Six Chairs and their Poesy

A poster that evaluates six iconic chairs for their poesy against one possible metric of evaluation.

The genesis of this project lies within my attempt to define the alternate modicum of design practice that I refer to as design poetics and evince its qualitative expression within works other than my own. This project is accompanied by a short essay that expounds the contradistinction between more prevalent design praxis (such as human-centred design) and design poetics. Succinctly, the medium of poetic expression focuses on four qualities: Fantasy and Plurality, Reflectivity, Transcendence and Subvention. These qualities may be thought of as being in contrast to the following qualities in prevalent design practices: Reality and Factuality, Observation, Translation and Intervention.

The diagrams themselves are fashioned after the popular “spider plots” often seen as a visualisation technique in the world of data narratives.