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    Creative Furniture/ Product Designer & Visualiser

    A l e x a n d e r D a v i d5 Bradeld Close | Leicester | Leicestershire | LE5 5FB | United Kingdom

    [email protected] | 07504758198

    www.alexdavid.co.uk

    Help Me - Help You | Wiremongery | Isokon Donkey | Io Chair | All Nations Centre Lectern | Corian Lectern | Hitchko

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    Help Me - Help You Range

    Atlas Coaster

    Everyone gets stressed so wouldnt it be niceto lighten the load on your own shouldersand let someone else take care o it? Well At-las is taking a break rom carrying the worldto carry your biscuits.

    Materials: Mild Steel and solid birch.

    Dim: L95 x W90 x H65mm

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    Help Me - Help You Range

    On The Pull

    Memo Block Stand

    Takes your memo notes wherever you like orcan even be used as a coaster. Many o us canrelate to working or others but On The Pull

    is working or you. Many Egyptians moved2.5 ton blocks o limestone to build the greatpyramids and this is is an example or theuser to look at to remind them that there issomeone just as loyal and dedicated to help-ing them even in that stressed hour o need.

    Materials: Mild steel, solid Birch and Ash

    Dim: L200 x W80 x H100mm

    Help Me - Help You Range

    Hard Up

    Candle Holder

    Penetrates candles up to 110mm in diameterto hold them in place. Hard Up playully re-erences what can oten be associated withlighting candles in a home. The powder coatnish provides a durable surace to dealwith relatively high temperatures and is alsoscratch resistant which means it is easy to

    clean and maintain.

    Materials: Mild Steel and Solid Birch

    Dim: L130 x W120 x H20mm

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    Wiremongery

    Swingers - Egg Holder

    Most people have ond memories as a childplaying on swings and perhaps a ew romadulthood. Either way it evokes somethingto think about during the morning slump.

    Materials: Copper coated mild steel, powdercoat

    Dim: L300 x W150 x H180mm

    Wiremongery

    Top Shel - Egg Holder

    Where there should be solid shelves there isonly negative space which makes it ideal orthe round eggs. Sometimes the best thingsare on the top shel so the user can take thebest eggs rom the top shel but only when

    no one is looking.

    Materials: Copper coated mild steel, powdercoat

    Dim: L130 x W60 x H210mm

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    Isokon Donkey

    This compact 360 degree piece o urnitureis designed or a contemporary living space.It provides convenient storage or consoles,games, DVDs, magazines, remote controls,phones, keys and other miscellaneous items.

    There is a spacer which is a structural supporton both sides which prevents smaller casesrom sliding too ar into the shell o the don-key making them dicult to retrieve but alsoacts as a mini secret shel or smaller items

    like a set o keys. The height o the donkey isthe same as ordinary chairs so it can be usedas an additional seat or used simply as an ex-tra work surace. The slope is the optimal an-gle or a back rest i the user sits on the oorwhilst having easy access to all the compart-ments. The ofset compartment at the bot-tom is to accomodate various console acce-sories including handheld games.

    Materials: Plywood and Aero Ply

    Dim: L529 x W285 x H430mm

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    Io Chair

    In collaboration with Martino Gamper thisproject was about using parts o disused,broken chairs and breathing new lie intothem by creating new pieces o urniture. Thischair was made rom several others and isthe opposite o what the typical abandonedchair would look like. Its surace is highly pol-ished and reective like a new chair. Its namecomes rom Jupiters inner most satellite Iowhich resuraces itsel every century dueto volcanic activity and is thereore highly

    reective. Io was exhibited at the Victoria &Albert Museum as part o the French Con-nection Friday Late - Home Sweet Home ex-hibition.

    Materials: Chrome plated steel

    Aprox Dim : L550 x W500 x H1100mm

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    All Nations Centre

    Lectern

    It is nished with a pale turqoise powdercoat

    Materials: Powder coated sheet steel andpolycarbonate

    Aprox Dim: L750 x W500 x H1200mm

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    Corian Lectern

    Corian was used to create a single orm tohold everything that is required to give apresentation joining the notes, accessoriesand speaker together all on a single plat-orm. For added condence the speaker hasa step to stand on which elevates the speak-er above an audience. The idea o the stepis inspired rom pulpits and alters rom tradi-tional churches but the single step is not asdominating as its predecessors.

    Materials: Corian and Medium Density Fibre-board

    Dim: L820 x W600 x H1377mm

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    Prototyping and testing is important andbeing heavily involved in this process helpsto give an advantage as to where pit allsmay occur in the manuacturing process

    It is then a much easier process to rene andperect thereater

    Corian bends and moulds once heated andpressure is applied. It also can be seamlessly

    joined making it a perect material or thislectern

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