by Carlyn Yandle | Dec 10, 2016 | Architecture, City Planning, Culture, Design, Environment, Festival, Social Engagement, Street Art, Urban Design, Vancouver
The steps of the Teatro Juarez transform by day and night for the benefit of the walking public. (Carlyn Yandle photo) A month after I landed in Guanajuato, Mexico it finally dawned on me: there are no traffic lights in this bustling city. You’d think that would...
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 | 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 | Sep 6, 2013 | Color, Colour, Commission, Creative Process, Design, Graffiti, Industry, Installation, Paint, Painting, Parkade Quilt, Pattern, Process, Project, Public Art, Quilt, Safety, Street Art
I could never understand why the armies of construction workers in this town would head for the Wendy’s or Burger King over a nutritious, fresh soup and salad next door. That was before I started spending long days under a respirator spraypainting in a cavern of...
by Carlyn Yandle | Aug 16, 2013 | Additive, Art, Color, Colour, Composition, Craft, Creative Process, Design, Fabric, Fiber, Graffiti, Inspiration, Installation, Painting, Parkade Quilt, Public Art, Quilt, Street Art, Textile, Visual Field
This is my new favourite colour box, a delicious array of cans of Montana spraypaint. All packed up to take to my largest quilt project to date.Now I finally get my chance to do what I’ve been dreaming of for years: Â blanketing a big, blank white concrete wall...
by Carlyn Yandle | May 31, 2013 | Crochet, Doilies, Doily, Gallery, Innovation, Inspiration, Installation, Public Art, Sculpture, Street Art, Use Object
Sanitary Doily, a finalist in the City’s sewer-cover competition. I’m deluded enough to believe I can survive on an art practice in Vancouver but I am under no illusion that my Sanitary Doily will be selected to grace the city’s sanitary sewer covers...
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