A2 Design project - Designers Desk

[LERsince1991]

Great looking desk. That website in the OP has to be one of the most intuitive website I have ever come across....I love the page flipping, and how you can drag the pages.

Thanks! Great compliment.
Funnily enough it was the first thing I did on InDesign... Well most of it in Illustrator which was a mistake, I was learning... always am.
The page flipping was just something I stumbled across in the transitions in ID.
The quality is quite low in the website as it was done in Ai and I think the pages were rasterized.

I'm actually building a new website at the moment to go with a new colour scheme of steel grey, orange and white. I've also got a new rendering program called hypershot so I re-rendered every image last night, so much better!

Anyway, Thanks mate!
Oh and heres my contact card with the new colour scheme, fonts, style and renders.
Need anything drop me a line

 

[Darth.Titan]

While not wanting to be a nitpicker, you should see about spellchecking the website and PDFs. Without overly scrutinizing I caught the words "necessity" and "unparalleled" rather glaringly misspelled.
Just FYI

 

[LERsince1991]

While not wanting to be a nitpicker, you should see about spellchecking the website and PDFs. Without overly scrutinizing I caught the words "necessity" and "unparalleled" rather glaringly misspelled.
Just FYI

Ah right I looked through a couple of times. I will do a proper spell check with the new one thanks.

 

[iTzChasE]

Hello, not trying to bug you, but has there been any progress on the desk?

 

[LERsince1991]

Hello, not trying to bug you, but has there been any progress on the desk?

No problem mate... Well i would surely update this thread if anything had happened I assure you but I'm afraid not... But soon (atlast)

The engineering company I am using has been unable to process my details for some time but I've been calling them every day for the last few weeks (not always getting through), as well as emailing them and YAY. They are laser cutting everything tomorrow and machining then powder coating the following days...

Wait until Friday or Monday and There WILL be a big update here.

I've been building a website with a professional web designer as well as a lot of school work and uni things mainly... Sorted out a lot today

 

[LERsince1991]

Major Update

Ok so in theory it should be finished but theres problems haha

BUT the steel HAS arrived and heres some photos!

the problems:
- The speaker grilles haven't got any pins/pegs on so I can't fasten them to the worktop yet... the steel company may send them with the pegs soon. I have 4 of them already haha but they were done for free Expensive cup matts (I'm going to add some little rubber feet). For the pics I used some blue-tack...

- The legs don't have the pegs either, I may have a solution though but I will speak to the steel company see what they say...

- The square perforated box platform was like £300++ so that was out of the option for now.. will come up with a solution hopefully though, see what happens.


The structure is very strong though, I recon 3 people could stand on it but I just stood on it and lay on it... didn't want to push it...

HERE IT IS!
(I'm going to try and take some better photos tomorrow but I'm not sure what to do for a backdrop, white blankets make the worktop disappear!...)

 

[-Ryan-]

That really does look very good. Would look really great in a room with black walls rather than white

 

[fireshot91]

Just noticed your birthday is March 22.


So is mine.


Nice desk by the way, I think it could really help clear a lot of space for people!
I think it'd be better if there were different color options or something- Just an idea.

 

[design-is]

Final product looks great! Shame the steel undercarriage is going to be so costly! Nevertheless, it's a great concept that's been excellently realised - especially since you're only at A-Level level

 

[iTzChasE]

I. WANT. THAT. DESK!!! Looks amazing.

 

[-Ryan-]

Just noticed your birthday is March 22.


So is mine.

Ha, I mentioned the same thing earlier in the thread. There's three of us here now!

 

[jordygreen]

wow that fully puts my speaker design that I manufactured to shame ha.

It looks brilliant!

 

[LERsince1991]

Thanks for the support/comments everyone!

Haha March 22nd is a good day for 3 us of then

 

[Olivier81]

looks good - I have a glass desk with chrome trestles and cables are a nightmare (not in yours)
I made an electric guitar for my a-level this year. The bodys a block of clear acrylic and the necks zebrawood. Luckily I get to take it home as my school said forget about the moderators!

 

[HudsonsHalfHour]

Thanks for the support/comments everyone!

Haha March 22nd is a good day for 3 us of then

Amazes me that so few apple style desks are out there for the public to buy, the choice we're left with is pathetic. You buy an elegant machine like an imac and have to stick it on a collection of plywood pieces.

