The Designer Nudge Now on iTunes!
The Designer Nudge is an undergraduate thesis project developed by Bree Galbraith. It takes the concept of “nudging” and uses it as a means to design for behaviour change. The project is a place for designers, students and others interested in the subject to “get their feet wet,” and to use The Designer Nudge as...
Emily Carr Capital Campaign Feature
I was recently featured in the Emily Carr University of Art + Design Capital Campaign, “The Big Idea.” “A fourth year design student, Bree is an inspiring example of success. In addition to winning multiple scholarships, she has also published a children’s book. A mother of two young children, Bree intends to pursue her interest...
Design Futures
The following interviews are part of a larger project I undertook with classmate, Solveig Johannessen, for a third-year Directed Studies in Design Futures in 2010. We conducted these interviews with Emily Carr alumni to gather knowledge about design practices, methodologies, experiences and advocay, while simultaneously taking the opportunity to showcase former students of Emily Carr...
The DesignCamp Experience
Check out this video on my experience at DesignCamp 2012 at the Design School in Kolding, Denmark! Målkort – tracking the design process from Kolding School of Design on Vimeo.
International DesignCamp 2012
Happy to report that I have been selected to travel to Kolding, Denmark for the 2012 DesignCamp! “The DesignCamp is an annual, recurring event at Kolding School of design. For two weeks, it joins Danish and international students, companies, designers, researchers, and others with an interest in design in addressing global challenges and solving common...
Your Patient Cirlces
A 3rd year communication design studio project, Core Design Studio V, considered the challenge of nurse-to-nurse communications during shift changes. Current systems have focused on paper or web-based education and information recording, but compliance rates are low. In conjunction with the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority, our class conducted primary and secondary research and proposed solutions...
The Okala Ecodesign Strategy Wheel
From Autodesk.com comes a review of the interactive document I designed for the Okala Ecodesign Strategy Wheel this past spring: One of the clearest resources on the basics of sustainable design come from three designer-professors, Philip White (ASU), Louise St. Pierre (ECUAD), Steve Belletire (SUIC). As the team behind the Okala Ecodesign effort, they’ve been...
Meet Bree, a published author!
It’s official! My children’s book, Once Upon a Balloon, is going to be published by BC’s Orca Books next year! The story was originally written as a class project in 2011, and I sent it out to a few Canadian publishers on the advice of my teacher, Shin Minegishi. I am very excited about this...