by Carlyn Yandle | Jan 16, 2015 | Additive, Architecture, Art, Collaboration, Color, Colour, Craftivism, Crafts, Crochet, Culture Jamming, Design, Domestic, Domestic Interventions, Fabricating, Fashion, Fiber, Fibre Arts, Granny Square, Grid, Handwork, Industrial Design, Innovation, Inspiration, Installation, Making, Pattern, Public Art, Sculpture, Social Engagement, Visual Field, Yarn Bombing
Maybe it’s the chilly monochromatic climate at work here, but I’m suddenly wrapping myself up granny squares. The more I think about them, the more potential I see.There’s a lot of culture woven into those fuzzy little colour grids. They’re...
by Carlyn Yandle | May 9, 2014 | Art, Art School, Creative Process, ECUAD, Emily Carr University, Exhibit, Gallery, Granville-island, Ideas, Innovation, Inspiration, Paint, Painting, Playing, Vancouver, Visual Field
The mammoth art museum experience is like an all-inclusive resort for the mind: there’s so much coming at you the brain binges ’til it can’t party anymore. Unless you’re an art history major, what’s hanging on those soaring walls and...
by Carlyn Yandle | Apr 25, 2014 | Beauty, Big Data, Color, Colour, Composition, Creative Process, Data-graphic, Distracts, Inspiration, Painting, Pattern, Perception, Process, Visual Field
With the same anticipation as a root canal I plopped down in a chair at the accountant’s office. Then gasped and pointed, then tried not to point at the adjacent bookcase stuffed with client files. The accountant flipped through my own paperwork. I flipped out...
by Carlyn Yandle | Apr 17, 2014 | Art, Art Discourse, Collage, Dallas-duobaitis, Data-graphic, Distraction, ECUAD, Exhibit, Gallery, Globalization, Innovation, Inspiration, Monique Motut-Firth, Sculpture, Technology, Vancouver, Visual Field
Detail from Emily Carr Masters student Duobaitis’ ink on board work, ‘(re) formatting’, 2014. How we’re feeling about our place in an uncertain world is evident on art school walls.This is where the next generation of emerging artists grapples...
by Carlyn Yandle | Apr 11, 2014 | Art Discourse, Banksy, Collaboration, Color, Colour, Critique, Culture, Expression, Mural, Painting, Public Art, Richard-tetrault, Social History, Vancouver, Visual Field
Urban Crow (detail), by Richard Tetrault I have this vague, hippie-era-soaked memory of my brother and I hanging with my father as he painted a wall alongside some other artists. Forty years later I suggested to my brother that he swing by my own mural project last...
by Carlyn Yandle | Mar 21, 2014 | Additive, Beauty, Buttons, Color, Colour, Composition, Craft, Craftsmanship, Creative Process, Critique, Design, Distraction, Fabric, Fabricating, Failure, Fiber, Fibre, Found Objects, Handwork, Ideas, Innovation, Motivation, Pattern, Perception, Performance Art, Polly-apfelbaum, Process, Production, Project, Qr Code, Quilt, Textile, Upcycling, Use Object, Use Objects, Visual Field
After three months of sewing one donated button after another into a giant QR code, the big moment arrived this week: time to stand back and scan that baby with a reader app, translating this quilt-thing to read, “The devil is in the details.”Except it...
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