Seb Tam
Seb is a multi-disciplinary designer and maker based in London and Hong Kong. Driven by an expansive artistic curiosity, he seeks to inspire an optimistic future enabled by innovative design and frontier technologies. His work ranges from furniture design and installation art to speculative futures and prosthetic augmentation.
As a maker of physical form, his creative method is defined by a desire to push materials and textures beyond their perceived aesthetic, functional and cultural limits. Involving extensive experimentation and research, his process blends avant-garde production with socially informed narratives. As a co-founder at Blurry Works, he now works with artists, start-ups and museums to define tomorrow’s products and experiences. / @seb.3dm
Experience:Co-founder, Blurry Works; Creative Technologist, CHAP; Architectural Designer, Aedas; Architectural Designer, Unknown Works
MSc Innovation Design Engineering, Imperial College London; MA Innovation Design Engineering, Royal College of Art; MA Architecture, University of Edinburgh
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Designed by Seb Tam.
Helix Chair Prototype 1 is a scale model forming the foundational beginning to the ongoing exploratory journey towards the Helix Chair.
Inspired in part by the occasional lull in a billowing line of smoke coming from the late night burning of an incense stick, the starting point was to capture the essence of movement in a static form, turning the act of sitting into an experience of suspended animation. Twisting ribbons of vapor are translated into flowing sheets of wood and metal.
The first in a series of ongoing prototypes, Helix Chair Prototype 1 is an expression of the Helix design language in 2mm mild steel and found wood.
— Care: Wipe clean with a damp cloth
— Size (L x W x H): 40 x 22 x 35 cm / 15.74 x 8.66 x 13.77 in
— Weight: 1.5 kg / 3.30 lb
— Materials: Mild Steel, Found Wood