ABSTRACT
The Real Good Chair designed by Blu Dot was released in 2010, and is one in a series of designs which are both flat-packed and minimize the amount of waste created during their production. With the proliferation of fabrication equipment it has become readily apparent that designs more directly affect the amount of waste produced in manufacturing. By definition subtractive CNC equipment produces proportionately more waste than conventional assemblies. In industrial design processes nesting hundreds or thousands of components results in complex patterns, which otherwise would result in inefficient components. Blu Dot looks to manufacturing processes outside of conventional industrial design processes. Blu Dot developed a smart, elegant method for creating a fabrication jig to help the user assemble the chair. The computational process for modeling the chair begins with a designer's analysis of the body type they were intending to map, or by using developed standards for chair dimensions.
