2023
This will get more filled in and adjusted as time goes on. It’s still hard to predict how fast we’ll be going. Guest lectures will be inserted as soon as they are scheduled, and lecture content will move accordingly. Zoom recordings and lecture note links will go live within a day or so of the class.
| Week | Monday | Wednesday | Friday |
| 1 | Jan 16, no class | Snow day! | In person in Fleming 33. Simultaneous Zoom link is in Canvas; same link for the whole semester.
Topics: Welcome, syllabus, initial assignments (login, survey, Upcycle Project etc) Please read the syllabus and initial assignments documents. Print if you want a hard copy. |
| 2 | Jan 23
Topic: Initial Assignments, Definition of art and aesthetics. Zoom recording, lecture notes A and B |
Topic: More art theory. Aesthetics Tour 1
Due: Syllabus agreement in Canvas |
Topic: How to post. Upcycle specs and resources.
Due: CATME survey, workspace signup, AesDes.org login |
| 3 | Jan 30
Topics: Lab and Fab resources: ATLAS (Prof Zack Weaver). Shade and shadow intro.
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Topics: Lab and Fab resources: ITLL (Rachael Sharpe).
Meet your team and pod. Team behaviors. Blog Post 1 due: Aesthetic Exploration |
Topics: Idea Forge resources (Victoria Lanaghan). Critique 101: Critical Response Process. 20th Century Timeline intro. |
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Due every Sunday night: Blog critiques |
Feb 6
Topics: sketching – intro to perspective and boxes, 20th Century Timeline. Gothic Revival movement. Zoom recording, lecture notes, Nicolas Garzione on Jean Pierre Ugarte |
Topics: Team time. Rococo and Gothic Revival
Blog Post 2: What is your Upcycling project aesthetic and why? |
Topics: Arts and Crafts |
| 5 | Feb 13
Topics: Arts and Crafts to Art Nouveau, cube sketching errors |
Topics: Bauhaus to International Style.
Rishab Rai on Leonardo da Vinci Blog Post 3: Upcycle progress report. |
Topics: International Style to Organic Design. Radical Design to Post-Modern. Critical Response Process. Upcycle presentation logistics.
Ankit Karkhanis on Glassblowing |
| 6 | Feb 20
Due: Upcycle project! 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. |
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Feb 27
Topics: Ideation – Brainstorming, linear techniques and intuitive techniques. Circles and ellipses |
Topics:
Classroom interview Post 5:What designer do you admire? |
Topics: Guest lecture 1
Jason McGrath, engineer, industrial designer and AesDes alum. Attendance required |
| 8 | March 6
Topics: Topics: Course feedback, student presentations, International Style. |
Topics: to Organic Design. Radical Design to Post-Modern Universal Principles of Design (UPD): Contour BiasUPD Supernormal Stimuli
Post 6: Main Project plans and inspirations |
Guest Lecture 2
Kenny Wine, engineer, entrepreneur and AesDes alum Attendance required
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| 9 | March 13
Topics: Streamlining, Mid Century Modern and Pop Art |
Topics: Radical Design to Postmodernism
Chris Griffin on Charles and Ray Eames Rachel Jones on Marcello Gandini 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: Universal Principles of Design: Contour Bias, Aesthetic-Useability Effect. |
| 10 | March 20
Topics: Design Preview specifications. .Sketching circles and ellipses. |
Topics: Magic Factor of 7. UPD: Color, Black and White Effects
Post 8: Top 5 specifications, top 5 constraints |
Topics: Aesthetics Game! You don’t want to miss this!
Lecture notes , but no zoom recording. |
| 11 | March 27 Spring Break
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Break
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Break
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| 12 | April 3
Design Preview Presentations to your pod. Attendance is required. |
Design Preview Presentations to your pod. Meet in your pod facilitator’s Zoom room, posted in Slack. Attendance is required.
Post 9: 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 10
Guest Lecture 3 Zack Weaver, Atlas Instructor Attendance required |
Topics: Color – Black, white, red effects. Color nomenclature.
Sketching, ellipses and shading Post None! Work on your project. |
Topics: Color – Pantone. |
| 14 | April 17
Topics:Geometric aesthetics |
Topic: Final report and presentation specs
Will Harris on Teenage Engineering Alexandr Vassilyev on Mike Burrows Post 10: Progress |
Topic: The Chair – timeline |
| 15 | April 24
Topics: My favorite chairs Peter Jakubczak on Aufrecht and Melcher
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Final Design Presentations to your pod. Attendance is required.
Due: your project! Fabrication should be complete. Documentation only from here on out. Post 11: Final Report Part 1 – What |
No class. Instead, go to the Mech E Senior Projects Design Expo. Analyze the project aesthetics you see. Use the Critical Response process to give feedback. |
| 16 | May 1
Final Design Presentations to your pod. Attendance is required. |
Last regular class meeting.
Final Design Presentations to your pod. Attendance is required. Post 12 : Final Report Part 2 – How |
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| 17 | Final Exam Slot Weds May 10
AesDes Expo at the Idea Forge. Live showing of work. In person and zoom. Final revisions and any late work due at noon.1:30 – 4 pm Optional Post 13: Portfolio |
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