Hey gang,
Getting back into KS after a long break being stuck working on other stuff.
Setting up a couple digital studios to shoot some furniture design pieces.
The records definitely need some work—looking for critique on the lighting and materials of the rest of the scene.
Cheers,
M
Hi Mitchell,
Nice one! Quite a 60s/70s look/feel!
I like the materials and they look convincing. For the light I would actually have the main light source more in front of the furniture so there’s less shadow casting on the records. It will also make the different colors of the records ‘pop’ more.
A practical thing, I used to have quite some records, same with my parents and there was some kind of order so you could find things back. I remember how heavy it could be (long time ago) if you actually had to push 40 records aside to get one back in if they were leaning to a side.
Having so many records in an angle will make it hard to put records back quickly I think. Maybe it’s cool to have them actually straight on a small metal plate which is basically hidden under the records so you have the gaps at the bottom of the records instead on the top. Think the ‘floating’ records can make it all also look a bit less massive. Of course, just a matter of taste and my practical mind 
And leave a bit more gap above the records maybe since the outer once are now hard to get I think.
Thanks for taking a look Oscar.
Moved my key light to be more frontal and it certainly helped IMO, appreciate the direction! Still working on the records.
I’m in total agreement on the angled records and the difficulty of reshelving due to the weight—alas this was the version the client wanted to pursue at the time. There were four variations, one matching the floating look you’ve described, complete with small storage spaces for headphones, cables, and the like.
I did a piece for a separate project that is more aligned with practicality. 
Made one of these and became the niche guy making furniture related to record collectors—certainly not a complaint, but looking forward to some less square projects!
Cheers,
M
Thought I replied here but must have been only typing without posting
Really nice! Like the light now making the records and orange pop! Think it’s a great profession, furniture design always has a nice touch of old-skool craftmanship. It’s not my work but I still have some sketches of rough ideas for furniture and some lamps. Thinking about such things gives me energy and it’s cool with all rendering these days you can at least make them look like they are already produced 
Thank you Oscar!
My father is a carpenter/wood shop owner by trade, so it has been a constant in my life. My brother attended school for furniture design, and I pursued the engineering/manufacturing side, so we come together as a full unit. Being able to render ideas is truly awesome considering how competitive it is and how many things will never get to be made due to budget constraints. Fun to get real strange with it at times!
A new Eames archive has opened up near me, but I have yet to be able to get a ticket, though joined some wait lists. https://www.eamesinstitute.org/visit/ A lot of familiar pieces, but cool to see in person.
Nice!! I help out an ex-colleague sometimes and he basically was a printing buyer at our company but past year he went to school for carpenter since he like to do something different once he’s fed up with his company running for clients with weird deadlines.
His idea is to make massive wooden bathtubs in all kind of shapes and I really think that can be a really cool business. Reckon it’s a lot of milling and not that much being a carpenter but I think it can look really awesome (and not cheap).
This attached PDF shows something I did. A few artists asked me if I could help to create saw plans for a wall size cabinet for a hotel room. Since I never do such things for real it was scary, but it worked out really well in the end.
183 unique planks and almost 600kg of multiplex. The PDF gives you an idea on how much work it was 
And well, Eames is really nice and iconic. Here you cross such chairs pretty often especially since the entire vintage design is still a thing. Expensive but really nice. I couldn’t afford Eames so I had an Artifort chair in my house in the past which was a nice eye catcher.
Instructies A3.pdf (4.0 MB)Smart ex-colleague! Something I learned from family was that there was only an upside to having a trade to fall back on if you wanted to pursue something else. In the past 20 years, there has been plenty of periods where I was burnt out by the computer grind and found myself reaching out to folks I know to see if they had any projects on the schedule that needed help—leading to kitchen installs, slab work, furniture production, and other adjacent work. Sometimes just a day or two would push reset—a couple times a full year+.
The wooden bathtub idea is very fun and achievable! I have seen one of the guys in the shop space I split for personal projects make his own boat via steam bent strip planking. A labor of love, but could def be adapted for tubs to minimize the milling and skew more toward being a carpentry project.
Massive project you took on there! I always love seeing CNC milled projects that are so well planned to create a kit of parts for clean install. Having worked on a production shop floor and spent plenty of time behind the screen programming cut files for 3 axis routers— I say great work! Appreciate you sharing, makes me want to get out back and organize the garage shelving!
Authentic Eames and old Braun… so nice… so unattainable. 
Artifort is great, some cool very fun forms. Recently, I have been revisiting some pieces from De Vorm, which I think is local to you. I’ve been working on developing a PET felt project and the factory makes some of their pieces.
That cabinet was totally hand milled and sawn. They asked me to give files they could plot 1:1 and tape onto the wood and they basically just used the saw and went through the paper and wood. Which you see still on the piles of planks at bottom picture.
Was quite a heavy product for the guys and because of the shape it needed to be sawn pretty precise if you didn’t want to need to sand for hours later on.
I actually used Sketchup for the model and I transformed the 3D to illustrator outlines to plot them. I reckon there are smarter ways but I was happy it all fit perfectly in the end. They only forget to mill 4 cuts so the actual cabinet has 2 planks less
Don’t think they will ever do something again; they normally create huge art statues which is quite a different process. Same for me, took me weeks.
I didn’t know ‘De Vorm’ but looks nice! Vorm is the Dutch word for ‘shape’ so that fits. There are really a lot of small Dutch design companies and it’s always great to see what things they create. Love the straightforward designs of De Vorm and the usage of recycled PET bottles.
Now the 1:1 plotted paper on there makes more sense!
My workflow for one of the vendor’s I send work to is somewhat similar… 1:1 DXF out of SOLIDWORKS for each part and then a script ran on the containing folder in Illustrator to convert all of the files to 1:1 outline PDF’s—the vendor’s file type of preference. So many different little steps for different vendors!
Cool to see them take on something outside of their comfort zone—seems like I’m always chasing that feeling with work and get bored when it isn’t that way!
Ahh, that’s what the name means! Never took the time to look it up. For some years I would represent a design firm at the NeoCon furniture convention in Chicago, US and I was always drawn into the De Vorm booth… the last time I went they split the space into fully chromatic color sections, very cool.
