Nicole Maggio

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Summing Up 2019

May 5, 2019

Nicole Maggio

Summing Up 2019

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Before this course, I had no experience with industrial design or building things. Coming from a media design major, I have had experience with designing posters, magazines, ads and brand identities but not designing physical things, so I was intimidated at first. Looking back on my upcycle wine rack and bauhaus shelf, I have learned…

Main Project Final Report Part 2 – Bauhaus Shelf

May 2, 2019

Nicole Maggio

Main Project Report 2019 Part 2

My original project idea was to create a shelf that will hang on my wall that will also have a terrarium incorporated into it. This shelf would be more space for decorations, books, candles, etc all while a space to hold plants. I did make that in the end, but there were a few tweaks…

Main Project Report 1: Bauhaus Shelf

April 27, 2019

Nicole Maggio

Main Project Report 2019 Part 1

My final project’s vision was to create a shelf that had a terrarium inside of it with a bauhaus aesthetic. First, I found a bauhaus design that I wanted to base my shelf off of. Initially the shelf had a circular shape but I found that the design and terrarium would work better with a…

Main Project Final Stretch

April 12, 2019

Nicole Maggio

Main Project Final Stretch Progress 2019

I am fairly on schedule with my bauhaus shelf. I have everything I need besides the terrarium aspects which I plan to get this weekend. After this weekend, I will have all the wood needed to make the shelf, paint, plants and then I just have to assemble it.

Construction Timeline: Bauhaus Shelf

April 3, 2019

Nicole Maggio

Construction Timeline 2019

I’m making a shelf that will be mounted on the wall and will have a terrarium incorporated into it. The idea is finalized, I just have to make it now which I don’t believe will take much time. I have the main circle part of the shelf already, I just have to get the other…

Project Aesthetic Compared to 20th Century Designs

March 20, 2019

Nicole Maggio

Current vs 20th century design movements 2019

My current aesthetic is Bauhaus. Some aspects of Bauhaus design are neutral colors, no unnecessary decoration and grids. My aesthetic compared to other 20th century designs are very different. Bauhaus was a design movement that it was an actual school in Germany. Art deco and art nouveau for example are all about decorations while Bauhaus…

Design Review: Bauhaus Shelf

March 11, 2019

Nicole Maggio

Design Review Report 2019

For my final project, I am making a shelf that has a terrarium incorporated into it. The shelf will be attached to the wall and will have room to hold things and will also be a growing terrarium. Using the Bauhaus aesthetic, I plan to keep the shelf to minimal style, no unnecessary decorations and…

Top Constraints

March 6, 2019

Nicole Maggio

Top 5 constraints 2019

So I am not completely sure what I want to make but I know my aesthetic. I am thinking about taking a piece of layout design from the Bauhaus aesthetic and turning it into something physical, maybe a shelf or a piece of wall art. I plan on using a 2d layout design as inspiration…

Main Project Inspiration

February 27, 2019

Nicole Maggio

Main project inspirations 2019

Bauhaus design has always interested me because when it was introduced in the 1920s, it looked different from any other design movement that has happened in the past. It introduced grids, and the key idea of the movement was that ‘form follows function’. For my main project, I plan to use the Bauhaus design aesthetic…

Skill Sets and Personal Aspirations

February 20, 2019

Nicole Maggio

Skill sets and personal aspirations 2019

I love to design basically anything I can. Specifically, I love to design layouts, ads, websites, logos and brands. I am a junior studying media design with a minor in TAM, so I don’t have any experience when it comes to engineering and physically building things. What I do have experience in is how to…

Upcycle Final Report: Wine Rack

February 11, 2019

Nicole Maggio

Upcycle final report 2019

Vision and Inspiration For my upcycle project, I decided to make a wine rack. My inspiration came form the Industrial aesthetic. I really liked how in the aesthetic, there were aspects of an unfinished look, neutral colors, weathered wood and steel. I then started exploring furniture/decorations within the industrial aesthetic. What stuck out to me…

Upcycle Inspo

February 6, 2019

Nicole Maggio

Upcycle Inspirations 2019

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The inspiration for my project came mostly from the materials I had. It is interesting to think back on the project because I never really had that “ah ha!” moment when searching for ideas. I knew which materials I wanted to use and my inspiration more or less came from there. I then researched industrial…

Wine Bottle Holder

January 30, 2019

Nicole Maggio

Upcycle progress 2019

I was throwing a lot of ideas around about what I should create for the upcycle project. I knew I had and an old wood palette in my backyard and I thought that would be a good idea to put that to use. The wood has a dark color to it, it looks kind of…

Retro Futurism

January 21, 2019

Nicole Maggio

Aesthetic Explorations 2019

Retro Futurism refers to the creative trend from the 1940s-1960s that depicted the future. It “explores themes of tension between past and future, and between the alienating and empowering effects of technology” (Raduta). During this time, the US was in the Atomic Age, where thoughts of nuclear war took over American Citizens concerns and daily…