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Strike
AutoCAD Final Project Soft Product Final Bag Ergonomics Midterm Ergonomics Final Assignment Report Core Studio Process Books Core Studio Lighting Image Boards Pack room shit for storage Pack school shit for storage Find summer roommates Pack for trip Cut my losses: Soft Product Final Bag Assessment
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Faith in Numbers
An outlaw faith healer with sock monkeys for the kids Was the status message on Cat’s gChat and I thought to myself I like the sound of that. Google brought me to In/Words 5.2, a Carleton U. student publication and prose by Rich Terfry. I read the whole thing and there was that same line.…
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Theo Jansen Presentation
Theo Jansen, if you’re unfamiliar, is the progenitor of Strandbeests–autonomous, wind-powered plastic tube creatures, many the size of elephants and larger, that this Dutch artist / engineer assembles to roam the beaches of Holland.
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Room for Rent
New posting, same place, for Summer 2008 I’m on internship for the summer and I’d like to rent my room to a kind person. If you’ve been to my place, which I share with three other Emily Carr students, you know what I’m talking about. If not… It is nice. It’s got a front and…
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Ouch my freakin’ ears
It seems the recent OS X update scaled the hardware volume up on the MacBook Pro (and all hardware running OS X?). Googled for 30 seconds, someone mentioned the 10.4.9 update system volume change. I miss 10.4.8 volume. For the Moms / Aunt reading this, that means my computer updated itself with new instructions that…
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Sofa Control
I bought a program for my computer and it reminds me how important good tools are and why I’m willing to start paying for them.
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Marian Bantjes Presentation
A live report from the Emily Carr Institute, March 22, 2007. Marian Bantjes, “13 years’ experience in design on top of an additional 10 years’ experience in book typesetting and production”, worked with Sagmeister (who is quoted recommending her), writer for SpeakUp, sessional insutructor at Emily Carr, all around name that keeps appearing in graphic…
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Stan Douglas Lecture
Live report at the Emily Carr Institute, March 21, 2007. More info about the lecture at the Emily Carr website and about Douglas himself at Wikipedia. Hmm, he’s more mild manner-sounding than I imagined. And this lecture started right on time and he gets into it right away. Also, he’s giving a special crit to…
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Internship Portfolio
I’ve taken my exchange application portfolio that I put together three weeks ago and tweaked it for an institute-related summer internship I was interviewed for today. Some sample shots taken just before my time slot this morning: Download Jeff Werner Internship Portfolio March 2007 (screen-res PDF, 979 KB). I’ve added a couple…
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Ergonomics Report
Assignment 2, SOCS-217 Ergonomics I Consider an existing device/product and apply ergonomic principles to determine and suggest possible changes to its physical characteristics. But really I made this an exercise in graphic design. Super fun and learned some more about complex style sheets (logic of nesting is a lot like CSS) and tables in InDesign.…
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Charts and Graphs
The Visual Culture (Art History) essay decision-making process flow chart. Hipster Commuter Graph (click to enlarge).
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Slipped My Mind
I am forgetful lately. Forgot our submission to the Applied Arts Magazine Student Awards Issue, a not insignificant 24″x18″ white cardboard box that I was supposed to FedEx. I left it at school the first time and had to phone a classmate and two roommates to finally retrieve it. Then again on my way to…
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Spring 2007 Design Charrette
All Day Event This intensive, theme-based assignment is for all Communication and Industrial Design students in all three years at Emily Carr. The Charrette will last only one day. Food and Eating The Charrette theme is “Food and Eating,” an interdisciplinary topic relevant to studies in design but also social and economic issues, sustainability and…
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Design Exchange Portfolio and Application
Third year Emily Carr Institute students may apply for a one-term exchange to take related courses at partner institutions around the world. Here’s my application.
