Student Work
Students in Aesthetics of Design will be posting here about their work all semester. Please read and comment.
Virtual Expo
Students in Aesthetics of Design will be hosting live zoom rooms to show off their projects Tuesday May 4, 1:30 to 3:30. Six simultaneous rooms to choose from, new every 20 minutes. Here’s the link to the zoom rooms.
Last Post: Final Report total, or Part 2: How
Students had a choice as to whether to put their final report in one or two parts.
Summing Up 2019
Links
Here we show examples of the intersection of engineering and art that have inspired us.
Military Surreal
Several students chose military hardware as upcycle source material, and made benign objects from it, like Ethan Gehring’s nutcracker from a grenade casing, Shen Shu’s toy cannon, and Chad Alvarez‘s string of shotgun shell lights. Here is a full scale example from Kris Kuksi, a “post-industrial Rococco master”artist. Many layers of meaning here.
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Dynamic tables
“Top 10 Intelligent Wooden Tables”. Fun ways to make the static table into something dynamic.
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Yarn from plastic bags
My sister in law crochets grocery bags out of other plastic bags; very robust creations. This woman takes it further and makes fine thread.
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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.
Lecture notes and zoom recordings are in the Schedule
This Semester’s Students
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Alex -
Amanda Tetrault - Ankit Shukla
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Andrew Thorson -
Ben Husa - Ben Masters
- Bryce Gallo
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Brayden Shelley -
Branden Tangney - Callum Schulz
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Chris Gibbs -
Daedalus Muse - Erik Skooglund
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Jake Leicht -
Gary Marshall -
Hannah Moller - Hunter Meissner
- James Brown
- Jillian Weber
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Joshua Greenburg - Josh Negrey
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Maya Rudd -
Michael Burns -
Natalie Jagelski -
Peter Booras -
Peter Geis -
Ryan Cochran - Sidd Nair
- Sohan
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Stephen Chamot -
Thomas Boyd - Thuc Le
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Valerie Welch - Zack Lindsey
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Jean Hertzberg -
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