Student Work

Students in Aesthetics of Design will be posting here about their work all semester. Please read and comment.

Work from Last Year, 2020

Main Project 2020 Final Report Part 2: How?

Main Project 2020 Final Report Part 1: What?

Main Project 2020 Construction Update

Favorite YouTube Design/Build Videos 2020

Design Review Part 2: How and When? COVID driven revisions.

Design Review Part 1: Detailed Plans for the Main Project

Main Project Aesthetics: Plans and Alternatives

Summing Up 2019

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Here we show examples of the intersection of engineering and art that have inspired us.

Dynamic tables

Jean Hertzberg

Links, Student Work

“Top 10 Intelligent Wooden Tables”. Fun ways to make the static table into something dynamic.

Kinetic sculptures by Anthony Howe

Jean Hertzberg

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Wonderful examples of dynamics.

Yarn from plastic bags

Jean Hertzberg

Upcycling

My sister in law crochets grocery bags out of other plastic bags; very robust creations. This woman takes it further and makes fine thread.

Giant pinecones from shovels

Jean Hertzberg

Links, Upcycling

From RecyclArt.org. Looks like a good site for upcycling inspirations.

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.

Rolling through the bay

Jean Hertzberg

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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…

Enter the annual DWR Champagne Chair Contest

Jean Hertzberg

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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!

Course

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