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It is done. Handed in on time. Industrial Design!

First year students at Emily Carr wishing to enter the Industrial or Communication Design degree programs in second year must submit a portfolio for review by February 17, 2006. The following is the final draft of my submission, which I am looking for feedback on.

I was chosen to apply for a $1600 US scholarship but I am a fucking idiot and missed the deadline that I had one month to prepare for. Holy crap. Here is my application essay anyways, where I was asked to say what my educational goals were and how this scholarship would make a difference.

By the end of today all first years at the Emily Carr Institute must declare a major, and one major only, for second year. I know I want to be a designer for sure! (well, pretty sure). But there are two streams at ECIAD: industrial and communication. For the past two years I’ve been very…

First assignment in Foundation 3D Design with Roman Izdebski: in groups of two produce 12 space sketches (3D compositions) using first rectilinear, curvilinear and then combined forms.

A young Canadian designer interested in attending Emily Carr found me via the GDC Listserve this week and asked my opinion of the school. My response.

Create a zine based on personal symbols and icons. Our group stenciled a 12’x5′ zine on a wall. There is a short video of the process.

This Materials, Form and Space assignment called for students to disregard story and purpose in order to create a non-conceptual, non-narrative sculpture that would explore form, shape and void using three materials.

Midterm project for Drawing and 2D Language. We had at least three weeks to do this assignment, which was to basically illustrate an excerpt of text (“explorations of the relations of words and pictures”).

Materials Form and Space Project #2: Mixed Media Assemblage with Wood. I went out material hunting on the weekend to get some ideas. Hover mouse over thumbs for description.

After a basic in-class introduction to plaster casting my Materials, Form and Space instructor encouraged us to experiment with casting fragments of our bodies. I asked classmate Andreas if he’d like to try casting a handshake. We spent an early September afternoon in the sunlit plaster room holding each other in a ritual greeting that…

An look at my first significant assignment at art school, with an overview of my creative process in developing an idea to produce a work that explores the dimensions and narrative of a single fruit or vegetable.

Almost everything constructed in nature, and constructed by us, is built on the skeleton and skin principal: a generally internal, supportive frame surrounded by an outer skin or layer. My Creative Processes class professor Duane Elverum, who introduced this idea to us first-years, gave some examples last week (and I’ll add my own, too): buildings…

There’s about 300 new first-year students enrolled at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver this September. In fact the full-time population is only 1,500, which to some people I’ve chatted with (like Ellen, the school’s front-desk receptionist) seems pretty big, but which seems more like a large family to someone coming…