Sheridan students come for a visit

We are happy to partner with Sheridan College, which has a great Furniture program in their Craft and Design Faculty. This is our second year setting a project with the Year 2 Commercial Furniture Class, taught by industrial designer Kirsten White. The course focuses on furniture design for production and introduces students to the concepts of designing product for a client, producing designs in multiples, designing for efficiency in production, cost considerations, etc.

We particularly enjoy the partnership because it gives us a chance to interact with the students and re-connect with the energy of student minds. We also offer the students the possibility of producing and adding their designs to our collection if they create a particularly successful project.

Having been design students ourselves, we remember the incredible importance of industry exposure and the valuable critiques of design professionals that helped to hone our design skills. We hope to pass on a bit of our experience and knowledge of the industry. In the end, everyone benefits.

The students recently joined us for a "grand tour" of the workshop.  

The students watch as Chad demonstrates machining on the CNC router.

Here Chad demonstrates our edgebander. 

For anyone who has edge-banded panels by hand (a time-consuming process), an edge-bander holds a certain special appeal!

The students join us in our office for a question and answer session after the tour of the workshop.