Common Dimensions, No. 3 — Dust Chair (Broadsheet)

Issue No. 3 of Common Dimensions takes the form of a Risograph broadsheet and features an interview with furniture designer, Bill Carroll, about his chair made of wood dust and scrap material. The Dust chair questions notions of waste and value, and was inspired by the Gees Bend quilts of Alabama. This double-sided broadsheet was intentionally printed on various sheets of waste paper found around the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) MFA graphic design studio so each copy is slightly different. The unique aspect of the publication embodies the potential of reusing and recycling materials. Common Dimensions is a research platform and series of print publications that investigates the chair as a symbolic, discursive, and designed object in order to explore its broad and diverse expressions: the chair as architecture, the chair as status symbol, the chair as prosthesis, the chair as locus of power, the chair as a tool. Conceived and designed by Rebecca Wilkinson 1 double-sided sheet, b&w, 11 × 17 inches Copies ship with soft fold