Ready for our presentation at Ralph Cappers tomorrow at 2.30. It's been a great two weeks working with all the first and second years on some amazing designs. Looking forward to showcasing the finished results tomorrow.

Another manic day in the workshop. Everyone's prototypes are coming on strong and are nearly there!

Our feedback from last week was to try and do a dry joint in the tripod stool. That means working the timber to make the fit as perfect as possible, otherwise it'll fall apart. Wait and see the finished thing!

Andrea sat on the end result of today's work. The first stool is almost ready, we'll get started on the next one in the morning!

Michael and Viktoria are working hard on their superb hammock chair. The white oak is proving tough to work with, being a hard wood, but we're getting there with it!

We chose what we thought would be a simplistic elegant design for the stool. It turns out it's quite complicated, the joint is called a tripod burr and is a bit of a puzzle. Here's a maquette we made to help keep track of where to cut on the real deal.

Cut and sanded to the millimeter to make sure our joins look perfect.

One of our first years, Lucy, working on a biscuit joint for her stool.

Calm before the storm in B15 this morning. Lots of furniture to be made today with two events groups filling it out.

Looking forward to turning these scale models into the final things by the end of the week. Another busy day ahead in B15 tomorrow to make it happen!

We listened carefully to our collaborators, Ralph Cappers, feedback last week and have worked hard today in the workshop to progress our designs. As always, we're hitting a few obstacles along the way but that's the creative process!

One of our first years, Hayley, being taught how to do a dowel joint, to test the effectiveness of it for the 3 legged stool.

The girls finished figuring out the complicated weave of the hammock chair on Friday. Materials, joins and weaves are now known which means they're ready to go on Monday morning... 1:1 here we come!

We worked through some of the most important joints at a 1.1 scale ahead of our crit this afternoon with our collaborator, Ralph Capper. This photo is from the joint of a beautiful 3 legged stool in the making.

A pin up of our individual chair designs on Monday. We did 3 drawings each, timed to 10 minutes, then 30 and finally an hour. We had some impressive ideas all round that have lead to some great group designs.