Student Work

Students in Aesthetics of Design will be posting here about their work all semester. Please read and comment.

Virtual Expo

Students in Aesthetics of Design will be hosting live zoom rooms to show off their projects Tuesday May 4, 1:30 to 3:30. Six simultaneous rooms to choose from, new every 20 minutes. Here’s the link to the zoom rooms.

Last Post: Final Report total, or Part 2: How

Students had a choice as to whether to put their final report in one or two parts.

10th Post: Final Report Part 1: What

9th post: Top 5 specs, top 5 constraints

8th post: Design Preview Report and Presentations

7th Post: Main Project Plans and Alternatives

6th Post: Personal Aesthetics

5th Post: Main Project Plans and Inspirations

4th Post: Upcycle Final Report

3rd Post: Upcycle Progress

2nd Post: Upcycle Aesthetics

First Post of 2021: Explore an Aesthetic

Work from Last Year, 2020

Main Project 2020 Final Report Part 2: How?

Main Project 2020 Final Report Part 1: What?

Main Project 2020 Construction Update

Aesthetic Roots 2020

Favorite YouTube Design/Build Videos 2020

Design Review Part 2: How and When? COVID driven revisions.

Design Review Part 1: Detailed Plans for the Main Project

Top 5 Constraints

Main Project Aesthetics: Plans and Alternatives

Main Project Inspirations

Upcycle Final Reports 2020

Upcycle Progress 2020

Aesthetics Game 2020

Upcycle Inspirations 2020

Aesthetic Explorations 2020

Summing Up 2019

Main Projects 2017

Main Projects 2016

Links

Here we show examples of the intersection of engineering and art that have inspired us.

Modern Designer: Tim Cook

Ankit Shukla

Course stuff 2021, Links

Timothy Donald Cook aka Tim Cook is a creative genius whom I follow and admire. He may not be a conventional designer of products but as a visionary in technology and an operation and manufacturing problem solver, a “Designer” tag on him can be justified. As per the biography of Tim cook: The genius who…

Modern Designers – Zaha Hadid

Andrew Thorson

Links

Zaha Hadid was a British Iraqi designer. She was best known for her work in architecture in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. She was born in Baghdad and originally studied math in college and then later enrolled at the Architectural Association School of Architecture. Some of here major design influences were Suprematism and…