- The Story of Mineblock: Designing a Meta Product While pursuing a Master in Digital Media last year I was given the opportunity to explore a number of emerging design spaces. As a designer I have observed that over the past 25 years, design as a discipline has constantly been in flux. Designers are always adapting to change, learning about new possibilities and upgrading […]
- Book Design for Open Humanities Press: a case study in print-on-demand and electronic publishing In June of 2009, I received an email from Tammy Lu, a Canadian visual artist then based in Bournemouth, UK, inviting me to participate in the design of a new series of books for the open-access academic publisher Open Humanities Press (ohp), to be entitled New Metaphysics. Now four and a half years later, this […]
- Youth in Transition A 3rd year communication design class considered the problem of youth with chronic illness transitioning from child-centred to adult-centred healthcare. Current systems have focused on paper or web-based education and information recording, but compliance rates are low. In conjunction with the British Columbia Children’s Hospital the class conducted primary and secondary research and proposed solutions. […]
