Over the course of this class I created 2 aesthetic projects that I am proud of. First, for my upcycle aesthetics project I made a desert themed flower pot out of Lego. The goal of the project was to take a store bought plant and plant it in a Lego flower pot I built to…

My main reasoning for building an overdrive guitar pedal was because I didn’t have any and off the shelf pedals are fairly expensive. With enough research online and through YouTube, I figured that I would be able to create a circuit that functions as an overdrive in a guitar pedal configuration. For this pedal I…

In the past 2 weeks a lot of progress has been made on my guitar pedal. First off, all of my components were ordered and shipped to my house so I could start constructing my circuit. Using reference schematics from an online pedal community, I made my very own overdrive guitar pedal circuit using my…

As my project is a guitar overdrive pedal, the main thing I am prioritizing is the functionality of the circuit that will create the guitar distortion sound. I am prioritizing this circuit functionality because without an operating circuit to distort the original signal from the guitar, the pedal is basically a box of unusable electronic…

One of my favorite hobbies is playing guitar or bass guitar. I started picking up the bass when I was in middle school and started learning guitar when I was a freshman in college. Fast forward to my senior year of college and I now have an electric guitar and electric bass guitar as well…

After some consideration and debate about what project and aesthetic I would be able to design, fabricate, and look good in the next month I have decided that I am going to make a guitar pedal for the main project. Last week I originally stated that I wanted to make a guitar or guitar stand…

I have been told that my personal aesthetic is the California skater aesthetic. This is actually funny because I am not a skater and not Californian. In fact, I am from Colorado and a big skier. Yet, I do like a lot of the art, mentality, clothing and music that someone might associate with a…

Much of my inspiration for the desert aesthetic flower pot comes from the clay flower pots that many people have used. [1] I knew I wanted to make something out of Legos since I had an excess amount of Lego materials left over at my parents house from when I was young. However, I did…

  Since my project is inspired by the desert aesthetic, I think the opposite aesthetic would be like a rainforest or tropical aesthetic. While the desert aesthetic is defined by various tones of brown, reds, and oranges, I would think the opposite is mainly various colors of green. Additionally, when designing my upcycled flower pot…

Since my upcycle project involves utilizing legos to build a flower or plant pot I needed to source some of my old legos from my parents house where I used to live. Since none of my old legos are in Boulder this means I had to do this post a little later than normal. I…

The aesthetic that I am choosing for my upcycle project is the desert aesthetic. I think the desert aesthetic is defined by color, scenery, and minor to no vegetation. The color pattern I am going to shoot for is light brown and red which come from the sand and rock in the desert and light…

I’ve always thought an interesting aesthetic is the comic-book aesthetic. This aesthetic can easily be described by cartoon  drawings, visual flairs, and onomatopoeia to make an image or images represent a full setting and story rather than being a standalone scene. When I think of the comic-book aesthetic, I think of the bright colored, hand…