I spend a lot of time reading design magazines, books, and blogs; graphic design, industrial design, architecture, interaction design – all manner of producing things and places of style, of expression, and for use by people. It’s a very convenient confluence of professional, academic, and personal interest – I’m a very lucky person because I […]
More ›We live in an old house. It was built in 1928 by my wife’s great-grandfather, a legendary United Church preacher and Member of Parliament who owned most of the block – on most of which he grew apples and roses. He gave the house to his eldest daughter – my wife’s grandmother – a few […]
More ›There’s a lot more literature around about waste reduction these days. I suppose that’s a good thing. It’s uniformly framed as an environmental ethic, i.e. ‘being good to the earth’. I suppose that has to be made clear as well, that we should treat our surroundings with a little respect. For all of its good […]
More ›Reading that last post in retrospect, it seems pretty damned obvious doesn’t it? Nothing really new down there. However, it should say something about how something so obvious actually isn’t obvious when considered from one’s normal point of view. It’s like combustion engines that run on fossil-fuels; it’s pretty damned obvious that they’re an environmental, […]
More ›Driving back the four hours back to Thunder Bay from Blue Lake Provincial Park last night, I was slightly taken aback by what, a week ago, would have been utterly normal. It was a news broadcast from CBC’s Thunder Bay station. That’s all. But – last night, it seemed so far away. It seemed so completely removed […]
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