You should do one in the style of the apple genius bar desk, but of course on a smaller scale. Big chunky blocks of beech….

 

[LERsince1991]

Amazes me that so few apple style desks are out there for the public to buy, the choice we're left with is pathetic. You buy an elegant machine like an imac and have to stick it on a collection of plywood pieces.

You should do one in the style of the apple genius bar desk, but of course on a smaller scale. Big chunky blocks of beech….

Not a bad idea about the apple store desks... (they're not solid though ) they have LOTS of hidden areas for cables and equipment. Good idea though.




JUST THOUGHT I WOULD TELL PEOPLE...
I've been selected as one of 20 finalists to exhibit a design in London on 19th of June for the Young Designers Competition with the chance to win 2 £1000 prizes, a guaranteed £20 for attending, great publicity, great experience and something to add to the CV and stuff.

Dulwich College - London - 19th June 2009 - 1pm to 5pm

 

[Sommer]

JUST THOUGHT I WOULD TELL PEOPLE...
I've been selected as one of 20 finalists to exhibit a design in London on 19th of June for the Young Designers Competition with the chance to win 2 £1000 prizes, a guaranteed £20 for attending, great publicity, great experience and something to add to the CV and stuff.

Dulwich College - London - 19th June 2009 - 1pm to 5pm

Heya! Congratz! I hope you will share both the result and some pictures of the competition you are up against with us!

I love your table. How much did you spend on it so far?

I have a very special corner in my room and you definately inspired me to built my own desktop as well... I already did my own TV-stand.

By the way... is it a special company that painted the table?? Because to be honest my TV-stand was painted kind of ugly. So I would love a hint for that as well - then I can maybe get a repaint for it!

Great work! Great handcraft! I love it... And a pricetag for 200-300£ I would buy it if it was available close to me. Yeah, I love it!

However I have a suggestion (which I guess kind of sucks with your design).
I like my screen to be placed in the far left side of the desktop. This leaves me room for big stacks of paper, etc. which I am kind of keen on.

So you should make it "optional position" of the screen thingy, so people can get it wide, not at all, either sides, etc.

Good work and good luck!

 

[LERsince1991]

Heya! Congratz! I hope you will share both the result and some pictures of the competition you are up against with us!

I love your table. How much did you spend on it so far?

I have a very special corner in my room and you definately inspired me to built my own desktop as well... I already did my own TV-stand.

By the way... is it a special company that painted the table?? Because to be honest my TV-stand was painted kind of ugly. So I would love a hint for that as well - then I can maybe get a repaint for it!

Great work! Great handcraft! I love it... And a pricetag for 200-300£ I would buy it if it was available close to me. Yeah, I love it!

However I have a suggestion (which I guess kind of sucks with your design).
I like my screen to be placed in the far left side of the desktop. This leaves me room for big stacks of paper, etc. which I am kind of keen on.

So you should make it "optional position" of the screen thingy, so people can get it wide, not at all, either sides, etc.

Good work and good luck!

Thanks for the suggestion. I have made some changes to the design on paper which if I built another could be added.

- Extra cable tunnel from the top left of the worktop straight through into the equipment bay... Use for laptops and also because the monitor stand isn't attached it could also be used with this 'hole' to neaten things up.

- Optional drawing board attachment which would run up and down along a groove in the left side of the worktop.

- Lightbox may be added and also the equipment bay would be more integrated into the worktop like the design is (just didn't have time in the prototype)

As for the paint I got a high-end specialist commercial spray company to do it for me as I had a family friend in the industry that asked a favour... he lost money but wanted to support me. Cost quite a bit though but for a tv cabinet you'd be looking at about £100 + transport so...

Also I'm not sure I should say how much I've spent on it so far...
Custom solid steel, laser cut, powder coated + worktop + electronic components + sealed, high end drawer runners + leather for drawers + Paint job etc...

You do the maths

Edit: Oh and if you check the link in my sig in about a week you and I will be able to see the competition I will be up against... fingers crossed.

 

[Jozone]

just found this thread.. amazing work, although you've got me wanting something that i cant buy!

 

[LERsince1991]

just found this thread.. amazing work, although you've got me wanting something that i cant buy!

Thanks! Haha

P.S. Unfortunately I didn't win the Young Designers competition 2009 but I guess I didn't sell the idea well enough to the judges... I forgot a lot of stuff.