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October 03, 2006
Aura Your Rug
We all have fond memories of candies from our childhood. We all remember our favorite kind, the smell of them and how they felt in our hands and how they tasted in our mouth. Candies can also take us back to a certain nostalgic moment of our past. All candies come in different textures, smells and thicknesses. In multiples and masses, they bring out an amazing texture and glow when given the correct lighting and form.
I want to explore an unconventional usage of this edible material to make a living furniture piece; specifically a rug, that would pleasantly surprise the user.
I will attempt at making a blob- like structure to accentuate the original form of the candies. This piece plays on the idea of repetition and patterns. The structure is formed with different candies and a big piece of white spandex fabric.
All furniture pieces should accommodate to and comfort our natural body form- blob-like, smooth, un-cornered, un- straight-edged surfaces and contact areas. A comfortable piece of furniture ought to mold right into our natural body form. I will create this ideal piece that can be personalized according to different users.
What I envision in one-liner
An organic structure that takes the form of a rug that would light up around (the aura) as one touches or lays on it.
au‧ra
–noun
1. a distinctive and pervasive quality or character; air; atmosphere: an aura of respectability; an aura of friendliness.
2. a subtly pervasive quality or atmosphere seen as emanating from a person, place, or thing.
3. Pathology. a sensation, as of lights or a current of warm or cold air, preceding an attack of migraine or epilepsy.
Initial BrainStorming
Posted by min at October 3, 2006 11:41 PM