Droog
The designer droog explores the more conceptual design for a chair by smashing up steel boxes to create these intense, unique designs, I personally found the work eye opening as I have never thought to explore three dimensional design in a conceptual way and have always thought it only to be used for practical use.
Frei Otto
Frei Otto specialises in lightweight tensile and membrane structures and his work gave me true insight into how architecture can be as fluid and creative as any other art form as I always naively thought that there were far too many restrictions to have creative freedom but Otto has mastered within these restriction to create these beautiful abstract creation that look somewhat other worldly.
Ron Arad
Ron Arad is another example of reusing material to make entirely unique products as he had the ingenious idea to take seats from vintage cars to make chairs, it seems simple but he was the first to ever think of it and he created alongside such a sleek design that these chairs are now worth s small fortune.
I adore Nealey's work as I have never thought of abstracting jewellery in such a unique and creative way. I have also never thought of any other hand jewellery apart from a ring or a bracelet and am now enthralled in these new ideas of what jewellery can be and how you you transform it to attach to so many body parts.
Martino Gamper (100 Chairs in 100 days)
Gamper gave me an insight to the how some of the most interesting designs come for recycled materials, my initial thought to having to only use parts of old chairs was that it would be extremely restrictive but Gamper used this 'rule' to let his imagination thrive and crate amazingly unique designs.
Buckminster Fuller
Buckminster Fuller was the most useful architect to research due to the nature of the project as he designs and joins shapes in such unique and complex ways that it gave me such high aspiration to when designing our shape based model.
The style of Art Nouveau is prominent in its architecture as it embraces the aesthetic of nature with its decorative flowers, leaves and branches. I have always adored this decorative style as it works against the eclectic styles that dominated European architecture and rejects restrictions and embraces movement and creativity.