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Current Semester Posts
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
Older Student Work
2023
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2021
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2020
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2019
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2018
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2017
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2016
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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
09 Cubes and Contour Bias
Pods for Presentations
08 Upcycle Specs, 1,2, and 3 Point Perspectives
07 Process and sketching
06 Ideation Techniques
05 Upcycle examples and Aesthetics Tour
04 Aesthetics Tour
03 Definitions of Aesthetics 2
02 Resources and Art definition
Mercedes Benz applies the ‘Avatar’ aesthetic
01 First class meeting
Initial Assignments
Spring 2020
Strandbeest Bicycle
Schedule 2020
Phone Sheep
Final Assignments
Final Presentation logistics
30 Design Awards
End of Semester Show
29: Current designers – Hadid, Pagani, Jobs and Ive
28 Current Designers
27 Current Designers: Starck, Precht, Burtt
26 Chairs: Eames Lounge vs Monobloc
25 Golden Ratio, then Chairs
24 Anthropomorphic and Geometric Aesthetics
23 Magic Factor of 7, Color and Anthropomorphic Effects
22 Color
20: Modern Design Movements
19 Bauhaus and Beyond, plus Critical Design Review criteria and logistics
18 Guest Lecture: Adam Agee
17 Aesthetic Movement and Art Nouveau
16 Arts and Crafts Movement
15: 20th Century Timeline
14 Rhino demo and Sketching
13 Supernormal Stimuli
Upcycle Presentation Logistics
11 Contour Bias vs Cubes
10 Aesthetics Game
09 Upcycle Specs and Perspective Sketching
08 Teams
07 Process and Sketching
06 Ideation and Process
05 Aesthetics Tour 3
04 Aesthetics Tour 2
03 Aesthetics Tour 1
test post
02 Definitions of Aesthetics
01 Intro
Initial Assignments
Syllabus for Jan 2019
Schedule 2019
Material source for upcycling
Schedule 2017
Great use of Vantablack, light absorbing paint
Vertical Garden Walls
From art project to a new industry: racing mechs
Technomadics?
Bad Design is Inspiring Too
Love that whiplash curve
Crappy Robot Queen
Golden ratio sculptures
32 Wrapping Up
31 Design Awards
30 Current Designers: Hadid, Pagani, Jobs
29 Current Designers: Stewart, Rashid, Lovegrove, Behar
28 Glass sketching and Phillipe Starck
27 Chairs: Eames Lounge, Monobloc, and Beyond
26 Timeline to Chairs
25 Golden Ratio
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