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...

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...

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...

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...

This piece was created for a 3rd year design project, and will also be featured in the eBook version of CURRENT, the Design Research Journal at Emily Carr.

Here is the letter ‘L’ of my Littlest Hipster’s Guide to the Alphabet book. Click here for the link to my other blog, where you can read the whole book, and download and share it!

Just a Thought is a piece that I created in foundation year at Emily Carr. I love it. It’s huge, like 5′ tall, and each strand of hair is made out of the thoughts of each individual figure. The words in the background are my own, and it is a...