Work
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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…
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Philippines Internship Part II
A recap of input and output from the second month–Part II–of a two-month, two-part design internship in the Philippines. Locations include Baguio City; dates span May 28 (arrive in Baguio) to July 12, 2007.
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I plug away in Baguio
On prompting, an update of my daily activities. The past two weeks have been pretty much like many other summer spent 18 hours a day on the computer HTMLin’, CSSin’, Flickrin‘, Blogin‘, Surfin‘. Except I’m doing it in an office alone in a small weaving factory in Baguio City, Philippines. My meals are fairly regularly…
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Ifugao Hunter Backpack
Remember the picture I posted of Aklay (aka Philippe) the French Baker in Sagada wearing one of those water-proofed traditional backpacks? I found it (well, both Aklay and the backpack) interesting and posted a photo of them on my Flickr. I’d actually secured a standard variety model without the covering a week earlier, but when…
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Philippines General Design Observations B
Part two of two of a collection of general considerations from a design internship in the Philippines. We know packaging can speak to contents, but how do these conventions shift from culture to culture? Generally utilitarian isopropyl alcohol in more ‘designer’ green, contoured bottles; jumbo ‘banana catsup’ bottles. If you could only change one aspect…
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Philippines General Design Observations A
A two-part collection of general considerations from a design internship in the Philippines. Bridging the gap: traditional basket weaving with contemporary hardware. Souvenier shop, Baguio City. Variety based on geographic, climate, use and/or tradition? Woven pasikings (backpacks) from the Cordillera Mountain Region, for sale in Baguio City. The French baker of Sagada, Aklay, wearing a…
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Philippines Internship Part I
A recap of input and output from the first month–Part I–of a two-month, two-part design internship in the Philippines. Locations include Manila and Puerto Princesa; dates span April 25 (leave Vancouver, Canada) to May 27, 2007.
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Tools and Modification
How far can we modify an object before it becomes unrecognizable or permanently altered? How many mistakes must be made to determine that limit? At what point do modifications become useful enough to become adopted as the norm? When a modification doesn’t quite meet needs, how much time and investment and additions must be made…
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Philippines Nagtabon
Recorded May 13, 2007. 0:25 video created with a Fuji F30, MacBook Pro 2.0 and Final Cut Pro.
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Philippines Underground River
Recorded May 9, 2007, Sabang, Palawan, Philippines. 2:40 video created with a Fuji F30, MacBook Pro 2.0, Final Cut Pro and QuickTime Pro. Text from the video: The Underground River Palawan, Philippines A protected national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site At 8.2 km under a mountain It’s the second longest in the world Home…
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Security, Use and Packaging
Security and indications thereof: cashiers bag and then tie your groceries closed before exiting the store. SM Hypermart, Mall of Asia, Manila, Philippines. Security and legitimacy: a cashier rings you through while another employee bags and then seals your purchase shut, then the cashier affixes your receipt before exiting the line. A floor security guard…
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Philippines Mall
Video from Manila, April 28, 2007. Or download the higher quality QuickTime version, 00:56 sec., 13.5MB. Created with a Fuji F30, MacBook Pro and Final Cut Pro. Text from video: Henry “Retail King” Sy a taipan (tycoon) of Asia richest man in the Philippines and head of SM Prime Holdings, Inc started the Philippine “malling”…
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Philippines Traffic
Video from Manila, Philippines, April 27, 2007 – or –Download the better quality QuickTime video, 00:39 at 5MB. Created with a Fuji F30 camera, a MacBook Pro 15″ computer and Final Cut Pro video editing software. Incidentally, this was my first time in FCP and it is hella complicated. How do I take two 640×480…
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Out of / In Place
Why a chair, sideways, at the head of the bed? Answer above: the AC without remote. Accommodating legacy hardware systems. Choice and needs according to environment. Not accommodating legacy hardware systems. Expectation, aesthetics and… Purpose. Observations of a guest room at a family home in Manila, Philippines.
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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…