by Carlyn Yandle | Dec 13, 2013 | Additive, Architecture, Assemblage, Collaboration, Commission, Craftsmanship, Fabricating, Found Objects, Industrial Design, Innovation, Maker, Metalworker, Project, Waterwork
While the rest of us are scrambling to post our recent activity, build our brand, be a part of the online conversation, Noah is solving problems through metal. His underwhelming website is testimony to what he does instead all day long instead of sitting at a...
by Carlyn Yandle | Nov 15, 2013 | Architecture, Design, Industrial Design, Innovation, Production, Shigeru Ban, Social Engagement, Zaha Hadid
Nothing against the design visionary of Zaha Hadid but all this global starchitecture looks like rich people’s toys in the wake of disasters like Typhoon Haiyan.This is no time for designers to try to outshine one another with glittery sculptural-building...
by Carlyn Yandle | Nov 8, 2013 | Architecture, Art, Industrial Design, Maker, Neuroplasticity, Newspapers, Scale, Sculpture, Sketchup
I read two articles in the old-timey newspapers this morning, one revealing that speaking another language may help delay dementia and the other suggesting that sitting for eight hours a day can shave off five years of a typical adult’s lifespan.So after...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jun 7, 2013 | Creative Process, Design, Found Objects, Industrial Design, Innovation, Inspiration, Invention, Process, Production, Upcycling, Use Object, Use Objects, Vancouver
In case you want to know, this is a picture of what is called beaching gear — at least in Prince Rupert, B.C.It’s the kind of passing sight that makes a city girl demand that the car we’re in be stopped and reversed. Now. Because even though I had no...
by Carlyn Yandle | May 24, 2013 | Garden, Green Space, Industrial Design, Innovation, Inspiration, Project
I can barely remember this city before community gardens. They’re so integral to my neighbourhood, and I don’t even have a plot of my own.Aside from the obvious benefit of providing people ways to grow their own food, community gardens are also spaces of...
by Carlyn Yandle | Apr 19, 2013 | Found Objects, Industrial Design, Innovation, Inspiration, Knotting, Project, Studio, Upcycling
I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one who is aching to make a break from the indoors and take it all outside. Now that the weather is improving (well, theoretically at this writing) thoughts go to how to set up an outdoor setup for sketching, fabricating,...
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