Cassette Futurism Alarm Clock: How It Was Made

Timeline My plan for the project evolved quickly as I faced hardware constraints. I valued working on the aesthetics of the project and developing a plan to make the device…

Casette Futurism Alarm Clock

Casette Futurism Alarm Clock My goal for this project was to draw inspiration from my project and distill it in to a design for an alarm clock. The original goal…

Retro Futuristic Alarm Clock Progress

GUI (Graphical User Interface) I have begun working on how the user will interface with the alarm clock. I believe the way the screen appears and how it is interacted…

Design Preview: Retro Futuristic Alarm Clock

Inspiration For my final project, I will design and build an alarm clock based on the aesthetic of late 70’s futuristic and science fiction design. This style is often called…

Specifications and Constraints

Conceptualizing Design with Machine Learning Image Generation To provide context to the design I am envisioning, and as another way of “sketching” designs, I decided to utilize the Midjourney ML…

Ferdinand Alexander Porsche

“A product that is coherent in form requires no embellishment. It is enhanced by the purity of its form.” – Ferdinand Alexander Porsche [1] Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, aka “Butzi”, was…

Beer Can Bird Sculpture

Beer Can Bird Sculpture A contemporary sculpture by Nicolas Garzione Aesthetic Choice Contemporary sculpture is a broad category of art that falls under both modern sculpture and contemporary art. Contemporary…

Upcycling Aesthetic – Contemporary Sculpture

Contemporary sculpture is a broad category of art that falls under both modern sculpture and contemporary art. Contemporary art simply describes art made after the second half of the 20th…

Aesthetic Exploration – Architecture Parlante

Architecture Parlante, French for “speaking architecture”, is an architecture aesthetic meant to convey its purpose through its form. It originates in the 18th century during the Revolutionary period to describe…