I never planned to go into the office furniture industry, in fact I tried many things with varying levels of success before deciding one day that I was going to turn my job at a small office furniture manufacturer into a career. I spent 4 years on the shop floor running CNC machines, assembling, applying edge banding, before I was given an opportunity that was way out of my skill set. The owner of my company approached me one day and said there was a local poultry farm who wanted to renovate a small office and he asked me if I could go measure out the room and design them an office. I could have said no, that I didnt know how to do it, or that I was too busy with my other assignments but instead I said, "sure".
That day I became a designer, what I came up with wasn't impressive, but the customer liked it, and my boss was impressed that within two weeks time I continued my other work duties, learned how to create 3D models, and presented the customer with a set of 3D models and a room layout.
From there I have continued to wear many hats for the company I work for but my favorite one is creating spaces for people. Since we are a manufacturer, we tend to make products for a lot of other companies but very few of our customers have designers or engineers, so I stepped into that void and offered drawings, which not only gave our customer something to show their clients, but it gave our production team something a little more formal than a sketch on a napkin to produce.
The next two pictures are of this first project.
I have continued to push myself to create items from scratch or from a customer's rough sketches, that can be manufactured efficiently without compromising structural integrity or quality.
These next two pictures are of a table I designed for an Amway executive office
A conference table and base set I designed for a home remodeling company.
I think you can figure out who this one was for.
A simple single office setup.
Working for an office furniture manufacturer means that I am not only designing, but also engineering, material sourcing, and in many cases overseeing the production of the project as well. Just this week I began experimenting with photorealistic 3D renderings of some items which allow me to give even better visual representations to our customers.
In 2018 I began freelancing nights and weekends, in order to expand my skills and further develop my networks. What I would like to offer the steemit community is this.
I will freelance draw and model for steem.
I can design custom office furniture for steemians and offer manufacturer direct pricing.
While I would be willing to do the design for steem the product would have to be purchased in USD.
I'm going out on a limb here, I am not sure how many people are interested in this sort of opportunity, or if you have even read this entire post. When I look around at the steemit community there are so many people bringing so much to steemit, and although I enjoy blogging and have a podcast, this is really what I do 50+ hours a week. So I am throwing this out there.
Thanks for reading.
