by Carlyn Yandle | Sep 17, 2024 | Architecture, Building, City Planning, Community, Composition, Connection, Crafts, Critique, Culture, Form, Gentrification, Green Space, Handmaking, Housing, Ideas, Images, Industrial Design, Innovation, Inspiration, Invention, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, Landscape, Marketing, Martha Stewart, Media, Process, Project, Social Engagement, Urban Design, Vancouver
New modular building blocks create a visual for more humane density​I blame my dream-home fantasies on that OG influencer Martha Stewart.​When the thick, slick Martha Stewart Living was queen of the magazine racks I was there for the Crafts: the rustic doorstop...
by Carlyn Yandle | May 22, 2015 | Building, Cob, Cob Oven, Collaboration, Construction, Handwork, Ideas, Industrial Design, Mud Girls, Nature, Raw Materials, Social Engagement, Vancouver
Where it all began: The Mud Girls retreat that sowed the seed for new/old building modes. Playing with mainly found materials, and whenever possible with other people, offers me the chance to learn about properties and potential of those throw-away materials as well...
by Carlyn Yandle | Mar 13, 2015 | #overthinking, Additive, Aesthetics, Architecture, Assemblage, Building, Composition, Construction, Creative Process, Design, Experimentation, Failure, Found Objects, Inspiration, Making, Playing, Process, Sculpture, Toybits, Upcycling
Toybits (green) – made from broken toys (Carlyn Yandle photo) This may be the third or fourth column/post I’ve written that could come under the headline, ‘Overthinking will be the death of me.’ There is definitely a book in there somewhere...
by Carlyn Yandle | Feb 6, 2015 | Additive, Architecture, Bauhaus, Building, Critique, Design, William Morris
One of the biggest lessons learned from a career in newspaper journalism was, surprisingly, the difference between decoration and design. It began when I built up basic layout skills using paper dummies, reduction wheel, metal pica-pole (also good for gouging into...
by Carlyn Yandle | Aug 14, 2014 | Architecture, Building, Construction, Creative Process, Design, Industrial Design, Innovation, Invention, Street Art
Carlyn Yandle photo We were a bit of a spectacle, using survivalist technology outside our tent wedged between the humming, air-conditioned RVs,  but we were aching to use our car-camping trip to finally test the BioLite.And it was good. (See 26-second YouTube review,...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jun 27, 2014 | Building, Construction, Design, Fabricating, Found Objects, Industrial Design, Innovation, Installation, Maker, Public Art, Upcycling, Wood
Like moths to a light, paddleboarders hover around Deadhead. (Carlyn Yandle photo) On one rambling two-hour bike tour of False Creek Sunday, a friend and I cruised by the Dragonboat festival, the jazz festival and the food truck festival. Granville Island was foody...
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