Project Timeline: 15 weeks - Junior Year - 1st semester studio
Group Project: Annie Roo & Mychajlo Johnson
Project Objective: To design, manufacture, and sell a sustainability-conscious homegood at a small scale
instructed by: Professor William Nickley
A HANGER MADE FROM CLOTHES
LAMBDA hangers are made from old denim and other textiles that have been thrown away with the intention to give these clothes a new life as "Clothes hanging from clothes".
From the textiles we found, we went through the process of layering them and soaking them in epoxy to create an extremely strong and durable material that not only holds tremendous weight but allows for it to last more than a lifetime.
RESEARCH TRANSLATION
Our team received an ethnographic-style research packet from a fellow student group about fashion on Ohio State campus and did some ideation and brainstorming with three major insights by thinking about what housewares, materials/processes, and sustainability might yield before deciding that a clothes hanger was our best choice for a housewares product integrating fashion, new materials and processes, and sustainability in a unique way.
CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT
Initial ideation sketch by Mylo
Thumbnail ideations by Mylo
Annie's sketches on form refinement & cutout ideations on a sheet of micarta
Form Inspiration
To look for shape and form inspiration, our team took to the field of radio frequency (RF) engineering. As our material involved the layering of textiles, we noted the correlation between this act and the nature of RF (being layers of overlapping frequencies) and took three essential symbols: LAMBDA (λ), PI (π), and GAMMA (γ) to serve as the basis of our hangers.
PROTOTYPE process
WINTER MARKET
Our team was asked to create a minimum of ten products to sell at a small-scale outdoor winter market on Ohio State campus.
We completely sold out of our GAMMA hat and scarf hanger immediately and went on to sell more than 10 of our products in the span of two hours making a total of $255.00 in revenue.
We completely sold out of our GAMMA hat and scarf hanger immediately and went on to sell more than 10 of our products in the span of two hours making a total of $255.00 in revenue.
MAJOR TAKEAWAYS
Our team was asked to create a minimum of ten products to sell at a small-scale outdoor winter market on Ohio State campus.
We completely sold out of our GAMMA hat and scarf hanger immediately and went on to sell more than 10 of our products in the span of two hours making a total of $255.00 in revenue.
We completely sold out of our GAMMA hat and scarf hanger immediately and went on to sell more than 10 of our products in the span of two hours making a total of $255.00 in revenue.
From this, our major takeaways were that our concept had a very unique and compelling narrative for sustainability and how it addresses waste in the fashion industry alongside some items we could address in terms of manufacturing and design.
We realized that the hanger with the most unique shape is the GAMMA, which we should have emphasized more and manufactured more of for the winter market. LAMBDA and PI could utilize some additional form refinement and abstraction to be more of a compelling hanger for people to buy and use.
During manufacturing, we had some issues with the resin and finishing that could have been resolved with an additional flood coat if the time frame was more accomodating. This project, while successful to a certain extent, could have done well with additional time for manufacturing as well as additional refinement and iteration.
During manufacturing, we had some issues with the resin and finishing that could have been resolved with an additional flood coat if the time frame was more accomodating. This project, while successful to a certain extent, could have done well with additional time for manufacturing as well as additional refinement and iteration.