Category: @About Chairblog and More

More about Chair Blog and its authors

Cool Cardboard Stool by Ori Yekutier – Indexhibit (2)

Cool Cardboard Stool by Ori Yekutier

Introduction to a new category

I’ve been very busy under the hood of this blog (see also this post). Weeding out tons of bad links has the advantage of digging deeper into your old stuff. I came across my post Indexhibit (1) – Eric Ku. In the meantime I have seen a very interesting series of articles on Core77: about how 2 young New York City based designers had set up their business with huge success. They stressed the importance of starting with a professional web appearance while they were still prototyping in a shed. I’ll refer to those later. The main conclusion is that designers need to have guidance with their web presence. They may be decent designers, but they have to sell in order to be able to do what they want to do: creating wonderful design. Also while blogging, I’ve seen numerous bad designed sites and bad webdesign practices (PUT FLASH IN THE WASTEBASKET!) both from designers and from professional manufacturers and distributors. All while there is a very simple tool: Indexhibit. Also for me the Indexhibit community is a good source for new stuff. The conclusion is that before I write a page, and later maybe a book about good web practice for chair designers, I’ll start with a new category Indexhibit, just to make the readers aware what you can do with this simple tool. I migh start builing a site to see how easy or difficult it is. Off course there are other ways and solutions like for instance WordPress, but they (may) come in future posts.

As a sequel I’ve reactivated Chair Blog | Tumblr to be able to quickly make scraps of inter alia my new Indexhibit finds.

About Ori Yekutiel:

Designer, Artist, Craftsman. Born in 1981. Resides in Israel. In 2010 graduated with honors his studies of Industrial Design at the Bezalel’s Academy of Art & Design. Ori’s work is inspired by nature. From nature, he says, we can learn patience, modesty and how to find the harmony between functionality and beauty. It is not uncommon for “mistakes” to happened during the process of creation. These mistakes can became a source of inspiration and a turning point in the development of the project, that’s why one should keep his eyes end mind wide open to Seize such opportunities.

About Ori’s website

I believe Ori’s website is a good example of how you can present yourself in a professional way with very good photography. Navigation could be addressed a bit more precise.

With a Dash of Gold

With a Dash of Gold

With a Dash of Gold

Our Julia’s new aventure:

withadashofgold:

Mini Treat

Limited Edition gold Panton miniature chair – only 500 pieces made to celebrate the opening of the Panton Chair exhibition at the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery in 2009.

(via chairblog.eu)

Imported from Chairblog | Tumblr on August 7, 2012

Chair Blog Maintenance

Rapair a Chair Leg by Universal Upholstering

When your blog grows, its maintenance grows. Sigh.

A little update:

  • Sadly I had to replace the very handy page navigation slider (called paginator) here above with a more conventional page navigation plugin (WP PageNavi), because it gave too many 404 errors.
  • Also I had to replace the translation (translator) plugin in the sidebar for a simpler Google Translate widget, because it generated too many errors and server issues.
  • I found a nifty plugin Broken Link Checker that will help us weed out all dead links. Consequently many comments with dead links or of a spammy nature will be deleted in the process.
  • Finally the social buttons are moved. Now you can find them below separate posts rather than on pages.

All measures are aimed to have the blog load as fast and smoth as possible.

Back under the hood.

I found the image at Universal Upholstering

Ben K. Mickus Relief Chair added to Cooper Hewitt Collection

Relief-Chair-by-Ben-K-Mickus
A long time ago we featured the Relief Chair by Ben K. Mickus.

Last year Cooper Hewitt added it to its permanent collection.

I revisited his site because I remembered it is exemplary with respect to public relations: For instance Bloggers who have mentioned the chair get a whole page (click “news” and “blogs” on his site):

Mickus-Projects-Press-Page-Bloggers

Exemplary in design and simplicity: The thumbnails are linked to a pdf of the article and the www link under the thums link to the actual article.

Fondly I saw the old layout of our site: For a long time we’ve used the WordPress default theme:

chair-blog-relief-chair

So you can see blogs do change their lay out. Also I’ve noticed I changed the title of the post and I see other things I don’t do anymore. Oh Nostalgia.

On the other hand I’d hoped to see Ben going on with designing some more chairs.

Note: in writing this post I got so annoyed with the load time of the posts and pages due to load time consuming social bookmarks that I’ve totally disabled them. Sorry lads and lasses!

Theme Change

You see us experimenting with our theme as it appears after the migration to Amsterdam newer posts don’t show in Mac browsers….. It also appears the feedreader feed and feedburner don’t sync….

Update

The theme had nothing to do with the problem.

In one way or another it had to do with the caching plugin installed here which also writes to the .htaccess file and in one way or another keeps serving an obsolete home page.

I’ve now deleted the caching plugin and the .htaccess file and will start again. First with a couple of posts and then with reinstalling the caching plugin….we will see.

As long as no caching is enabled the load time of the blog will be extremely slow…..sorry for the inconvenience in the meantime.