Dodo Multifunctional Chair by Mohammad Enjavi Amiri

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DI: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?

MEA : the main principle is simplicity and the inspirations comes from a cube and my childhood memories, when i played with the combs

DI: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?

MEA : simplicity with high efficiency

DI: What are your future plans for this award winning design?

MEA : i will send this chair to the other award competitions and i will get a contract for it

DI: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?

MEA : about one or two month

DI: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?

MEA : i love this chair, no its not been commissioned, i just decided to pursuit my inspiration

DI: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?

MEA : no its not produce yet, but i want to sell this design to furniture companies

DI: What made you design this particular type of work?

MEA : Curiosity

DI: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?

MEA : no, its just my creativity

DI: Who is the target customer for his design?

MEA : every one, specially people who lives in apartments

DI: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?

MEA : simplicity and creativity

DI: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?

MEA : from a special font, DODO is looks like my design shape

DI: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?

MEA : sketches, solidworks modeling and analyses, keyshot rendering

DI: What is the most unique aspect of your design?

MEA : simplicity

DI: What is the role of technology in this particular design?

MEA : the joints come from aluminium profiles and made with extrusion, and the body an arms made from simple wood working

DI: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?

MEA : people life styles, and aesthetics researches push me to design this product this way

DI: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?

MEA : shape of arms, function of joints, specially the main joint, com-like structure

DI: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?

MEA : there was a lot of positive comment on this design from good designers and good manufactures, so i decide to submit it

DI: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?

MEA : managing the all processes during the design like mechanisms, shapes and etc.

DI: Any other things you would like to cover that have not been covered in these questions?

MEA : no thanks.