2024
This will get adjusted as time goes on. It’s always 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 15, no class | 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. |
Topic: Initial Assignments, Definition of art and aesthetics.
Zoom recording, AI summary, lecture notes
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| 2 | Jan 22
Topic: More art theory. Aesthetics Tour 1 Zoom recording, AI summary, lecture notes Due: Syllabus agreement in Canvas |
Topic: How to post. Upcycle specs and resources.
Zoom recording, lecture notes, AI summary Blog Post 1 due: Aesthetic Exploration |
Topics: Lab and Fab resources: Idea Forge by Rebecca Komarek and BTU lab by Zack Weaver. Shade and shadow intro.
Zoom recording, lecture notes, AI summary Due: CATME survey, Slack signup, AesDes.org login |
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Due every Sunday night: Blog critiques |
Jan 29
Topics: Lab and Fab resources: ITLL (Rachael Sharpe). 2 point perspective sketching
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Topics: Meet your team and pod. Team behaviors.
No Zoom recording, sorry. Yes, AI Summary, lecture notes Blog Post 2: What is your Upcycling project aesthetic and why? |
Topics: 20th Century Timeline intro. |
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Feb 5
Topics: sketching – intro to perspective and boxes, 20th Century Timeline. Gothic Revival movement. |
Topics: Team time. Rococo and Gothic Revival
Zoom recording, lecture notes, AI summary Post 3: Upcycle progress. What progress have you made on your Upcycle project? Show your plans. What does your fabrication schedule look like? What materials have you collected? |
Topics: Arts and Crafts to Art Nouveau |
| 5 | Feb 12
Topics: Arts and Crafts to Art Nouveau, cube sketching errors |
Topics: Upcycle presentation logistics. International Style and Art Deco.
Zoom recording, lecture notes, AI summary Blog Post 4: What is the opposite of your Upcycling project aesthetic? Sketch and describe what this would look like. How might you enact this with the overall function and materials that you already have, or have planned? |
Topics: International Style to Organic Design. Critical Response Process. |
| 6 | Feb 19
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 5: 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 26
Topics: Ideation – Brainstorming, linear techniques and intuitive techniques. |
Topics: More Ideation Techniques
Post 6: Main Project plans and inspirations |
Guest Lecture 1: Chelsea Young
Attendance required |
| 8 | March 4
Topics: Streamlining, Mid Century Modern. Shade and shadow sketching. |
Topics: Design Preview specifications. Pop Art. Radical Design to Post-Modern.
Post 7: Main Project Aesthetics: Plans and Alternatives. Sketch your project in two wildly different aesthetics than the one you are planning. What if….?
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Topics: Magic Factor of 7 and Guest Lecture 2 Zack Weaver
Attendance required
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| 9 | March 11
Topics: Universal Principles of Design (UPD): Contour Bias and Aesthetic-Useability Effect |
Design Preview Presentations (Day 1) to your pod. Attendance is required. Design Preview SpecsPost 8: Design Preview Report |
Topics: Guest lecture 3 Daniel BodensteinCANCELLED – snow day
Attendance required
Zoom recording, lecture notes |
| 10 | March 18
Design Preview Presentations (Day 2) to your pod. Meet in your pod facilitator’s Zoom room, posted in Slack. Attendance is required. |
Design Preview Presentations (Day 3) to your pod. Meet in your pod facilitator’s Zoom room, posted in Slack. Attendance is required.
No post is due. |
Topics: Aesthetics Game! You don’t want to miss this!
Lecture notes, no zoom recording Zoom recording, lecture notes |
| 11 | March 25 Spring Break
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Break
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Break
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| 12 | April 1
Aesthetics Game recap. Universal Principles of Design: Supernormal stimuli. Sketching, ellipses
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Topics: UPD – Black, white, red effects. Also sketching vertical and horizontal cylinders
Post 9: Top 5 specifications, top 5 constraints. What are the top 5 things you want your project to look like, to feel like, to do? What are the aspects that will tell you you’ve succeeded in your project? What are you prioritizing? Next, what are the top 5 constraints you face? Time, money, skills, supplies, ideas, room to work? Which ones will be the toughest to deal with?
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Topics: Color nomenclature, Pantone, vertical cylinder sketching.
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| 13 | April 8
Topics: Geometric aesthetics |
Topics: The Chair. Thonet, bentwood and flat-pack.
Post 10: Progress |
Topic: The Chair – Bauhaus to Eames |
| 14 | April 15
Topics: Eames to Post Modern |
Topic: Final report and presentation specs
Post None! Work on your project. |
Guest Lecture, attendance required
Dan Bodenstein, industrial designer and ME alum. |
| 15 | April 22
Topics: design competitions
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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 | April 29
Final Design Presentations to your pod. Attendance is required. Expo Needs survey due. |
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 8, 1:30 – 4 pm
AesDes Expo at the Idea Forge. Live showing of work. In person and zoom (for truly remote students). Final revisions and any late work due at noon.1:30 – 4 pm Post 13: Portfolio |
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