Kevin Yang

13 posts

Summing up Aesthetics of Design 2020

May 3, 2020

Summing Up 2020

Hi there! Here’s a consolidation of my work throughout the course Aesthetics of Design, taken during the 2020 Spring semester at CU Boulder, taught by Professor Hertzberg. Upcycling Project: Create an artifact that conforms to an aesthetic, either the aesthetic you researched, or one that someone else in class posted about. Upcycle means that your…

Final Project Report: Part 2

May 2, 2020

Kevin Yang

Final Project Part 2 2020

Timeline My timeline for this project was similar to as initially planned but varied due to circumstances involving the Covid-19 quarantine – my adjusted timeline is pictured below: Due to the displacement from campus, I lost about a week of time to work on the prototyping of the initial sculpture designs initially, which pushed my…

Final Project Report: Part 1

April 22, 2020

Kevin Yang

Final Project Part 1 2020

My final project took a lot of inspiration from my previous Upcycling project and the chicken wire frame I had used – I enjoyed the usage of the material both in terms of manipulating it into a form I desire, as well as the intricacy and detail a wire frame can offer. Moreover, with a…

Favorite Youtube Design Video 2020: The Robot That Shines a Laser in Your Eye

April 1, 2020

Kevin Yang

Favorite Youtube design/build videos 2020

Michael Reeves’ youtube channel consists of him building silly and counter-productive DIY robots – this one in particular is one of his funnier builds, where a robot tracks your face and shines a laser in your eye. I find this one particularly funny since for my final project, I had wanted to incorporate some facial…

Design Review Part 2: Owl Sculpture

March 18, 2020

Kevin Yang

Design Review 2020 Part 2: Timeline and Logistics

With the recent ongoing Covid-19 situation, my timeline regarding the project has changed slightly; pictured below: Prototyping is divide into two major sections – that of the building the actual sculpture, and that of working on the dynamic components. The fabrication of the main sculpture will be very similar to my Upcycle project – formation…

Design Review Part 1: Chicken Wire Sculpture

March 11, 2020

Kevin Yang

Design Review 2020 Part 1: Detailed Plans

During the fabrication process of the previous sculpture for my Upcycling project, I actually really enjoyed working with the chicken wire frame – both in terms of manipulating it into a form I desire, as well as the intricacy and detail a wire frame can offer. I also have a lot of leftover wire frame…

Main Project: Top 5 Constraints

March 4, 2020

Kevin Yang

Top 5 Constraints 2020

Moving forward with the chicken wire framing and construction, there are a few constraints, as there are with all projects, I need to consider: 1) Material and Structure The biggest constraint moving forward is developing the actual structure of the owl sculpture. There are a ton of different ways I can go about creating the…

Main Project Aesthetic 2020: Contemporary Sculpture

February 26, 2020

Kevin Yang

Main Project Aesthetic 2020: plans and alternatives

The primary aesthetic I want to shoot for with this project is something that is generally contemporary as well as surreal – the sculpture made out of chicken wire fence is meant to both model something realistic, but also be constructed in a way that the form is ‘otherworldly’. Moreover, I want the piece to…

Main Project Inspirations 2020: Dynamic Wire Frame Sculpture

February 19, 2020

Kevin Yang

Main Project Inspirations 2020, Student Work

Continuing on with the general idea from my upcycle project; During the fabrication process of the previous sculpture, I actually really enjoyed working with the chicken wire frame – both in terms of manipulating it into a form I desire, as well as the intricacy and detail a wire frame can offer. I also have…

Upcycle Final Report: Fast Food Wrapper Sculpture

February 11, 2020

Kevin Yang

Upcycle Final Report 2020

For my Upcycle project, I had initially wanted to work with fast food wrappers in some manner from the get go – taking inspiration from art and sculptures from other artists who have worked with a similar medium; that is, with objects or materials that might typically be considered garbage. A sculpture using fast food…

Upcycle Progress – Fast Food Wrapper Sculpture

February 5, 2020

Kevin Yang

Upcycle Progress 2020

Currently, I am preparing for the ‘building’ stage of my project. I have accumulated most of the materials I will be using for the project and solidified on general form and shape of the sculpture. My initial thoughts and sketches of the form is displayed below: The final sculpture will consist of an arm gripping…

Upcycle Inspiration: Fast Food Wrappers

January 29, 2020

Kevin Yang

Student Work, Upcycle Inspiration 2020

For my upcycle project, I wanted to work with fast food wrappers in some manner. Ultimately, I’m tentatively deciding on building a sculpture of some sort – I think this will be one of the striking ways to transform something which we consider useless and essentially trash into something that is visually pleasing or meaningful.…

Aesthetic Exploration 2020: High Fantasy

January 22, 2020

Kevin Yang

Aesthetic Explorations 2020

High fantasy is an aesthetic that can define many facets of media culture – but typically used as an aesthetic in fictional narratives. This post will highlight the more visual portion of the high fantasy aesthetic. High fantasy is a subgenre of general fantasy (which is fiction set in a fictional universe, typically in antiquity)…