Miles Radakovitz

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Miles Radakovitz: Reading Table

April 29, 2020

Design Review 2020 Part 2: Timeline and Logistics

So for all of us involved with this class there has been a lot of twists and turns taking us from our initial plans to our final results. I was thankfully fortunate enough to not have to completely shift my plans as I had the majority of the tools necessary to complete this project on…

Miles Radakovitz Industrial Chic / George Nakashima Table

April 20, 2020

Miles Radakovitz

Final Project Part 1 2020

For my main project I wanted to accomplish a few things. I wanted to make something useful, I wanted a woodworking project, and I wanted to make something professional. Ultimately I decided on a reading table to accompany the bookshelf I made for the upcycle project. My inspiration for this project came from two places:…

Construction update: reading table

April 15, 2020

Miles Radakovitz

Main Project Construction Update 2020

So thus far I have a table. I began by with a piece of live edge elm wood I got from a sawmill in town. I then cut the wood to the proper size by using a hand held circular saw. The wood was thicker than the saw blade so I had to do a…

Aesthetic Roots: Industrial Chic

April 8, 2020

Miles Radakovitz

Student Work, Your Aesthetic Roots 2020

When one thinks of the aesthetic of industrial chic one might often think of a place like Rayback collective. Lots of exposed piping, lots of dark colors and dark metals, light bulbs in cages, etc. This is a really neat aesthetic which can be surprisingly expensive if one looks into getting an “industrial chic” table.…

Favorite YouTube Builds: Adam Savage One Day Builds

March 31, 2020

Miles Radakovitz

Favorite Youtube design/build videos 2020

featured image credit:https://hoodline.imgix.net/uploads/story/image/27361/Main_Image_Downing_Journeys.jpg?auto=format For many of us young engineering folks Mythbusters was an incredibly influential show on discovery channel. I personally was always enamored with the scale of objects that the folks on that show were able to build. Adam Savage was always my personal favorite mainly due to his unapologetically nerdy demeanor. The show…

Reading table: Covid Update

March 18, 2020

Miles Radakovitz

Design Review 2020 Part 2: Timeline and Logistics

So with covid 19 closing down school and much of the other things in the area my project will either take two routes. First: if I can get everything figured out before places like McGuckins and the like close I should be able to get all of the materials I need to more or less…

Design review: reading table

March 9, 2020

Miles Radakovitz

Design Review 2020 Part 1: Detailed Plans

My inspiration for this project comes primarily from the work of George Nakashima and the industrial chic aesthetic. George Nakashima is an american woodworker who chose to keep the live edges on the wood slabs he used to create his furniture believing that nature was the true artist. Much of Nakashima’s work has a modern…

Top 5 Constraints: Reading table

March 8, 2020

Miles Radakovitz

Student Work, Top 5 Constraints 2020

1: Stability Nothing irritates me more than a wobbly table, if the table I made was wobbly there is a good chance I would not use it. To combat this I will use 3 legs giving it a stable base. I plan on using pipe for the legs and because of this there are plenty…

Plans and Alternatives: George Nakashima and Industrial Chic

February 26, 2020

Miles Radakovitz

Main Project Aesthetic 2020: plans and alternatives, Student Work

So for those of you fine individuals who have read my previous post describing a miniaturized Japanese garden I will have to break your most beautiful hearts. I’m veering away from this idea mostly because I don’t want to have a giant 4 square foot Japanese garden fountain thing in my house serving no greater…

Main Project Inspiration: Japanese Gardens and Bonsai

February 19, 2020

Miles Radakovitz

Main Project Inspirations 2020

For my main project I want to do something related to Japanese zen gardens and bonsai trees. The process of bonsai is thousands of years old and is the process of keeping a tree small, but allowing it to age to mimic real life on a small scale. I want to do this same thing,…

Upcycle Project Final Report: Sawhorse Bookcase

February 12, 2020

Miles Radakovitz

Student Work, Upcycle Final Report 2020

Abstract The purpose of this project is to look at upcycling. Upcycling is the process of making something useful out of discarded materials. Examples of upcycling can be seen all around us if we just stop and look. These can be things such as art instillation made of old tires, tables at breweries made of…

Upcycle Progress: Bookshelf

February 5, 2020

Miles Radakovitz

Student Work, Upcycle Progress 2020

The first step of things was to restore the sawhorses. I used a wire brush and sandpaper to clean the rust off of the brackets and clean the wood before staining. Raw sawhorses cleaning the brackets cleaned sawhorse right raw sawhorse left. After restoring the sawhorses I played around with how I would orient them.…

Upcycle Inspiration: Bookcase

January 28, 2020

Miles Radakovitz

Upcycle Inspiration 2020

For this project I am inspired by two things; my need to store books and plants and the tables made from planks and piping that you see in many of the wonder beer producing institutions here in Boulder. It is my understanding that the main draw to of these particular tables is the fact that…

Aesthetic Exploration: Crust Punk

January 22, 2020

Miles Radakovitz

Aesthetic Explorations 2016, Aesthetic Explorations 2020

Crust punk is a sub-genre of punk music made with acoustic instruments including but not limited to guitar, banjo, mandolin, washboard, washtub bass, or whatever else you could realistically transport easily while being homeless. Crust punk generally relies on the idea of complete rejection and disillusion with modern opulence and rebellion against traditional values. The…