Designing and Prototyping Your First Chair

Start by getting to know Laxmi and Lucas, co-founders of Muka Design Lab. They tell you about their professional experiences, their passion for furniture, and its purpose within their studio, and show you some of their influences.

Begin the course with an introduction to the world of chairs and get introduced to the slow design materials you’ll use during the course.

Muka show you their conceptual process and some tricks to find ideas. Start by sketching chairs, refine your drawings, and select the one you prefer. Create the dimensions for your technical plan to develop a model on a 1:10 scale.

Create your prototype to human scale and test the different parts and design, to solve the possible imperfections before it is made. Once your design is finished, you’ll be able to contact a local artisan to materialize your idea just as you imagined it.

Lastly, photograph the result by taking certain factors into account such as the art direction behind your image, to then share it on social media and promote your design in the best way.