Bristol Stool Chart Images

An online catalog, on the other hand, is often a bottomless pit, an endless scroll of options. Sketching is fast, cheap, and disposable, which encourages exploration of many different ideas without getting emotionally attached to any single one. For a chair design, for instance: What if we *substitute* the wood with recycled plastic? What if we *combine* it with a bookshelf? How can we *adapt* the design of a bird's nest to its structure? Can we *modify* the scale to make it a giant's chair or a doll's chair? What if we *put it to another use* as a plant stand? What if we *eliminate* the backrest? What if we *reverse* it and hang it from the ceiling? Most of the results will be absurd, but the process forces you to break out of your conventional thinking patterns and can sometimes lead to a genuinely innovative breakthrough. The number is always the first thing you see, and it is designed to be the last thing you remember. To hold this sample is to feel the cool, confident optimism of the post-war era, a time when it seemed possible to redesign the entire world along more rational and beautiful lines. The printable chart is not a monolithic, one-size-fits-all solution but rather a flexible framework for externalizing and structuring thought, which morphs to meet the primary psychological challenge of its user.