Brooke Shade

14 posts

Final Report Part 2 // Industrial & Rustic Hexagonal Wedding Arch

May 2, 2020

Final Project Part 2 2020, Student Work

Check out my final presentation: In this section of my final report, I will detail exactly how I made my industrial/rustic aesthetic wedding arch. Shown below is a flow chart highlighting my design, iteration, and creative problem solving journey in order to complete this project. Each block represents about a week’s worth of time. I…

Final Report Part 1 // Industrial & Rustic Hexagonal Wedding Arch

April 19, 2020

Brooke Shade

Final Project Part 1 2020

As I have been DIY-ing my wedding (which is happening at the end of July), I have seen that modern brides dare to rewrite the script in terms of “traditional” decor, desserts, and overall aesthetic. Gone are the days of exclusively tulle, florescent light bulbs, and everything matching. I realized that I can create an…

Favorite Design/Build Video // Mark Rober

April 15, 2020

Brooke Shade

Favorite Youtube design/build videos 2020

My favorite YouTube design/build video is Mark Rober’s glitter bomb. I really enjoy his content because he eloquently describes his engineering process. As an engineer myself, I appreciate his tenacity to always learn new things and create amazing prototypes. I particularly enjoy this video because it is also aesthetically incredible. Mark’s ability to create…

Construction Update // Industrial Wedding Arch

April 15, 2020

Brooke Shade

Main Project Construction Update 2020

Despite having some major setbacks due to COVID-19, decreased access to on-campus resources, and shelter-in-place orders, I am really proud of the progress I made on this project. Due to lack of access to a machine shop, I ended up overhauling my design such that I could make it with what I have. It took…

My Aesthetic Roots

April 8, 2020

Brooke Shade

Your Aesthetic Roots 2020

I’m so thrilled that I can share about my own personal aesthetic exploration, artwork, and style as it has developed over the course of my life. I have always loved art and just creating. Something that I have always been drawn to is intricate details, like in paisley designs and mandalas. The way that those particular…

Main Project // Top 5 Constraints

March 31, 2020

Brooke Shade

Top 5 Constraints 2020

As I have moved forward with beginning to design my wedding arch, I have identified some of the hardest parts of this project. Creating something that can be easily constructed and deconstructed on the day of my wedding is proving to be more challenging than expected. I thought that I could use threaded copper pipes…

Main Project Aesthetics // Plans and Alternatives

March 31, 2020

Brooke Shade

Main Project Aesthetic 2020: plans and alternatives, Student Work

Having explored inspiration from other artists, brides, and Pinterest, I have settled on a desired aesthetic. I was predominantly inspired by this arch: Photograph by Anushe Low, styling by Rock My Wedding Particularly, I love the use of exposed copper pipes. I think these exposed pipes look industrial, rustic, and bring a nice juxtaposition to…

Main Project Inspo // What Will It Be?

March 31, 2020

Brooke Shade

Main Project Inspirations 2020, Student Work

When brainstorming what in the world I could make for the main project, it initially felt like a huge, daunting blank canvas. So I started to narrow down what I wanted to get out of this project and eventually settled on the following: I want to be challenged by this project. Specifically, I want to…

Design Review Part 2 // Main Project

March 18, 2020

Brooke Shade

Design Review 2020 Part 2: Timeline and Logistics

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Photograph by Anushe Low, styling by Rock My Wedding Check out my design review here: For my hexagonal wedding arch, I intend to spend the next few weeks (including Spring Break) solidifying my design and ordering materials. I need to decide whether I am making a single hexagon with a stand or a double…

Design Review // Rustic Industrial Aesthetic // Wedding Arch

March 9, 2020

Brooke Shade

Design Review 2020 Part 1: Detailed Plans

Check out my Design Review Presentation: For my final project, I will be creating a rustic, industrial wedding arch. I really love the strong, geometric lines of a hexagon, combined with a rustic, floral accent. I was inspired by these wedding arches which stray from the traditional arch: Photograph by: N Barrett Photography, Styled by:…

Upcycle Final Report // Vintage Aesthetic Book Compartment // Brooke Shade

February 16, 2020

Brooke Shade

Student Work, Upcycle Final Report 2020

Check out my presentation here: Inspiration: As per the usual, it was a Friday night and I was watching Parks and Rec on Netflix with my fiance. It was the episode where Leslie Knope gets married (a few weeks earlier than originally planned) and Ann Perkins finishes the wedding dress using old newspapers featuring Leslie’s proudest…

Upcycle Progress // Vintage Romantic Aesthetic Book

February 5, 2020

Brooke Shade

Student Work, Upcycle progress 2019

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For my upcycle project, I wanted to somehow incorporate a vintage/romantic aesthetic into my artifact. I already have an old physics book, that I am not going to read. So I wanted to put the book to good use and make it into something else that serves a purpose. I decided to first hollow out…

Upcycle Inspiration // Vintage Romantic

January 27, 2020

Brooke Shade

Upcycle Inspiration 2020

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My inspiration for my upcycle project was a vintage/romantic aesthetic. I love the way that old typewriters look and the entire aesthetic surrounding black and white films. I was particularly inspired by the following image: Photo by Tyler Golden/NBC This is Leslie Knope from NBC’s Parks and Recreation. Her last-minute wedding dress came together…

Aesthetic: Boho

January 27, 2020

Brooke Shade

Aesthetic Explorations 2020

Today, “boho” is a style often characterized by the eccentric, lacey, floral-patterned, earth-toned, flower-crowned style that is often spotted at Coachella. But moreso than wanna-be hippies, the bohemian style goes back almost 200 years. Photograph by Dani R Photography (http://theonedayhouse.com.au/boho-beach-picnic-styled-shoot/) The bohemians began as a counter-cultural movement after the French Revolution when artists were…