Furniture designers come from architecture or interior design backgrounds. They research styles, sketch ideas, develop concepts, select materials, and communicate with clients and manufacturers. The design process involves conceptualizing, prototyping, documentation, and managing production. Furniture designers consider budgets, aesthetics, functionality, and client needs. They create conceptual drawings to present ideas and technical drawings with specifications for manufacturing.

1. ARC30103 - Introduction to Drawing
QSB30105 - Introduction to the Construction Industry
Project 1
Product
Designing
(Furniture)
Jason Goh Kok Wei
Leong Darren
Lettitia Lois Hiew
Gillian Chong Yeong Lin
Goh Jia Jun
Kok Ka Shing

2. Who is a Furniture Designer?
And what does he do?
Photo: Andrew Crowley, telegraph.co.uk

3. ❖ Furniture designer can come from Architect or Interior
Architect background.
❖ e.g Gerrit T. Rietveld, famous for Red & Blue Chair is
actually an Architect

4. Tasks & Roles of a Furniture
Designer
❖ Researching and planing various styles of furniture design
❖ Sketch out client’s ideas
❖ Work as a team to establish design concept
❖ Improve furniture that is already fabricated
❖ Select suitable material for furniture
❖ Meet & discuss their designs with their clients
❖ Use design software to create a complex & detailed design
❖ Communicate with craftsmen, marketing staff, production managers & design
engineers
❖ Making & testing models by using computerised prototyping equipment.
❖ Making presentations to clients or senior design management

5. Tasks At Stages Of Construction

6. Idea
Core of entire process
• The Design Brief
• General plan of overall project
• Goals to achieve

7. Research
• Current market trends
• Environmental considerations
• Ergonomics
• Anthropometrics
• Gain insight on types & styles of furniture
• Types of materials

8. Conceptual
Development
Where the designer first meets with the client
to define the client’s needs & expectations
• Project budget
• Space allocation
• Project functionality

9. Prototyping
• Build to scale model of actual product
• Average 3 to 4 prototypes
• Current technology using 3D printers
• Using drafts of technical drawing
• Carving using wood
• Prototype has to be tested
• Testing different types of material
• Presenting to client
picture : Hans Wegner & papa bear prototype

10. Design Documentation
Documentation of 3D file
• Technical drawing of product
• 3D Rendered file such as AutoCAD
• Essential set of documents as a piece of communication between the designer and the
manufacturer

11. Production Management
• Ensuring communication between manufacturer
• Quality Control
• Ensuring product is manufactured according to plan

12. Roles of Furniture
Designer during
Pre-Construction
During Construction
Post-Construction

13. Pre-Construction
Private sub-contracting
Public tender against companies

14. During Construction
Manufacturing process
Fitting of actual furniture to site

15. Post-Construction
Filing completed product for future reference & research
purpose

16. DESIGNING

17. Steps to take in designing
• Inspiration from nature
• Materials to be used
• Modelling
• Experimenting designs

18. Points to consider in Furniture
Designing
• Budget
• Aesthetic
• Functionality
• Client’s requirement

19. Designs/Drawings involved in
Furniture Designing
Conceptual Design
Technical Design

20. Conceptual Design
• In customer’s language
• Explaining the observable external characteristics
• Contains no technical information
• Describes the functions of the system
• Independent of implementation
• Linked to the required documents

21. Conceptual Designs of Furnitures

23. Presentation Drawing
• To show the concept design to clients
• To highlight key components of the product
• To give the client a better understanding of
the finished product

24. Image : http://www.furnituredrawings.co.uk/image.php/Housley+Furniture+Drawings+-+Bureau+-+Sketched-1.jpg?width=600&height=600&image=/tables/cms_images/img_image/Housley+Furniture+Drawings+-+Bureau+-+Sketched-1.jpg

25. Schematic Drawings
• Research phase of the project
• Requirements and restrictions are researched and addressed
• Costs are then estimated.

27. Technical Design
❖ Describes the major hardware components and
their functions
❖ Show organizations and functions of the software
components
❖ Shows data structures and data flow
❖ Shows interfaces

28. 3D Modeling

29. Prototype
Image : https://www.droog.com/contents/prototypes/multibox/house_of_furniture_parts_09.jpg

30. Technical Designs Of Furnitures
Image : http://www.turbocad.com/Portals/1/Feature_Images/FM15/furnmaker-cabinet-HD.jpg

32. References
• Book : Furniture Design by Jim Postell
• Book : Furniture for interior design by Sam Booth and Drew Plunkett
• Book : Designing Interiors (2nd Edition) by Rosemary Kilmer and W. Otie Kilmer
• http://www.industrial-designs.com.au/design-process/
• https://www.pinterest.com/SAMUELDESIGN/d-e-s-i-g-n-s-k-e-t-c-h/
• https://www.furnituredrawings.co.uk/working-and-technical-furniture-drawings.php
• https://blueprintfurniture.co.uk/technical-drawings.html
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/design/resistantmaterials/
designanalysisevaluationrev1.shtml
• http://www.studiocraft-hm.com/process/