CHESS SET
Timeline:
5 weeks (March/April 2025)
Project Theme:
Cohesive family of form to convey an era of design while having a common piece across all forms
Initial Inspiration Board of my Design Era
My snippet of the entirety of Art Deco is within the early 1930s and the monarchial sculptures that came from romanticizing the Ancient Greek and Roman Architecture.
Initial Sketch Page of Individual Pieces
Branching from Ancient Greek influence and and stair-stepped architecture, a lot of dramatic tapers and scallops appear in the forms
Direction Development
Concepts are further developed into families to understand how the pieces will interact with each other, moving towards renderings, the final direction is being developed alongside possible common bases.
Ancient Roman statue influence
Architecture lens of Art Deco
Memphis design influence
Render of bases respective to forms
Practicality and Final Direction Decision
The practicality of material usage is conceptualized and family of form is chosen. Molds are made of Oomoo rubber and casted with liquid plastic.
Model of planned mold of Piece
Laser Cutting program of Transparent red acrylic sheet
Actual Mold used to create Common Piece
Spray Booth with CMF test
Final Product
Physical prototypes of each chess piece to express the family of acrylic headdresses and resin cast common pieces
