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Cover and interior design, published 2024.
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Essential Mac Web Design Apps
While working on a contract these are the applications and programs I have running on my MacBook Pro (with OSX 10.4) at basically all times while designing and constructing a website. I can’t work without these. A lot of Command-Tab, Command-r going on. What do you use? Grab Native OSX app for taking screenshots. Good…
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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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Cycling BC Road Online Calendar
A quick and fun pro bono project for the organization I raced under for seven years. A kind of giving back to the community feel. I was in charge of the frontend design of their new race calendar and results website, working with the VP of Road as project manager and a racer/programmer who developed…
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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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Transcribed Inspiration
Passages from films I’ve found particular poignant / relevant / inspiring of late. Adaptation John Larouche’s pollination monologue Note: skip to 3-minute mark “Point is what’s so wonderful is that every one of these flowers has a specific relationship with the insect that pollinates it. There’s a certain orchid looks exactly like a certain insect,…
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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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Notes on Ira Glass’ Notes on Storytelling
A textual summary and paraphrasing of some tips Ira Glass (of NPR’s This American Life) has for people starting out in the broadcast business and want to know what makes a good story. Taken from a four-part series of little YouTube videos. Two building blocks of broadcast storytelling: The Anecdote A sequence of actions. Story…
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Future Perfect Career 1
The following email was written to a professor of mine in June, 2007. I’m reviewing it again to see if it still holds true: is my dream job still Jan Chipchase’s job? This two part article will first look at my thoughts on the topic from one year ago and then re-evaluate them in conjunction…
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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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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 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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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.…
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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…
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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…
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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.
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‘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.…
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Some Rules of Improv
Don’t refuse an offer Also known as: Yes, and…; Don’t Block; Don’t Deny. Accept and build on what others suggest during a scene. Support others Trust others in the scene and help them look good and you’ll look good. Save your fellow actor first. Enter a scene when and where you’re needed. Don’t try to…
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Bali Intern Day
A typical day during my first two weeks of a design internship with John Hardy, the bamboo company and Kul-Kul School near Ubud in Bali, Indonesia, August 1-14, 2007. Wake up with the sunrise around 6am, get out of tent. Make my way down to John Button (Australian permaculturalist living on-site for five weeks)’s place…
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Two Day Garbage
The amount of ‘garbage’ I directly created in two days here in Bali. In quotes because it’s important to start distinguishing between waste, which is an endpoint and not usefull to anyone, and a potential resource, such as compostable material. The amount pictured is actually less than I would have created in Canada in two…
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John Hardy Bali
My Philippines Internship ended in mid-July. I then flew to Jakarta and rode my bicycle across Java to start a second internship on August 1st near Ubud, Bali, Indonesia. I am working, observing and learning with a company that designs and builds bamboo buildings and sustainable communities, among other things. I am working with the…