2021
This will get more filled in and adjusted as time goes on. It’s still hard to predict how fast we’ll be going.
| Week | Monday | Wednesday | Friday |
| 1 | Jan 11, no class | No class | We’ll meet over Zoom from 11:30 to 12:20 MST. Link is in Canvas and Slack. Topics: Welcome, syllabus, first assignments (copyright, survey, Slack, Upcycle Project). Zoom recording, lecture notes |
| 2 | Jan 18 No class, MLK Day | Topic: Definition of art. Also Meet Your Pod.
Due: Syllabus agreement in Canvas |
Topic: More art theory
Due: Survey, Slack signup |
| 3 | Jan 25 Topics: Definition and examples of aesthetics | Topics: How to post, shade and shadow intro, and upcycle resources
Blog Post 1 due: Aesthetic Exploration |
Topics: Sketching cubes. Critique 101. |
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Due every Sunday night: Blog critiques |
Feb 1 Topics: Idea Forge resources (Victoria Lanaghan) Cube errors and exercises. 20th Century Timeline. | Topics: ITLL resources (Mo Woods), Pod time, Gothic Revival movement
Blog Post 2: What is your Upcycling project aesthetic and why? |
Topics: finish Gothic, light and shade |
| 5 | Feb 8 Topics: Cube shading, Arts and Crafts movement | Topics: Arts and Crafts to Bauhaus
Blog Post 3: Upcycle progress report. |
Topics: International Style to Organic Design |
| 6 | Feb 15 Topics: Streamlining, Mid-Century Modern and Pop Art | Wellness Day. No class, no assignments due. | Topic: Critique. Critical Response Process. |
| 7 | Feb 22
Upcycle Presentations to your pod. Meet in your pod facilitator’s Zoom room, posted in Slack. Attendance is required. |
Upcycle Presentations to your pod. Meet in your pod facilitator’s Zoom room, posted in Slack. Attendance is required.
Post 4: Upcycle Design Report |
Upcycle Presentations to your pod. Meet in your pod facilitator’s Zoom room, posted in Slack. Attendance is required. |
| 8 | March 1 Radical Design to Post-Modern. | Topics: Ideation – Brainstorming, linear techniques and intuitive techniques.
Post 5: Main Project plans and inspirations |
Topics: UPD Contour Bias
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| 9 | March 8
Topics: Supernormal Stimuli |
Topics: Black and White effects, Color.
Post 6: Personal Aesthetics |
Topics: Color, Magic Factor of 7, ellipses |
| 10 | March 15
Snow day!
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Topics: Finish Color, sketch horizontal and vertical cylinders.
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: Anthropomorphic effects |
| 11 | March 22 Spring Pause
Guest lecture. Attendance expected. Prof. Mark Spede, Clemson University |
Guest lecture. Attendance expected.
Jason McGrath, AesDes alumnus and product designer |
Guest lecture. Attendance expected.
Kenny Wine, AesDes alumnus and co-founder of Atla Design |
| 12 | March 29
Design Preview Presentations to your pod. Meet in your pod facilitator’s Zoom room, posted in Slack. Attendance is required. |
Design Preview Presentations to your pod. Meet in your pod facilitator’s Zoom room, posted in Slack. Attendance is required.
Post 8: Design Preview Report |
Design Preview Presentations to your pod. Meet in your pod facilitator’s Zoom room, posted in Slack. Attendance is required. |
| 13 | April 5
Aesthetics Game! Notes and student work |
Post 9:Top 5 specifications, top 5 constraints
Topics: Sketching, and start Case Study: The Chair |
Topics: Sketching material expression, then The Chair, Thonet to Breuer |
| 14 | April 12
Topics: Sketching transparent materials, and The Chair from Aaltos to Eames to the ubiquitous Monobloc |
Topic: The Chair – Ray and Charles Eames
Post None! Work on your project. |
Topic: The Chair – Monobloc. Current designers: Steve Jobs |
| 15 | April 19
Topics: Current designers: Dorothy Draper and Steve Jobs
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Topics: Current Designers
Zoom recording, lecture notes Post 10A Optional: Main Project Final Report Part 1 if you want to do it in two parts. |
Final Design Presentations to your pod. Meet in your pod facilitator’s Zoom room, posted in Slack. Attendance is required. |
| 16 | April 26
Final Design Presentations to your pod. Meet in your pod facilitator’s Zoom room, posted in Slack. Attendance is required. |
Last regular class meeting.
Final Design Presentations to your pod. Meet in your pod facilitator’s Zoom room, posted in Slack. Attendance is required. Post 10 A and B : Main Project Final Report (both parts) |
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| 17 | Final Exam Slot
Tuesday May 4 |
Weds May 5 Final revisions and any late work due at noon. |
Alex
Amanda Tetrault
Andrew Thorson
Ben Husa
Brayden Shelley
Branden Tangney
Chris Gibbs
Daedalus Muse
Jake Leicht
Gary Marshall
Hannah Moller
Joshua Greenburg
Maya Rudd
Michael Burns
Natalie Jagelski
Peter Booras
Peter Geis
Ryan Cochran
Stephen Chamot
Thomas Boyd
Valerie Welch
Jean Hertzberg
Behruz
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