Designing a Corncob Coffee Table By Utilizing the Physical Characteristics of Corncobs

Abstract

This research is about coffee table product design with corncob material that compromises the value of novelty offered with production factors in order to obtain real cost as a basis for considering the selling price. The coffee table production process is designed using the laminate technique. The processing technique chosen is the bending technique. This research was conducted at Craftindo Kreasi Bandung, precisely located in JI. Ciliwung canal no. 10, and is a continuation of research activities in the 2021 kedaireka matching fund platform program. In the previous study, a coffee table was produced with corncob material but did not use the bending technique. This design is based on opportunities based on previous research, namely (1) the industry has produced various kinds of commodities, but no one has ever tried to make coffee table products. (2) Sources of corn cob material can be obtained in various areas of West Java and can be available every 4 months. (3) In previous research, a coffee table with corncob material has been produced which needs to be developed by taking advantage of the opportunities for corncob characteristics that have been studied in material studies in previous studies, namely the comparative technique. The method used in this design is design iteration. At the end of the research, the output is in the form of a coffee table product prototype with a bending technique. The novelty of this research is the use of corn cobs as the main material and the use of bending techniques during production.