Jeff Werner

Designer & bike rider in British Columbia, Canada

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  • Studying in Translation

    So while most of my Dutch peers and instructors conduct our Public Space Department classes in English at the Design Academy Eindhoven, often entirely for my benefit (sometimes I’m the only non-Dutch at the table)–and for which I must say I am so grateful and in debt to for such accommodating kindness and self-restraint–they’ll still…

  • Public Space Sustainable Exhibit Notes

    Hi fellow assignment teammates, just some quick ideas regarding the exhibit we’re doing for Public Space, Design Academy Eindhoven. So visiting-artist last week Max liked our idea of many variations on that theme of visualizing symbiotic relationships. I’m thinking that, in the interest of time and effort, some can be just that, visualizations, while others…

  • Stick a Light In It

    From left-to-right, top-to-bottom: ???, Egg Basket Lamp Julia Lohmann, Ruminant Bloom. (preserved sheep stomachs) Bill Culbert, Light Sculpture. (plastic detergent bottles) Tejo Remi, Milk Bottle Lamp Tejo Remi, Milk Bottle Chandelier Studiomeiboom, Enlightenment lamp (book) Christian Maas, Lichtinfusion Lamp. (saline drip) Nadine Sterk, Sleeping Beauty (knitting machine) Chris Kabel, Sticky Lamp (bulb packaging) Michael Malmborg,…

  • Design Academy Aphorisms

    A casual collection of sayings, ideas, advice, maxims, uttered by professors and guest lecturers at the Design Academy during the first third of my term here.

  • Flickr Has Video

    Details on the Flickr blog. Some minor bugs being worked out. I’ve tagged my first video wtf.

  • What is Cradle-to-Cradle?

    A discussion with my class group was had at the Design Academy Eindhoven today on just what is (and what isn’t) cradle-to-cradle. It was theorized that everything in nature is cradle-to-cradle; almost everything by man, is not. And some questions were raised, which I hope to answer both objectively and subjectively, as briefly and in…

  • Vancouver Summer Room for Rent

    Click for full-size PDF (112kb). Design by roommate Tobias. We are looking for some nice ECIAD-people to look after our place on 2360 Larch St. for a while! It’s located smack dab in the middle of Kitsilano in a very nice brand new house where we usually live and work. It’s a 2 min. walk…

  • Design Academy First Impressions

    Hi David, Jeff Werner here. How’s things? Me: I’m in Eindhoven. Been here over a month now. Got a decent room in a townhouse with three flatmates, themselves from all corners of the globe and masters students at the Academy. My days (and nights) are filled with studies in the Public Space department and the…

  • Design Academy Exhibit

    The Family of Form exhibit at the Design Huis in Eindhoven, Netherlands is currently showing “works of three generations of graduates from Design Academy Eindhoven.” By three generations they mean over the past decade or so. Here are some of the pieces I documented with the English text copied from the show’s labels. Many of…

  • Four Masters of El Topo

    Images and transcripts from Alejandro Jodorowsky’s 1970 film, El Topo, specifically a bootlegged video copy of a projection of the film with subtitles from which this dialogue and screen grabs are copied.

  • High Five Session 1

    high-five session #1 from Jonathan Igharas on Vimeo. With friend and classmate Jon Igharis. The goal of our sessions: learn something new, fun and creative in a few hours with available tools to produce something worth showing. Tonight: an Arduino, some LEDs, a Sony HVR-A1U HD camera, a couple MacBook Pros, and Final Cut Pro.…

  • Farm Bent

    Farm Bent from Jeffrey Werner on Vimeo. First circuit bending. I watched this Make Magazine circuit bending video blog entry about it. Then I bought an old childrens toy for €0.80 at a used store in the Netherlands. I unscrewed the back, put in three AA batteries and started messing around for the first time…

  • Umberto Eco’s Intern

    I walked up to him across the lawn of the stable, near the old red barn, and shook his hand. And Umberto Eco replied “You talk too much. In the car you were gossiping and gossiping with that man.” Then he looked away, but in a manner that said he didn’t mind me. He would…

  • Design Academy Unit Phase 1

    First assignment, Atelier, Module 3, Spring 2008: Make a ‘unit’ that you can fit inside of. Use any cheap / free material. Minimum size of one cubic metre and no larger than an elevator. Think of aesthetics, decoration, sensitivity. Keep it simple. Make it personal, something you like. Read it as an empty book. On…

  • Nine Months of Sent Mail

    These sent emails cover the period since I left Canada on April 23, 2007, and leaving Bali on January 26, 2008, i.e. nine months of sent mail.

