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Loft Full of Curves

See the work:

Work-Research binder for the Loft Full of Curves (PDF, 3 mb)
Final CAD drawings of the loft (AutoCAD 2004 DWG file, 254 kb)
Client booklet and renderings on Flickr:

The loft full of curves is the result of our Design Project I course. The goal was a from-the-bare-concrete renovation for a Westboro loft apartment. The client [...]

Response Essay on Heidegger’s “Building Dwelling Thinking”

This essay for Design Project I is a response to Martin Heidegger’s “Building Dwelling Thinking“. In writing it, I drew on my previous reading of Robert A. Heinlein, for his idea of universe as art, and Buckminster Fuller, for his founding his faith in cosmic order on modern scientific knowledge.
Read Building, Dwelling, and the Cosmic [...]

Eileen Gray Exhibit

One of our professors had us do a poster and invitation for an exhibit of Eileen Gray’s works, and a rug design based on hers. Even though this was the last assignment of our monochrome term, our professor invited us to pick a signature colour for the assignment. Myself, I like red.
I did my typesetting [...]

Research Essay: Trajan’s Column as Comic

As I mentioned earlier, I’ve read a couple of Scott McCloud’s books about comics and storytelling — what makes a comic a comic, and how do they manipulate space and time with only paper and ink. So, when my art history textbook talked about how the artists for Trajan’s Column divided scenes, marked time, etc. [...]

Intranet Improvement Proposal

In 2003 Chris Reed of BlueLightning Studios and I collaborated on a speculative business proposal to Solectron about why and how they needed to improve their callcenter intranet and knowledgebase (KB). Chris, having worked there between contracts, knew what condition the intranet was in. Working at HP had taught me that KBs have to [...]