This project was all about collaboration. I met Byron Sonnier, a graffiti artist in Birmingham, at a Bare Hands Gallery show where he was exhibiting his work. I was already hatching a plan to incorporate graphic art with furniture in a way that would be repeatable and highly customizable for the artist. I love how certain industrial designed items have become a canvas for 2D art (skateboards, t-shirts, ect.). By taking advantage of a simple 2D pattern cut with a CNC router and pieced together to form a 3D product, mass artistic customization would be possible.
So how it all went down was- I got a piece of plywood over to Byron (after I told him the idea, and after I borrowed a friends pickup), and he tagged it with his own graffiti style. Then I had another friend carry the board down to Auburn and the chair was cut out by Auburn’s Industrial Design professor Chris Arnold (and he gets credit for the first two pictures too, thanks Chris). Finally my parents delivered the cut pieces back to me and I assembled the chair.
To all who helped out- I salute you.
