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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
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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
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Initial Assignments 2025
Upcycle Design Report- Yerba Mate Candles
Upcycle Design Report: Cube Lamp
Fairy Tale Mirrored Candle Shelf
Stained Glass Motorcycle Helmet
Bottle Chainmail Cotour
The Drop-out Table: an homage to academic years and mid century simplicity.
Welded Wall E
Industrial Planter
Workwear Inspired Bouldering Bucket
Chain Clock
Post 5: Industrial Bedside table
Horse Purse
Cyberpunk Communicator
Post 5: Cactus Pot
Industrial Style Bar Cart
Aquarium Scuba Tank
Crafting Elegance: Upcycling Clase Azul Tequila Bottles into Vases
1970s/1980s Model Computer
1970s Record Side Table
Miyazaki-Inspired Airship
Blue Dragon Storm Vase
Upcycle Design Report: Surreal Symphony
American Bottlecap Astronaut
LED Googie Sign
Puck Pot: Recycled Hockey Stick Planter
Upcycle Report – Patchwork Totebag
Cottagecore Patchwork Jeans
Origami Animal Lights Decor
90s Hip Hop Inspired Denim Bucket Hat
Flowering Mushroom Book Decoration
Floating Bookshelf
Japandi Hook & Ring Game
Minimalist Knife Block with Re-used Wood
Upcycle Project – Cigar Box Mandolin
Picture Frame
Graffitied Skateboard Shoe Rack
“Floating” Wine Bottle Holder- Post 5
The Industrial Modernist Shelf
Rustic Picture Frame and Colorado Buffaloes Logo
Patchwork Shirt
Rustic Shou Sugi Ban Chess Board – Made with Mountain Barn Wood
MX-5 Diorama
Mid-Century Modern Origami Lamp
Trumpet Lamp
Upcycle Design Report: Rustic Mid-Century Wall Clock
Yassifying a Cantaloupe
Alternating Waves
Medieval Cyber Helmet
Brutalist Pencil Holder
Maximalist Victorian Wood-Toy : Toy-Train
Minimalist Denim Sun Visor
Hanging Planter: “Floating Bits of Life”
Rustic Table Coasters
The GEEN 1400 Special
Tensegrity Unused Brackets
Koho Topographic Scrap Wood Sculpture (virtual design)
Upcycle Design Report – 1950’s Signage
Minimalist Poster Frame
Upcycle Design Report – Organic Modern Furniture Piece
Naturalist Hangboard
Book End Table
Punk Box
Miyadaiku Puzzle-like Sculpture
Rustic Wall Art | Upcycle Project Overview
Pioneer Primitive Newton’s Cradle Design Report
Bolts – A Scrap Metal Art Piece
Industrial Disco Man
Paper Mache Head (Inspired by Duane Flatmo)
Wind City
Steampunk toaster
Artificial Wire Bonsai
Aquatic Light
Afrofuturism Mask
Beach Aesthetic Lamp
Countertop Wine Rack
Upcycle Design Report – ‘HOME.’
Upcycle – Outdoor Illusion
Upcycled Bulletin Board
Levitating Steampunk Globe: An Artistic Confluence of Past and Future
Upcycle Design Report: Egg carton vase
Cardboard Topographic Tissue Box Cover
Skateshop iPad Holder
The Shoe Project – Sophie Berry
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