The Furniture Design Course will teach you furniture design and furniture making skills. The course is based on skills developed and used in a fully functioning furniture making studio. Learn from an expert in furniture making and woodworking. Norman Pirollo, woodworker and furniture maker for over 25 years, has work featured and published in magazines and books.
In this course, furniture design is explored. Good design is essential in a quality furniture piece. Good design minimizes wasted resources and provides a furniture maker with essential feedback and pause when creating furniture. Loosely translated, the design process keeps a maker from rushing into a potentially flawed furniture design. The checks and balances give pause to the process as well as streamlining the build. Develop your own furniture style and aesthetic. Selecting the right woods for a furniture design is critical in determining the appeal of a furniture piece.
As with most woodworkers, I was anxious to build furniture early on. With passage of time and several furniture projects later, the anxiety of simply creating work had passed. It was far more important to create a well-designed, striking piece of furniture. So I delved into furniture design, studied with renown furniture makers, and used this knowledge to develop a furniture design process that works.
In the online furniture design course you will acquire skills necessary to design and create your own unique furniture. Learn to develop your own style of furniture and aesthetic.
Course features video lectures on the following topics:
Furniture design overview, history of furniture design
Become familiar with furniture design process
Understand design process
Raise furniture designs to next level
How to select wood for a furniture design
Use mockups + prototypes to develop a furniture design
In-depth use of mockups to develop a furniture design
Create a furniture style for your furniture designs
Selecting a furniture style and aesthetic
Developing a furniture design
Getting proportions right in a furniture design
Using the dynamic design process in a furniture design
Use maquettes and prototypes in a furniture design
Use templates and CAD when designing your furniture
Wood selection, drawing, mockups, prototypes, CAD
Additional (2 hour) recorded lecture on Furniture Design
(2) video lectures on creating a niche & developing furniture to market
Norman has authored several books (New Art Press) and featured in publications.
Quiet Woodworking: In An Unquiet World (New Art Press)
Hand Tool Woodworking (New Art Press)
Start Woodworking (New Art Press)
Craftisian Interview (Norman Pirollo)
HackSpace Magazine – Make With Wood April 2020
Woodworking: From Design To Making (New Art Press)
Woodworking With Hand Tools 2018 (Fine Woodworking)
The Wood Artist: Creating Art Through Wood (New Art Press)
From Hi-Tech to Lo-Tech: A Woodworker’s Journey (New Art Press)
Start Your Own Woodworking Business (New Art Press)
Rooted: Contemporary Studio Furniture (Schiffer Publishing)
