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Emily Carr University 2010 Exhibition: Design
The 2010 Emily Carr University Graduation Exhibitions. Nice vinyl on concrete outside the Granville Island campus. The whole show was pretty well branded, from the name tags to the labels to the wayfinding to the print catalogue. I made a quick run around the Design exhibit at this year’s Emily Carr grad show. The following…
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Design Project Hours and Budget
How much time and money does a 4th year design graduation project take? Nearly 1,000 hours and over $3,000.
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2009 Emily Carr Graduation Exhibitions
You are invited to view the work of our Undergraduates and Graduates from the Design, Fine Arts and Media programs. Undergraduate Exhibition May 3-10 10am to 6pm Graduate Exhibition May 3-17 10am to 6pm Preview Night Friday May 1, 7pm to 9pm Emily Carr University of Art + Design 1399 Johnston Street Granville Island Vancouver…
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What to Measure?
A progress report given in-class for an Industrial Design graduation project about measurements for our time.
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Measure 2009
Thoughts on a graduation project proposal for Industrial Design at the Emily Carr University, 2009.
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Emily Carr Pilgrimage
A video: students of the Emily Carr University make a winter morning pilgrimage to the grave site of their school’s namesake, and Canadian painter, Emily Carr, in Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria, Canada. Post-respects coffee at Cafe Fantastico in Cook Street Village. Ed. note: best espresso I’ve maybe ever had. Also: below, an image of Carr’s…
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iPhone University?
An open letter to Haig Armen, sessional instructor, concerning my concerns over his Spring 2009 2D Design Concentration course: Interactions and Applications for small screen technology (iPhone), at the Emily Carr University.
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Clément Quotes
“Everything we see is an iceberg.” Clément Vincent, Assistant Professor in Communication Design at the Emily Carr University. Myself and a handful of senior students attend his weekly Design Futures class. We give presentations and discuss readings on the design process, how we define design, and the paths we take around / through / beyond…
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Congregation Wallpaper
By popular request, desktop wallpaper of your favourite heads of Emily Carr. 1024 x 768 1280 x 800 1280 x 1024 1440 x 900
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Grad Projects, One Month
Presentations by fourth year Emily Carr University Industrial Design students after their first month of initial research. Instructors Tom Becher and Jim Budd. Live-blogged from the classroom. All notes below paraphrased (at best) and interpreted by me. 9:27 Michelle: Secrets of eating habits. Research books (Richard Buchanan’s Rhetoric, Humanism and Design, Hungry Planet, (un)popular Design…
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Need and Affordance
Fourth Year First Day: A fourth year industrial design graduation project class at the Emily Carr University attempts to sort themselves into theme-based groups on the first day of their final meeting. (At this point the professors have already left the class in frustration). Tom Becher flips over the course syllabus at his desk in…
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Interning With NGOs
A friend is about to embark on an internship with a South East Asian NGO and asked for some advice. I’ve been thinking about some general principles I learned during my time in the Philippines, in Bali, and with other non-profits and project-based organizations over the years. The following is my response, a sort of…
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The Fit of Existenz
David Cronenberg’s eXistenZ (1999) is a near-future noir of virtual reality gaming, genetic mutations and–like all Cronenberg films–a graphic discussion of the nature of the body and its relation to invasion and manipulation. Specifically, I’m interested in the designs of the organic game pods: mutated amphibian semi-creatures with synthetic DNA that port into the gamer’s…
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Eindhoven Idioms
A short assignment for Forum with instructor Danielle Arets at the Design Academy Eindhoven: Come up with a new slogan (or an anti-slogan) for Eindhoven: Try to think of a promotion campaign to embed this slogan in a series of activities Your slogan/ campaign has to be based on some research; what is the creatieve…
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Identity Feedback
The travel bag that transforms. A short essay, referencing class readings, about a product that has transformed my life.
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Emily Carr Design Graduation 2008
A selection of works from the Communication and Industrial design grads that caught my eye while checking out the exhibit website.
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Design Academy Unit Phase 2
Second half of an Atelier Module 3 class assignment for the second midterm presentation on April 23, 2008. Includes images of student work and comments from the instructors.
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.