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Post 01 2025: Aesthetic Explorations
Post 2- 2025 : What is your Upcycling project? What is the aesthetic and why?
Post 3 – 2025 : Upcycle Progress
Post 4- 2025 : Opposite Upcycle Aesthetic
Post 5 – 2025: Upcycle Design Report
Post 6 – 2025 : Main Project Plans and Inspirations
Post 7 – 2025 : Main Project Aesthetics: Plans and Alternatives.
Post 8 – 2025 : Design Preview Report
Post 9 – 2025 : Top 5 specifications, top 5 constraints
Post 10 – 2025 : Progress
Post 11 – 2025 : Final Report Part 1
Post 12 – 2025 : Main Project Final Report Part 2
Post 13 – 2025 : Portfolio
Older Student Work
Light fixture
A/V music tech
Furniture
Mirror
Pet Accessory
Product Design
Sculpture
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2024
Post 1: Aesthetics Exploration
Post 2: What is your upcycling aesthetic and why?
Post 3: Upcycle progress
Post 4: Opposite Upcycle Aesthetic
Post 5: Upcycle Design Report
Post 6: Main project plans and inspiration
Post 7 2024: Main Project Aesthetics – Plans and Alternatives
Post 8 2024: Design Preview Report
Post 9 2024: : Top 5 specifications, top 5 constraints
Post 10 2024: Progress Since Design Preview
Post 11 2024 Final Report Part 1: What and Why
Post 12 2024: How and What Next?
Post 13 2024: Portfolio
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Current Course (2025)
Schedule 2025
Final Specs 2025
Design Preview Specs 2025
Blog and Blog Comment/Critique Policies
Presentation Critiques
Pod and Critique Facilitator Responsibilities
Sources for materials
Student Resources
Zotero Library Access
Designers and fun links
Syllabus
Initial Assignments 2025
18 Guest Lecture: Adam Agee
17 Aesthetic Movement and Art Nouveau
16 Arts and Crafts Movement
15: 20th Century Timeline
14 Rhino demo and Sketching
13 Supernormal Stimuli
Upcycle Presentation Logistics
11 Contour Bias vs Cubes
10 Aesthetics Game
09 Upcycle Specs and Perspective Sketching
08 Teams
07 Process and Sketching
06 Ideation and Process
05 Aesthetics Tour 3
04 Aesthetics Tour 2
03 Aesthetics Tour 1
test post
02 Definitions of Aesthetics
01 Intro
Initial Assignments
Syllabus for Jan 2019
Schedule 2019
Material source for upcycling
Schedule 2017
Great use of Vantablack, light absorbing paint
Vertical Garden Walls
From art project to a new industry: racing mechs
Technomadics?
Bad Design is Inspiring Too
Love that whiplash curve
Crappy Robot Queen
Golden ratio sculptures
32 Wrapping Up
31 Design Awards
30 Current Designers: Hadid, Pagani, Jobs
29 Current Designers: Stewart, Rashid, Lovegrove, Behar
28 Glass sketching and Phillipe Starck
27 Chairs: Eames Lounge, Monobloc, and Beyond
26 Timeline to Chairs
25 Golden Ratio
24 Anthropomorphic and Geometric Aesthetics
23 Color and Anthropomorphic Effects
Sorcerer of Antiques
22 Stuff and Color
Artist and Mechanical Engineer: Arthur Ganson
21 Aesthetics Game Redux: Timeline Engagement
20 Guest Lecture: Sketching Instructions for Travellers
Wood is Not an Aesthetic
19 Streamlining to Post Modern
14 Adam Agee guest lecture
18 Art Deco and Organic Movements
17 Bauhaus and Beyond
16 Art Nouveau
15 Ideation and Brainstorming
13 Arts and Crafts Movement
12 Taking Stock and Sketching
Upcycle Presentation and Report Requirements
11 More sketching plus…
09 Aesthetics Game
08 Team Upcycle Discussion
07 Sketching a block, and team behavior
06 Process and Sketching
05 Sketching and Aesthetics Tour 3
04 Critique and Aesthetics Tour 2
03 Aesthetics Tour 1, and Upcycling
02 Definition of Aesthetics
01 First Class 2017: Fresh again
Laser cut automaton
Silver Swan Automaton 200 years old!
Is the Aesthetics of Design course right for you?
Solidsmack
Spring 2017 Enrollment is Open!
I Love Junk
Drones play James Bond theme
A Few Videos
24 Wrapping Up
Product Design: 365 Knitting Clock makes time more tactile by making a scarf
Pattern Workshop by Kara Priest
24 Current Designers of Note
Dynamic Chandeliers
Steampunk vision of New York
Bathtub to couch
23 Chairs: Eames Lounge, Monobloc, and Beyond
22 Chairs: Eames Lounge Chair
21 Timeline Engagement
Design Videos from DeZeen
A dress with parking sensors…
20 Pictionary
19 Bauhaus and Beyond
18th lecture: 20th Century Timeline
17 Geometric Aesthetics
16 Anthropomorphic Aesthetics
Kinetic Art
14 Color
13 Stuff and Color
Build in Progress
12 Design Review Requirements and UPDes – Color
Steampunk lamp
11 Aesthetics of Design Game
Military Surreal
Upcycle Reports
Dynamic tables
Kinetic sculptures by Anthony Howe
Yarn from plastic bags
05 Aesthetics tour concluded
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