by Carlyn Yandle | Nov 10, 2018 | Activism, Appropriation, Architecture, Art School, Challenge, Collaboration, Color, Colour, Community, Construction, Craft, Craftivism, Crochet, Domestic, Domestic Interventions, ECUAD, Emily Carr Cozy, Emily Carr University, Experimentation, Expression, Fabricating, Fiber, Fiber Arts, Fibre, Fibre Arts, Found Materials, Handwork, Intervention, Knitting, Making, MFA, Needlework, Networking, Performance, Political Art, Public Art, Recycle, Safety, Sewing, Social Engagement, Stitching, Subversive Stitch, Textile, Upcycling, Vancouver, Yarn Bombing
The other day I did this because it really needed to happen. All that gleaming new-campus architecture, surrounded by other gleaming buildings and gleaming buildings yet-to-come was begging for a little fuzzying up.I did my undergrad at the old Emily Carr University...
by Carlyn Yandle | Dec 19, 2014 | Aesthetics, Art, Art School, Artist, Climate Change, Collaboration, Craftsmanship, Design, Form, Handwork, Industrial Design, Maker, Marketing, Production, Sculpture, Technology, Use Object
Dear Santa,I know I haven’t written since I was a kid, and when it comes to wants, I’m pretty much good. Unlike a lot of my neighbours who rent homes that are slated for demolition in the coming year or who have to hit the food bank at the end of every...
by Carlyn Yandle | May 9, 2014 | Art, Art School, Creative Process, ECUAD, Emily Carr University, Exhibit, Gallery, Granville-island, Ideas, Innovation, Inspiration, Paint, Painting, Playing, Vancouver, Visual Field
The mammoth art museum experience is like an all-inclusive resort for the mind: there’s so much coming at you the brain binges ’til it can’t party anymore. Unless you’re an art history major, what’s hanging on those soaring walls and...
by Carlyn Yandle | Mar 7, 2014 | Architecture, Art School, Business, Collaboration, Creative Process, Cultural Hub, Culture, Design, ECUAD, Emily Carr University, Exhibit, Expression, Gallery, Granville-island, Industrial Design, Industry, Innovation, Inspiration, Performance, Production, Sculpture, Social Engagement, Vancouver
Photo of ECUAD’s South Building by Stephen Hui/Georgia Straight When finally — yet suddenly — I graduated from Emily Carr University of Art and Design, I was done, done, done, exhausted after four intense years of input. Now I needed space for four more years of...
by Carlyn Yandle | Feb 14, 2014 | Art School, Critique, Cultural Studies, Culture, Culture Jamming, Design, Fashion, Semiotics, Social History
Alex Livesey/Getty Images The signs, they are a-changing.But to see them you have to look past the visual bombardment of dead-eyed-Kardashian-object images, pop-up balloon-boob ads, and the opening scenes of violence against women on CSI: Whatever.The signs are there,...
by Carlyn Yandle | Feb 7, 2014 | Art Discourse, Art School, Culture Jamming, Dude-chilling-park, Fabricating, Guerrilla Art, Industrial Design, Installation, Public Art, Sculpture, Social History
It’s official: the Dude Chilling Park sign, a guerrilla-art installation by recent Emily Carr industrial design grad Viktor Briestensky, has been reinstated, with full approval by the city’s parks board.Something was gained, but something was lost in...
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