Nic Garzione

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Specifications and Constraints

March 22, 2023

Nic Garzione

Post 8: Top 5 specifications, top 5 constraints 2023, Student Work

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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 image generation service. With this service, you provide a prompt of what you would like the program to “imagine” and it will produce 4 variations…

Project Alternative Aesthetics: Minimalism and Space Age

March 15, 2023

Nic Garzione

Post 7: Main Project Aesthetics: Plans and Alternatives 2023, Student Work

I considered two alternative aesthetics to my retro futuristic alarm clock project. The two other aesthetics I considered were minimalism and space age. Below are sketches and ideas I had related to those aesthetics. Minimalism Minimalism is a concept of only having what is absolutely required. In a way, it is similar to utilitarianism, where…

Final Project Plan: Retro Futuristic Alarm Clock

March 8, 2023

Nic Garzione

Post 6: Main Project plans and inspirations 2023

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. The modern product design of the 70’s was very sleek and minimalistic, as pictured in the cover photo [1], while the science fiction of the time portrayed technology as over-engineered and…

Ferdinand Alexander Porsche

March 1, 2023

Nic Garzione

Post 5: What designer do you admire? 2023, Student Work

“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 the son of Ferry Porsche and the grandson of Ferdinand Porsche, the founder of Porsche AG. While his father and grandfather were both engineers, Butzi…

Beer Can Bird Sculpture

February 20, 2023

Nic Garzione

Post 4: Upcycle Design Report 2023

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 art simply describes art made after the second half of the 20th century. I could not find an exact description for the aesthetic I had…

Upcycle Progress Report – Recycled Bird Sculpture

February 15, 2023

Nic Garzione

Post 3: Upcycle progress report 2023

For my upcycling project, I am creating a bird sculpture out of discarded aluminum cans. I chose the Gray Jay to model my sculpture out of. It is reasonably sized, as I intend to make my sculpture to scale, and it has a bleak color palette. This fits well with the feeling I would like…

Upcycling Aesthetic – Contemporary Sculpture

February 8, 2023

Nic Garzione

Post 2: What is your Upcycling project aesthetic and why? 2023

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 century. I could not find an exact description for the aesthetic I had in mind. It is usually described as “mixed media” and “found object”,…

Aesthetic Exploration – Architecture Parlante

February 1, 2023

Nic Garzione

Post 1: Aesthetic Explorations 2023

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 the works of the French architects Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, Étienne-Louis Boullée, and Jean-Jacques Lequeu. Although not used as a term in modern architecture, a modern equivalency…