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Tresury of Candian Craft Travelling Exhibition, Canada, US, Hong Kong
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This collection was selected from across the regions of Canada to celebrate Canadian Craft. The exhibtion travled across Canada, US and Asia. It was the largest ever travelling curated exhibition of Canadian craft in history.
Just Grow with It - Break free of your comfort zone
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Just Grow With It
Guidance for growing out of your comfort zone.
Many become stuck in a rut. They remain content to stay as they are, complacent and safe. Our set of limits, our boundaries beyond which we will not normally step is a very powerful force, with many internal and deeply rooted psychological components. Fear of the unknown and fear of failure are the major inhibiting culprits. The harder we fight change and try to resist it, the more difficult it is to break through our current comfort zone and move forward.
Rembrain
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Rembrain is an electronic RFID memory aid that tells a person whether or not they have items like their keys as they walk out the door. Using sound, colour and images the device seeks to help those with short term memory loss function independently.
RFID tags are attached to the user's wallet, keys and phone. An RFID reader is activated when the door is opened and recognizes whether the tagged objects are on the user as they leave home. If an item is missing the user is notified.
Concept Video: http://vimeo.com/24994012
Fabrica
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Project Fabrica is one of my Graduation project at Emily Carr University. It was showcased in the 2011 Emily Carr Degree Exhibition.
Tea and Fairy Cakes: Porcelain Lunchbox for Lolitas
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A lunch container that takes a bit of nostalgic, elegant lifestyle and makes it practical for everyday use.
Users: the Lolita fashion community is a group of young women who aspire to live like a Victorian lady or Marie Antoinette. Lolita fashion is feminine, nostalgic, and luxurious.Lolitas are primarily high school students who bring their lunch to school using cheap, ugly plasticware. This lunchbox provides a beautiful and sustainable alternative to disposable plastic containers and fits in with the feminine and nostalgic look of Lolita fashion.
Clean Hands for Health Campaign
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A group project for Vancouver Coastal Health to increase hand washing compliance in hospitals for patients, visitors and staff. Our resultant campaign was often referred to as "the blue line campaign" although it covers many areas of the hospital. Our campaign was versatile and cost effective, and could easily accomodate more messaging.
Type Specimen Book
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This assignment is about really understanding the history of typography. The contents of the book is twelve pages, including a cover, highlighting a series of three historically-important typefaces, from different historical periods in type design. The book will provide key historical information about these types, and will present each font in a historically appropriate manner, reflecting the way the type would have been used when it was first designed. The typefaces I chose were Monotype Fournier, Clarendon, and FontFont Scala Sans. Each spread in the booklet will reflect the typographic design style of the historical, look and feel of the period that font originates in.
Zoop: Mobile Toy Co-op Service
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Zoop Toy Co-op is an alternative product system developed for the False Creek Community in Vancouver, BC. The development took place over an extensive process of co-design with the students at False Creek Elementary. We also developed a framework for assessing our potential environmental impact using the Okala guide.
Codesign and user centered research methods
Masi: Product Design
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I designed a simple vessel for a flower, which doubled as a creative presentation dish for gourmet hors d’oeuvres and drinks. It was essential that the project be flat-pack and inexpensive, to meet the needs of the Pan Pacific Hotel. Their secondary intent for the design was as a takeaway gift for patrons, or as a souvenir in the gift shop. The wood co-op also wanted a flat-pack item, for sale to Granville Island tourists.
Masi was a word I came across around the same time as this project. It’s slang for ‘Merci,’ meaning ‘Thank you.’
Rough modeling in paper and bristol. Testing done with a wood veneer and final deliverables laser-cut from aircraft ply. Diagrams drawn in Adobe Illustrator. Photographed by designer.
