by Carlyn Yandle | Jan 10, 2014 | Architecture, Collaboration, Fiber, Innovation, Installation, Painting, Pattern, Quilt, Sculpture, Social Engagement, Vancouver, Visual Field
Carlyn Yandle photo This is clearly not a staged photo. Pretty much every rule of home decor is ignored here in this old East Van house. And that’s why I love it.Maybe it’s the weather but I’ve just about had enough of the grey-washed matte-bland...
by Carlyn Yandle | Dec 20, 2013 | Architecture, Assemblage, Craft, Crafts, Creative Process, Crochet, Design, Fabricating, Handwork, Ideas, Innovation, Inspiration, Playing, Process, Research, Scale, Upcycling, Wool
The Crassmas season is one big distraction to me. But once I remind myself that a gift does not have to be a solution to someone’s problem but a simple, seasonal gesture, I embrace the chance to make, and make it merry.The place is a happy mess. Wool strands are...
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 | Sep 13, 2013 | Architecture, Art, Collaboration, Dance, Innovation, Installation, New Forms Festival, Perception, Performance, Public Art, Sculpture, Street Art, Vancouver, Visual Field
You can thank Europeans’ dwindling Christian faith for a sensory bombardment that’s taking over Europe. The poor attendance at all the churches and cathedrals has been a boon to a new totally immersive art-architecture experience of sound and image,...
by Carlyn Yandle | Aug 1, 2013 | Environmental Art, Fabricating, Fiber, Fibre, Garden, Handwork, Innovation, Installation, Knotting, Maker, Nature, Process, Public Art, Raw Materials, Sculpture, Sharon Kallis, Social Engagement, Weaving
I so adore this old World War I royalty-free poster created for the Canada Food Board that I post it in my kitchen every year during the putting-food-by months, already underway.I love the displayed array of fresh produce that would never be pushed by a private...
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