes and stubbornness
What are your weaknesses?
My stubbornness and I am not good at selling myself or my work
Do you turn to specific areas for inspiration in general?
Classic nordic furnitures, nature and trying to keep an open mind, knowing that inspiration can come from anywhere or anything
Any designers you find inspirational?
Doshi & Levien, Jasper Morrison, Patricia Urquiola, Carl Malmsten, Finn Juhl, H. J. Wegner …
Other students you find inspirational?
Antonio Scaffidi, Mads Johansen, Jenny Palmborg, Jakob Jørgensen, Signe Møller Jensen …
Is your work process based on a special approach towards design?
I would like to have a more specific approach, but I feel my work process can at times seem quite chaotic. However that is what makes the process exciting and different every time.
Do you have a dream scenario for you and your design in the future?
Own furniture studio and recognition. I will be satisfied though being able to live off making furniture design
Has it always been a dream to work with design?
I have dreamt about doing something creative (drawing), but furniture design only became a goal late during my cabinetmaker education
Why did you choose this specific specialization?
As educated cabinetmaker it was an obvious choice, wanting to go the creative way. Also I think furniture making suits my temper
Do you have any other projects you would like to highlight?
Dune lounge chairs and Wooden Spoon chair. Both projects emphasises my style, giving a twist to new nordic design
Were can we find more information about you?
Contact info
jonas_lyndby_jensen@hotmail.com
(0045) 28125099
Jessica Svensson
Photo:2009 Danish Crafts/jeppegudmundsen.com
Jessica Svensson, 28, Sweden
Graduation from The Danish Designschool 2008
Department of Furniture & Spatial Design
Special in furniture
Design background
Established my own small company in 2009
The Danish Design School
Art School in Lund
Important lessons learned during your education
For me the School has been a fantastic creative environment where I got the possibility and time to find out and develop my approach to design
Did you do anything prior to your education to strengthen your skills and to get into your school?
I went to Art School for one year to make my portfolio to get into The Danish Design School
Prototype 2008
Project title
Home Sweet Home
Length of project
Five months
Concept
Extension kitchen sofa
Inspiration
Traditional Swedish kitchen sofas
Materials
Aluminium, ash wood
Keywords for the visual design
Contrast and illusion
Prototype 2008
How is your work process when you design?
It´s depending on how much time I can spend and what kind of assignment it is. Normally I have an expression or a picture on my mind that I would like to achieve. I use pretty much time thinking, writing keywords and sketching before I actually do something that gives a visual or practical result. Next step is to see how the concept can be realized by drawing 3D-model, material research and involving people with the souch knowledge.
Which part of the process is the hardest for you to work through?
To make “big” decisions fast is not a favorite as well as feeling confused over to many options.
In your experience, are there specific skills that would be helpful to master?
Don´t get stressed up because it´s a final project. You have done successful projects before so of course this one will turn out great too. Just give it some extra power and focus. Talk to other people about your project to get advice and help but listen to yourself.
What are your strengths?
Critical but optimistic
Prototype 2008
What are your weaknesses?
Ambivalent
Do you turn to specific areas for inspiration in general?
It´s very different.
Any designers you find inspirational?
I get inspired from a lot of different designers and artists but I don´t have a particular favorite.
Is your work process based on a special approach towards design?
I want to be able to work wide and make interesting products with a long lifetime and quality.
Prototype 2008
Do you have a dream scenario for you and your design in the future?
To have my own company running well and to work with projects that I find interesting
Has it always been a dream to work with design?
Somehow yes. I didn´t knew exactly in which area but I think I knew that it should be something creative.
Why did you choose this specific specialization?
I like form and function
Where can we find more information about you?
More about “Home Sweet Home”: www.craftscollection.dk
Contact info
E-mail: js@jessicasvensson.com
Mobil: +46(0)706 96 70 32
Maria Gram Poulsgaard
Maria Gram Poulsgaard, 36, Denmark
Graduated from the Danish design school in 2008
Department: Room and Furniture
Specials: Furniture & Cabinet making
Design background
Cabinet maker and the Danish Designschool
Important lessons learned during your education
Light and materials.