  • Temporary Public Objects

    First assignment, Modules 1-2-3, Man and Public Space, Design Academy Eindhoven: Investigate temporary objects used in public space (or objects used temporarily). A collection of initial photos.

  • Three Theremin Tracks by Pamelia Kurstin

    Recorded in 2002, theremin virtuoso Pamelia Kurstin posted on TED this February 2008: Also: for convenience, the three tunes played in this video (sans talking sections) for download: 01 Autumn Leaves.mp4 02 Listen the words are gone.mp4 03 Lush Life.mp4

  • I am not Shigeru Ban

    A recent comment posted by Wendall Chin on the entry https://jeffwerner.ca/2006/06/shigeru_ban.html says: Hello, I’m reaserching [sic] my project on your Picture Window House. I’m in need of the entire landscape from the ocean to the tip of the hill. If you could provide a landscape site along with wide range of photos relative to the…

  • Fax Not

    This is excellent [that you sent me an email with a PDF form to apply for Emily Carr Institute Bursaries], I am ready to apply right away. One lengthy note…er, rant, however: Is it possible to submit this via email? I’m confused as to the benefit and perceived extra legality of faxing a form that…

  • Student Exchange Spring 2008 Map

    A Google map marking the locations of 24 23 24 Emily Carr Institute students currently on single-term exchange at art and design universities around the world. View Larger Map Camila Arango – COMD – IED-Barcelona/Spain Alex Buss – COMD – Designskolen Kolding/Denmark Jennifer Griffiths – COMD – ENSAAMA/Paris Tobias Ottahal – COMD – The Cooper…

  • Petra Blaisse and Inside Outside

    A design firm I toured recently through a friend. Blaisse’s Inside Outside, located in an old school house in Amsterdam, consists of two studio spaces (one for Outside or landscape work and one for Inside, or interior design projects), as well as a meeting and supply room. Blaisse and her firm have completed work for…

  • From Java with SMS

    SMS messages I sent during a trip to Java, Indonesia

  • Important Keys

    I pille a bottle of water on my MacBook Pro a couple month ago an ever ince three key on my keyboar no longer function, two of which, it turn out, are pretty uefull letter in the Englih language. It i truly making me crazy. I avoi typing a much a poible now, which partly…

  • Song Names

    Taken from the slogans on t-shirts in Matahari department store in Bali.

  • A Whole New Mind by Daniel H. Pink

    A review in tabs—excerpts I found noteworthy in this look (paperback, 2006) at the new ‘Conceptual Age’ and how right brain thinking–art & heart–will lead the next generation of Americans to better happiness, health and wealth in a world increasingly automated by computers and workers in India taking over tech jobs.

  • Why Flickr?

    As the person responsible for taking the small organization I work for in Bali into as progressive an online realm as I can take it, one of the many recommendations–and one of the few that has required any spending–is that we purchase a Flickr Pro account. The question my boss asked: Can you give a…

  • Internship Transition

    Video prepared as a component of a presentation given at the Emily Carr Institute in Vancouver, Canada concerning a student design internship in the Philippines, May and June, 2007. Created in two days during late October, 2007 in Bali, Indonesia, with a Sony MiniDV Handycam, MacBook Pro, Final Cut Pro. Filming by Amanda Huynh. Editing…

  • Theft is the sincerest form of…

    Update November 2, 2007: After filing a registered complaint with the AMS, a series of cordial emails with the AMS Ombudsperson, a flood of comments from all sorts of concerned students and instructors and family (including an apology from AMS Communications below) a resolution has been reached. The official response that the AMS provided for…

  • Bali Intern Day 2

    Building a compost toilet, learning to manage a project. To manage multiple projects. Smoking. And zip lines across the Ayung River.

  • ‘La Lang (Just for the heck of it)

    Context In an evening, at the request of their parents, show a handful of already computer-savy Filipino kids aged 9-16 a couple digital tools on the computer and the internet that they may have never thought of or are curious enough to ask about. These two are non-linear digital video editing for the first time.…