2019
| Week | Monday | Wednesday | Friday | |
| 1 | Jan 14 Syllabus,First assignments: Catme, blog, survey, then aesthetic, upcycle artifact |
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Upcycle examples.
Aesthetics Tour 1 |
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| 2 | Jan 21 No class, MLK day | Aesthetics tour 2
Critique introduction Syllabus agreement due in class. AesDes Perception Survey due at midnight. Blog post 1 due: Aesthetic Explorations |
Sketching exercise,
Aesthetics tour 3 CATME Team Building survey due |
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| 3 | Jan 28 Design process, Design Loop graphics.
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Design process sketches Blog 2 due: Upcycle progress |
Teamwork.
Meet your team Upcycle update to team |
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| 4 | Feb 4
Upcycle specs Sketching: perspective and cubes. |
Aesthetics Game
Blog 3: Upcycle Inspiration |
Universal Principles of Design (UPD): Contour Bias
Cubes in 2 point perspective. |
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| 5 | Feb 11
Upcycle presentations |
Upcycle Presentations
Blog 4: Upcycle final report |
Upcycle Presentations | |
| 6 | Feb 18 : Guest lecture: Zack Jacobsen-Weaver
Attendance required |
Sketching and UPD: Supernormal Stimuli
Blog 5: Skill sets and personal aspirations |
Demonstration of Rhino software by Andres Gruber | |
| 7 | Feb 25
No class
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20th Century Design Timeline 1
Team time Blog 6: Main project inspirations |
20th Century Design Timeline 2: Arts and Crafts Movement. | |
| 8 | March 4
Timeline: Arts and Crafts, Aesthetic Movement and Art Nouveau And Sketching |
Guest lecture: Adam Agee
Attendance required Blog: What are your top 5 constraints? Aesthetics should be one of them. |
Timeline: Bauhaus and Beyond
and sketching? Shade and Shadow |
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| 9 | March 11
Design Review Presentations |
Design Review Presentations: CANCELLED, snow day
Blog: Design Review Report; synthesize posts into summary document |
Design Review Presentations | |
| 10 | March 18
Design Review Presentations |
Timeline: Streamlining to Post Modern
Blog: What are your current project aesthetics compared to 20th Century design movements? Also, cast your project into 3 other wildly different aesthetics; illustrate with annotated sketches at least. |
Aesthetics Game Redux: Engagement with Timeline
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| 11 | March 25 Break | Break | Break | |
| 12 | April 1
UPD: Color physics and perception, White, Black and Red Effects |
UPD: Anthropomorphic effects, Geometric Aesthetics including symmetry, thirds, Fibonacci, Golden Ratio
Blog: Construction timeline |
UPD: Geometric Aesthetics. | |
| 13 | April 8
Case Study: The Chair. Furniture timeline. The Eames Lounge chair |
Case Study: The Chair. The Eames lounge chair. The Ubiquitous Monoblock. Other current chair designs
Blog: Main Project Final Stretch Progress |
Current designers: Philippe Starck, Ross Lovegrove, Karim Rachid, Yves Behar, Martha Stewart, Horacio Pagani
Registration for Expo due? |
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| 14 | April 15
Current designers: Steve Jobs and Jonny Ives |
Design award winners
Blog: None |
Project/ Team Time. Prof. H available for consultations. | |
| 15 | April 22 Final Presentations to Pod, same pods as for design review. Post a video or link to video of your presentation attached to this week’s blog post.
Your artifact should be done. You can bring it to your pod presentation, or show a video of it. |
Final Presentations to Pod
Blog: Final Project Report Part 1: What and How. Overall description and photos, then details of what you have made: CAD drawings, fabrication description, costs vs budget, etc. Atlas Expo is Thursday April 25, 4:30-6:30 pm. |
No class, go to the Engineering Projects Expo 2-4:45, and/or the
ITLL Engineering Design Expo
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| 16 | April 29 Final Presentations to Pod, same pods as for design review. | Final Presentations to Pod. Last day of class.
Blog: Final Project Report Part 2: Why and What Next? Reflection on the semester. Compare your original project intent to what you ended up with. What did you learn from your project, and from the class? What will you do next with the project? What do you wish you had done differently?
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| 17 | May 6
Final show/party in the DLC Lobby, 2-4 pm during our scheduled final exam time. Bring your finished project to show off. Invite friends and family. Snacks provided. ‘Summing Up 2019’ post at midnight: Give a summary of your work for the semester, and provide links to all of your previous posts. This is the link/post to put in your resume and on your website, so show off what you’ve done! Critiques of Final Reports I and II also due at midnight. |
Weds May 8
Final revisions due. You are welcome to update any posts from the semester, and submit any missed critiques/comments. |
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