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 | May 10, 2013 | Garden, Green Space, Inspiration, Metalworker, Public Art
I know I should be researching or finishing or conceiving or cleaning or thanking or discussing or working on proposals. But like everyone else in the northern Northern Hemisphere, I can barely remain indoors these fine days. Because — and I hate to be the bearer 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,...
by Carlyn Yandle | Apr 5, 2013 | Art Discourse, Creative Process, Crochet, Design, Doily, Fabricating, Found Objects, Inspiration, Installation, Maker, Metalworker, Production, Sculpture, Vancouver
We are to understand that being distracted is bad, and being focused is good. Being focused will get the job done while being in the moment is not productive — productivity being the cornerstone of our prevailing Protestant work ethic.I’m aware that it is...
by Carlyn Yandle | Mar 29, 2013 | Collage, Creative Process, Fiber, Ideas, Inspiration, Newspapers, Research
This week’s clippings, destined for my over-stuffed sketchbook. I’m addicted to Google Images and I’m not happy about it. For the last several decades, most of my ideas have come from markings on wood pulp, specifically newspapers. And even though it’s now...
by Carlyn Yandle | Mar 1, 2013 | Art, Assemblage, Color, Conceptual Art, Creative Process, Culture, Fabricating, Found Objects, Innovation, Inspiration, Installation, Process, Upcycling, Use Object, Use Objects
My not-quite-resolved plastic quilty test. I’ve been left high and dry, marooned by a foul waste stream — a particular category of non-recycled stuff that ends up in Vancouver’s landfill. This category consists of many boxes of rigid-plastic toy bits that my nephews...
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