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 | 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 | 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 15, 2013 | Aesthetics, Art Discourse, Creative Process, Critique, Installation, Production, Public Art, Sculpture, Vancouver
A few weeks back, one of the local dailies ran a staff photo of a grumpy-looking woman wearing a hand-drawn sign around her neck that read: “Mount Pleasant needs a pool not a poodle on a pole.” God, I miss the newsroom sometimes. When that kind of photo lands on your...
by Carlyn Yandle | Mar 8, 2013 | Aesthetics, Fashion, Garment, Industrial Design, Innovation, Production, Vancouver
I’m not a sports person. Elementary-school Sports Day was an annual hell. But the bike-decorating portion, now that was my kind of competition. Even today I get choked up when I catch a glimpse of that one artsy kid in a community event proudly parading a...
by Carlyn Yandle | Sep 28, 2012 | Art, Design, Found Objects, Industrial Design, Innovation, Production, Surrealism, Use Object
I love that emotional collision that happens when faced with a great artwork.It’s that attraction-repulsion thing that sort of mutes the rest of the world for a moment while the ol’ brain tries to make sense of what the heart knows: this is really...
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