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Brendan Seyka
Object & Graphic design 
Oak Park, MI



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Plank Unit Chair    
Furniture2026
Plank Unit Chair is built around a specific set of limitations. It uses readily available dimensional lumber and common fasteners. It intentionally avoids glue, complex joinery, and rip cuts, and is designed to be achievable, with some patience, through straightforward operations with commonly available tools. It can be readily disassembled into flat-packable components for transport or storage. 

The design and construction plans were developed as part of Wild.Form: Recipes for Domestic Survival, an exhibition, publication, and workshop series conceived by Sophie Yan & Valeria de Jongh as a direct response to "fast furniture" and the disposable culture it creates. Wild.Form continues a long legacy of democratic design, rooted in access, autonomy, and empowerment. 

Pine, stainless steel hardware.

Photos: Erik Henderson.
Step    
Furniture2026
Step is a modular furniture system composed of individual units that can be configured for a wide variety of domestic functions, including seating, shelving, and surfaces of various types.

Step is designed and produced with discernment from durable material, insisting a mode of production and consumption situated in opposition to the damage of contemporary capitalism.

Developed and produced for my MFA thesis at Cranbrook Academy of Art, and displayed in the 2026 Graduate Degree Exhibition at Cranbrook Art Museum. 

Hard Maple, wool felt.

Photos: Daniel Ribar.
Regadera & Maceta    
Houseware2025–2026
Sculptural watering can and multi-functional planter & saucer design crafted from galvanized steel by artisans Arturo Vega and María Guadalupe Gil (Taller de Hojalatería) in Guadalajara, Mexico. Produced for a workshop led by French designer Fabien Capello, the results of which were exhibited as Objetos de Hojalata Para El Hogar Cranbrook Industrial Design at the MillerKnoll archive gallery in Holland, MI and at Maharam NYC. These objects were acquired as part of the MillerKnoll Archives collection. Read more at Maharam.

Galvanized steel.

Photos: Ayako Aratani, Nicholas Calcott.
Sail v2
Lighting2025
Prototype folding floor light made from steel rod and Yupo paper shade with an LED lighting element and switch/dimmer control enclosure. 

Steel rod & pipe, sheet steel, Yupo paper, LED luminaire, rubber O-rings & grommets, aluminum.
Open Air Furniture Design    
Furniture2025
A collection of outdoor furniture assembled from salvaged patio chairs at the Ox-Bow campfire, scrap steel from the metalworking studio, and cedar fencing from the grounds.

Developed as part of Open Air Furniture Design, a summer class at the Ox-Bow School of Art led by Chicago artist & writer John Preus. 

Steel, aluminum, cedar, nylon, paint.
B.Y.O.B.
Lighting2025
Brick base adjustable table lamp. 

Powdercoated steel, cement brick, IKEA HAVSRIS cord set, magnetic cord keeper.

Photos: Daniel Ribar, Model: Shu Wang.
UnionCeramics, Sculpture2025
Slip cast porcelain cup molded from cast iron pipe fitting.

Porcelain.
Cathedral (Laborare est orare)
Sculpture, Installation2025
Installation of three hand trucks with laser cut acrylic panels portraying Jesus as a carpenter’s apprentice. Imagery from stained glass in Church of St James in Le Treport.

Exhibited as part of Hatchback 19 exhibition juried by Grace Serra at Hatch Art Gallery in Hamtramck, MI in 2025.

Hand trucks, acrylic, nylon twine.
For my Brother (Vessel)Houseware2024
Lathe-turned funerary vessel. 

Mahogany.
Teak Frog
Sculpture2024
Carved teak table sculpture with felt lilypad. 

Exhibited as part of Selling to the Smiths exhibition at the Frank Lloyd Wright Smith House in 2024.

Teak, felt.

Photo: Ayako Aratani.
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