Senior Project Proposal
Travis Bernerd Bookler ~ Furniture Design


My senior project adventure begins with the idea of congregating my favorite projects, aesthetics, and skills I have learned and made here at MCAD as a furniture designer and try create a series of pieces that show for it.

I also want to inject new research, methods, process, and aesthetics into these pieces.

I thought what better a place to work this idea out than in my own home. I am designing from my favorite things, why not let it be for the place I live.

The process starts with one piece, a favorite of mine. A coffee table made of walnut. It resides in my living room, and from this piece I will design new pieces from existing ones and the spaces they occupy.

The “new” stuff I mentioned earlier, and the first phase of this project, will involve digitally re-designing the old coffee table so it can be made easier, faster, with improved craftsmanship, and able to be reproduced from the resulting jigs, templates, measurements, and techniques.

The next two pieces will be rooted in the same aesthetic vein as the coffee table to match and complete the room, but are new pieces so they also have new and more abundant aesthetic, research and experience in their conception.

These new pieces will be two end table and lamp combinations made to fit into their existing space and match their existing purpose.

The same techniques of design and construction as the coffee table will be used for their bases, but new methods in wiring, lighting, and shade conception and construction will be used to complete them as new and independent pieces, yet match the aesthetic of the room.

The final piece I want to make will be a simple entertainment stand using the same methods of design and mostly the same methods of constructions, but a mostly new aesthetic and some new processes will give it its own identity while still tying it to the room.

More in the future on that……..