My mind has been buzzing with thoughts of legendary environmentalist-artist Joseph Beuys as I’ve been hatching an idea for a public artwork that is not so much intrusive as inclusive, especially if…

Everything I need to know I learn on blogs , at least when it comes to making stuff.  Most recently, I needed to display a knitted artwork for an upcoming show  this weekend but I did not want a…

The signs, they are a-changing . But to see them you have to look past the visual bombardment of dead-eyed-Kardashian-object images, pop-up balloon-boob ads, and the opening scenes of violence…

It’s official: the Dude Chilling Park sign, a guerrilla-art installation by recent Emily Carr industrial design grad Viktor Briestensky, has been reinstated, with full approval by the city’s parks…

Most people will admit that their everyday clothes are a sort of uniform.   We need to keep it pretty simple because we’re likely dressing in the dim of the still-dark morning when we’d rather spend…

I was told there would be no math. Turns out there’s nothing but math in making things, and all kinds of math in packaging it all up for clients and justifying it all to Revenue Canada. I love to…

Coming up with new ideas is not without its hazards.  The world-renowned  Noma restaurant is a case in point. Chef-patron Rene Redzepi uses what grows in the area, innovating astounding food…

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…

When my brother showed me his inherited oil painting of a senior citizen , my first thought was: Yeesh. No wonder the young nudes endure. They may not be remembered by history, like this unfamiliar…

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…