Inspirations from nature

 Barcelona’s most renowned designer: Antoni Gaudi had nature as a design concept.

Gaudi wasn’t the first to use nature as inspiration, but was probably one of the most well-known designer to do so. His work was considered to be revolutionary for the time and present day. One of his most famous phrases was “originality is returning to the origin.” For him, this origin was nature. Inspiration from nature continues to be seen in the designs of today. The picture above is one of his design, the Nest Chair inspired from nature, a nest that is made from birds.

Cellular Chair by Mathias Bengtsson

Composed of light-weight epoxy, this ‘cellular chair’ was designed by a  danish-born, london-based designer Mathias Bengtsson.
He not only adopts the appearance of an organic form. But actually designed it based on the growth principles of human bones which is associated and inspired by something natural, otherwise known as nature.

The exterior shape of the chair was computer program designed to simulate the regeneration of bone tissue. Given the exterior form as its input,
the program creates the cellular configuration that bone tissue might adopt to create a strong, stable construction and hence forming this Cellular Chair product.

Credit pictures to:
http://www.pleatfarm.com/2010/03/21/nest-chair-nina-bruun/
http://catablogcatablogcatablog.blogspot.sg/2011/12/matthias-bengtsson-cellular-chair-2011.html

Thinking out of the box

In this particular lesson, we had to pair up to solve some questions. I paired up with Haeseul (www.va1m-hae-seul.blogspot.com) this time! The questions given were rather easy but the ideas and answers we had in mind were quite complicated in a sense. We wrecked our brains and finally got the answers. My ideas and answer turned out to be more of the "traditional" way of solving. My partner had more of the crazy ideas in my opinion. Despite having different opinions we decided to go with the idea we both agreed on. But guess what, when the lecturer told us the answers, it was surprisingly simple and somewhat nonsensical. Then i realised that we had to think out of the box and not always use the same way and method to solve a problem. I really enjoy the lesson that day. I realised that besides learning how to brainstorm and think of different ideas, we learnt how to co-operate with each other and also, sharing of ideas. It was by far one of the best creative thinking lesson! Looking forward to more lessons like this in future.