Did you do anything prior to your education to strengthen your skills and to get into your school?
Drawing course.
Project title
The Table
Length of project
MA Project – 5 months.
Concept
How to make a table that can expand from one to two.
Inspiration
Materials.
Materials
Wood and iron.
Keywords for the visual design
One becomes two.
How is your work process when you design?
I work at the workshop a lot of the time. I draw a lot too and make small models of, for example, the table.
Which part of the process is the hardest for you to work through?
Deciding which of my ideas to work further with.
In your experience, are there specific skills that would be helpful to master?
Yes work at a computer, but I am leaning it now.
What are your strengths?
I have a lot of ideas.
I now a lot of materials and have they react.
Because I have an education as a Cabinet maker I know a lot of constructions. This makes me able to make the right choice.
What are your weaknesses?
Deciding which of my ideas to work further with.
Do you turn to specific areas for inspiration in general?
The workshops and materials.
Any designers you find inspirational?
Patricia Urquiola, Ron Arad and Ditte Hammerhøj
Is your work process based on a special approach towards design?
Less is more.
Do you have a dream scenario for you and your design in the future?
I love to be able to live from my design.
Has it always been a dream to work with design?
Yes
Why did you choose this specific specialization?
It makes my happy, when I am on to something good, it feels like butterflies in my stomach
Were can we find more information about you?
Contact info
Maria Gram Poulsgaard
Klintevej 45
3600 Frederikssund
phone +0045 50 100 700
maria@mariap.dk
Yukari Hotta
Name Yukari Hotta, 30, Japan (living in Denmark, Copenhagen)
Graduated from Denmarks Designschool in 2009
Department: Furniture and Special Design
Specials: Product Design
Design background
2 years course at an Illustration and Fashion school in Tokyo.
3 years at Kolding design school, Industrial Design dep.
2 years at Danmark Design school, Furniture and Special design dep.
During then, I had worked at Leif Joegensen`s studio BS architects as a design trainee and now I am back to his studio and working as a designer.
Important lessons learned during your education
How to deal with problems. Especially unexpected one.
Project title
KILE
Length of project
1 semester. (5 months)
Concept
To design storage furniture for home use and which can be adapted to regular changes. it is simple enough to be assembled and disassembled to suite to our life style.
I wanted to create storage furniture with an impression of warmth and a friendly feeling which can help to make a room, an apartment or other living space more cosy and bright
Inspiration
Old wooden architecture, classic furniture, Japanese woodwork, art, design and the nature
Materials
Ash wood, birch plywood and MDF
Keywords for the visual design
Simple, functional and long-lasting
How is your work process when you design?
It is really depend on the project I think.
But lots of drawing and model making, trying to get my thoughts and feelings out on paper and see what happens when taken through a 3d program and later as a model.
Which part of the process is the hardest for you to work through?
Killing my darlings.
In your experience, are there specific skills that would be helpful to master?
Everything is helpful..but especially knowing about materials I think.
What are your strengths?
I don’t give up so easily. Keep on keeping on.
What are your weaknesses?
I like sleeping.
Do you turn to specific areas for inspiration in general?
Nature, music, animals and from my daily life.. even from the food i eat..
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Any designers you find inspirational?
Tokujin Yoshioka, Naoto Fukazawa, Bouroullec brothers, and of course a lot of great Danish designers.
Is your work process based on a special approach towards design?
The way I work is different from time to time depending on the project and materials. Every day and project is different. luckily
Has it always been a dream to work with design?
I wanted to work at a bakery when I was little..
Why did you choose this specific specialization?
Because I love to “make” something which you can touch, feel and use.
Were can we find more information about you?
My web site
Contact info
hello@yukarihotta.com
