Dinosaur design
Inspired
by his two-year-old daughter’s fascination with dinosaurs, UniSA
industrial design student Jaime Sanchez has created a children’s chair
that also doubles as a toy.
The creative design earned the second-year student a spot as a finalist in a national showcase for new and upcoming designers – Vivid 2009.
The four-day exhibition was held in Melbourne in July, and while Sanchez’s design didn’t earn him any prizes, what he learnt and experienced was enough of a reward.
"It was very positive and I made lots of contacts with people in the field from manufacturers to interior designers," he says.
"It also gave me a lot of ideas about where to take my dinosaur design now, as well as a clearer idea about what to do in the future."
Sanchez, who works full-time as a senior business analyst, came to the realisation a few years ago that all the drawing, doodling and inventing that he day-dreamed about could actually be a new career, prompting him to take up part-time study.
"I like solving problems and coming up with solutions to make life easier," he says. "Even with this chair, I have a great sense of achievement that something that was once in my head is now real – a tangible object that people can use and enjoy.
"To be able to walk down the street and see someone using and appreciating something that I have helped design would be wonderful."
