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Post 1: Aesthetics Exploration
Post 2: What is your upcycling aesthetic and why?
Post 3: Upcycle progress
Post 4: Opposite Upcycle Aesthetic
Post 5: Upcycle Design Report
Post 6: Main project plans and inspiration
Post 7 2024: Main Project Aesthetics – Plans and Alternatives
Post 8 2024: Design Preview Report
Post 9 2024: : Top 5 specifications, top 5 constraints
Post 10 2024: Progress Since Design Preview
Post 11 2024 Final Report Part 1: What and Why
Post 12 2024: How and What Next?
Post 13 2024: Portfolio
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Current Course (2024)
Schedule 2024
Design Preview Specs 2024
Syllabus 2024
Initial Assignments 2024
Blog and Blog Comment/Critique Policies
Student Resources
Designers
Main Project Documentation Specifications
Interesting and creative designs
Main Project Documentation Specifications
Design Preview Specs 2024
Presentation Critiques
Upcycle Project Specifications 2024
Library Assistance
Is Aesthetics of Design Right For You?
Schedule 2024
How to add a profile picture
Sources for materials
Post 12: Main Project Final Report Part 2
Design Preview Report
Post 8: Specifications and Restraints
Main Project Aesthetics, Plans and Alternatives
Main Project Final Documentation Specifications
Design Preview Specs 2023
Main Project Plans
Upcycling Final
Adults are obligated to have fun, so kids will want to grow older.
Upcycle Progress Report
Upcycling weapons into art
Upcycling Project Update 1
Test post
Aesthetic Exploration: Magewave
Circle and Ellipse drawing practice
Upcyle Specifications 2023
Your first log-in and how to make a post
Initial Assignments 2023
Schedule 2023
Blog and Blog Comment/Critique Policies
Music from Marbles
AesDes Expo 2021 Zoom Links
Final Report Specs Etc.
Paper Machines by Federico Tobon
Design Preview Specifications
Ice Cycle
Upcycle Specs and Live Critiques 2021
Upcycling Noise Artist Petr Valek
Wavy Walls
Zotero Library Access
Syllabus 2021 Spring
Schedule 2021 Spring
Initial Assignments 2021
If You Just Enrolled
Is Aesthetics in Design the right course for you?
Welcome! Getting Ready for Spring 2021
26 Apple’s Aesthetic: Jobs and Ive. Friday 4/24/20
Perfectly Useless Products
Chindogu, the Art of Almost Un-Useless
25 Chairs: Eames Lounge to Monobloc and Beyond. Friday April 17, 2020
24 Spheres, then Case Study: the Chair
23 Anthropomorphic and Geometric Aesthetics
22 Color and Magic Factor of 7. Friday April 10, 2020.
21 Black, White, Red effects and Horizontal Cylinder Sketching
20 Aesthetics Game Critique
19 Aesthetics Game Redux Friday 4/3/20
18 Pop Art to Present, plus cylinder sketching
17 Modern Movements. Monday 3/30/20
16 Bauhaus and Beyond, Zoom lecture 3/20/20
Baby Bots by Moon Armada
Transition to Online Course
Pod Facilitator/Leader Expectations
15 Friday 3/6/20 Aesthetics Movement and Art Nouveau
14 Weds 3/4/20 Arts and Crafts 2
Lecture 13, 3/2/2020: Arts and Crafts
Lecture 12, Friday Feb 28, 2020 Gothic to Postmodern, plus shadow
Ways Of Learning: Guest Lecture by Prof. Kate Goodman
11 Sketch Viewpoints, and start 20th Century Design Movements
10 Supernormal Stimuli and Shade/Shadow sketching
Guest Lecture: ‘Inspired by Objects’ by Hope Saska
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