Student Work
Students in Aesthetics of Design will be posting here about their work all semester. Please read and comment.
Summing Up 2019
Links
Here we show examples of the intersection of engineering and art that have inspired us.
Giant pinecones from shovels
From RecyclArt.org. Looks like a good site for upcycling inspirations.
Read More Beer can costume
Someone in class mentioned that they had a lot of soda cans that they were thinking of using for the Upcycle Assignment. Here is an example of upcycling that I can’t find the origin of, but it looks like a Brazilian Carnival troupe: I found it shared on Facebook.
Read More Rolling through the bay
Source: Rolling through the bay A wonderful example of upcycled outsider art. Scott Weaver created an elaborate sculpture of San Francisco, made entirely of toothpicks, around 100,000 of them. A ping pong ball rides on tracks through the sculpture, visiting sites of importance to the sculptor. I saw this at the American Visionary Museum in…
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Enter the annual DWR Champagne Chair Contest
If you want to get started with a pre-course warm-up project, check out this competition for tiny chairs made from champagne corks and wire cages. Competition closes Friday Jan 8, 2016. Happy New Year!
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Everything administrative. Syllabus, lecture notes, assignment requirements, schedule and more.
There is still room in all sections for this semester. Come on in!
Branden Tangney
Jean Hertzberg
Behruz