Chair Avatars
This is a display area for my spare chairs - my previous avatars.
Why Chairs?
Chairs symbolize social interaction. They invite you to sit down and stay a while; take a load off. You're probably sitting right now. We sit down to digest news. We sit to think. We sit to be social. You might say chairs are the first social media. Okay, you wouldn't but let's pretend.
There are awesome looking chairs that are painful to sit on (talkin' to you Frank Lloyd Wright and owners of Indian restaurants everywhere). There are comfy chairs that look ugly. Chairs fit all situations - from thrones to bean-bags. Lawn chairs say "relax, enjoy the weather." Kitchen chairs say "have a bite." Dentists' chairs say "sit down and scream a while."
Since joining Twitter in '07, I've experimented with a dynamic avatar - it's recognizable as my stream, but changes often. Happy to have you 'follow' me and join the conversation. Pull up a chair.
The avatars begin below...
Feb 17, 2011
Eero Aarnio Subtraction. The Ring Chair introduced by Eero Aarnio in 2009 is a cool idea. Take his iconic 1966 ball chair, or more accurately his '68 bubble chair and remove the bubble. 
You can see the thinking. There are materials available that can support the occupant without the ball's structure - so why not lose it? In my usual silhouette presentation, you get the effect quite well. There is even a clear version of the bubble chair that would probably look exactly the same at 100 paces. It's a great play on his original work.
