2021
This will get more filled in and adjusted as time goes on. It’s still hard to predict how fast we’ll be going.
| Week | Monday | Wednesday | Friday |
| 1 | Jan 11, no class | No class | We’ll meet over Zoom from 11:30 to 12:20 MST. Link is in Canvas and Slack. Topics: Welcome, syllabus, first assignments (copyright, survey, Slack, Upcycle Project). Zoom recording, lecture notes |
| 2 | Jan 18 No class, MLK Day | Topic: Definition of art. Also Meet Your Pod.
Due: Syllabus agreement in Canvas |
Topic: More art theory
Due: Survey, Slack signup |
| 3 | Jan 25 Topics: Definition and examples of aesthetics | Topics: How to post, shade and shadow intro, and upcycle resources
Blog Post 1 due: Aesthetic Exploration |
Topics: Sketching cubes. Critique 101. |
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Due every Sunday night: Blog critiques |
Feb 1 Topics: Idea Forge resources (Victoria Lanaghan) Cube errors and exercises. 20th Century Timeline. | Topics: ITLL resources (Mo Woods), Pod time, Gothic Revival movement
Blog Post 2: What is your Upcycling project aesthetic and why? |
Topics: finish Gothic, light and shade |
| 5 | Feb 8 Topics: Cube shading, Arts and Crafts movement | Topics: Arts and Crafts to Bauhaus
Blog Post 3: Upcycle progress report. |
Topics: International Style to Organic Design |
| 6 | Feb 15 Topics: Streamlining, Mid-Century Modern and Pop Art | Wellness Day. No class, no assignments due. | Topic: Critique. Critical Response Process. |
| 7 | Feb 22
Upcycle Presentations to your pod. Meet in your pod facilitator’s Zoom room, posted in Slack. Attendance is required. |
Upcycle Presentations to your pod. Meet in your pod facilitator’s Zoom room, posted in Slack. Attendance is required.
Post 4: Upcycle Design Report |
Upcycle Presentations to your pod. Meet in your pod facilitator’s Zoom room, posted in Slack. Attendance is required. |
| 8 | March 1 Radical Design to Post-Modern. | Topics: Ideation – Brainstorming, linear techniques and intuitive techniques.
Post 5: Main Project plans and inspirations |
Topics: UPD Contour Bias
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| 9 | March 8
Topics: Supernormal Stimuli |
Topics: Black and White effects, Color.
Post 6: Personal Aesthetics |
Topics: Color, Magic Factor of 7, ellipses |
| 10 | March 15
Snow day!
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Topics: Finish Color, sketch horizontal and vertical cylinders.
Post 7: Main Project Aesthetics: Plans and Alternatives. Sketch your project in two wildly different aesthetics than the one you are planning. What if….? |
Topics: Anthropomorphic effects |
| 11 | March 22 Spring Pause
Guest lecture. Attendance expected. Prof. Mark Spede, Clemson University |
Guest lecture. Attendance expected.
Jason McGrath, AesDes alumnus and product designer |
Guest lecture. Attendance expected.
Kenny Wine, AesDes alumnus and co-founder of Atla Design |
| 12 | March 29
Design Preview Presentations to your pod. Meet in your pod facilitator’s Zoom room, posted in Slack. Attendance is required. |
Design Preview Presentations to your pod. Meet in your pod facilitator’s Zoom room, posted in Slack. Attendance is required.
Post 8: Design Preview Report |
Design Preview Presentations to your pod. Meet in your pod facilitator’s Zoom room, posted in Slack. Attendance is required. |
| 13 | April 5
Aesthetics Game! Notes and student work |
Post 9:Top 5 specifications, top 5 constraints
Topics: Sketching, and start Case Study: The Chair |
Topics: Sketching material expression, then The Chair, Thonet to Breuer |
| 14 | April 12
Topics: Sketching transparent materials, and The Chair from Aaltos to Eames to the ubiquitous Monobloc |
Topic: The Chair – Ray and Charles Eames
Post None! Work on your project. |
Topic: The Chair – Monobloc. Current designers: Steve Jobs |
| 15 | April 19
Topics: Current designers: Dorothy Draper and Steve Jobs
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Topics: Current Designers
Zoom recording, lecture notes Post 10A Optional: Main Project Final Report Part 1 if you want to do it in two parts. |
Final Design Presentations to your pod. Meet in your pod facilitator’s Zoom room, posted in Slack. Attendance is required. |
| 16 | April 26
Final Design Presentations to your pod. Meet in your pod facilitator’s Zoom room, posted in Slack. Attendance is required. |
Last regular class meeting.
Final Design Presentations to your pod. Meet in your pod facilitator’s Zoom room, posted in Slack. Attendance is required. Post 10 A and B : Main Project Final Report (both parts) |
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| 17 | Final Exam Slot
Tuesday May 4 |
Weds May 5 Final revisions and any late work due at noon. |
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