Schedule 2025

2 months ago

2025

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

Jan 13

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.

Zoom recording, lecture notes

Topic: Initial Assignments, Definition of art and aesthetics.

Zoom recording, lecture notes

Topic: More art theory. Aesthetics Tour 1

Zoom recording, lecture notes

Due: Syllabus agreement in Canvas, Slack signup, AesDes.org login

Jan 20

No class

Topic: Aesthetics definition and posting demo

Zoom recording, lecture notes

Blog Post 1 due: Aesthetic Exploration

Topics: Lab and Fab resources: Idea Forge by Victoria Lanaghan, BTU lab by Zack Weaver and ITLL (Rachael Sharpe). Also

Zoom recording, lecture notes

Due: CATME survey

Due every Sunday night: Blog critiques

Jan 27

Topics: 2 point perspective sketching, shade and shadow intro.

Zoom recording, lecture notes

Topics: Meet your team and pod. Team behaviors.

Zoom recording, lecture notes

Blog Post 2: What is your Upcycling project? What is the aesthetic and why?

Topics: 20th Century Timeline intro.

Zoom recording, Lecture notes

Feb 3

Topics: 20th Century Timeline. Gothic Revival movement.

Zoom recording, lecture notes

Topics: Sketching- 2 pt perspective. Arts and Crafts intro

Zoom recording, lecture notes

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

Zoom recording, lecture notes

Feb 10

Topics: Arts and Crafts to Art Nouveau, cube sketching errors

Zoom recording, lecture notes

Topics: Upcycle presentation logistics. International Style and Art Deco.

Zoom recording, lecture notes,

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.

Zoom recording, lecture notes,

Feb 17

Due: Upcycle project!

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.

Feb 24

Guest Lecture 1: Prof. Grace Burleson on the Design Process

Attendance required.

Zoom recording, lecture notes

Topics: Ideation – Brainstorming, linear techniques and intuitive techniques.

Zoom recording, lecture notes

Post 6: Main Project plans and inspirations

Topics: More Ideation Techniques

Zoom recording, lecture notes

March 3

Topics: Modern design movements: International Style, Art Deco,

Zoom recording, lecture notes

Topics: Organic Design, Streamlining, Mid Century Modern. Upright cylinder sketching.

Zoom recording, lecture notes

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: Design Preview specifications, Pop Art.

Zoom recording, lecture notes

March 10

Topics: Finish timeline: Radical Design to Post-Modern. Factor of 7: Unknown Unknowns in project planning.

Zoom recording, lecture notes

Design Preview Presentations (Day 1) to your pod. Attendance is required.
Design Preview Specs Post 8: Design Preview Report

Topics: ~~Guest lecture 2: Zack Weaver~~ rescheduled for April 11. Regular lecture instead (not required) Universal Principles of Design (UPD): Contour Bias and Aesthetic-Useability Effect,

Zoom recording, lecture notes

March 17

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

March 24 Spring Break

Break

March 31

Universal Principles of Design. Supernormal stimuli. Sketching, Shade and shadow

Zoom recording, lecture notes

Topics: UPD – Black, white, red effects. Also sketching vertical and horizontal cylinders

Zoom recording, lecture notes

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?

Topics: Color nomenclature, Pantone, vertical cylinder sketching.

Zoom recording, lecture notes

April 7

Topics: Geometric aesthetics

Zoom Recording, lecture notes

Topics: The Chair. Thonet, bentwood and flat-pack. Bauhaus to Eames

Zoom recording, lecture notes

Post 10: Progress

Topic: Guest Lecture 2 Zack Weaver

Zoom recording, lecture notes

April 14

Topics: Eames to Post Modern

Zoom recording, lecture notes

Topic: Final report and presentation specs

Zoom recording, lecture notes

Post None! Work on your project.

Guest Lecture 3, Danica Vallone; Danica is an extremely successful production designer as well as a strong leader in the of design of future space systems. Among her wide array of other achievements, she is also the designer in residence at the UCSD design lab with Dr. Don Norman.

Attendance required

Zoom recording, lecture notes

April 21

Topics: design competitions

Zoom recording, lecture notes

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.

April 28

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

Final Exam Slot Weds May 7, 1:30 – 4 pm

AesDes Expo at the Idea Forge. Live showing of work. In person and zoom (for truly remote students).
Invite family and friends! Excellent snacks will be provided.

Final revisions and any late work due at noon.1:30 – 4 pm

Post 13: Portfolio