Motion Design for BLDRS Collective
Bringing people together can be the beginning of reflection, reconciliation, restoration, and rest. This was my first time working with Adobe After Effects.
Latest
Minimum Viable Product
Showing the slide deck and the lean canvas prototype was key to having a conversation about an idea that resonated with a desire to do something about climate change.
Publishing with Ghost
Several years ago, out of necessity, I built my own static site generator with XSLT. Ever since, I have been exploring static site generators and building sites on the JAMstack (JavaScript, APIs, and Markup).
Imagine
Master World Builder
Last summer, Ezra Klein had one of his favourite conversations with N.K. Jemisin, author of the Broken Earth Trilogy.
Teaching at the University of the Fraser Valley
I am grateful to have had the opportunity to teach at the University of the Fraser Valley as part of the Graphic + Digital Design program.
Design
GDC Connect
Future-proof your career with GDC Connect, a new professional development program for GDC BC.
Living Systems
Breaking Bread
Social architecture is the art and science of living systems. We are recognizing that we are no longer designing tools and physical artifacts. We are designing human experience. We are all engaged in the human project.
Design
Design for Resilience
The design community is discovering their own complicity in propping up corporate and capitalistic hierarchies that are increasing inequities, maintaining oppressive workplaces, and limiting opportunities for learning, collaboration, autonomy, and creativity.
Architecture
Social Architecture
Walter Gropius was able to realize his vision for the community by creating a building in Dessau that represented the philosophical and aesthetic vision of the Bauhaus as well as the physical spaces that encompassed the life of the students, artists and masters.
Technology
Social Arc
The built environment is an extension of who we aspire to be as a group of human beings living and working in the spaces that we share in common. When we build, we project our aspirations into the future. What we build then shapes us into who we will become.
Art
Art + Science
There is a terrible misconception in school that when we take art that we are teaching people to draw. What we are really doing is teaching people to see.
Habits
Minimalist Journal
Humans have become addicted to identities, behaviours, systems, and technologies. We are coming to acknowledge that many of these things are not good for us. We need to develop some new ways of living, and this starts by creating new habits.