VIDEO: Student Chronicles Challenging Chair Design Project

The University of Cincinnati's

nationally number-one ranked

industrial design program, part of the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP), traditionally requires undergraduates to incorporate three of five Japanese design elements into the construction of a chair – cleverness, craftsmanship, compactness, asymmetry and simplicity.

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