First Day of Classes (part IV)

Thursdays I have design studio (large-scale product design) from 9:30-4:30 with an hour at 12:30 for lunch. John Thayer, who I had last year, is great because he got us once a week studio instead of 3 hours twice a week, and because he's a great teacher, and he's hilarious. For example, today he took a survey of the box cutters people were using, and returned one saying "I think I may have caused this one to break" (he didn't, but it looked like it).

Anyway, our first project is great- for the next 4 weeks we get to develop a chair! Yes!! It has to be cut from 4'x4' 1/2" thick ply wood, and use 4' of 1/2" steel tubing (or less than those measures) and it has to pack flat, no more than 3" high, Ikea style where you put it together yourself. I already have a couple of ideas, but I don't have a lot of homework for next week because we had to make our models to 1/4 scale, which I did from teh start (the point of the class is to make scaled models for very large products, like buses or a class-wide water park project). It should be a good semester for design, and I even like most of my classmates.