you can’t always be a winner. (DIY midterm)

By ankatank

barbie on carboard tower

for the DIY midterm we were supposed to make something for ourselves, for our home. part of me wishes i was a product design kid. i’ve kind of always been jealous of them, and frank gehry, walking around with their functional carboard chairs. so,

frank gehry carboard chairdesignboom carboard chairsnick tretiak carboard chairMAKE cardboard chair
pictures are linked. from left to right: frank gehry, designboom-instructions for carboard chairs by various designers, nick tretiak, student (lostspyder?) chair featured on MAKE blog.

full of hope and inspiration, i set out to create a cardboard chair of my own. it turned out to be more of a tower. for barbie. oh le failure. see the flickr set for more photos.

oh and check out all the times i cut myself.
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not sure how i managed to puncture my arm, but what can i say, i’m good like that.
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