We applied for the Vancouver Greenest City grant to develop a different type of community garden which you can read about here. We have kicked off the project with the “gold standard” in User Experience Design by conducting some good old-fashioned…
Well, like many things in life, it sprung from the loins of a rant. To be precise, a rant that I indulged in at a local garden center. I just couldn’t understand why gardening shops and greenhouses don’t show you their products in context. Why cou…
Yesterday I was walking through VPL’s Central Branch (as an aside, Moshe Safdie’s design is one of the few North American libraries that feels truly like a public space instead of a creep-magnet). I spotted some freestanding posters with stickies …
Maybe I’m a strange creature, but there’s a building in this world (and unfortunately located in this fair city of Vancouver) that has the power to change my route purely based on its aesthetic design, especially on any cold or dismal days. I real…
I’ve concluded, much to my dismay, that I lead a fairly rote life most of the time — my commute follows the same path and times, I have my favorite lunch haunts etc. When I did the Myers-Briggs test a number of years ago, my profile included a st…
