How will you use your Chaboo?

I originally designed Chaboo for myself.  I like small spaces, I like sitting on the floor, and I wanted a piece of dynamic/versatile furniture.  Chaboo is meant to be furniture that you use in many many different ways and move everyday.

Im having my friend from RISD, Chris Towery do some illustrations demonstrating the different uses.  I sent him photos I took of my mom and brother using the chaboo in various ways.  Chris is an excellent designer who did the original design for my Tomitadesigns logo back in the day.  He is a graphic designer for Quicksilver now and likes to sketch jazz bands in his leisure time.

I like the okapi one the best!  Pretty sweet….

My friend Cameron Davis went from leading scorer on the RISD basketball team to superstar illustrator/character developer for the guitar hero video game franchise in the blink of an eye.  Im lucky to have him onboard for Project Chaboo.  I thought all Cameron could do was shoot 3s.  I was wrong… dead wrong.  Handing out the assists now!

I met with a silkscreening expert today to try and figure out how to print illustrations directly onto Chaboos.  Im still working out the process on how that will actually happen and what limitations I will have to place on artists who will not be directly working onto the material.

It will be good to figure this out so we can branch out and do a limited edition line of screenprinted graphics rather than have everything be hand drawn.

My friend Alisha Wessler has joined in on Project Chaboo.  Im so glad to have her- she is one of my favorite artists. I helped her out a while back on a 24drawings by 24artists in 24hours project.  I gave her a bunch of small bamboo scraps which she illustrated on.  Her illustrations work really well with the bamboo so its only natural that she do a couple chaboos!