drew|merryman

i have been living without some necessary furniture for a while. one piece of furniture i’ve needed for the longest time has been a simple bookshelf. i guess the main reason i haven’t purchased a bookshelf yet is because i haven’t found one that i liked. looking back at it i guess it’s kind of comical how i would rather do without than to purchase something sub-standard. well… maybe that’s not the comical part. the comical part right now is seeing a small collection of books on my hardwood floor that i’ve vacuumed around for the past… uh… while.

with the design process, i wish i somehow recorded my ideas, when they hit me, or how i came across them. looking back, i think around the time i was trying to come up with a general shape or the materials, i was chin deep in a project in north vancouver where an artist used this sort of west-coast industrial shipyard theme and applied it to a new community development site. everything from the buildings, to the sidewalk benches, the lamp posts, etc, it all carried this solid, heavy duty theme in all it’s features. it was very inspiring to see things overbuilt. i can probably attribute this sort of concept to my bookshelf design.

multiple things got in the way and eventually i lost interest in developing my cad model, hence materials were never purchased and the bookshelf was never built. and those books lying on the floor began to stare at me, the authors all hissing and booing every time i walked past.

looking at the progress that i made, and what little changes i’d make to finalize my idea, i really don’t think it would take much time to get cracking on it again. i’m thinking some leveling feet and some sort of backing would finish it. and it would push me to start buying the materials and get my hands working on something other than a keyboard and mouse again.