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Thinking About Design Thinking
Great Logo First, the best logo I’ve seen in a while: Design department composting initiative. New logo by ID3 Jonny Hehr (idtreehouse.com). So effective for the obvious: banana speaks compost, arrows speak recycle, colour: highly visible. Design and BC Wood Industry Guest designer today in Core Studio. Barbara Bell (formativdesign.com), Vancouver-based consultant / specialist in…
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Narrative in Exhibit Design
A lecture by Mindy Lehrman Cameron, Exhibition Designer, at the Emily Carr Institute, February 7, 2007. This is also my try at live blogging. Concrete Journalism Nice term. Like, journalism in the flesh. Identify and tell a story. When is an exhibit not a book? When it’s an unwritten story. Can you tell a story…
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Design Barrier: Canadian Tire Website Entry
A self-imposed barrier to success by the web team at Canadian Tire: force customers to input information to access even the first page. If you haven’t been to canadiantire.ca before or recently, you’ll get this off the bat: A friend sent me a link over MSN last night to a crock pot that’s on sale…
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FreeCell Best Streak
My top winning streak in the solitary computer card game FreeCell and my strategy for avoiding essays.
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Listened in 2006
Like Kottke’s recent post, the following are my 25 most played artists for 2006 as recorded by Last.fm, the website that tracks what I’m listening to in iTunes on my computer: Taking into account that neither the listening habits of my CDs on the home stereo nor my iPod in my pocket commuting to school…
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The Constant Gardener by John le Carré
A review in tabs—excerpts I found noteworthy in this fictional account of the pharmaceutical industry’s plundering and ethics in Africa and a British diplomat trying to solve the mystery of his wife’s murder because of her involvement in exposing it.
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Technical Skills
For all its foundations in conceptual learning and creativity, its teaching steeped in process, I find I’m actually learning some technical skills in art and design school as well. And while I admire what the former gives me (and the way Emily Carr holds it above craft and technical skill; it’s why I decided to…
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Plows
Nothing like a little snow storm in the metropolis to help a small town boy feel special: City of Vancouver Snow Removal 27 plows $400,000 annual budget 2,000,000 people City of Nelson Snow Removal 4 plows $436,000 annual budget 10,000 people Sources: http://vancouver.ca/engsvcs/streets/snow.htm http://www.city.nelson.bc.ca/html/snow.html Midnight outside my home in Kitsilano, Vancouver, November 26, 2006.
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Recycle Bed
Recycled cardboard tubes (found in dumpster behind print shop), modified to fit standard Ikea bed slats, plus routerred support legs. Vancouver, 2006. Used as my primary bed for five years before moving apartments, after which I recycled the bed.
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Vessel Process
Vessel for three peaches Jeff Werner Industrial Design 200 ID2 Core Studio, Assignment 2 Instructors: Louise St. Pierre & Christian Blyt Emily Carr Institute Fall 2006 Objective Explore a vocabulary of form language for a specific end use within the constraints of simple materials and processes. Design and model a vessel for a specific number…
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Before and After Science: Personal Deviations
Brian Eno’s 1977 Before and After Science. Funny, it’s been years since I’ve listened to Eno’s Before and After Science and now that a friend and classmate got me rotating it again I’m realizing how possibly funny (even anachronistic) this album is relative to its chronological position in Eno’s discography. Before and After came out,…
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No Sexy Underwear
The headline in today’s CBC BC online: Boxer shorts made mandatory for Richmond firefighters. So it’s well known now in the media that female firefighters get hella discriminated against and there are courts and inquiries involved to get them some rights. So I’m reading this article and imagining just what the boxers have to do…
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Whiskey and Jazz
Homework and I talked tonight. We’re taking a break. I fixed a drink, a fire, Paolo Conte and Duke Ellington. No one else is home and the hi-fi is on 25. It is good to have a home.
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Halloween Design Concept
As a way of communicating with our design team concerning the Halloween Cabaret we’re organizing, I’m posting our poster concept for people to comment on. Check out what Tobias put together tonight using some of the photos from our shoot, and please post a comment about what you think: The “poster”. The poster. Variation A…
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Whimsical Design: Copywriting
Note the disclaimer below the directions on this sachet of Lipton Cup-a-Soup: You don’t have to add exactly 175 ml, it’s not like a law or anything Also the No Spoon sign. Examples of superfluous, yet whimsical design. Not judging its effectiveness, but good to keep in mind.
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Too Nice
Lunch with prof again: pork loin and sauerkraut melt on wholegrain, special mayo, side honey kettle chips, glass of Orangina on ice. Later: tea during paragraph breaks and URLs. Tagged along town earlier. Introduced to Neils (stern, tall, dark, Danish) at Inform; tour of new three-story, geo-thermal-heated store front with green roof. Side note: green…