Chair Avatars
This is a display area for my spare chairs - my various Twitter 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.
Some beautiful chairs are painful to sit on (talkin' to you Frank Lloyd Wright, and owners of Indian restaurants everywhere). Many comfy chairs can look quite ugly. Chairs can fit with 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."
As an early user of Twitter in '07, I began to explore a dynamic avatar idea – it was always easy to identify my feed based on the avatar's subject matter, but the actual image changed often. If you followed me and my meanderings, I hope you found the conversation fun and/or thoughtful. Pull up a chair.
The avatar history is captured below...
May 16, 2011
Nouveau Retro SpaceAge. A change of pace for the chairvatar gallery. Rather than classics from mid-twentieth century design, let's mix it up a bit and feature a funky design from Alberto Benedetti. He's a young designer from Verona via Milan, graduated from ID school in 2002. His Supernova chair has a feel of the 50's space-age aesthetic. It's one of those designs that I think you would sit on a bit gingerly at the start. The tapering vertical struts on the back are very thin, and I would double-check the finish of the supports in contact with the floor before I sat it on my hardwood, but I like the look, and definitely give it a try were I and my bum given the opportunity.
