Yousef Alqattan
13 posts

Summing up 2019

This semester has had a lot of ups and downs for me. I’ve learned a lot about how to apply aesthetics to mt designs and how to distinguish certain aesthetics…

Final Project Report (P2): Dehydrator

  Notice, all images included are of the pieced dehydrator due to the original dehydrator breaking into multiple pieces. What was your aesthetic, and how well did you achieve it?…

Final Project Report (P1): Dehydrator

For my project I built a food dehydrator. The aesthetic I planned to use was art nouveau which is an art form inspired by natural structures and forms, but in…

Main Project Final Stretch: Dehydrator

As of my previous post, the dehydrator is still on schedule. I picked up some wood from home depot with some fasteners and paint. I first began with drawing an…

Construction Timeline: Dehydrator

Week 1 (Mar 25 – Mar 31): Final Design with dimensions finalized Materials were picked up from home depot Week 2 (Apr 1 – Apr 5): Material will be cut…

20th Century Movements: Dehydrator

For my project I am creating a food dehydrator which is a modern device created in the 20th century. Since not much variation can be added to a dehydrator I…

Design Review Report: Dehydrator

For my project I plan to create a dehydrator which is small and easy to move. The dehydrator is a utensil I plan to add to my kitchen in order…

Top 5 Constraints: Dehydrator

My project is to build a dehydrator for my kitchen. One of my goals is to make sure the dehydrator blends in with the rest of the kitchen. To make…

Main Project Inspirations

For my main project I was inspired to make something for my kitchen which would give it an industrial look. One of my passions is cooking, I enjoy doing it…

Skill Sets & Personal Aspirations

I am a mechanical engineering student currently in my senior year. Throughout my undergraduate career I have learned many new skills from coding to fabrication. I am particularly good at…

Upcycle progress/final report

In my last post, I mostly explained what a zoetrope is and briefly about why I chose the zoetrope over my other up-cycle project ideas. In this post I would…

Upcycle Project: Zoetrope

I have spent sometime thinking of what I wanted to make for my upcycle project. What I knew was that I wanted something which involved something I learned here as…

Aesthetic explorations 2019

The ancient greeks were known to be one of the most influential civilizations to mankind and are known to have shaped the way we think about the world and ourselves.…