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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
05 Aesthetics Tour 3
06 Ideation and Process
07 Process and Sketching
08 Teams
09 Upcycle Specs and Perspective Sketching
10 Aesthetics Game
11 Contour Bias vs Cubes
Upcycle Presentation Logistics
13 Supernormal Stimuli
14 Rhino demo and Sketching
15: 20th Century Timeline
16 Arts and Crafts Movement
17 Aesthetic Movement and Art Nouveau
18 Guest Lecture: Adam Agee
19 Bauhaus and Beyond, plus Critical Design Review criteria and logistics
20: Modern Design Movements
22 Color
23 Magic Factor of 7, Color and Anthropomorphic Effects
24 Anthropomorphic and Geometric Aesthetics
25 Golden Ratio, then Chairs
26 Chairs: Eames Lounge vs Monobloc
27 Current Designers: Starck, Precht, Burtt
28 Current Designers
29: Current designers – Hadid, Pagani, Jobs and Ive
End of Semester Show
30 Design Awards
Final Presentation logistics
Final Assignments
Phone Sheep
Schedule 2020
Strandbeest Bicycle
Initial Assignments
01 First class meeting
Mercedes Benz applies the ‘Avatar’ aesthetic
02 Resources and Art definition
03 Definitions of Aesthetics 2
04 Aesthetics Tour
05 Upcycle examples and Aesthetics Tour
06 Ideation Techniques
07 Process and sketching
08 Upcycle Specs, 1,2, and 3 Point Perspectives
Pods for Presentations
09 Cubes and Contour Bias
Guest Lecture: ‘Inspired by Objects’ by Hope Saska
10 Supernormal Stimuli and Shade/Shadow sketching
11 Sketch Viewpoints, and start 20th Century Design Movements
Ways Of Learning: Guest Lecture by Prof. Kate Goodman
Lecture 12, Friday Feb 28, 2020 Gothic to Postmodern, plus shadow
Lecture 13, 3/2/2020: Arts and Crafts
14 Weds 3/4/20 Arts and Crafts 2
15 Friday 3/6/20 Aesthetics Movement and Art Nouveau
Pod Facilitator/Leader Expectations
Transition to Online Course
Baby Bots by Moon Armada
16 Bauhaus and Beyond, Zoom lecture 3/20/20
17 Modern Movements. Monday 3/30/20
18 Pop Art to Present, plus cylinder sketching
19 Aesthetics Game Redux Friday 4/3/20
20 Aesthetics Game Critique
21 Black, White, Red effects and Horizontal Cylinder Sketching
22 Color and Magic Factor of 7. Friday April 10, 2020.
23 Anthropomorphic and Geometric Aesthetics
24 Spheres, then Case Study: the Chair
25 Chairs: Eames Lounge to Monobloc and Beyond. Friday April 17, 2020
Chindogu, the Art of Almost Un-Useless
Perfectly Useless Products
26 Apple’s Aesthetic: Jobs and Ive. Friday 4/24/20
Welcome! Getting Ready for Spring 2021
Is Aesthetics in Design the right course for you?
If You Just Enrolled
Initial Assignments 2021
Schedule 2021 Spring
Syllabus 2021 Spring
Zotero Library Access
Wavy Walls
Upcycling Noise Artist Petr Valek
Upcycle Specs and Live Critiques 2021
Ice Cycle
Design Preview Specifications
Paper Machines by Federico Tobon
Final Report Specs Etc.
AesDes Expo 2021 Zoom Links
Music from Marbles
Blog and Blog Comment/Critique Policies
Schedule 2023
Initial Assignments 2023
Your first log-in and how to make a post
Upcyle Specifications 2023
Circle and Ellipse drawing practice
Aesthetic Exploration: Magewave
Test post
Upcycling Project Update 1
Upcycling weapons into art
Upcycle Progress Report
Adults are obligated to have fun, so kids will want to grow older.
Upcycling Final
Main Project Plans
Design Preview Specs 2023
Main Project Final Documentation Specifications
Main Project Aesthetics, Plans and Alternatives
Post 8: Specifications and Restraints
Design Preview Report
Post 12: Main Project Final Report Part 2
Sources for materials
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