Summing Up 2020

It certainly was an eventful semester. I learned a ton about how aesthetics influences our everyday lives. Additionally, this course showed me the societal divide between the arts and engineering,…

Final Report Part 2 2020: Desk Lamp

Why and What Next My laser cut enclosure panels finally arrived, so I was able to construct my desk lamp! Functional Motivation My main functional goal for this project was…

Final Report Part 1 2020: Desk Lamp

Desk Lamp Enclosure Currently, the completion of my project has been delayed by factors outside of my control. While I was relieved to hear that as of Wednesday (4/15) evening,…

Favorite Youtube Design/Build Videos: Mark Rober

Mark Rober’s “Package Thief vs. Glitter Bomb Trap” While I would have loved to find a lesser known creator, I feel that Mark Rober’s package thief bait videos match the…

Design Review 2020 Part 2: Desk Lamp

Timeline My project has been complicated by the closing of the ITLL due to the COVID-19 pandemic. My only option for fabricating my laser cut desk lamp on campus is…

Design Review 2020 Part 1: Desk Lamp

Aesthetic Inspiration As explained in my previous posts, I decided to create something similar to the laser cut wooden desk lamp shown below as Figure 1. Figure 1. Futuristic desk…

Top 5 Constraints 2020: Desk Lamp

After deliberating a bit, I have chosen to follow Option 3: Futuristic Laser Cut Sections of my last “Main Project Aesthetics” post when creating my desk lamp. I hope to…

Main Project Aesthetics 2020: Desk Lamp

Option 1: Medieval Fantasy Hightower Spire Following my inspiration post, the first option of aesthetic to apply to my desk lamp would be to create a replica of the Song…

Main Project Inspiration 2020: Desk/Table Lamp

Introduction For this course’s Main Project, I would like to create something with regular functional use. My current room in graduate housing only has one oddly-positioned overhead light, so even…

Upcycle Final Report 2020: Pocket-Sized Sketchpad

Upcycle Inspiration While we were discussing the importance of doodling within lecture, I realized that while I have a full-size notebook in my backpack dedicated to this course, I wanted…

Upcycle Progress 2020: Pocket-Sized Sketchpad

Shortly after making my inspiration post, I found an extremely similar process conducted by a craft-cycle.com user “McKenzie” posted to the site – https://www.craft-cycle.com/upcycled-receipt-notebook-2/ – on August 3rd of last…

Aesthetic Exploration 2020: Retrofuturism

For my first aesthetic exploration, I have chosen to explore the Retrofuturism aesthetic. Building upon the concept of futurism, retrofuturism has the distinction of showing retro styling and perspective at…